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Tom - Great news, thanks. These will fill a large hold for retrogamers. I've pre-ordered a couple. Can't wait for these - In anticpation I've already started refurbish one of my INTV 1 controllers with original vintage replacement parts. P.S. Bliss box is good overall for most stuff but meh at best for INTV, I'm sure your's will be letter perfect like your 2600-daptor's.

I'd say Colecovision, TI 99/4a, and Vectrex. The 99/4a has got a lot of attention from mizapf [+anna and others] the past several years and it's now my go to EMU for that system. Colecovision has been near perfect for almost a decade. Even though some improvemnts have been made, after all these years one would think Intellivision would be near perfect. Alias it is not.

Nostalgia , Bliss and jzINTV , to the best of my knowledge none are still being developed. Sort of a sad state of affairs on the INTV emu front. Exactly. Extricated all mine from old INTV's. Price actually was not bad [at least 10 years ago] if you purchased broken units with good controllers. As hard to use as the original controllers were I feel the INTV2 controllers are even worse and looked like cheapo crap. The CGC USB adapter supported the original controllers. Yet another time I wish I had picked up 2 or them but after the initial run when they were almost $50, the next batch was nearly 2x in price. great that you are using the original to develop with. I have one of those but am somewhat electrically challenged. If by some tiny chance it does not require a meter I could help you out if you send me instructions.

They are really discounted now , picked up 4 Pitfall Shirts yesterday from Target for a net total of $11.29 [2.82 each ] Too bad these were not more succesfull as Kaboom!, Stampede, River Raid, and Laser Blast shirts would have been extremely cool. Although in today's world my guess is Kaboom! could never be done. They had the Atari shirts as well although they were full price, but even if they were discounted the current owner of the Atari name will never, I repear never, get one cent from me.

Great news on the USB adapter devlopment. Will you support original Intellivision controllers [please] ? Count me in on at least a few for each if this comes to fruition. MESS and BlueMSX are the big 2 IMHO. ColEM was great back in the 9x days. Now I pretty much only use MESS as does pretty much everything I want it to Coleco-wise. I have the Colecovision USB adapter that Retrozone offer for a brief time some years back. Wish I had got extra as it's like gold to me now. Everything is mapped to it's own key press. If you want more details LMK and I'll take it out of the "vault" and get the specifics.

after all this time a not positive turn of events. Yet another loss for the retro community.

Hi Tom, Great news! Count me in for several Colecovisions, and a bunch of INTV's [iNTV 1 only] if that ones possible.

I always liked the menu and add-ons that Carl Mueller Jr created to use with his original Intellivision Lives! You would copy a bunch of the files from the Lives CD then use the additional files Carl had on his old website. Using the menu executable he provided you could play any dumped rom. IIRC the menu truncated file names to 8.3 characters as it was DOS based. Worked fine for me in 95 and 98, and IIRC using Window Virtual PC with XP. Haven't cranked it up in a while or tried it with Vista or Windows7 also never tried with DOSBox. You know I'll think I have to try I'll post my results. Glad I kept the all the files Carl original had available. Nostalgia 5.0 is also very nice if not a tad bit slower than then Carl's old Intellivision Lives! mod. Has development been discontinued? Does the Intellivision Dev Yahoo group still exist? Is JzZIntv being developed? Last release I see is from 2006? For controllers: I originally had 2 INTV2PC parallel port adapters that worked with the original INTV controllers. Got it in the late 90's from a long gone outfit in Canada who's eluded me at the moment. It works pretty well although a bit bulky. Too bad no drivers exist that allow it to work with a USB to Parallel [DB25 Female] adapter Also have one of the Shiny Technologies Classic Game Controller interfaces. It performs very nicely but wish I had purchased an extra so I'm afraid to use it. I wish Raphael would produce-http://www.raphnet.net/electronique/intellivusb/index_en.php in a form that I could just wire up controllers on my own but I've not the skill to build my own circuit from his schematic and parts list. Of course the INTV controllers while authentic still suck like they did back in the day, so with emulation after I get tired of the original feel, I prefer to use a 2600 Joystick, NES pad or SNES pad + keyboard.

stephena , thank you for another great release. Cool panel. Question: using the two spinners as you described. What game(s) do you do that on?

