We spy on Eagle Eye and behold the Miracle at St. Anna. Old school platforming goes Wii in Wario Land: Shake It. Early looks at Gamecock's upcoming games. Plus, celebrate TRS 80 with a real TRS-80!
This week in Movies:
Just as Shia LaBeouf's last thriller, Disturbia, was an update of the classic Hitchcock film, Rear Window, the actor's newest vehicle, Eagle Eye, looks to be a modern re-telling of North by Northwest. Alex, Dan, and Jeff decide if it is worth watching.
Director Spike Lee's latest film, Miracle at St. Anna, is a sprawling, ambitious World War II film. Can the guys handle it?
This week in Video Games:
Yearn for those old days of 2D Super Mario Bros platforming? Nintendo has you covered with Wario Land: Shake It. Alex, Dan, and Jeff give it a fair shake, to see if the new school twist fits with the old school gameplay.
Jeff and Dan hung out with some of the devs at Gamecock to see a early sneak peeks at Legendary, Velvet Assassin, and Mushroom Men.
Bungie made a huge announcement that turned out to be... more Halo 3. The guys react.
Plus:
In celebration of their own TRS 80, Jeff shows the guys his first TRS-80 and starts reminiscing about the demo scene.
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Posted by Moosifer on 10/10/2008 at 04:18:39 pm in Totally Rad Show
Ok so i'm a week behind on all the Rev3 shows I watch... anyway...
First computer was a Atari 800XL... I remember playing the original Castle Wolfenstein on that with my brother... mainly because we felt we needed a second person to smack the option button to throw grenades when the SS guys showed up.
Then I got a C64 with a 300baud modem and dialed into local BBS's.
And the first family computer was a Packard Bell 486SX/25. Played a lot of 7th Guest on that thing.
Keep up the good work!
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Posted by nshady on 10/04/2008 at 08:07:15 am in Totally Rad Show
HOLY CRAP!
That's my email! You just made my decade! :D
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Posted by damnedeyez on 10/03/2008 at 04:49:04 pm in Totally Rad Show
I just noticed last night that I still have backups from 1994 in a directory on my laptop...config.sys/autoexec.bat and all, from a 486DX2/66 system.
Config.sys
menuitem=normal, Use this for normal sessions
menuitem=cdrom, Use this if using CDROM
DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS
FILES=30
BUFFERS=10
LASTDRIVE=H
STACKS=9,256
DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS FRAME=E000
DOS=HIGH,UMB
DEVICEHIGH=C:\DOS\DBLSPACE.SYS /MOVE
DEVICEHIGH=C:\DOS\SETVER.EXE
DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE d=128 NOEMS
DOS=HIGH,UMB
DEVICEHIGH=C:\CDROM\SLCD.SYS /D:SONY_000 /V /C
DEVICEHIGH=C:\DOS\DBLSPACE.SYS /MOVE
DEVICEHIGH=C:\DOS\SETVER.EXE
autoexec.bat
SET MOUSE=C:\MSMOUSE
LH C:\MSMOUSE\MOUSE
SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 T4
@ECHO OFF
PROMPT $P$G
PATH C:\DOS;C:\;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WAV;C:\MACH32;C:\GRAPHICS\VIEWERS;C:\MCAFEE
SET TEMP=C:\WINDOWS\TEMP
SET SOUND=C:\SBPRO
goto %config%
:cdrom
LH C:\DOS\SMARTDRV.EXE 2048 2048
rem lh c:\sbpro\sbp-set /m:12 /voc:12 /cd:12 /fm:12
lh C:\DOS\mscdex.exe /d:sony_000 /m:20 /e /v
goto end
:normal
LH C:\DOS\SMARTDRV.EXE 2048 2048
c:\sbpro\sbp-set /m:12 /voc:12 /cd:12 /fm:12
GOTO END
:end
...brings back memories... (cut down drastically, even)
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Posted by AndyAldrich on 10/03/2008 at 05:04:44 am in Totally Rad Show
Alex - I've noticed you reference Wing Commander a couple of times on the show now, once before in connection with FMV and this time in connection with the amount of conventional memory they required. Even up to WC4, when the game needed around 16Mb of RAM, the fate of humanity still depended upon how much of 640k you could preserve.
I would also like to remind you guys of the amount of times you had to juggle IRQs and DMAs for sound/graphics/NICs. Nowadays you can just jam it into a PCI (express) slot and not worry. Oh for the days of DOS.
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Posted by vash on 10/02/2008 at 11:40:54 pm in Totally Rad Show
Haha Alex, "Computers look stupid."
My first computer was an Apple II I think...I don't remember honestly but I was able to play the 2-d version of Oregon Trail and spent hours in my basement going, Cross the river cross the river!!
Props Jeff for the eggs. Haha. Dan became the man when he shutdown Jeff.
The Clubs almost made me cry from laughter.
I was actually in the chess club I'm happy to admit. I sucked at academics but boy could I play a game of chess.
Also was in the Dodgeball Club, can never get enough dodgeball. (Does Digg need players haha?)
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Posted by joymarie on 10/02/2008 at 10:51:36 pm in Totally Rad Show
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When I was in elementary school we had "computer hour" once every two weeks where we would all go and fight over the best games. Everyone wanted to play Oregon Trail.
Remember how they used to lecture us about "grounding" ourselves before touching the computer? I was deathly afraid of being electrocuted by accidentally touching the keyboard before touching both hands on the computer stand. :rolleyes:
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Posted by eminemdrdre00 on 10/02/2008 at 04:28:07 pm in Totally Rad Show
Are you waiting for The Dark Knight to leave theaters before you tally up the winner for the Summer Movie contest?
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Posted by kramertron on 10/02/2008 at 06:49:05 am in Totally Rad Show
Such a great intro, the best intro.
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Posted by Bret on 10/01/2008 at 10:36:16 pm in Totally Rad Show
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lol good place as any
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Posted by ohhoe on 10/01/2008 at 10:15:39 pm in Totally Rad Show
whew. I'm glad I got that out of the way.
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