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Features of Nostalgia:
- Intellivoice and ECS support, including the ECS keyboard.
- Run all existing games and any new games.
- Groovy, retro-feel interface.
- Play with your friends over the Internet via Kaillera.
- Command line support to allow use of emulator front-end software.
- Completely customizable joystick / keyboard interface.
- Customizable color palette so you can make it look like you remember.
- Record movie captures with sound in AVI format.
- Record sound captures in WAV format.
- Snap screen captures in BMP format.
- Save and Restore games.
- Add your own game box and overlay images to display with the game.
- View game manuals inside Nostalgia!
- Box / Overlay images and Manuals for most games now available for download! Click here to get them. Just unzip them into your images or manuals folder.
- Optimized to run well on almost any PC.
- Debugger for aiding the creation of new games.
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Updates in version 4.2:
- Added a screen saver! Press <CTRL + S> from any of the menus to activate it.
- Applied some optimizations to greatly increase the speed of the emulator engine. This means Nostalgia will run at full speed on more computers.
- Added Kaillera network support! Run from the command line with the -k switch, or run from inside Nostalgia.
- Fixed a GLARING bug in initial multiplayer implementation.
- Fixed some bugs in Joystick implementation.
- Added the ability to customize other keys, like screenshot, sound enable, etc. Edit controls.cfg to change them. Valid values are found in controls.txt.
- Fixed the "Ice Trek" bug that prevented you from getting to the last screen.
- Updated Ice Trek bug fix with Joe Z's new info. Thanks, Joe!
- Fixed a series of bugs with the display of moving objects.
- Small updates to sound emulation for accuracy
- Fixed a bug in the way controls.cfg was saved. Thanks to Rick for finding this one.
Debugger updates:
- Fixed a bug that prevented certain games from loading.
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.
