Joined: 25 Jan 2010 Age: 46 Posts: 62 Location: Netherlands
Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2012 2:26 pm Post subject:
A few days ago a documentary about a talented soccer player in the early eighties showed a Commodore 64 with International soccer. Vanenburg was playing the soccer game. Commodore was a sponsor of Ajax those days and they gave al players a complete Commodore computer system.
Btw. Keeper Menzo, as i remember, was an adicted flight-simulator fan. _________________
Joined: 29 Nov 2008 Age: 42 Posts: 735 Location: Louisville KY : Last C64 Game Played - Bomber
Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2012 3:49 pm Post subject:
hurminator wrote:
What season was that from? I see the sign that says "Proud home of the Commodore 64", but where is it?
After some searching, I found it to be Season 23, Episode 11 "The Dohcial Network". I watched the video to be sure and got a screen capture. There were no C64s in the scene, just a lot of iMac G3s used as a bowling ball.
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Here you go. I watched "Small Potatoes" on TV today together with my 3 year old daughter, and was very excited that a C64 appeared two times in this child's program. There are still hope for the next generation! (see 0:46 and 2:22)
Joined: 10 Nov 2007 Age: 41 Posts: 1026 Location: Norway
Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2012 8:09 am Post subject:
Today I watched a 80's movie where the first 5-10 seconds is a boy playing Commodore 64 game (Hardball from Accolade). It's graphics are really good. We can also see the disk station next to his TV set.
It got some nice actors: Mel Smith (from the comic duo SMITH & JONES), Peter 'Colombo' Falk, Fred ("molly molly molly") Savage and Andre the "Wrestlemania VI" Giant. It's worth checking out
Joined: 21 May 2009 Age: 38 Posts: 945 Location: UK London
Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2013 7:45 pm Post subject:
"Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway" "super-computer" bit uses the C64 Bubble Bobble music unless I'm mistaken, Its definitley not the arcade version.
Joined: 19 Jan 2010 Age: 39 Posts: 785 Location: USA
Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2013 3:16 am Post subject:
Guess I'm really going to have to watch all those D- flicks I have here from SyFy channel! lol This is great - love how they sneak this stuff in to modern films. And the Small Potato's is awesome! My 2 year old saw the computer on the screen and said "DaDa!!!" hehehe No idea if he was talking about the computer or the potato! hahahaha _________________
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Joined: 23 Mar 2013 Age: 39 Posts: 67 Location: Durham UK
Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2013 9:28 am Post subject:
The only one that springs instantly to mind with me at the moment is the first series of Red Dwarf, theres a few episodes where Dave Lister is using the C64 in the drive room _________________
Joined: 18 Aug 2002 Age: 34 Posts: 564 Location: Ireland
Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2013 8:45 am Post subject:
A recently-made film, Underground - The Julian Assange Story sees the young hacktivist hacking into computers worldwide using his Commodore 64 (complete with 1702 and 1541 disk drive). Apparently he can dial in using BASIC and has a modem of 9600bps, and he beats his Mac-owning friend at the very start of the film. I didn't know that the world bank system used 40-column display and used Commodore BASIC character graphics back then! Later on he hacks into "Milnet" and it's displaying in 80-columns and showing graphics of the US chain of command.
About two-thirds of the way into the film a friend gives him an Amiga 500, saying, "Amiga 500... this thing's like the Death Star". It's actually pretty respectful of the computer though, he uses it for most of the film - in fact, the film starts off showing old Commodore ads ("Are you keeping up with the Commodore?"). At one point they're visiting the "Fitzroy Computer Market" and you can see a PET in the background.
Snapshots taken with VLC -
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Joined: 09 Jan 2012 Age: 46 Posts: 29 Location: Benalla, Victoria
Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2013 9:55 am Post subject:
That is my C64 and Amiga equipment used in some scenes of the film. We tried to get 2 of every working piece of old equipment because what worked yesterday was able to fail today! Only had one working 1702 though so we treated it very nicely.
The A500 belonged to someone else, so clean it looked new in box. I was envious
The film used Mac animations imitating the C64 and Amiga through a vga2rca box.
The director wanted to capture the raw nature of these teenagers breaking into computer systems world wide from Melbourne Australia. Where possible real Amiga and Commodore equipment was used in the film.
I spent many days working with the crew getting frequency information on every old CRT monitor. The result was we could film with new HD cameras and not have the annoying banding on the old screens.
The movie has been very well received around the world. It has now been nominated for a number of awards.
Joined: 18 Aug 2002 Age: 34 Posts: 564 Location: Ireland
Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2013 10:23 am Post subject:
Very nice work, Azryl! I've studied a film-making course and I know how difficult it must have been for you to get the technical details of the camera to crt monitor frequency just right. It's obvious that the computer and equipment is very well respected - the modem is even correctly connected to the user port. That's not the type of detail you typically see nowadays! Although I'm pretty sure the User Port's speed was limited to 2400bps
I really enjoyed the film and thought the actor portraying Lassange did a fantastic job. Well done to everyone involved! _________________
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