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I like this!!!
Not nearly as good as the ChuChu Dance though...
Atari ST you say?This takes me back... Just not as much as the Atari ST computer, which looks like the wall design tiles in Ten-Forward.
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Everything's photorealistic now, but the CGI of the era had a certain coolness to it...I also loved the case design and it had one of the more solid operating systems back in the day. Macintosh emulators revealed the ST could run the Mac platform faster than the actual branded Macs. I recall ST systems could also read PC disks with minimal effort as well. Their Falcon model mopped the floor with the Commodore Amiga 4000. But by then, Atari was doing some weird marketing and IBM clones were overtaking everyone else. Never did music, but the computer's inclusion of MIDI ports and interface gave it quite the viable life in the music industry, even if the built-in sound chip wasn't as robust as the early Amigas (though ST used synthesized generation, Amiga used sampling - which sounded great in some ways, but oddly muffled in others. Later I'd find out the specifics (8-bit, 22050hz, which was better than the NES's sole 11000hz channel and that's not even before discussing the differences between the American NES and the Japanese Famicon (from which the American version was derived)... at least the SNES blew everyone else out of the water with sound and video was largely robust - even if its CPU was slow... )
It did. It really did.
Maybe that's why Minecraft is so popular... it's retro, pixilated nature.
That's wild.
I love this. It really hits the nostalgia for old school video game graphics. I almost feel like I could hear a MIDI version of TNG theme and a text box pops up with "START" or something.
Eidelman's score shines through what sounds a like a MIDI rendition piped through to an AdLib board to render... Maybe SoundBlaster...? Sounds amazingly good, but Eidelman was one of the best composers Trek got...
By 1997, for most consumers, the AC97 or newer multimedia standard was sufficient, but nothing's more cool than dedicated GPU and APU units to complement the CPU with (as well as accelerating new features' development)... granted, SoC has come a long way and uses fewer parts, which is big, but if its integrated GPU or APU failed you still have to replace the whole processor and board since sockets are also a thing of the past.. then again, most people upgrade every 3 or 4 years and not 7 or 8, so modularization may not longer be as necessary... we've seen older PCs with much larger fabrication processes (e.g. "8 micron", aka "8000nm" and note that nowadays the fabrication process is down to 7nm in circuit trace thickness, impressively so... I wonder how long those last before electromigration and other forms of decay via pumping current through them will erode them... but I digress. /GeordiMode. )
There really should have been more dancing on TNG, and Star Trek in general.
Why did none of the shows ever have a musical episode?
Why did none of the shows ever have a musical episode?
I just rewatched this old classic. Everybody, including Geordi, dance!
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