First Spear Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 Maybe not exactly a modem, but... I am day-dreaming of a plastic case that is sized/styled to resemble the ECS. It fits into the cartridge slot of an Intellivision, but inside the case is a Raspberry Pi. The "modem cartridge" puts the Intellivision into a kind of bootstrap mode waiting for a game to load, with the Pi actually getting it onto the contemporary internet, connecting to a game server in the cloud, and net-booting the Intellivision to do multiplayer games. Kind of like the http://ivanx.com/rasppleii/ Not my most thought-out nutty thing, but there it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+fdr4prez Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 link no worky for me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Games For Your Intellivision Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 It already exists. It is called the LTO Flash! and all it needs is someone to write the software. LTO Flash! connects to your computer via USB and with the right software, could talk to the internet. Of course, this ability has to be programmed. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Lathe26 Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 It already exists. It is called the PlayCable and all it needs is for someone to backwards engineer the proprietary cable modem signals, build the adaptation hardware, and write the software. The PlayCable connects to... errr... well nothing right now since hardware the cable companies used appears to have been lost to time. But it can hold any Intellivision game that is 8KB or smaller. But there is more! You don't have to wait for the hardware and software to be built. You can enjoy the PlayCable as it stands today. You play such games as "PlayCable title screen" and listen to the sound from Dumb and Dumber. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3S8ynIDYyG4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Lathe26 Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 In all seriousness, the LTO FLASH! looks really cool and I look forward to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+intvsteve Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 FWIW, the really old PlayCable page I wrote up a few years ago is here. Since intvdave took down the Intellivision Library (and I haven't had the time to try to take it on), those links are dead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+intvsteve Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 For some reason, I thought that the printer port on the ECS could be a serial port of sorts... though perhaps only at 300 baud. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+fdr4prez Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 For some reason, I thought that the printer port on the ECS could be a serial port of sorts... though perhaps only at 300 baud. There is this old post about connecting the ECS: http://atariage.com/forums/topic/168660-intellivision-as-serial-terminal/?p=2085785 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Lathe26 Posted March 9, 2016 Share Posted March 9, 2016 For some reason, I thought that the printer port on the ECS could be a serial port of sorts... though perhaps only at 300 baud. The tape drive input and output are serial data (represented at audio electrical levels) and I believe that UART-to-ECS adapters have been made. I think that they run at 300 baud. At that point, you could hook it up to an actual modem and issue AT commands by hand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+intvsteve Posted March 9, 2016 Share Posted March 9, 2016 There is this old post about connecting the ECS: http://atariage.com/forums/topic/168660-intellivision-as-serial-terminal/?p=2085785 I almost posted doctorclu's youtube video of him using the CC3 to dial into a BBS using Joe's sample code, but was trying to suss out whether it was possible without any additional hardware. I'm almost positive that you can use the Aquarius printer w/ the ECS … but have never dug into how they communicated. Was it serial? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pimpmaul69 Posted March 9, 2016 Share Posted March 9, 2016 A little off topic but not. Has anyone ripped the rom out of the playcable?? Does it actually use a rom to boot the main screen? Im not sure how the playcable actually interacts with the master component. Any info would be awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Games For Your Intellivision Posted March 9, 2016 Share Posted March 9, 2016 I almost posted doctorclu's youtube video of him using the CC3 to dial into a BBS using Joe's sample code, but was trying to suss out whether it was possible without any additional hardware. I'm almost positive that you can use the Aquarius printer w/ the ECS … but have never dug into how they communicated. Was it serial? From what I heard, the ECS/Aquarius printers is also Keyboard Component compatible. The apparently reused it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+the1hatman Posted March 9, 2016 Share Posted March 9, 2016 That would be a pretty cool thing to see happen. And here I was just wanting someone to 3D print an Intellivoice case that matched the Intellivision II, lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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