RetroWDW Movie Night #18

you went to 16 bit, you got into the Amigas and, uh, there was just and and here you're right, you know it was a matter of eventually a couple of them leaving. to win and the one you know, I mean, Commodore sold more than any other computer and I think it died first compared to, you know, the apples and the early IBM PCs, uh, they all became PCS, you know, They were basically called Everything. PC, but yeah, what a great moment, like if your friend had a different type of computer than you and yeah, you'd go through his house and Donkey Kong would look just as bad on his computer as it does on yours, Atari too. but like IBM PC Junior um, it's funny, I didn't know any, I didn't know any Apple two at the time and then, um, but yeah, I mean, I knew people with ti-99, I knew people who at the time were like the Timex.

Sinclair, yes it was the year 1000 or 2000 but yes there were so many different things happening simultaneously it was a fascinating time and for me my friend Martin got married in 2016 he and his husband Stephen and they had their wedding in Manchester , England, where Steven is at the Museum of Science and Industry there, so part of the wedding was, as well as being in the main hall where the wedding was held, you could walk around and look at the exhibits and I had no idea that the BBC micro was a thing because basically the BBC in the UK decided to build their own 8-bit computer for the country to buy and that was like the big computer in the UK back then, like in the 80s, it was the BBC micro and so I'm looking at this thing in the display case like I'm reading all about it and then I look on Wikipedia what this thing is like, so in Europe there's something completely different going on than what was here and yes Remember the Atari computers They were huge in Europe and you know what 16-bit is, I guess, but when they got to the 800 XLS and the 1540 or whatever, the 520 STS and the 1040, yeah.

All those that did everything because they were big on the big thing that I remember coming out of Europe. They were all those, uh, what they call Demos, where yeah, yeah, yeah, high-end graphics with EDM music like that. I think they had a built-in midi interface, so yeah, very popular, it was one of the first sequencing programs it was written for. Alright, gentlemen, I've got it ready here so we can do a real quick demo and show people what I hope I've entertained everyone enough with the old computer talk. You did exactly what I needed, so I appreciate that. let's add this here and see, we want to do a window capture, so this is the software that we use to do an HD upscaling and you can see this particular image from Journey to fiction is very poor quality and I You can change the type of filters that we used on it and you can see that just doing this cleans it up and you're like, "Oh, this one's okay, it's very low resolution, it's a piece of art, so it's easy, this is one of my favorites." here, so if this is what it looks like originally, I'm going to zoom in and you can, oh, look at this, you can see how pixelated it is, yeah, and I bring this in, just clean it up, clean it all up, look. that and no, I think my eyes are getting better instead of a big dark blur.

I see a lot of light blurring, right, and we could use different settings here, there are all different types, very compressed, but you can certainly see the differences. I move this. through how it changes and just another one for demonstration here here is the dream finder you know before and after and I can even zoom in four times the original size this is what it looked like and then when I bring it in this is how it clean so that every The only image you see and every frame of the video was run through a system like this, uh, to make it better, so next time I'll run it ahead of time, so Dan Hagerty really should have sued them for stealing his image , It is all I can do.

What I'm saying is there's Grizzly Adams, that's right, that's right, we all lost a few people when I started doing the demo, um, amazing, so many people donated and we have a request, looks like someone wants to see the Corgi, right ? Can I do that for you? Emma, ​​you don't need the twenty dollars. I think we can, we can bring the court, so there are two. One of them is a little more amenable to coming and sitting. my lap, so I'll come right back and grab the Corey for you, okay, the queen is going to bring her corgis here, these are the real corgis Todd's real corgis, he needs to pet him like a James Bond villain, uh, he's in his film cape I'll try to answer your question Tom, you asked about the trip planning what events will happen on September 30th, approximate time, so whatever happens will be if it will be a VIP event on Saturday

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because we're going to spend the day getting the room ready and stuff like that and um, so it'll be after 5 p.m. a separate ticketed event for that right now, that's the plan, but we haven't actually done it, oh, here it comes. the Corgi more details than that you will have to ask the Corgi to turn off his background now look at this Corgi is that dog Bane Wait, no, that's not a dog, okay, he has to put his headphones back on, everyone ready.

