Bliss with Intellivision Support!

posted in Emulator Release by xeon3d on Mar 5th, 2001

Finally the Intellivision Emulator called Bliss has been updated to Version 1.5 :) Major Changes? The author added Intellivoice Support, and fixed some major DirectX bugs, but anyway here's what's new: v1.5 – March 5, 2001 This release gets full point revision due to the Intellivoice support, which required quite a bit of work to complete. Thanks to Joe Zbiciak for all of the reverse engineering, technical information, and debugging assistance necessary to pull this off. New in this release...
  • Intellivoice support. The Intellivoice ROM is required and must be either somewhere in your ROMs or in a file named “ivoice.bin” within the directory where Bliss is installed. Once you obtain the Intellivoice ROM, the Intellivoice support will automatically be enabled. The known games that supported the Intellivoice included the following: B-17 Bomber, Bomb Squad, Space Spartans, Tron Solar Sailor, and World Series Major League Baseball. Thanks to Joe Zbiciak for the all of the reverse engineering info and debugging support necessary to do this.
  • Added modeling of cross-channel modulation. This should cause many of the loud, modulating, or vibrating sounds to be much more accurate. Thanks to Joe Zbiciak for the info necessary to do this.
  • Added a complete Spanish translation as well as full French and German translations. Thanks go to Juan Fernando Rivera Pernía, Florent Basset, and Kevin Werdelmann respectively for contributing these translations. Bliss now automatically detects and supports five different languages.
  • All of the Intellivision ROMs published by Joseph Zbiciak are now included in this release. These ROMs full under the GNU Public License (GPL) and have been included with the express permission of Joseph Zbiciak.
  • Fixed a bug in the DirectX support that caused Bliss to send far too much texture data over the graphics bus (by several orders of magnitude). This may finally fix the DirectX speed problems that plagued many users.
    • Go grab it from our Intellivision Page.