Intellivision Operating System Revealed 309
Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to the IntyOS site, which has released Version 0.2 Alpha of a "multitasked operating system for the Intellivision console." According to the site, IntyOS "..includes a powerful GUI which handles a mouse pointer, windows, menus, icons, etc", and was "..written from scratch in CP-1600 assembly language in order to fit exactly to the hardware specificities of the Intellivision. Its main goal is now to see how far it's possible to go with today's technologies on such a limited system from the early 80's" There's also a site mirror available, and the demo ROM is viewable in a Java applet.
Hot damn. (Score:5, Interesting)
I wish Gates would hold off on innovation for a couple of years to produce such a beast. I, for one, would gladly pay for an Assembly-optimized, thoroughly bug-fixed version of Windows.
8 MOBS... (Score:2, Interesting)
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I remember Intellivision (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:I remember Intellivision (Score:2, Interesting)
Bandwidth was 6.4 MByte/sec. In 1982.
For more information see:
http://www.ewh.ieee.org/reg/7/millennium/telido
Intellivision=Apple Computer of Gaming Consoles (Score:4, Interesting)
NO CONSOLE to me has ever matched the ease and useability of the Intellivision controller. Modern football games are just eye candy and very confusing to me. With the Intellivision you had to understand plays and you could enter them privately without the other guy seeing them on the screen. If someone can see what you are about to run, what's the point? (No, I haven't forgotten that one could run backwards 70 yards and throw the ball the length of the field) Also, Utopia was true HOURS of fun between my brother and I as well as Triple Action Biplanes and Tanks. It was simple but took skill and thought.Games also required imagination. So these consoles also have historical value in the quality of games they had. The Intellivision was truly the Apple Computer of Consoles. Superior product/better graphics/easier to use & underdog.
Of course it can... (Score:3, Interesting)
MOBS == sprites (Score:2, Interesting)
First time I remember hearing the term 'sprites' was with my TI-99/4A, but the concept's the same. Moveable Object Blocks in case no one else has de-acronymed this yet. I would suspect 'sprites would have been the term used on the Vic-20 which had come out sometime around then or slightly earlier.
Re:It's a shame... (Score:2, Interesting)
Actually, there is. I've sold several 4-Tris cartridges. And no, don't ask if I'll make any more. I will if and when I do, and no sooner.
--JoeRe:They also had the 1st RTS game (Score:3, Interesting)
Utopia was a two-player real-time game with graphics.
Re:MOBS == sprites (Score:3, Interesting)
Makes me think about 68000 based machines (Score:2, Interesting)