You're right, you have to put your headphones on. I like how the Corgi is. He's going to know what's going on here. She is very, very waiting. Let me turn off the background. There we go, okay, oh god, it looks like he's in a hostage video. just, very, uh, tell us about her, Todd, what's her name, what's her background, so, this is the FIA, this is the higher education assistance agency for Pennsylvania, that's the name of our college loan, where she came from uh she's a rescue from Oklahoma Oklahoma uh yeah that's where she came from a backyard breeder so unfortunately they bred her several times and um so she had several litters and they took her to a rescue and we got her back in September and she only weighs 20 pounds.

She's a little Korg, right, you're pretty little and she's how she got to you. No, it's a long walk. So it's a small rescue between Oklahoma and, uh, no, there's a giant rescue here in New England. that brings all kinds of puppies and it's very hard to get a corgi at Rescue, but she will sit with you all night like this, I just can't stop laughing at Nick and she's like like this, this is my life. Now yes, I loved it a lot. I have to continue. I had babies exactly. Now I have to go on a podcast and all this, literally everyone has a podcast, including this Corgi, so she, she, she did it.

I'm trying to remember what the original name was. Rescue me, but yeah, so she was sleeping too, so she's sleepy, but she's a little, she's right, you want to say hello to her, she's a very sweet dog, she's very, very sweet and she just sits and watches TV with us every night. . Does the other one? She's Alpha Dog uh that's the one that just gets into trouble and the one that's not a rescue she can have a table at Retro Magic where she just likes her paw prints. She would sit on my lap the entire flight. so I can't, I'd love to take her down, yeah, she could, just, yeah, sure, give me Kev, you're good, oh no, tonight, she's got a headache, oh, you guys smell like she needs Excedrin, didn't you see? that? pre-roll she needs the Excedrin, that's right, are you ready to get off?

There is a bed right behind you. I'm ready to go back to Oklahoma, you can just hug her, she'll relax, so Corky on the corrugated wall. I like that the Corgi on the Corgi closed wall, oh my God, in charge, now you want to get down, oh, how are you going to run and get Jimmy? Or is it us? I guess we can do it, I'm sure someone wants to donate some money to get us. Rob just asked. If the Corgi can carry the projector Of course, I'll teach you how to do that. I'll show you how to do this.

JT and I don't have dogs, so oh, Carrie yells, she go get Jimmy, we've lost viewers, we've lost. Spectators, gentlemen, the dogs will no longer bring the spectators, well, dogs are a specific breed, so it's true, you know it's a pun, thank you all for joining us tonight, we had a wonderful time How come they call us? to see the Alpha base they feel like no we just ran to meet up oh I apologize okay it's a rescue from Nebraska okay okay it's a hyperactive little thing so it's Jesus are you going to turn off the background?

Yes, we have to sit down, Jimmy, look. in that thing I think I've ever seen your dog oh that's cool Jimmy yeah let me turn off the background here he's like Scrappy too. Jimmy, I don't know how many people, but they're excited. Okay, moving to the New York set. Jimmy backed off a little bit, so I've got it all right here. References. Jimmy is also very calm at the moment. That's unusually quiet. I think he might have woken him up. You want to greet him. He's fine. How are we going to take him for a walk now? that's right, that's right, well, we had a question there before we came here, so we won and I don't know if he answered this gentleman, did he answer that what will happen on September 30?

He was telling her that he was going to get a corgi, so before the Corgi arrived, well, maybe we'll have a dog night and we'll all watch Best in Show together. How do you not have two left feet? Are you OK? We have them all right on that note. Thank you all for watching. thank you for tuning in I really appreciate everyone's donations tonight thank you so much help make all of this possible. We have about a thousand dollars worth of

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