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This driver is almost complete. Still TBD are:
* collision detection - 16-way controller mapping - default mapping of the right player
* controller - Only .ROM format cartridges (Intellicart) are supported in this release.
===== History and Trivia =====
At the end of 1979, Mattel Electronics released a video game system known as Intellivision along with 12 video game cartridges. Poised as a competitor to the then king of the hill Atari 2600, Mattel Electronics called their new product "Intelligent Television", stemming
largely from their marketing plans to release a compatible computer keyboard for their video games console.
Mattel fiercely battled with Atari but the Intellivision suffered greatly from the video game market crash of 1984. After Mattel sold the rights to the system soon afterwards, the Intellivision was kept alive through their new owners, INTV Corp. Another 35 games were
released from 1985 to 1990, mostly through mail order service. The system was generally very successful in the end, with over 3 million units sold and 125 games released before the system was finally discontinued in 1990.
During its lifetime, several models of the base system were released, as well as some interesting peripherals including a full computer adaptor, music keyboard, Intellivoice speech synthesis module, system changer to play Atari VCS games and PlayCable (an accessory
to download games from your cable provider).
===== Links =====
* Bluesky Rangers -- http://www.intellivisionlives.com
* FAQ -- http://www.intellivision.ca/intellivisionfaq.pdf
===== Other Emulators =====
* Bliss -- http://bliss.kylesblog.com/
* Nostalgia -- http://www.shinytechnologies.com/nostalgia.php