Las Vegas Poker & Blackjack review. Interview with programmer/designer David Rolfe. Classic Gaming Expo 2014 coverage (“IQ” competition, listener ’roundtable’ discussions, and episode recording sessions – all done in Las Vegas). Plus Feedback, News, Mentions and more.
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0:00:00 – Turn on that tube TV to ch.3 and play Blackjack!
0:00:50 – The Intellivisionaries Theme by Paul ‘Nurmix’ Nurminen
0:02:11 – Welcome and discussion
0:18:03 – Ken Smith promo
0:18:19 – Feedback
0:21:14 – George! (1)
0:21:57 – Feedback (continued)
0:23:34 – The Odyssey 2 speaks!
0:23:55 – Feedback (continued)
0:24:59 – Intermission
0:25:41 – Feedback (continued)
0:27:14 – Luke promo (1)
0:27:39 – Feedback (continued)
0:27:59 – Intellivisionaries promo (1)
0:28:05 – Feedback (continued)
0:29:40 – RetroGaming Roundup promo
0:29:52 – Feedback (continued)
0:33:34 – The Odyssey 2 speaks! (to Karen Overstreet)
0:33:52 – Feedback (continued)
0:37:44 – Braceface (band) – “I Remember Intellivision”
0:39:45 – Non-Intellivision Mentions of Significance…
0:46:11 – George! (2)
0:46:58 – News
0:49:49 – Hal Finney – games tribute
0:50:51 – News (continued)
0:52:18 – Star Strike TV commercial (another Hal Finney game)
0:52:48 – News (continued)
0:57:12 – Robo-Ferg?
0:57:23 – News (continued)
0:58:05 – “We Were There” (Intellivision Flashback commercial)
0:59:50 – News (continued)
1:01:26 – Extra-Life charity promo
1:03:20 – “IQ” (Intellivision Quotient) CGE competition (at our booth)
1:22:05 – 1979 Intellivision demo video (part 1)
1:22:54 – Luke promo (2)
1:23:09 – Inty chip-tune break: Nils Feske – “Rectangular Waves*
1:24:26 – CGE Roundtable – session 1
1:49:04 – Channel F Files promo
1:49:20 – Intellivisionaries promo (2)
1:49:25 – Las Vegas Poker & Blackjack game review (part 1)
2:11:10 – Interview: David Rolfe (part 1)
2:42:12 – 1979 Intellivision demo video (part 2)
2:42:52 – Interview: David Rolfe (part 2)
2:55:11 – 1979 Intellivision demo video (part 3)
2:56:27 – Interview: David Rolfe (part 3)
3:08:32 – 1979 Intellivision demo video (part 4)
3:09:30 – Interview: David Rolfe (part 4)
3:19:25 – 1979 Intellivision demo video (part 5)
3:20:13 – RVG (UK gaming website) promo
3:20:37 – Parker Brothers games TV commercial
3:21:06 – CGE Roundtable – session 2
3:57:22 – Las Vegas Poker & Blackjack game review (part 2) + wrap-up and sign off (“Treasured” by Paul ‘Nurmix’ Nurminen)
4:13:36 – Happy Birthday Intellivisionaries!
*Intellivision music player by Arnauld Chevallier
Links mentioned in the show:
Intellivision Lives entry for Las Vegas Poker and Blackjack
http://www.intellivisionlives.com/bluesky/games/credits/gaming.html#poker
Intvfunhouse entry for Las Vegas Poker and Blackjack
http://www.intvfunhouse.com/games/pbj.php
Video Game Critic entry for Las Vegas Poker and Blackjack
http://videogamecritic.com/intelfl.htm#Las_Vegas_Poker_and_Blackjack
Podcast graphic in the style of Intellivision Action Network cartridge box
Video of some Princess Quest gameplay
http://intellivisionrevolution.com/entries/intellivision-homebrew-games/new-level-revealed-for-upcoming-homebrew-princess-quest
Video of Space Raid gameplay
http://intellivisionrevolution.com/entries/intellivision-gameplay-videos/homebrew-space-raid-atari-2600-vs-intellivision
Retro Video Gamer (UK) started a podcast
http://www.retrovideogamer.co.uk/
Soulbuster’s (AA) manual and overlay kits for D1K and D2K
http://atariage.com/forums/topic/228846-dk-and-d2k-manual-and-overlay-kits-for-ltoflash-roms/
Intybasic 0.8 was released
http://atariage.com/forums/topic/229168-now-available-intybasic-compiler-v08/#entry3061526
Hal Finney died on the morning of Thursday 8/28, presumably from his fight with ALS. He was a programmer at Mattel and also a very early adopter of bitcoin. He was also involved in cryptography and technologies like PGP and a precursor to the TOR project. His body is going to be frozen! Several links:
- http://www.assemblergames.com/forums/showthread.php?53440-RIP-Hal-Finney
- http://atariage.com/forums/topic/229308-rip-hal-finney/#entry3064077
- http://www.wired.com/2014/08/hal-finney/
- http://www.2600connection.com/interviews/hal_finney/interview_hal_finney.html
- http://www.digitpress.com/library/interviews/interview_hal_finney.html
Listing of the crowd sound from the Exec. It was programmed by Hal Finney, sent to us by David Rolfe.
