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Off Topic => General Discussion => Topic started by: Peter B on May 21, 2014, 10:01:40 AM
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Anyone else seen this one?
And with an impressively realistic depition of astronauts on the Moon...!
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I found it horrific, sorry.
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Yeah....It's very well done and everything, but it's pretty horrible. They could have made the joke in a less gruesome way.
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Anyone else seen this one?
And with an impressively realistic depition of astronauts on the Moon...!
I'm sorry, but I really enjoyed that.
I showed it to herself and even she got it first time.
Also shared it with my No.2 son and he's sharing it with his older brother.
Definitely funny.
And, yes I got the apollo reference.
sloop.
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And with an impressively realistic depition of astronauts on the Moon...!
Right up until an astronaut breaks wind and the monster hears it...
I thought the joke was amusing (if you can ignore the fundamental flaw that in space no-one can hear you fart), but a bit overdone on the horrific slaughtering of astronauts. Plenty of other commercials, TV shows and films manage to make the threat convincing without the massive violence. Wouldn't the joke have been just as funny with the monster just stalking them?
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And with an impressively realistic depition of astronauts on the Moon...!
Right up until an astronaut breaks wind and the monster hears it...
I thought the joke was amusing (if you can ignore the fundamental flaw that in space no-one can hear you fart), but a bit overdone on the horrific slaughtering of astronauts. Plenty of other commercials, TV shows and films manage to make the threat convincing without the massive violence. Wouldn't the joke have been just as funny with the monster just stalking them?
That might have put a different spin on the Alien films.
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And with an impressively realistic depition of astronauts on the Moon...!
Hmm..not really. Dust doesn't billow and float about in a vacuum....
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I found it horrific, sorry.
Then I apologise unreservedly.
I didn't mean to cause any upset, and I should have realised that other people's senses of humour would be different from mine.
ETA: As a way of making it up, may I offer this link to a game where the object is to land the LM on the Moon: http://lander.dunnbypaul.net/ (My best score so far is a little over 2000 points.)
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Peter, sorry to post so long after the fact, but I did find it hilarious. I wish I hadn't seen the title first, because knowing it was about baked beans I knew within a couple of seconds what was going to happen. To the consternation of some of our friends here, I even thought of a somewhat sadistic one-liner response:
"So I guess something does beat an astronaut!"
C'mon, guys, comedy must be granted a wide margin of creative and aesthetic license. And scientific credibility is irrelevant in humor. The monster's movements were totally inconsistent with lunar gravity, too. Welllll, so what?
I, too, was impressed with the graphics. With so many hoax nuts claiming the photography of the Apollo missions was faked, just imagine how easily they will be able to make that claim by the next time anyone goes there.
My main objection is that they should have used a much more manly sounding fart.
Okay, Peter, I guess I'll have to share the dog house with you for awhile.
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;D
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And I found this classic one:
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And I found this classic one:
Wow. That took me waaaaaay back.
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An interesting commercial with Neil Armstrong from 1979:
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Another funny one:
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Buzz Aldrin and the Volkswagen Beetle (in German: VW Käfer):
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Aldrin, Shepard and Carpenter in a commercial for the Amiga 500 (from 1989):
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Aldrin, Shepard and Carpenter in a commercial for the Amiga 500 (from 1989):
Oh the memories! I designed and installed Amiga-based systems until Commodore bailed on it. Thanks for posting that.
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Aldrin, Shepard and Carpenter in a commercial for the Amiga 500 (from 1989):
Oh the memories! I designed and installed Amiga-based systems until Commodore bailed on it. Thanks for posting that.
I still have 2 sitting on a shelf in the basement.
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I still have 2 sitting on a shelf in the basement.
If ones a 500, and still working, you can send it to me for Christmas :). I love playing Elite on that thing and mine bit the dust years ago. Emulators don't do if for me.
I'll write a nice note to Santa, if that helps? :D
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If ones a 500, and still working, you can send it to me for Christmas :). I love playing Elite on that thing and mine bit the dust years ago. Emulators don't do if for me.
I'll write a nice note to Santa, if that helps? :D
I remember playing Elite. It was a fantastic game for hourlong fun. But my version was for C 64. I never had an Amiga. In my youth there were two cliques. One used C 64, the others were Amiga fans. :)
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I remember playing Elite. It was a fantastic game for hourlong fun. But my version was for C 64. I never had an Amiga. In my youth there were two cliques. One used C 64, the others were Amiga fans. :)
My C64 version used to go wrong on the missions.. never found out why :(. I've had an invite to the Elite Dangerous Launch party on the 22 of this month. A friend, who I haven't seen for years, who got me into elite (C64 version) has bought the tickets and invited me along. :)
Sadly I may have to wear my retro T'shirt with the C64 graphics and the "Load New Commander" slogan. :D
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(http://i60.tinypic.com/xm4cix.jpg)
How sad.. lol :)
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How sad.. lol :)
:)
Have much fun there. Reading this I'm going to look, if there are any conventions of C64-fans here in Germany. Should be very funny.
