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The INTELLIVISION LIVES Emulator (INTVwin):
You can copy the emulator from your CD-ROM to your hard drive, and with a few
modifications, add the additional ROMs from this site and play them all outside
of the Intellivision Lives CD front-end. The emulator's designer, Carl Mueller,
has listed the steps to get this to work. The following excerpt is from Carl's
page at:
http://busop.cit.wayne.edu/WWW/carl/intv/intv.htm
"Click here to download a ZIP that will allow you to: run the emulator portion of Intellivsion Lives! off your hard drive, use INTVMENU, modify each game's CFG to customize the keyboard mapping, etc., then following the directions below.
The above ZIP also contains two history files (INTVEM.HST, and INTVPC.HST) and README.TXT, which contain undocumented information on the emulator, if you're patient enough to read through them.
Steps |
Example |
| 1. Create a directory where you want to store the files. | C:\> MD INTYPC |
| 2. Change to that directory. | C:\> CD INTYPC |
| 3. Type in the following line, where 'D:' should be replaced by the letter assigned to the drive containing the Intellivision Lives! CD-ROM. | C:\INTYPC> XCOPY D:\INTYPC\INTYTECH\*.* /S /E |
| 4. This will copy the necessary files off the CD. Finally, unzip the above archive into the newly created directoy. When asked to overwrite existing files, press 'a' (always) to overwrite all of them. | C:\INTYPC> PKUNZIP C:\DLOADS\INTYINST.ZIP |
Thanks for the help, Carl!
NOTE: I followed these instructions to the letter and still had some problems with my particular setup.
First of all, if you get an "file buffer error 5" message, it's
because the BIN (emulated game) file has a read-only attribute set to it. After
copying the games from the CD, remember to change the attributes so they're not
read-only.
There was another problem though. The BAT files, particularly STARTBIN.BAT, have
hard-coded file references. After loading the CD files to my D: drive and making
the INTYINST files overlay those, I could still only get as far as having
INTVMENU boot up... but only point to files in the C: drive! No matter what I
tried to do, including moving the whole thing over to the C: drive, I couldn't
get the directory I needed to come up in INTVMENU. Upon further investigation of
the BAT files, I noticed that MENU.BAT follows a hierarchy in which to call
STARTBIN.BAT.
I opened STARTBIN.BAT and noticed that it still had the CD-ROM references in it,
so I changed the directory name to my D: drive where I had moved the emulator,
and VOILA! That solved my problems.
The SAMPLE Emulator:
You won't need ROMs for the "sample" emulator, just UNZIP the files
VOL1.ZIP and VOL2.ZIP (you don't have to have both), and run the VOL1.EXE
program for Astrosmash, Skiing and Utopia or VOL2.EXE for Night Stalker, Deep
Pockets, and Space Spartans.
KNOWN INCOMPATIBILITY: Both volumes are incompatible with the ESS Technology
sound chip (found in many laptops and some sound cards). If you get no sound
when running Volume 1, try launching it from DOS or a DOS window with the
command vol1 /s1 <enter>. This should force the sound on. If
you still have no sound, please intellivision@makingit.com
with details of your system's configuration.