A middle-aged nerd from the UK. I like films and write about them, sometimes for Film Stories or my blog.
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It’s an emulator for playing the entire back catalogue of Lucasarts games. It’s very well documented and ready to use. As I said, if you had some kind of general midi set up or Roland MT32 back in the day, you’d be laughing. The music is awesome.
The program is called Dreamm.
DREAMM is a backronym for:
DOS
Retro-
Emulation
Arena for
Maniac
Mansion (and other LucasArts Games).
I played the first, maybe not all the way through, on my Atari ST. Later on, I got quite annoyed that the Amiga got the sequel but Lucasfilm Games days it wasn’t coming to the Atari.
I remember getting the PC CD-ROM edition of the original game and the music was lovely.
The next time I played was game three, Curse of Monkey Island. I loved the art style and completed that one.
I plan on playing the latest installment at some point. I downloaded it onto my Xbox.
There’s also a great program for playing old Lucasfilm faces on PC. You can load soundbanks into it because it can emulated different midi interfaces that I dreamed of owning back in the day. The tunes sound amazing.
Agreed. Isn’t one episode of The Acolyte just about three Jedi’s walking through the first to a house?
I’ve only got two episodes left and in struggling to bother concluding the series.
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I think I’ve just found my next watch. It looks more useful than my current Fitbit Versa. Thank you for bringing it to my attention.
Back in the early 90s, here in the UK, a company called Cheetah produced licensed joysticks based on Batman, Terminator, Alien³ and The Simpsons. They looked great but they were terrible to use, especially the Alien³ model which I really liked but was incredibly uncomfortable. I never bought one, just tried then on the shops, awful things.
Back in the day, I bought the official Xbox360 steering wheel. It made me laugh because it was called wireless. It was only wireless between itself and the Xbox. It still needed a power brick to drive the motor and another wire to connect it to the pedals.
When I sold it, I almost made my money back because it was in high demand. MS had replaced it with that awful U shaped steering wheel that you held in the air like a Wii controller. It used sensors to tell when it was tilted. I never used one but the reviews weren’t favourable as I remember.
Here a crazy idea! If you’re interested in a film or TV show, watch it. I don’t understand the premise behind rotten tomatoes, especially when this kind of thing goes on.
I can’t afford / ever buy games brand new. I’ll wait for a sale as well, maybe when it’s more reasonable, like £30ish.
Quite enjoyed these first two episodes. Bit annoyed that Carrie Ann Moss got killed in the opening moments, though.
However, my nitpicking got the better of me (blame autism, I do!). A fire burning on the hull of a ship. OK. The second nitpick was when the Jedi was on the lookout with his binoculars from the 1st floor balcony. When it changed to the POV shot, the footage is quite clearly filmed from the ground.
But apart from that, I enjoyed the fights and the story is quite good so far. Hopefully the quality remains constant to the end.
I’m so nerdy, I imported the official Malaysian VideoCD of The Phantom Menace. It was more of a collectors thing. The 4:3 mpeg video wasn’t great but it did allow me to play around editing the film.
I edited together the light saber sequences from Duel of the Fates into one clip. Two things were revealed. Because the film cuts away to other battles, edited together the fight doesn’t naturally flow.
Secondly, once edited together, that’s not a lot of actual lightsabering going on in terms of time iirc.
EDITED: I Should proof read after swiping out my long text with Google keyboard!
Really bummed out when they cancelled 1313, I think it was part of the restructuring when Disney bought Lucasfilm.
I still watch the ten minute E3 video occasionally because I still think it looks great. Was always hoping it might get revived but I remember the news when someone noticed that Lucasfilm/Disney allowed the 1313 trademark to expire.
Another lost game. Don’t get me started on Indiana Jones either. 😂
Corrected. 👍
I remember SotE very well. The whole thing was a major media event by Lucasfilm. There was:
Essentially, everything that would’ve been released to promote a major film but this time, there was no film. I remember the making of book well as there was a picture of the game developers playing the N64 version but their hands were in cardboard boxes. The N64 hadn’t been released yet and so they had to hide the controllers from prying eyes.
Having a huge love for the original trilogy, could a new film possibly have any chance with the hype that came before it.
Short answer, no.
I rewatched the prequel trilogy a few years ago, hadn’t watched them for over a decade. In my opinion, Phantom Menace actually comes out best of the three. Possibly because there’s a lot of practical work and the following films were pushing a lot of early digital and it hasn’t held up well.
Thank you, I’ll give that a go.
I don’t think they have their open official app but they offer their API free to developers I think.
I’m on Android and I’ve been through several TMDB apps but I don’t really like any of them. I do know that Letterboxd use their API as well but that’s a more social based thing.
Same program, the developer changed the name. 😊
If you like NewPipe but want your videos to skip the annoying bits, there’s a fork called Tubular that incorporates SponsorBlock.
I only discovered it myself in the last month or so.
For example, I loved X-Wing CD edition back in the day for the real Star Wars soundtrack but I need to try it with MT32 midi emulation. I bet the iMuse system sounds fantastic.