Folks, P.S. Almost forgot, there's a little hidden/undocumented "troubleshooting" feature of the program... press the END key on your keyboard to navigate to...
I know this is the programming discussion group, but since most everyone who reads this is a collector too, I figured I'd put this out for everyone. I'm...
Folks, New version (Beta 5) here -> http://www.cmoo.com/~snor/weeds/Intellivision/jzIntv_Launcher.zip / http://tinyurl.com/j9ybn (first URL is case-sensitive)....
I saw John Hodgman last night. He had a book signing at a SF book store. During the Q&A, someone asked him about George Plimpton. He talked about how they met...
Folks, Beta 7 is ready, snag it here -> http://www.cmoo.com/~snor/weeds/Intellivision/jzIntv_Launcher.zip -:) As usual, click the "Setup" button, and review...
Hi all I would like to start studying the intellivision programming, and I'd like to work on the porting of Gridrunner. Is there anyone available to help me in...
Programming for the Intellivision is an art. I would suggest you get source code for all the programs created and study the different programmers styles. Joe...
Valter, That's great news! I can't say that I'll have much time to help directly, but I'd be glad to answer the occasional question. I see the problem as...
... hardness" and "not too repetitive", etc. That is, "make it fun." So don't misunderstand my "easiness" comment. ... I second that! Having programmed...
Thanks for the fast feedback.... starting to study Intellivision programming is for me at teh same time the best way to test my dev tool Intelliware, because I...
Valter, Perhaps it might be helpful to understand how the Intellivision boots to understand where the title screen comes from, and why Pong has none (and...
Folks, Beta 8 is ready, snag it here -> http://www.cmoo.com/~snor/weeds/Intellivision/jzIntv_Launcher.zip . Added joystick parameters and Intellicart caching...
Folks, I just uploaded Beta 9 of my jzIntv Launcher, URL is the same as before -> http://www.cmoo.com/~snor/weeds/Intellivision/jzIntv_Launcher.zip . New in...
Folks, The first "official" public release of my jzIntv Launcher (version 1.10) is finaly complete -:) Installation and usage instructions are fully detailed...
Thanks to Joe Z., I decided to work a little on my game, Falling Down. Here is a ROM file for you all to test. I implemented the second (human controlled)...
Hi Tim, I would like to have a look at the game, but it seems not to be attached to your message for download. Can you place it in the "Files" section of the...
Tim, Looking good. The scrolling is quite smooth. And I liked the way the player slows to a stop instead of immediately coming to a stop when you stop moving ...
Valter, Very good questions. Let's start with drawing the title screen. Drawing the title screen is a similar process to drawing any other game screen, so...
Folks, Have you ever wished that you could run jzIntv along with your favorite Intellivision demo cartridge ROM as a Windows screensaver? The jzIntv...
All,
I've written some new functions that you might find useful. One of the things I found myself doing over and over again in Space Patrol was initializing...
All, Another programming trick I developed makes it easier for me to allocate variables in scratch (8-bit) and system (16-bit) memory. I use the following two...
I did play a bit with the title screen thanks now I'm still working on pong, but I'm not able to do two simple thigs: 1 change the background color 2 put a...
Oops, I think there's a couple off-by-1 errors in the code below. The $1EF and $35F should be $1F0 and $360. --Joe -- We sell Spatulas, and that's all! ...
Valter, To modify GRAM or change display colors, you need to write to the corresponding locations during the vertical retrace interval. The fields in the EXEC...