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I still have 2 sitting on a shelf in the basement.
If ones a 500, and still working, you can send it to me for Christmas :). I love playing Elite on that thing and mine bit the dust years ago. Emulators don't do if for me.
I'll write a nice note to Santa, if that helps? :D
A500+ with GVP A530 accelerator and harddisk + A4000 with 68060 CPU, built into a tower.
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I have an A1200 with an accelerator (68030, as I recall). External CDROM drive, too. Currently gathering dust but I don't really want to throw it out, it was a good machine in its day.
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An interesting commercial with Neil Armstrong from 1979:
Hmm. I thought he made a point of not selling himself out commercially. Maybe he needed the money.
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An interesting commercial with Neil Armstrong from 1979:
Hmm. I thought he made a point of not selling himself out commercially. Maybe he needed the money.
At the time, Chrysler was in bankruptcy in a really bad economy, and I think he took on the ad as a way of helping the country by helping one of the then Big 3.
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I liked it.
Sorry.
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If ones a 500, and still working, you can send it to me for Christmas :). I love playing Elite on that thing and mine bit the dust years ago. Emulators don't do if for me.
I'll write a nice note to Santa, if that helps? :D
I remember playing Elite. It was a fantastic game for hourlong fun. But my version was for C 64. I never had an Amiga. In my youth there were two cliques. One used C 64, the others were Amiga fans. :)
We spent a fair amount of time in Hangar AE at the Cape in the mid-90s for preflight processing. The Mission Directors room for unmanned launches was there. Processing the downlink telemetry from the launch vehicles, and driving the displays, were a pair of Amigas.
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(http://i60.tinypic.com/xm4cix.jpg)
How sad.. lol :)
For anyone interested, the Elite Dangerous launch party is on this evening 8pm GMT it will be live on the internet.
http://www.twitch.tv/EliteDangerous
I'll be wearing the geeky T'shirt shown, so if Adrian is trolling, you might be able to spot me.. LOL! :D
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If ones a 500, and still working, you can send it to me for Christmas :). I love playing Elite on that thing and mine bit the dust years ago. Emulators don't do if for me.
I'll write a nice note to Santa, if that helps? :D
I remember playing Elite. It was a fantastic game for hourlong fun. But my version was for C 64. I never had an Amiga. In my youth there were two cliques. One used C 64, the others were Amiga fans. :)
We spent a fair amount of time in Hangar AE at the Cape in the mid-90s for preflight processing. The Mission Directors room for unmanned launches was there. Processing the downlink telemetry from the launch vehicles, and driving the displays, were a pair of Amigas.
A1000? Any special hardware attached?
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(http://i60.tinypic.com/xm4cix.jpg)
How sad.. lol :)
For anyone interested, the Elite Dangerous launch party is on this evening 8pm GMT it will be live on the internet.
http://www.twitch.tv/EliteDangerous
I'll be wearing the geeky T'shirt shown, so if Adrian is trolling, you might be able to spot me.. LOL! :D
A good night was had by all, did anybody catch me on the video feed? Wearing my geeky shirt. :D David Braben wasn't very forthcoming about, when the C64 or BBC Micro versions would be available though. :( But he did like my question on whether he had invited Ian Bell to the event, appears that they did, but Ian refused to answer them. :)
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Reading they have removed single player play? If so I shall decline to part with any loot.
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Yeah, you can't play it without an internet connection.
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Reading they have removed single player play? If so I shall decline to part with any loot.
Quite a few people brought that up, they were backed into a corner somewhat. You can play in single player mode, but you do need an internet connection. But to release a stand alone version would need a complete re-write of the game. Additionally to run the game at full potential you need a 4K monitor and 'two' high quality graphics cards. Playing the game with the optical headsets was unbelievable. :)
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Ah, internet connection eh? That is no problem, Silent Hunter had one of their games as such as well, when I had a foray into a windows machine.
Edit. Windows only on that web site? OK. Oolite then.
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The music of Elite for C64:
Makes me some kind of melancholic :-[
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Not a good video off my iPhone, of last nights launch
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Hmmm, never heard of Elite. I wonder why.
I did enjoy playing a quirky little game called "Mule." It was one of only two computer games my wife was ever interested in playing with me. The other one was a murder mystery...all text. I can't remember the name of it, though. A few years later I'll bet another game she would have been fascinated with was "Myst." But by then she had come to hate my computers.
