Has anyody other than me thought about creating an Intellivision or Atari 2600 emulator for our calcs? MastaZog (Ben Ingram) has proven GameBoy emulation is possible. Applause noted! I am sure we can do the same with these 2 classic systems. I would be willing to help.

The Intellivision IV uses a 68K processer.

Yep. Unfortunately the Intellivision IV never saw daylight. The original Intellivision uses a CP1610 processor.

I remember the old days of Arari. A friend of mine had one. The select button had broken off and the only way to use it was to jam a screwdriver into the hole where it used to be, lol. We played a lot of Pong and Combat. I happen to have an emu for it and 81 games, including a few rare ones. Just say the word and I'll mail out a .zip full.

The next version of Astrosmash will include: load/save game, an "About" screen, along with the source code. Maybe even a sneak peek at Ultima V.

Does it also have the Asteroids-clone easter egg and garbled scores?

No and no. I opted not to include the garbled peak score easter egg (actually a bug). However, I may put the Asteroid (true) easter egg in. Good idea!

Astrosmash v0.92 has been uploaded to the archives. As promised, it features a load and save game capability, an "about" screen, a few fixes, and a animated screenshot preview of Ultima V.

I have one of those all-in-one game controller devices that plugs into a TV for instant gameplay, and it has this game on it. It looks like a decent port! Good Job!

Thanks. I have an original Intellivision and a 10-in-1 Intellivision Direct2Tv hand controller. Personally, I do not like the Astrosmash remake on the Direct2TV hand controller.

My peak score is 88450. At one point I had 29 bases.

On a side note... On the original Intellivision my peak score was around 583000 with 165 bases at one point. Things can go down hill so quickly.

INTV > 2600 :-)

Astrosmash used to be my single most favourite game. Heh, I was so young at the time, I had to get my parents to change the cartridge if I wanted to play Lock 'N' Chase.

Me too. I love Lock-n-Chase. And, probably the most original game of all time... Microsurgeon. What an awesome game traveling through the human body; killing diseases, bacteria, cancer, tumors, etc.

I never had Astrosmash, but I did have Lock and Chase. That would be a great port of an intellivision game IMO.

You should probably make the save file external, so that we can archive the game... I thought mine was buggy until I realized that it wouldn't save unless it was unarchived.

Either that, or try and do whatever phoenix does to be able to save a game in there while still archived (my guess is that it momentarily unarchives the file, changes what's necessary, then archives it again if it was archived before).

You have a point. But, FLASH memory has a maximum number of write cycles that can be performed. Does someone know what that max number is?

About 100K cycles, you don't therefore have to worry about it.
Having a battery leak is much more likely than wearing the Flash out: I've never heard of a calculator whose Flash doesn't work anymore, but I've heard of calculators being unused for too long, whose batteries leaked.

100K... Wow! I did not think it was that high. In that case, I may use the above idea.