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Indeed, the tune is also found in Checkers and an Easter egg in Conversational French (th-cam.com/video/Yo673L5o8lk/w-d-xo.html). I believe the reason it was so popular is that the tune was used to as a 7am alarm during finals week at Caltech, which is the alma mater of a number of the Intellivision developers who worked at APh.

Nice, do you have a PlayCable or Jerrold branded adapter?

​@@decle Playcable adapter Model PCR Jerrold Division made in Canada General Instruments with the complete all-games box (all instructions+cards)

@@xs656 Nice, if it's one with "Jerrold" on the name plate like this: content.invisioncic.com/r322239/monthly_10_2012/post-26758-0-78236700-1349241615.jpg, we believe it's a pre-production or test market unit. These seem to be rarer than the later General Instrument branded versions like this: static.wikia.nocookie.net/retroconsoles/images/9/9a/PlayCable_front.jpg. There is also a chance the pre-production units were previously owned by Jerrold engineers and have been modded for PlayTape use (one of these has been found in the wild). In your manuals / documentation are there any copies of "Scoreboard" (the PlayCable newsletter), or schedules of which games were due to be played like this one: content.invisioncic.com/r322239/monthly_09_2013/post-25458-0-21287700-1378179388.jpg

Cheers. Sorry about the CYBER video, I accidentally published an early cut, this is the final version: th-cam.com/video/DA0k_biIZBA/w-d-xo.html

Although we're from the UK, the PlayCable service only existed in the US (unfortunately).

@@decle And I think ONLY is quite true. I'm in Canada, and I never heard of it. (I was already an adult when the Intellivision was launched, so it ewasn't lack of awareness) Surprising as we get so much American advertising on TV here. None the less a cool product and an impressive restoration to get this predecessor to Steam or XBox-Live working off-line all these years later.

Unfortunately, the short answer is they can't. I have access to the programs because I was helping the owner recover them from old PDP-11 floppy disks. Whilst I have permission to make videos of the programs in action, I don't have permission to distribute them. Sorry.

The short answer is we don't know. The team has taken a pretty careful look through and we can't find evidence of it in the code. Some of Jack's developers are sure it should be there, others suggest it may have been introduced as a running change owing to lack of time: forums.atariage.com/topic/343824-keyboard-component-jack-lalannes-physical-conditioning-full-playthrough/?do=findComment&comment=5165354

Cheers, it was great to meet Sam, I love his work. He has a great group of people who work with him at the museum. If you get the chance to visit, grab it! Sam's eclectic taste really comes through. My son left saying how great it was to be able to experiment with some analog synths. My wife really loved the old Strowger telephone system. And me? I was a kid in a organ store. 😀

It's an arrangement of the ragtime tune "12th Street Rag"

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Yup, it's really 30fps. If it looks faster it's an optical illusion.

Unfortunately, that is unlikely in the near term. Ownership of the copyright is unclear, and I don't have the authors' permission to share any of it.

@@decle I would argue that if you're being hamstrung by these concerns, that nothing is actually being preserved.

mind you, this is not a slight against the work that you all have done. This is a reminder that reproducing something in isolation means that it will be lost again. The unique aspect of digital archaeology is that the artifacts preserved, can be studied far easier than other physical artifacts, and given the extremely ephemeral nature of digital artifacts, the only way to combat them not being lost, or permanently locked away in some citadel.

@@tschak909 I can see and appreciate your point of view. 👍 Trust me, there are a large number of items I'm aware of, but don't have access to, that I would like to have access to, reverse engineer, document, etc. With regard to my efforts, I would argue the following. Firstly, the current state is not necessarily final, opinions may change. If they do, I will make things available. Secondly, these videos serve to document the work, even if it can't be shared at this time, and I think that has value. Items like PlayComp were unknown previously, so having a description and demonstration of them is useful I think. Thirdly, I feel it's important to adhere to individuals wishes, otherwise why would people trust and collaborate with you? And finally, I'm personally unconvinced by some other accepted routes to preservation, such as donating items to museums, which often seems to be blackhole for large amounts of material.

@@decle believe me, I understand the reservations with donating to museums, which I also share. (I've had to deal with it personally, and have seen entire swaths of computing history disappear into unaccountability because the trustees of a museum decided to shut it down. This is why I have taken a much more aggressive mode of action in preservation.)