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That was not the music from my version. Maybe the germans got a different tune?
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Hmmm, never heard of Elite. I wonder why.
I did enjoy playing a quirky little game called "Mule." It was one of only two computer games my wife was ever interested in playing with me. The other one was a murder mystery...all text. I can't remember the name of it, though. A few years later I'll bet another game she would have been fascinated with was "Myst." But by then she had come to hate my computers.
Elite was a space trading game thought up by Ian Bell and David Braben. It was originally written for the BBC Micro, and later released on most other machines of the age. C64 etc. You start with a ship and 100 credits you can choose how you approach the game. You can trade and build up your prestige and money honestly. You can deal in illegal goods like slaves, narcotics etc but you have the police of half the galaxy after you. Or you can become an all out privateer, destroying other ships and plundering their cargo.
There are a couple of aims to the game, most genre's had 5 or more missions for you to complete which are picked up at various stages of the game.
Plus the other point of the game was to become Elite. You start at Harmless and grow through Mostly Harmless, poor, average, above average, competent and finally Elite. This is done by combat, either legal combat or shooting all on sight. It boasted the first real use of 3D vector graphics and a large universe, fully contained in the game, a massive feat for those early machines.
The new game coming out now boasts the full visible night sky, with stars in there correct positions of the Galaxy and the rest of the non visible galaxy. In theory you can travel to anyone of the stars in the Milky Way, literally billions of trips. I don't think I have the mind set or the equipment to do the new game justice. :)
One of the few games that held my interest for more than 5 minutes in its day though. :)
There is a free Public Domain game called oolite which gives you a taste of the original game, but with slightly better graphics.
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That was not the music from my version. Maybe the germans got a different tune?
That was the start music for most of the versions that I played, the docking music however was always the Blue Danube.
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That was not the music from my version. Maybe the germans got a different tune?
That was the start music for most of the versions that I played, the docking music however was always the Blue Danube.
Maybe I just skipped the intro tune then.
There were a few more steps between "Harmless" og "Elite" - Dangerous and Deadly were there too. The missions wasn't in the c64 versions, only in the later ports to Amiga and perhaps other more powerful platforms.
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Maybe I just skipped the intro tune then.
There were a few more steps between "Harmless" og "Elite" - Dangerous and Deadly were there too. The missions wasn't in the c64 versions, only in the later ports to Amiga and perhaps other more powerful platforms.
There were missions on the c64 only three of them counting the trumbles.
1:- Trumbles
2:- Constrictor
3:- Thargoid battle plans
I did find that although the trumbles bit worked, the code went into error when getting the first mission, instead of sending me after the constrictor (1st C64 mission) I got a garbage message and could not complete the mission. It wasn't my copy of the game either, because I changed from a tape copy to disc copy and the same thing happened. But I have friends who completed the C64 missions. :( Confusing.
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Maybe I just skipped the intro tune then.
There were a few more steps between "Harmless" og "Elite" - Dangerous and Deadly were there too. The missions wasn't in the c64 versions, only in the later ports to Amiga and perhaps other more powerful platforms.
There were missions on the c64 only three of them counting the trumbles.
1:- Trumbles
2:- Constrictor
3:- Thargoid battle plans
I did find that although the trumbles bit worked, the code went into error when getting the first mission, instead of sending me after the constrictor (1st C64 mission) I got a garbage message and could not complete the mission. It wasn't my copy of the game either, because I changed from a tape copy to disc copy and the same thing happened. But I have friends who completed the C64 missions. :( Confusing.
I seem to remember something about those - but I'm not convinced those were on the c64. I still have the game on a 5 1/4 disc somewhere, but no hardware to run it on. If the disc still works, that is.
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They were definitely on the c64, you can still play it if you are inclined the game is downloadable from various sites. There are plenty of free c64 emulators available.
Ian Bells Elite page is worth a visit it has all the versions of elite available for download. :)
http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/elite/
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Hmmm, never heard of Elite. I wonder why.
I did enjoy playing a quirky little game called "Mule." It was one of only two computer games my wife was ever interested in playing with me. The other one was a murder mystery...all text. I can't remember the name of it, though. A few years later I'll bet another game she would have been fascinated with was "Myst." But by then she had come to hate my computers.
Elite was a space trading game thought up by Ian Bell and David Braben.............
I was friends with a guy at school only because he had a BBC micro with Elite installed. Loved it. There is a new series of games called X that are basically updated expanded versions of Elite. I'm on X3 at the moment. I love open-ended sandpit games like that.