http://www.osnews.com/story/8608/Review_of_The_Last_Starfighter_The_Musical_ Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Tue, 07 Jul 2009 01:39:49 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? Get that feeling of being the sole opponent of an evil empire in Parallel Realities' much acclaimed Project: Starfighter! (see, even the name is similar!)

http://www.parallelrealities.co.uk/starfighter.php Tue, 19 Oct 2004 16:32:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? I still have that on VHS. I blame many wasted hours of playing spaceinvaders on that movie! Tue, 19 Oct 2004 17:42:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? This is now both an OS (or OS-centric) and newsworthy? If I wanted to read articles about sci-fi, I'd visit slashdot. Tue, 19 Oct 2004 18:11:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? but i dont care, i love this movie! It was really well done. They left off for a sequal. To bad none ever came about I still have it on VHS. need to get it on dvd soon Tue, 19 Oct 2004 18:15:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? What is this? Slashdot?

This has nothing to do with Operating systems, programming, or any other computer related topic.

Please don't turn OsNews into another Slashdot by posting off topic stuff like this. If I wanted to see stuff like this, I would go to Slashdot. Tue, 19 Oct 2004 18:49:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? This has nothing to do with Operating systems, programming, or any other computer related topic.

Wrong. The space scenes were all early CGI and stand up pretty well for their age. The film stands out as a reminder of just how far computing has come (I figure you could do the whole thing on a desktop PC now). Tenuous link, but there nontheless.

Honourable mention to Death Blossom, which is a feature I've been waiting for in every 3D space game I've ever played. Tue, 19 Oct 2004 20:05:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? ...but it was one heck of a stride in computing. I loved the movie and read up on how it was made back in the day. The computers used were Cray XMPs, monster mainframes. As I remember, this movie followed the path laid out by Tron, which had some CGI. It was a major achievement for it's time. Alot of it could definitely be done on a high end desktop now. Wed, 20 Oct 2004 01:34:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? More like a masterpiece. Wed, 20 Oct 2004 03:23:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? Yeah, the CGI was top of the line back then. Wonder how many machine-years it took to render that stuff. Now that CGI would be antiquated in a real-time game on modest hardware. Wed, 20 Oct 2004 03:25:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? i remember that atari was related with this movie. there was even a game "The Last Starfighter" on atari 8-bit computers. Wed, 20 Oct 2004 07:42:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? I look forward to the day when all movies using CGIs will be featured in OSNews... After all, Jurassic Park was great for its time!.... Those dinausors.... Come on, be serious and publish some interesting articles in here! or rename this site MovieNews. You're so desperate for content you include just anything these days... Wed, 20 Oct 2004 08:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? I remember this film! A musical though?! Unbelievable. Wed, 20 Oct 2004 19:35:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments