Are there any other Execs or GROMs?

[Zendocon]

So far, I have the following Executive and Graphics ROM images:

• Intellivision Master Component (standard exec)
• Sears Super Video Arcade
• Intellivision II
• World Book Tutorvision
• Standard Mattel Electronics GROM
• INTV88 GROM

Are there any others?  I don't think other clone systems like the Tandyvision One had any differences in the Exec.  Creating custom GROM files should be trivial, so there might be some homebrew files I don't know about.

[+DZ-Jay]

23 minutes ago, Zendocon said:

So far, I have the following Executive and Graphics ROM images:

• Intellivision Master Component (standard exec)
• Sears Super Video Arcade
• Intellivision II
• World Book Tutorvision
• Standard Mattel Electronics GROM
• INTV88 GROM

Are there any others?  I don't think other clone systems like the Tandyvision One had any differences in the Exec.  Creating custom GROM files should be trivial, so there might be some homebrew files I don't know about.

I do not think they count, since they are not canonical, but there is the miniexec and the minigrom.

 

   dZ.

[+fdr4prez]

17 minutes ago, DZ-Jay said:

I do not think they count, since they are not canonical, but there is the miniexec and the minigrom.

 

   dZ.

That's what i was going to reply with, and the original request made mention of "there might be some homebrew files", so in this case they do count.

[Zendocon]

Okay, miniexec and minigrom.  Plus I know about miniecs, which just supports the extra sound chip and extra controllers.  So no other Intellivision consoles had any other Exec or GROM?  That's good to know.

[carlsson]

Perhaps the Arabic variant has a different GROM or it was not feasible to fit Arabic writing into system messages anyway? What about the relatively late Japanese launch?

Edited August 3 by carlsson

[Zendocon]

Not likely there would have been foreign scripts, if only because most of the characters wouldn't fit into 8x8 pixels.  That and none of the existing games would have translated well into the same amount of ROM space.  To say nothing of the GROM size that would have been required.

[First Spear]

On 8/5/2023 at 11:30 PM, Zendocon said:

Not likely there would have been foreign scripts, if only because most of the characters wouldn't fit into 8x8 pixels.  That and none of the existing games would have translated well into the same amount of ROM space.  To say nothing of the GROM size that would have been required.

Maybe more info will come out with the Intellivision book next year, but I wonder if there were any decision tidbits floating around about the characters and non-Engligh languages.