Greetings, programs!

Anyone seen the "proof of concept" footage for TR2N from Comic-Con? (It on
YouTube now)

I've always been a big fan of Tron! But I will admit that it is not a film
that aged well - even in the 90's my kids laughed at it when I made them
watch it. If they still had the original Blue/Green screen footage, I
wonder how hard it would have been just to upgrade the graphics from the
film. I've seen a couple of kids do some pretty amazing things with a video
camera and a laptop in just a couple of days. But I guess that would be
like colorizing BW films, it would change the artistic quality of the film.

But I'm glad that Disney is finally seriously thinking of doing a sequel and
introducing the world of Tron to a new generation. And if the story is done
right, who knows TRON might be Disney's next movie franchise for a few
years. Which might relate into an new WDW attraction....

Even if Disney does build an attraction I'm sure they'll be a new generation
of Video Games...Can't wait to play Tron's disc on a Wii. ;)

-
Keith
"I kinda took a wrong turn somewhere. "

Keane wrote:
>
>>(Most of the interest due to the fact that the "computer humor" was 1982
>>pre-PC for mainframe office-cubicle workers, back before most people
>>even *owned* a computer--Even most of the cast complained in hindsight
>>they hadn't the slightet clue what the script was talking about.
>
> I did. I never saw one of my programs the same way again. They
> were all little me's running around inside of a chip. Some slower
> than others, but they all ran as fast as they could... Really ugly
> when they crashed, too.
>
> Ah, whatta geek. :-)

And give Lisberger credit for pioneering the *first* office-cubicle
jokes, almost a decade before Dilbert..

Derek Janssen (for years, TV pan-and-scan cut off the "Office labyrinth"
matte-shot)
ejanss1@

In article <g77254$let$1@registered.motzarella.org>,
Rudeney <rudeney@mickeypics.com> wrote:

> LOL! Remember Wordstar with all it's CTRL-K commands?

Sorry. Wordstar was on the wrong side of the platform warz. I've
always been a Maccie since 1984.

Now if you take it back to the daze of the Apple ][ and other 8-bit
computers and their various weird tricks (like the Apple using inverse
characters to represent uppercase), I can relate to those.

jt

In article <2g9f94tre4f5hhgshdasfeo48d1k9bs2ma@>,
Keane <keane@keanespics.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:35:04 GMT, jt august <starsabre@net.att> wrote:
>
> >In article <g77254$let$1@registered.motzarella.org>,
> > Rudeney <rudeney@mickeypics.com> wrote:
> >
> >> LOL! Remember Wordstar with all it's CTRL-K commands?
> >
> >Sorry. Wordstar was on the wrong side of the platform warz. I've
> >always been a Maccie since 1984.
> >
> >Now if you take it back to the daze of the Apple ][ and other 8-bit
> >computers and their various weird tricks (like the Apple using inverse
> >characters to represent uppercase), I can relate to those.
> >
> >jt
>
> Uh, Wordstart almost outdates the Apple ][.
>
> It dates somplace back to the late 70's...

OK, now you got me thinking hard to those daze. Part of the problem is
that the grey matter is suffering some of the same bit rot that some of
my 5 1/4 floppies are suffering.

> Keane, who's been waken by a pretty good
> thunderstorm...

A good thunderstorm puts me to sleep. Better than any lullaby.

jt