ColecoVision Breaking News.

August 11. 2010.
Pixelboy are proud to announce that the Activision PCB for Cartridges now is a reality.
"We now have a ColecoVision PCB that supports 64K bankswitching and EEPROM support for data-saving."
"It can also support regular 32K ROMs."
"And even better: Two versions of the PCB will be available, one for Activision cart casings, and the other for regular Coleco casings."
More infomation about the new ColecoVision PCB can be found here.

August 06. 2010.
Eduardo the inventor of OpCode Games, has decided to close his website about games and hardware for the ColecoVision Game Console.
The former site OpCode Games is closed with regard to frustration and more disputes on rights to Eduardo's work.
Eduardo has now reopen his World Of Opcode site completely different, he will still concentrate on developing his games, and still work at the new SG Module.
Eduardo' decision is, -"he will no longer openly sell ColecoVision games".
And the good news is that Eduardo already working on DKA with tunes and sounds.

August 04. 2010.
The Void: Centauri Conflict for the ColecoVision is a new game brought to you by atari2600.com
It’s an old-school shooter, and a nice addition to any ColecoVision owner’s library.
Players guide their ship back and forth along the bottom of the screen, firing upward at four different types of attacking alien ships that move either right, left, down, or in a zig-zag motion.
Price for this game are $ 45,-

August 03. 2010.
CollectorVision' site is up and running again.

August 03. 2010.
CollectorVision has as the first homebrewer plan to selling his "after released" games via download.
The new download page is called: DigitalVision and can be found on CollectorVision' website.
"I'm planning to make all our games available for download.
To get access to a Downloadable Game, the user will have to donate/pay a symbolic sum per game, but can give more too."
With this stunning bidder will all have a new chance playing games, namely via their emulator, or via the new Cartridges on the market (AtariMax 128:1 - Ultimate SD Cartridge).
Concurrently you will still be able to purchase ordinary games on Cartridge with a box and a manual.

August 03. 2010.
CollectorVision communicate now that Pooyan for ColecoVision is ready for sale, you can order your copy right now.
The game is offered in 2 different cartidge shell, one "clear" and the other is "standard black". Take your pick which version you want.

July 30. 2010.
CollectorVision has decided to close its website so far, the reason is that a person from the internet with unauthorized use has resold others work.
The rules are so that you may not dump a game Rom unless it is no longer commercially, you must in other words not sell it with profit in mind.
Furthermore, the person it is about has not seeking the respective owners for the necessary authorization.
Homwbrewers games are made with respect to the owner and the publisher with his own brand an also a brand in respect from the company that originally published the game.
The games as it comes about is games that never were designed for Colecovision.
So the code as the games is developed with, must belong to the owner who is behind those new developed games.
colecovision.dk unconditional support for all developers of new arcade-styled games, tools and hardware for Colecovision console.

July 13. 2010.
5-11 under aka Harvey Dekleine has decided to make a breakout PCB board to help you create your own arcade controller(s) for the ColecoVision.
Almost everything will be included: Six foot extension cable to connect between the ColecoVision and the breakout board.
Male DB9 connector on back of breakout board to externally connect steering wheel, roller controller, etc.
About 28 or so diodes on the breakout board that are required for proper operation and much much more.
All you need to get by yourself are: Arcade joysticks and Buttons, also you need to build or buy the case.
Also create your own layout for the joystick and switches plus drill the required holes.
The PCB will be at least 2" x 4", and there'll be about 50 ft. of wire.
With the current features, the price will be about $50 each, plus mailing costs from Canada.
It will, if all go well, be on sale from medio September 2010.

July 05. 2010.
Daniel aka newcoleco has just started at his new website, simple and straightforward in fresh blue colors.
Daniel is good to inform and help others with ColecoVision programming, whether it is code or music for a game.
Daniel's blog at dev-fr.org are still down.
So here is a really good site, same host: http://www.ccjvq.com/newcoleco

July 04. 2010.
Philipp Klaus Krause aka PkK state precisely that he has started a new game for Colecovision.
It shall try to represent the naval battles of the late 19th and early 20th century.
Six historic scenarios (Yalu, Ulsan, Lemnos, Coronel, Falkland, Dogger Bank) and custom scenarios (create custom fleets from 28 ship classes from 7 nations).
Cooperative multiplayer with one player controlling ship and rudder and the other controlling the artillery.
You can also toggle between steering mode and artillery mode.
The game is still far from complete and not yet named.
Read more here , and get an early demo.

