The Intellicart!

The Intellivision Cartridge Emulator.

What is the Intellicart?

The Intellicart is an Intellivision cartridge that can emulate other cartridges. It is designed to work with the Intellivision Lives and Intellivision Rocks CDs available from Intellivision Productions. It allows you to play the games on those CDs on a REAL Intellivision - the way they were designed to be played. It can also be used as a development tool and distribution medium for new games, using freely available development software.

Simple to use!

The Intellicart is simple to use. Just connect the Intellicart's serial cable to your computer's RS-232 Serial port (the standard serial port on PCs), plug the Intellicart into the Intellivision, and turn on the Intellivision. You'll see the Intellicart "Load Image" screen shown above. Now start the included loading software on your computer, select the game you wish to play (by selecting the .bin file which contains the actual code which makes up the game) and press the download button. The game is loaded into the Intellicart, and your Intellivision resets itself ready to play the game you just loaded. Now the Intellivision will act just like the cartridge of the game you've chosen is inserted until you turn the Intellivision off. When you wish to play a different game, simply turn the Intellivision off and back on. The Intellicart "Load Image" screen will reappear and you can select and download a different game.

Features:

• Software included for Windows 95/98/NT/2000 and Mac OS 8.1 or higher.
• Simple to use.
• Works with Intellivision I, II, III, Intellivoice, and the ECS.
• Same size as a standard Intellivision Cartridge.
• Individually digitally numbered.

Advanced and technical features for developers of new games or download programs:

• 64K of 16-bit RAM - Enough to cover the entire Intellivision memory map.
• Emulates both GI ROM and 16-Bit GI RAM.
• Bankswitching to allow programmers access to the full 64K for new games.
• CRC-16 Error detection on ROM downloads.
• Auto baud rate detection - 2400, 4800, 9600, 14400, 19200, 38400, or 57600 baud.
• Sample source code included for development of loading software for other platforms and operating systems.

Known Limitations of the Intellicart

The Intellicart will not properly emulate games that use 8-bit RAM. The games known to contain 8-bit RAM (and thus known not to work correctly with the Intellicart) are Chess, Land Battle, and Triple Challenge (it contains Chess.)

The ECS game World Series Major League Baseball will not work correctly as it uses a type of bankswitching not used in the Intellicart. (This was not known at the time the Intellicart was created.)

Bonus - Free Games!

Compliments of the people at Intellivision Productions, the Intellicart shipped with six free Intellivision games - all ready to play using the Intellicart and Intellivision: Astrosmash, Deep Pockets: Super Pro Pool and Billiards, Night Stalker, Skiing, Space Spartans and Utopia!

Sold Out

The Intellicart is now sold out and no longer in production. 134 Intellicarts were sold directly by Schell's Electronics from 6/29/00 to 8/12/01, although one was lost by the USPS. After that retail sales were handled by Rob Mundo, who sold another 100 Intellicarts during 2002, for a total of 234 Intellicarts produced.

Intellicart Reviews

Chad Schell has invented a superb add-on that should be part of every Intellivision collection. From my point of view as a collector, I can safely store my originals and use the Intellicart instead. This will eliminate the wear and tear on my original cartridges. If you are interested in buying one for yourself, you should visit the Intellicart website It's well worth the purchase price, and is a quality piece of hardware. Intelligoth gives it a well deserved 9/10.

--Intelligoth of Gigaintellivision 7/27/00

If you find one that is available then go buy one! You won't regret it!

--ClassicGMR

The Intellicart is a great item. Not only does it allow you to play all available Intellivision games on an actual system; it's also a terrific development tool...I see no reason why any Intellivision enthuiast shouldn't own one of these great pieces of hardware.

--Chuck Whitby of the Intellivision Gaming Network

Intellivision is a registered trademark of Intellivision Productions Inc. Intellivision Lives and Intellivision Rocks CD covers are copyright Intellivision Productions Inc.