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Found this and my immediate reaction was “Holy Shit. Please don’t be fake. Please don’t be fake. Please don’t be fake.” I could not have envisioned two better people for Good Omens.

Found this and my immediate reaction was “Holy Shit. Please don’t be fake. Please don’t be fake. Please don’t be fake.”

I could not have envisioned two better people for Good Omens.

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theeditdoctor: While I try figure out what editing system best works for me and my future projects, I started realizing how far we’ve actually come in manipulating video with computers and software.  The VIC-20 was the first computer I had access to. It had been my older brother’s and he was long done with it so I plugged it in and started playing. Of interesting note was that the VIC-20 used actual televisions for the monitor so what was on the screen could be output to video recording device easily. (This eventually became the start of the famous AMIGA computer system more or less)                            So, somehow over a summer I figured out how to make video games with it. The VIC-20 had a whopping 5k of memory I recall.                                     The Official Star Wars Fan Club had a Creativity Contest through their fan club newsletter and I made and entered a game called, Wicket’s War.  Super, super simple stuff.  You play Wicket the Ewok and you move across a makeshift bridge dropping rocks onto stormtrooper’s heads.   The category judge for my video game was none other than sound designer, Ben Burtt. It’s weird when I think back about this - but I actually talked to Ben Burtt on the phone back then. He thought they had damaged the cassette tape (which held the VIC-20 program data. [listen below]) and they were trying to find another cassette player to double check but he thought they might need me to send another cassette.  He called back and said they got it working and I eventually won an actual Revenge of the Jedi one sheet poster - The original “one sheet” version.          My friends and I started a computer game company entitled AMCOM SOFTWARE (AMatuer COMputer if that helps) Our first game release was Wicket’s War and we sold 1 copy for something like $1.99 through the local stereo store. Well, sort of sold it… …apparently someone who knew TOM SMITH (who headed ILM and coincidentally was from my little hometown in IL) announced that it was Star Wars copyright infringement so we frightfully gave back the $1.99 and went on to make other generic games… I found that cassette tape and through a little computer magic, it turns out to be playable. Here is a screen capture of the game play.                The code on the tape sounded like this [CLICK].  BEWARE… it’s loud and obnoxious. If you have a VIC-20 emulator and you’d like to play (and lose very quickly) this game, hit me up on Twitter @TheEditDoctor and I’ll send you .tap file.

theeditdoctor:

While I try figure out what editing system best works for me and my future projects, I started realizing how far we’ve actually come in manipulating video with computers and software. 

The VIC-20 was the first computer I had access to. It had been my older brother’s and he was long done with it so I plugged it in and started playing. Of interesting note was that the VIC-20 used actual televisions for the monitor so what was on the screen could be output to video recording device easily. (This eventually became the start of the famous AMIGA computer system more or less)

                          



So, somehow over a summer I figured out how to make video games with it. The VIC-20 had a whopping 5k of memory I recall. 



                                  

The Official Star Wars Fan Club had a Creativity Contest through their fan club newsletter and I made and entered a game called, Wicket’s War.  Super, super simple stuff.  You play Wicket the Ewok and you move across a makeshift bridge dropping rocks onto stormtrooper’s heads.  



The category judge for my video game was none other than sound designer, Ben Burtt. It’s weird when I think back about this - but I actually talked to Ben Burtt on the phone back then. He thought they had damaged the cassette tape (which held the VIC-20 program data. [listen below]) and they were trying to find another cassette player to double check but he thought they might need me to send another cassette.  He called back and said they got it working and I eventually won an actual Revenge of the Jedi one sheet poster - The original “one sheet” version. 

       

My friends and I started a computer game company entitled AMCOM SOFTWARE (AMatuer COMputer if that helps) Our first game release was Wicket’s War and we sold 1 copy for something like $1.99 through the local stereo store. Well, sort of sold it…

…apparently someone who knew TOM SMITH (who headed ILM and coincidentally was from my little hometown in IL) announced that it was Star Wars copyright infringement so we frightfully gave back the $1.99 and went on to make other generic games…



I found that cassette tape and through a little computer magic, it turns out to be playable. Here is a screen capture of the game play. 

             



The code on the tape sounded like this [CLICK].  BEWARE… it’s loud and obnoxious.



If you have a VIC-20 emulator and you’d like to play (and lose very quickly) this game, hit me up on Twitter @TheEditDoctor and I’ll send you .tap file.