General / Off-Topic The Last Starfigher
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great movie, and one i hope they never remake as they would ruin it for me.
'should i stick my tongue in your ear now?'
'should i stick my tongue in your ear now?'
I remember that movie 
There was also a game relesed..
There was also a game relesed..
Once scene, in the gunstar dock, held the record for the largest number of polygons rendered for a couple of years.
From the Wikipedia entry:
From the Wikipedia entry:
The computer graphics for the film were rendered by Digital Productions on a Cray X-MP supercomputer. The company created 27 minutes of effects for the film. This was considered an enormous amount of computer generated imagery at the time.[4] For the 300 scenes containing computer graphics in the film, each frame of the animation contained an average of 250,000 polygons, and had a resolution of 3000 × 5000 36-bit pixels. Digital Productions estimated that using computer animation required only half the time, and one half to one third the cost of traditional special effects. The result was a cost of $14 million for a film that made about $21 million at the box office.[4]
Even today that would take a bit of processor/GPU muscle to render the 5000x3000 pixels.And now we have a super computers at home costing a thousand pounds or so, thank you moores law
It wasn't awful.
Side-By-Side Comparison: Star Raiders II Vs. The Last Starfighter
http://www.atarihq.com/atcomp/lastsr2.html
Side-By-Side Comparison: Star Raiders II Vs. The Last Starfighter
http://www.atarihq.com/atcomp/lastsr2.html
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Look at the description of the vid I linked to closely.
Fan made game - made in 2006 - hence why
might go get my eyes checked.
Greetings Starfighter! You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the front
I had downloaded this fan-made game from Rogue-Synapse on a much older computer back in the late naughties (2000-2010) and share information about this today. Well, I see that Geraldine has beaten me to it.
Oh well.....
Anyway, while I had originally thought this to be a very faithful reconstruction of the famous arcade game from the movie of the same name. Looking at it now. I see those 3D polygons could do with some more pixel shading. Even though they do right now look just like the ones from the arcade game in the film.
After downloading this again and encountering a error.....
Something I fixed with a d3drm.dll free download
After the long introduction sequence, which I think is a repeated loop if you don't know how to properly start the game. As I quickly search through the Read-Me file. I found nothing except keyboard commands once the game had already been started and instruction for using a Joystick and mouse.
So where do you insert the coin it keeps asking for?
The movie was always one of my favourites, but watching it now does make me wince a little and I hear they are doing a remake or sequel as well.
MAY THE LUCK OF THE SEVEN PILLARS OF GULU BE WITH YOU AT ALL TIMES.
I remember that movie
I had downloaded this fan-made game from Rogue-Synapse on a much older computer back in the late naughties (2000-2010) and share information about this today. Well, I see that Geraldine has beaten me to it.
Oh well.....
Anyway, while I had originally thought this to be a very faithful reconstruction of the famous arcade game from the movie of the same name. Looking at it now. I see those 3D polygons could do with some more pixel shading. Even though they do right now look just like the ones from the arcade game in the film.
After downloading this again and encountering a error.....
Something I fixed with a d3drm.dll free download
After the long introduction sequence, which I think is a repeated loop if you don't know how to properly start the game. As I quickly search through the Read-Me file. I found nothing except keyboard commands once the game had already been started and instruction for using a Joystick and mouse.
So where do you insert the coin it keeps asking for?
The movie was always one of my favourites, but watching it now does make me wince a little and I hear they are doing a remake or sequel as well.
MAY THE LUCK OF THE SEVEN PILLARS OF GULU BE WITH YOU AT ALL TIMES.
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I Brought This On Blu-Ray For My Dad's Birthady...
Sorry, if you think I'm being cheeky, but this is the movie that had me wondering if David Braben and Ian Bell were really from a technological advanced alien race accessing gamers for recruitment into the Intergalactic Navy.
Sorry, if you think I'm being cheeky, but this is the movie that had me wondering if David Braben and Ian Bell were really from a technological advanced alien race accessing gamers for recruitment into the Intergalactic Navy.