intellivision roms

Intellivision

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The Intellivision is a video game console released by Mattel in 1979. Development of the console began in 1978, less than a year after the introduction of its main competitor, the Atari 2600. The word intellivision is a portmanteau of "intelligent television".

Technical specifications

General Instrument CP1610 16-bit microprocessor CPU running at 894.886 kHz (i.e., slightly less than 1 MHz)
1352 bytes of RAM:
240 × 8-bit Scratchpad Memory
352 × 16-bit (704 bytes) System Memory
512 × 8-bit Graphics RAM
7168 bytes of ROM:
4096 × 10-bit (5120 bytes) Executive ROM
2048 × 8-bit Graphics ROM
160 pixels wide by 196 pixels high (5×2 TV pixels make one Intellivision pixel)
16 color palette, all of which can be on the screen at once
8 sprites. Hardware supports the following features per-sprite:
Size selection: 8×8 or 8×16
Stretching: Horizontal (1×, 2×) and vertical (1×, 2×, 4× or 8×)
Mirroring: Horizontal and vertical
Collision detection: Sprite to sprite, sprite to background, and sprite to screen border
Priority: Selects whether sprite appears in front of or behind background.
3 channel sound, with 1 noise generator (audio chip: GI AY-3-8914)

Some well known Intellivision emulators today are:

Nostalgia 3.6a

Top Roms

Armor Battle
Mattel/APh (1979)
Auto Racing
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Major League Baseball
Mattel/APh (1980)
NHL Hockey
Mattel/APh (1980)
Donkey Kong
Coleco (1982)
Frog Bog
Mattel/APh (1982)

How to Play

Please check our Getting started page for more information.

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