June 26. 2010.
Pixelboy state now that his BasicVision project is on ice right now.
He have to complete the new box templates of Gulkave, Girl's Garden, Peek-a-boo and Pitfall II Arcade, and get them printed in time for October 2010 release.
And there's also the manual of Pitfall II Arcade that he haven't begun working on yet.
Also he is not sure if Space Shuttle - A Journey Into Space will be ready in time for the final NASA shuttle launch which takes place in November 2010.
So because of all this can't pixelboy imagine finding the time to work on his BasicVision before January 2011.

June 22. 2010.
ADAMCON 22 in Canada was a success.
A new SDnet card reader for ADAM was presented.
Simply plug it in and press reset, it boots up as if it were a set of 2 disk drives, with opportunity to read and write to it.
There are multiple "sets" of disk drives into which you may put almost any ADAM file in.
It now becomes a virtual hard drive unit.
The next ADAMCON 23 2011 will since 1996 and 2001 again be in the US, namely at Cleveland Ohio.

June 16. 2010.
Kingofcrusher as are programmer for Pitfall 2 for Colecovision have a plan to create another ColecoVision game, the game has yet no name,
but kingofcrusher says: It's not a shooter but will be an adventure game in the vein of The Immortal. It will be finished by the end of 2010.

June 16. 2010.
A new Smurf game, and the racing game Outrun are on the way, Youki who made Ghost n Zombies have 4 projects on the way for colecovision in a near future.
It will be shown on ADAMCON 22 on June 18-20. 2010 in Canada, and it is this time newcoleco as hosts for this year's show.
2 other games will share the same engine. The 1. game using the engine is 60% done.
The 2nd game is 10% done, and this game is a remake of an old game for Amiga and Atari St , the name of this game is so far a secret.
Also kingofcrusher have a game to present on ADAMCON 22: Raycaster playing in a 3D virtual adventure world.

May 22. 2010.
A CIB Release of Lord Of The Dungeon with save feature will soon see the daylight, because CollectorVision plans to relaunch the game.
A game that many have missed when it was first released.
It will be with a manual in color and a new overlay, also -this will be released in form of a "Kit".

May 06. 2010.
Retroillucid at CollectorVision state right now that four games will be tried released for ColecoVision before winter 2010.
The four games are following: Pooyan, Burn Rubber, Kobashi and Lode Runner.

May 04. 2010.
Phil Boland always liked the old double sided ad of an ColecoVision and some games, but hated the fact that it was split down the middle and never seemed to line up correctly.
So he scanned the ad in to his computer and spent some hours on it in Photoshop, and now it looks like a one page ad.
Since Phil scanned it in at a very high rez, he decided to have a large print made of the ad.
The ad is 20 inches tall x 30 inches wide and it is printed on photo paper by a professional photo prints shop. (No inkJet).
About Phil has decided to sell his prints is not known.

May 03. 2010.
Pixelboy tells that the stickers has been applied on all the Gulkave, Girl's Garden and Peek-a-boo cartridges, but the boxes have not yet begun to be cut, folded and glued.
Pitfall II Arcade are still in the beta-testing phase, and Yurkie has been graciously helping out.
Yurkie indicated that he found the colors of the various creatures (bats and frogs in particular) a little weird and that it would be a good idea to adjust their colors.
In other news, Pixelboy search for a 600 DPI scan of the box of Space Shuttle for Atari 5200. He wants the first-run edition of the box.

April 23. 2010.
"else", a member at AtariAge has made what he call, the Adam SD Drive....
Full Compatibility: Works with all existing Adams. It bridges to the AdamNET protocol. To the FAT16/FAT32 file system on the SD Card.
Simply plug and play, and a big Capacity, it provides up to 32 "disk" pairs and 64 "disks" total.
Programs load and save nearly instantly, and the PCB are small enough to mount inside the Adam, if desired.
Works with .dsk and .ddp
The PCB is in beta, and will in a few months to be ready for sale.
Detailed information can be obtained by writing to "else" here.

