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Features of Nostalgia:
- Completely new video system - changed from DirectDraw to Direct3d to be compatible with more video cards.
- Completely new front end with better functionality.
- Completely new input system.
- Greatly sped up scanning ROM folders.
- Changed the display FrameSkip to greatly smooth out the frame skipping and allows an adaptive frakeskip model.
- Screenshots now take a proper picture of the game screen, including the border.
- Screenshots are now available in BMP, JPG or PNG formats.
- Audio now plays while minimized or in the background so you can use it as a retro jukebox!
- Sped up the beginning of the game display so you're not looking at a blank window for too long.
- Updated the database system making it FAR more resistant to errors and corrupted databases. It also handles new database versions much better.
- ECS keyboard now works more reliably.
- You can now see and edit game configurations right in the GUI.
- Games can now be assigned a category for custom sorting.
- Game key help is now available in-game.
is the default. - Fixed a bug in video emulation that prevented the 1 & 9 key pause combination from working properly.
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Nostalgia Mini - FAQ:
The help file included with Nostalgia answers most of these questions, but here is a quick FAQ:
What is Nostalgia?
Nostalgia is an Intellivision emulator. It will run all of the games that the original Intellivision could run, in addition to new games that guys like Joe Zbiciak create.
What do I need to play games in Nostalgia?
At least DirectX version 8.0. The newest version of DirectX can be downloaded from http://www.microsoft.com/.
You will also need the ROM images that were contained in chips in the original Intellivision. Please don't ask me for these, as they are copyrighted and are not legally distributable. If you check a couple of search engines you may have more luck. You may also want to try the miniexec and minigrom available with Joe Zbiciak's SDK-1600.
The files you need:
- Executive ROM: Usually named exec.bin or exec.int, required to play any game.
- Graphics ROM: Usually named grom.bin or grom.int, required to play any game.
- Entertainment Computer System ROM: I've seen this one with many names, one of which is ecs.bin. Only required to play ECS games.
An additional goodie that Nostalgia supports is the display of a game's box and overlay images within the emulator. This requires that you have the image files that you'd like displayed. The help file explains how to do this.
Nostalgia comes with 10 box and 10 overlay images thanks to Steve Orth of the Intellivision Funhouse.
What input devices does Nostalgia support, other than the keyboard?
Any joystick that is installed and appears in the Gaming Options section of the Control Panel.
There is also support for the Classic Game Controller interface...once it is completed, that is.
Debug version? What the...?
This is a version of Nostalgia that contains numerous enhancements that are of interest to people writing new Intellivision games. There is the ability to set breakpoints, step through code, view memory, log memory and instructions, run with specific configurations and more.
This is a separate executable because all of these debug enhancements slow the game down noticeably.
