... Actually, I've always liked this feature of many intellivision games. Bad intellivision controllers are very commonplace. I've occasionally found it...
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Joe Zbiciak
intvnut
Sep 1, 2004 2:16 pm
... Agree! This feature is also convenient for us emulator authors. :-) Take a look at the default keyboard mapping for jzIntv, INTVPC and others... ...
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Joe Fisher
joefish75@...
Sep 1, 2004 2:29 pm
... In addition to what everyone else said, it also allows you an advantage in certain games. On the Inty controllers, you can't use the keypad and disc at...
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David Harley
dharley5
Sep 1, 2004 3:08 pm
My turn :) 1) Enough said on this topic. 2) We thought about shrink wrapping the boxes. It was decided not to as we want people to enjoy the game, manual and...
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Joe Zbiciak
intvnut
Sep 1, 2004 3:31 pm
... You could always offer shrink-wrap as an option... :-) Maybe charge extra? ;-) And agreed... 'nuff said about Stonix in the "programming" group. ;-) -- ...
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Joe Zbiciak
intvnut
Sep 1, 2004 3:37 pm
... I should say "Stonix, the Cartridge." We can talk about how it's written, certainly. --Joe -- ... Joseph Zbiciak http://spatula-city.org/~im14u2c/...
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Rick Reynolds
rickreynolds_se
Sep 1, 2004 4:38 pm
... Joe brings up an interesting point (to me anyway). I don't want to clutter this list with non-programming questions (unless the group at large has decided...
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Joe Zbiciak
intvnut
Sep 1, 2004 4:46 pm
... Only partly tongue-in-cheek. There seems to be a tacit understanding on INTVPROG that non-programming discussions are ok as long as the threads stay...
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tlindner@...
lindnertim
Sep 1, 2004 4:54 pm
... The only other place I regularly pay attention to is the usenet group rec.games.video.intellivision. But it is very quiet there. Rick asks a good question....
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Rick Reynolds
rickreynolds_se
Sep 1, 2004 4:55 pm
... OK. That certainly seems reasonable. There is a very similar structure in the Interactive Fiction community newsgroups (rec.games.int-fiction and...
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Joe Zbiciak
intvnut
Sep 1, 2004 4:56 pm
... Here. That's it. I don't have the time to keep up with Usenet anymore. -- ... Joseph Zbiciak http://spatula-city.org/~im14u2c/ Not your average "Joe"...
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cybergoth@...
manuel_rotsc...
Sep 1, 2004 5:00 pm
Hi there! ... I can say that you'd be very welcomed with Intellivision gaming related discussions on the Classic Gaming board of Atari Age: ...
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fdr4prez
Sep 1, 2004 6:11 pm
Wow, I didn't think I was stepping on so many toes from being slightly OT with everyone else that was doing it. There is another group, the other group is...
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Ryan Kinnen
ryankinnen
Sep 1, 2004 6:46 pm
... Sadly no. Or at least not that I know of. I used to love the Classic gaming Usenet groups back in the mid 90's - until the dynamics of the internet changed...
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Chuck Whitby
intvsama
Sep 2, 2004 3:32 am
For anyone wondering what Stonix would look like in a semi-finished MAMEcab - www.toomanygames.com/images/mamecube/stonix.jpg ...
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The Romano Family
jamrom2
Sep 2, 2004 5:57 am
I see you have the bug for MAME too... IMBerzerk, finshed 2 years ago... and my next one is a dual trackball, 2-player cafe style. www.jamrom.com\imberzerk ......
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a_chevallier
Sep 2, 2004 2:10 pm
Manuel, Joe, All, A few days ago, I was about to post my 4K entry for the MiniGame Compo in a hurry, but I've seen that the deadline now is Sept. 26. Cool....
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cybergoth@...
manuel_rotsc...
Sep 2, 2004 2:17 pm
Hi Arnauld, ... Cool! I wasn't sure if you were still working on this! ;-) ... Just go and submit it, as I understood Steve, he'll take care of Intellivision...
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fdr4prez
Sep 2, 2004 6:54 pm
No, there is another Yahoo group...INTV there is minimal activity on it. Joe Zbiciak <im14u2c@...> wrote: ... Here. That's it. I don't have the...
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Fast Ed
fasted_decle
Sep 2, 2004 7:49 pm
I agree with Ryan. In general Intellivision news and discussions are relatively rare and I suspect that as a consequence there is not enough traffic to support...
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Ryan Kinnen
ryankinnen
Sep 7, 2004 2:03 am
Hey gang, I've been starting to program again and am tinkering around with some things. The Intellicart allows for games that use huge amounts of RAM. What is...
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Ryan Kinnen
ryankinnen
Sep 7, 2004 2:13 am
Hey all, The inty bug has been biting. I'm starting to regroup and organize my collection of intellivision stuff - which has gotten scattered in a dozen places...
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Joe Zbiciak
intvnut
Sep 7, 2004 5:51 am
... Yup. ... Right now, no design exists. Fitting RAM and ROM into a contemporary cartridge will be a trick, though it's not impossible. ... The biggest issue...
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a_chevallier
Sep 7, 2004 8:55 am
... Awesome! ... Well, I'll let the hardware wizards out there answer to this question -- and actually, Joe already did. As far as I'm concern, I'm using extra...
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a_chevallier
Sep 7, 2004 9:22 am
All, Below is a link to "KChess 1.0", a prototype chess program for the Intellivision. All source files are included (under GPL). ...
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Joe Fisher
joefish75@...
Sep 7, 2004 1:08 pm
... And Nostalgia. -Joe...
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Ryan Kinnen
ryankinnen
Sep 7, 2004 2:19 pm
... Currently, I'm doing some exploration trying to "discover"; what my next big project should be. I have two different reasons for wanting more RAM: 1)...
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a_chevallier
Sep 7, 2004 3:01 pm
... That sounds like the best option to me. If I do my maths correctly, you have approximately 51.5 cycles available per scanline (57 w/out STIC cycles...
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a_chevallier
Sep 7, 2004 4:11 pm
... Probably ... I mean, it depends on what you include into "some of this", though. :-) Two important criteria are the number of different possible patterns...
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Ryan Kinnen
ryankinnen
Sep 7, 2004 4:33 pm
... Brilliant! I didn't think of that. A lookup table would certainly make a frame buffer possible with the 8-bit RAM, and perhaps borrowing a bit of 16-bit...
