+DZ-Jay Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 (edited) Was thinking a digitized sample that maybe used the CPU, so wouldn't need the Intellivioice. But are you saying that's not possible or practical? Guess I'm not familiar enough with the memory constraints, etc. How were the phrases like "Yerrrrrr Out"! handled in Baseball? Thought that might have been a sample or creative use of the native sounds I guess? In theory, you could reproduce samples at a rather low rate on the Intellivision, but it requires too much time from the processor, leaving no time for anything else. I believe Carl did add samples on D2K, like when the ape is grunting; but if you pay attention, the screen freezes while playing the sounds. The "yer out" from WSMLB Baseball is a special case. It's not really a sample. The programmer explained how it came about in an interview for the Intellivisionaries podcast. One of the guys (I forgot his name) was playing with the sound processor trying to make it "speak" by doing some fancy volume and frequency modulations. He showed him a test that basically was a scale of the vowels, something like "ay-ee-eye-ow-uuuu" but it sound to him like "Yeeer Owwwwt," so he put it on the game. That's a fascinating story. And now, when I play the game, it does sound to me like a bunch of vowel sounds string together. dZ. Edited October 28, 2015 by DZ-Jay 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freewheel Posted October 29, 2015 Share Posted October 29, 2015 I've done some (very poor) attempts to synthesize speech using just the CPU and DSPs. It's doable, but a ridiculous amount of work. I've also made the Intellivoice do some things it wasn't meant to do, like farm animal sounds and a few mechanical-sounding effects. It's all a matter of how much effort you're willing to invest. And some people just "get" this a lot better than I, so I wouldn't be surprised to see something amazing come out. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artrag Posted October 29, 2015 Share Posted October 29, 2015 Ay8910 is fine for pcm audio Look for pcm encoder here:http://www.dvik-joyrex.com/tools.html The replayer is for z80 bit could be ported to cp1600 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffgamer Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 Pretty sure I've been on the wait list for this since it was announced a while back, but reiterating my interest here. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Games For Your Intellivision Posted October 30, 2015 Author Share Posted October 30, 2015 The digitized voices will be done similar to what happens in D2K Arcade when the girl says 'Help'.....(You have to turn the voice ON to hear it). Yes, the screen will freeze, but I think it will work well because there are text screens that will be shown throughout the game. I'm lobbying for non essential voice enhanced Intellivoice data as we have the ability to make Intellivoice data. I don't know if any areas of the game will be well served by adding Intellivoice support. Of course, you don't want it to REQUIRE the Intellivoice. I think that it would be cool as an enhancement however. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffrey Bouchard Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 Nice Looking forward to its release Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Games For Your Intellivision Posted October 30, 2015 Author Share Posted October 30, 2015 To clarify. The girl's voice in D2K is not heard by most as it is defaulted OFF.....you won't have to turn the voices ON in DOTC. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atari5200dude82 Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 That's very cool. Looking forward on playing this. Would u need an Intellivoice to play it or enhance it more? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freewheel Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 we have the ability to make Intellivoice data. This is something that really needs to be done in more new games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Games For Your Intellivision Posted April 17, 2016 Author Share Posted April 17, 2016 I'm pleased to report that Defender of the Crown boxes have been printed. The game is currently being stitched together. The programmer reverse engineered the Atari ST version to discover that there are about 27 random events that can occur. Once that is done the game will be nominally finished and ready for play testing and tweaking. Still to come is writing the manual and designing and printing the overlays. The cartridge stickers have been printed already. In the picture below, you see a proof printed on glossy paper that is being compared to a sheet that just came off of the press. About 700 sheets got printed before the proper ink combination was achieved. All of those will be trashed. No wonder 'set up' is so expensive! 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+JasonlikesINTV Posted April 17, 2016 Share Posted April 17, 2016 The boxes look great, thanks for the update! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m-crew Posted April 17, 2016 Share Posted April 17, 2016 Thanks as well for the update... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rev Posted April 17, 2016 Share Posted April 17, 2016 Save some of the misprint ones! I'd buy a couple. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJChandler Posted April 17, 2016 Share Posted April 17, 2016 I WOULD ALSO BE INTERESTED IN A COUPLE OF THE MISPRINTS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric7100 Posted April 18, 2016 Share Posted April 18, 2016 The misprints are variants! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+JasonlikesINTV Posted April 18, 2016 Share Posted April 18, 2016 Protohype 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m-crew Posted April 18, 2016 Share Posted April 18, 2016 The misprints are variants! Here we go again... The Variants Virus!!!!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfy62 Posted April 18, 2016 Share Posted April 18, 2016 This is great news and please save a couple mispirnts for me......I was born a misprint, I know how it feel to be forgotten! I will gladly pay for them to help you recover costs! Thanks so much, Wolfy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+intellivotion Posted April 18, 2016 Share Posted April 18, 2016 I too would like to buy a couple of misprints. Save them for me! thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+JasonlikesINTV Posted April 18, 2016 Share Posted April 18, 2016 If everyone bought misprints, they wouldn't be rare variants....just common misprints Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeM_Intellivision Posted April 18, 2016 Share Posted April 18, 2016 I'll probably buy a couple of misprints if you don't get rid of. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+fdr4prez Posted April 18, 2016 Share Posted April 18, 2016 If everyone bought misprints, they wouldn't be rare variants....just common misprints Agreed, and sounds like the correctly printed box would be the rare item to get. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m-crew Posted April 18, 2016 Share Posted April 18, 2016 Agreed, and sounds like the correctly printed box would be the rare item to get. now that's funny!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LiqMat Posted April 19, 2016 Share Posted April 19, 2016 Three Stooges next? Right? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric7100 Posted April 19, 2016 Share Posted April 19, 2016 Hey, Games for your Inty, this is what you wanted, right? Everyone clamoring for your misprints... you've incited the crowd. Mission accomplished. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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