The Digital Eclipse link for the patch has been invalid for many years. If you still want it, JeffVav has it and the readme on his site: http://www.vavasour....es.html#atari80 or http://www.vavasour....es/A80Patch.exe and http://www.vavasour....es/A80Patch.txt

Yes. Although a dedicated Colecovision USB adapter would also be cool. As I mentioned a while back I have one from retrozone that they made 5 or so years ago and wish I had got 1 or 2 more. If any supported Intellivsion 1 controllers I'd also be all over that.

If you do not want to go the hiscore diff route (http://forum.arcadec...p?topic=64298.0), IMHO mame32fx is the best version of MAME, variant or otherwise. http://mame32fx.alte...ta.org/home.htm Hi Ghost Rider, IIRC you have to compile your own. Which I guess brings you back to where you started. I do all my own compiling so sometimes I forget about those things....

1) Escape From The Mindmaster 2) Dragonstomper 3) Frogger [starpath version] 4) Kaboom! 5) Pitfall 6) Combat 7) Spider-Man 8.) Indy 500 9) Space Invaders 10) Adventure 11) Suicide Mission 12) Asteroids 13) Empire Strikes Back 14) Activision Tennis 15) Raiders of the Lost Ark 16) Superman 17) Missile Command 18) River Raid 19) Stampede 20) Defender 21) Ms. Pac-Man

If you do not want to go the hiscore diff route (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=64298.0), IMHO mame32fx is the best version of MAME, variant or otherwise. http://mame32fx.altervista.org/home.htm

P. P.S. Here's a link to Haze's blog http://mamedev.emulab.it/haze/

As much as I normally prefer the most authentic experience as possible, the lines drive me crazy. It's vision-mind connection thing probably along the lines that 3D games give me serious simulation sickness

Mame just ain't what it used to be. Over the past year Haze has talked about many of the reasons for that on his blog. I still d/l and "custom" compile the new non-beta version's but I only play games using versions prior to .120, usually .106 . As for the renaming and other ROM management task CLRMAME is as essential as oxygen. There are other util's as well but CLRMAME for me best after I really learned and undetssod how to use it.

Depends . . . if the dump the cartridge and do a re-run of the game, the value of the original game will still be high but will still go done a bit, mostly because of how unique the cartridge shape is but in the end its what people would be willing to pay for the item. AFAIF every rarity 10 game [and 11's and 12's if levels went higher] has been dumped for quite a while now. Has it affected the value of any of them...No! The only thing is this game might be too rare for it's own good. Great find congrats!

There are several comic book readers out there CDisplay is the original. And although I highly disagree with the "better yet" portion of your question, rename to rar...extract jpgs...make pdf. Multiple platform support for .pdf aside, I am not a fan of Adobes poorly coded bloatware. Especially if the content is non-indexed and non-searchable as is the case with jpg's. Oh and Keatah you're welcome

easy to view, low CPU/RAM overhead CBR format: #1 http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5M63J80U #2 http://www.megaupload.com/?d=CL8MBTZR #3 http://www.megaupload.com/?d=RM8HOZO5

Stumbled upon this: http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=779098&GSub=3900 Some dude apparently owns the actual artwork to Sword Quest II. Pretty f-in cool. Edit - apologies for mistake in the Title it is Fireworld not Airworld of course

I picked up several of these 2600-daptors as insurance for my stelladaptor's - they work just as nicely. Great that folks can get 2600 USB adapters again without paying all the extra cash on the secondary market Now if I can get another one that supports the keypad on the Colecovision controller. I have one of the retrozone ones that works fine but wish I had picked up an extra 1 or 2 while they still made them.

um, confused by an SD card??? Grnted, I can get confused at a number of things, but SD cards and capabilities aren't one of them. Gimme a break! Every third device now uses an SD card for something, have for years. Did they think this would get confused for, say, a PS3? Or how about a Wii? Yes, very confusing (sheesh again). Sheesh indeed!

Neither SD Cards or Playing ROMS is NOT ILLEGAL in THE US. Unauthorized distribution of copyrighted games may be, but that has nothing to do with SD Card support! There are scores of public domain roms as well as ones that have been released for fair use by the copyright holders. If it had SD card support for ROM play I'd have purchased 4 maybe 5 units, without it no sale! Not that it matters, as it appears to be a crappy knockoff of a FB2

Hi, apologies if I missed this info but what it the estimated cost? That is only way I can determine if I'm able to commit to this.