Archive for March 20th, 2008

Intellivision / Gamecube finalized and more

Thursday, March 20th, 2008
First off, I missed a day this week, which was Wednesday. My day off, and for some reason, my car dealer took 2 1/2 hours to fix my car! Should have taken only about an hour. Oh well, it threw my sleep schedule off, and I ended up sleeping way too much. In fact, I sleep most of Wednesday, for some darn reason. Thus I spent part of today trying to make up for it, along with getting some college homework done as well (still trying to get ahead during Spring break for next week). I managed to pull out my Intellivision and test it on my old Sharp TV upstairs. As expected, no problems at all, even if it is using RF (I have yet to get the video upgrade installed and working on a INTV unit yet - maybe for next year). I tested it out with Dracula, not my favorite game, but for some reason I'm drawn to the crazy thing. I like the day/night cycle in the game play. Oh well, it works, and it is in the show officially now. I also tested the 2nd iMac I had in my basement, sitting on my workbench since last year. Gort, the best of the original CRT iMacs that I have powered up as I expected and ran Quake just fine. This model is from 2001, and is indigo in color, with the best processor and graphics of the iMacs I currently have. The system date was a bit off, but the time was correct. Hopefully the battery keeps going, as it seems okay, otherwise the unit would not have booted up. So, that is two Macs ready for the Quake LAN. Hopefully will actually start testing them on the LAN in a day or two. I've pulled out the LAN equipment, and just need to get everything in order to do the LAN testing. Unlike other years, I'm just going to test two at a time, just to make sure nothing has gone wrong from last year (plus I need to change one setting in the Quake game on each Mac to adjust for 7 players). I know I stated that the Gamecube was finalized before, but I never really got the games all set to go. Today I did that, making sure they were set on the cube's memory card, and that I had all the controllers in order. Thus, the Gamecube is truly ready for the show. I expect it to be a popular part of the UC area this year, at least I expect it to be. Since I'm not running the iconic games from Nintendo, this may turn some folks off. But, in true Underdog fashion, I'd rather run games like Gun and Ikaruga!
Dracula on the Intellivision - Intellivision and Cuttle Cart 3 Dracula on the Intellivision Intellivision and Cuttle Cart 3
Gort, booting up OS 9 - Quake Gort, booting up OS 9 Quake
Ikaruga on the GC - Gun screen shot Ikaruga on the GC Gun on the GC