+cmart604 Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 Yeah, I picked Donkey Kong there as I knew some people would get a kick out of that. I should get my hands on some of the many excellent Intellivision homebrews.. ..Al I might know a guy.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
townparkradio Posted July 18, 2015 Share Posted July 18, 2015 Hmmmmmmmmmm..... I would like to buy one? just to have another shot at working hardware to go along with alla my carts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted July 18, 2015 Author Share Posted July 18, 2015 I would like to buy one? just to have another shot at working hardware to go along with alla my carts. Well, most of them do not work 100% or do not work at all. The three I had modified were the ones in best shape that didn't have any obvious issues (although the controllers may not be 100%--I still need to test those). Do you not have a working Intellivision? ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
townparkradio Posted July 18, 2015 Share Posted July 18, 2015 Well, most of them do not work 100% or do not work at all. The three I had modified were the ones in best shape that didn't have any obvious issues (although the controllers may not be 100%--I still need to test those). Do you not have a working Intellivision? ..Al It is true, I do not. But to be fair I probably murdered them myself. You see for quite some time I was living on solar only power. I later found out from an old Mattel engineer that my cheap inverter did not provide proper sine wave inversion, and they (as well as colecos, but I haven't bought one of those yet) absolutely required it. I was basically frying Inteliviisons left and right.. meanwhile Atari systems were safe and fine. Better engineering I suppose, greater tolerances. So now that I'm back on the grid (moved to Illinois) I'm looking to give it another shot. My dirty power I am told did not hurt my carts.. so they're still good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
townparkradio Posted July 18, 2015 Share Posted July 18, 2015 Correction, apparently he was a Tandy engineer, but he doubts the Non Radio Shack units were any different. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keatah Posted July 18, 2015 Share Posted July 18, 2015 Different engineering. It's all in the power supply and what type it is. The carts would most likely be fine. And I bet the fried consoles would be easy to fix. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artrag Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 You've probably fried the power converter It should be easy to replace or fix Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
townparkradio Posted August 10, 2015 Share Posted August 10, 2015 You've probably fried the power converter It should be easy to replace or fix I'm gonna go ahead and get the assorted intys out of storage Wednesday and see what's wrong with which units. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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