From David: “FYI, this is Hal Finney’s crowd sound, copied from the Exec. It consists of macros, which generate numeric codes to be interpreted by the Exec sound processor. The comments explain, in a general way, what’s happening: Crowd noise, with random whistles and an air horn thrown in. See how the trill (or waver) of the whistle is effected by marching the frequency up and down a random number of times. Most of the macros set up a sound effect, which then plays out during the “PAUSE” intervals.”
;SOUND OF A ROARING CROWD OF SPECTATORS
CROWD:: BEGIN
CROWD0::CALL SCODE ;DO THIS SOUND :
ENABLE NCH1&NCH2 ;NOISE
NFREQ &37 ;LOW
VOL CH1,&4 ;VOL SOFT
VOL CH2,&6
VOLV CH1,&6 ;BUT GETTING LOUDER
VOLV CH2,&6
PAUSE &10 ;LET VOLUME GROW
VOLV CH1,0 ;HOLD VOLUME STEADY
VOLV CH2,0
NFREQV -1 ;THEN GO UP SLOWLY
PAUSE &24 ;MAKE SOUND
NFREQV 0 ;HOLD SOUND TONE STEADY NOW
;THIS PART MAKES WHISTLES, ETC:
WBLP:
;FIRST MAKE 0 OR 1 WHISTLE
RSETR SR3,1,2
PDJNZ 0,SR3,WLPDN
WLP: ENABLE NCH2&TCH1 ;USE CHANNEL 0
FREQ CH1,&120,&12 ;FAIRLY SOFT VOLUME
RFREQ 6 ;QUITE RANDOM IN PITCH
;THIS PART MAKES REPEATED WAVER AT PEAK OF WHISTLE
FREQV CH1,-2,0 ;GO UP FIRST
PAUSE &20
RSETR SR2,2,5 ;FROM 0 TO 3 WAVERS
PDJNZ 1,SR2,WLP2DN
WLP2: FREQV CH1,3,0 ;GO DOWN
PAUSE 6
FREQV CH1,-3,0 ;THEN BACK UP
WLP2DN: PDJNZ 6,SR2,WLP2 ;KEEP DOING THIS SOME
FREQV CH1,2,0 ;THEN A FINAL FALL OFF
PAUSE &20
;TURN OFF WHISTLE FOR A RANDOM LENGTH OF TIME
ENABLE NCH2 ;JUST NOISE
RPAUSE 5,&60 ;FOR QUITE A RANDOM LENGTH OF TIME
WLPDN:
;THIS PART MAKES SOME BUZZES
RSETR SR3,1,2 ;0 OR 1 BUZZ
PDJNZ 0,SR3,BZZDN
BUZZLP: ENABLE NCH2&TCH1&TCH2 ;TWO TONE CHANNELS
FREQ CH1,&1000,&12
FREQ CH2,&1100,&14
PAUSE &20 ;TURN ON SOUND FOR A WHILE
ENABLE NCH2 ;JUST NOISE FOR NOW
RPAUSE &10,&30 ;FOR A RANDOM LENGTH
BZZDN:
;HERE, WE GO BACK AND DO SOME MORE WHISTLES
PDJNZ 0,SR1,WBLP ;LOOP TILL DONE
;HERE, WE TERMINATE THE CROWD ROAR
VOLV CH1,-&1
VOLV CH2,-&1
NFREQV &2
PAUSE &50
ENABLE NONE
FIN ONS,NRET
; RETURN
Commercial for the Intellivision Flashback
http://atariage.com/forums/topic/229547-we-were-there-new-intellivision-flashback-commercial/#entry3068601
Braceface (band) – “I Remember Intellivision”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V_qiEb1mAE
Star Strike Easter Egg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmOZaiX6JIA
Robert Randles (did music for Keyboard Component)
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0709841/
Extra Life fund raising link
http://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.team&teamID=17342
Links for the English Accents bit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8mzWkuOxz8
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01slnp5