April 14. 2010.
Retroillucid at CollectorVision says he have plans for a ColecoVision encyclopedia book.
He says he is very serious about the book, and he do not want it to look cheap, Hard Cover, Glossy Pages and simply ColecoVision stuff and alot of infos.
Retroillucid has archived stuff since 1996 for the book project, and "you would'nt believe how much stuff you'll find in this book".
Pretty much everyone can contribute to the book to make it just better.

April 13. 2010.
Eduardo have several games that he ported over the years from platforms like the MSX and SG-1000, but which he didn't see enough commercial appeal to justify a packaged release.
Therefore will he place some copies on ebay.
All games is tested to the best ability and appears 100% functional, however not all of them.
The prototypes are: Exerion - Galaga - Comic Bakery - Juno First - Sparkie - CGE 2003 Demo and maybe others.
Eduardo need some money to fund the new SGM.
So now he has something to start with, the first 5 prototypes of Exerion earned him good $ 1.762,-
And all 5 CV prototypes of Sega's SG-1000 version of Galaga, has given him: $ 1.889,-
Also 3 out of 5 sold Comic Bakery games was going for (Keep your seat belt tight) $ 1.649,-

April 09. 2010.
Team Pixelboy indicates that there is a delay for the 3 CV game releases.
These are: Peek a boo, Girls Garden and Gulkave.
"The boxes for the games have been handed over to a company which will cut and crease them.
The boxes have no bleed space and are of a very precise design, it will be difficult to make cuts and crease lines which are precise enough.
I just don't want to deal with that stuff right now."
Retroillucid at CollectorVision has promised to help him, so that he can move forward in the process.

April 01. 2010.
Eduardo from OpCode Games communicate right now he still wants his new Super Game Module must have a voice chip.
So the OKI MSM 9842 will, if it goes right be validated, and then will OpCode Games create a new Super Game Module PCB with all new components.
Supports DMA, FIFO, 8 and 16 bit, 44,1 kHz which can deliver audio in CD quality.
With this new ColecoVision Super Game Module, and the OKI chip will games like: Wizard of wor, Berzerk, Pole Posision, Gorf and many other games with synthetic sounds come to terms.

March 24. 2010.
OpCode Games informs that the deal with Coleco Holdings LLC in Chicago now has been signed.
The new ColecoVision Super Game Module is now a officially licensed ColecoVision product.
ColecoVision Super Game Module is also the name for the never released Module by Coleco Inc. back in 1985.
It will, perhaps create some name confusion.

March 18. 2010.
joyrex says he had to change some priorities, he have less time for hobbies nowadays.
He still working on Pooyan together with dvik, and they have a release candidate for Burn Rubber around summer 2010.

March 10. 2010.
Eduardo at OpCode Games has announced that Konami's Ping Pong for ColecoVision is ready for launch in June 2010.
Eduardo made the game back in 2004 for ColecoVision.
Now, after 6 years he perfected the game, and finally sent it in beta test.
Dale Crum has started to create artwork for an upcoming box, and to write a manual for the game.
And like Eduardo says: "This year I definitively want more than just tease you guys, I want 4 games out, and I am working really hard for that."

February 21. 2010.
Luc from Team Pixelboy has announced that he intends to produce a programming language to use for ColecoVision programmers.
Luc also says: "The first real step will be to create a language parser application."
And it will: "Definately be a long-term project, but oh so promising."

February 12. 2010.
CollectorVision says now that all Mario Bros. and all Penguin Land games will be shipped in March 2010.
So if you have ordered both games, you'll receive them both in one single box.

February 05. 2010.
Eduardo at OpCode Games says that the SEM project has been scalled down.
The name of the new Module are ColecoVision Memory Module CMM.
The new Memory expander allows more avanced games up to 16Kb. instead of 1Kb.
No Video chips, no Speech chip, no AV Out, and no BIOS for the new CMM, it will be saved for the new upcoming CV 2 in 2012.

January 19. 2010.
Eduardo has now decided to concentrate fully on developing its next unit, Colecovision CV2.
Eduardo's SE Module is perhaps on standby, and he is in full swing with the purchase of chips.
It will be a unit with a very sophisticated graphic and sound in the 80's spirit.

January 05. 2010.
Shipping of Mario Brothers will be completed this week and you will soon receive your copy.

January 04. 2010.
5-11under aka Harvey DeKleine has produced and designed a small PCB with AV Out and dual mono for the Colecovision.
There will be a possibility to adjust the colors red, green and blue independently.
The price will be $ 45 US pieces, including mailing to US and Canadian addresses.
Are you interested in a copy, contact Harvey through this thread.

December 23. 2009.
Retroillucid at CollectorVision says now that the games Pooyan, Penguin Land and Mario Brothers, are delayed until 2010.
The reason is the lack of PCB's from the original supplier, and the solution is to buy from another one.

November 12. 2009.
Eduardo at OpCode Games announced that the new design for SEM will be shrinking with SMT components.
Simultaneously says Eduardo that the Oki MSM 9842 speech chip now will be supplied in the future version.
Eduardo hope to have a beta board before the end of 2009.
The final SEM will in Summer 2010 in collaboration with Nurve Networks LLC., be manufactured in China, tested and assembled complete with Box and Game.

November 07. 2009.
Super Expansion Module Prototype #2 is now assembled with all the chips, and Eduardo from OpCode Games are now also ready to start testing the MegaRAM and SaveRAM.

November 06. 2009.
Eduardo at OpCode Games says: Donkey Kong Arcade, Knightmare and Goonies will all be released sometime in 2010.
He want all 3 games to be out in the space of 6 months in the worst case.

November 04. 2009.
Doubledown's Site vikingvideogames.com are offline at the moment.
It was hosted on Yahoo's GeoCities server, which they shut down at the end of October.
Doubledown are in the process of deciding on a new server, but it will probably take a couple months before he will find another one, and layout a design for it.

November 03. 2009.
ColecoVision.dk is starting changing the site to a widescreen format, expected to be completed February 2010.
The site will then best be displayed at a resolution of 1280 x 800 (16:10).

November 01. 2009.
CollectorVision communicate, that as soon as all Penguin Land PCB's are assembled, will they all be sent at the end of November 2009.

October 31. 2009.
CollectorVision taking this opportunity to mention that Mario Bros now is finally done.
All 100 Red copies will be sent in the beginning of December 2009.
Then will CollectorVision starting a Black Cartridge Edition Reservation List, with a Green Box, a Black Cartridge, and a Green Label. 75 will be available.
An extra different Classic box version with a Black Cartridge will also be available, limited to 25 copies only.

October 28. 2009.
Daniel Bienvenu, Newcoleco's site are down.
Daniel's very good and useful site is down, because geocities free web hosting are closed.
His new site is this: ccjvq.com/newcoleco, or you can catch him at: newcoleco.dev-fr.org

October 26. 2009.
"Junior" has in cooperation with newcoleco added internal documents from the Coleco Company to his site.
You can find all the documents on colecovisionzone.com

October 22. 2009.
Team Pixelboy are now a reality.
Luc Miron from Canada is now ready to start up with two games for ColecoVision.
Gulkave will probably be the first one to be released.
Take a look on: TeamPixelboy.com

October 18. 2009.
CollectorVision has just announced that the Mario Brothers will be ready for sale in November 2009.

October 13. 2009.
Philippe from atomicfe.com which has made the game Ghost n Zombies communicate through CollectorVision, that Ghost n Zombies now finally are on the way out to all users.
Ghost N Zombies will arrive in your mailbox very soon.

October 09. 2009.
Eduardo from OpCode Games has created a second prototype of his Super Expansion Module for ColecoVision.
The 2nd. prototype PCB is now sent to the factory.
The module allows you to access the extended game, and a distinct improvement in sound.
Whether the SEM Module will include AV Out and the Oki MSM 9842 speech chip is not quite in place yet.

September 29, 2009.
Albert from AtariAge says, that all games of GhostBlasters by Daniel Bienvenu will be sent with the mail tomorrow, so the game should be on the road.

September 05. 2009
CollectorVision are now taking orders for the game Pinguin Land from Sega SG 1000.
The game is converted to ColecoVision by Steve Bégin and launched through CollectorVision.
A friendly greeting goes to "The man behind", Luc Miron from Team Pixelboy.