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cougarmagic
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Postby cougarmagic »
Local canyoneer and filmmaker Brian Olliver produced this film over the last several years. Most in the canyoneering 'community' (such as it is) are already aware of it, but for those interested, it will be shown in the Big Bear Film Festival on Sunday Sept 22nd at 10:30am.
I'm promoting it because it is extremely well done, covers a lot of local San Gabriel locations and subjects of interest, and because I was the sound designer and editor.
It's entertaining, thought provoking, and exciting. There will hopefully be other screenings in LA, but due to the nature of the city & film industry here, it's incredibly cost-prohibitive and taking longer than expected to find venues. So grab your chance now and check it out in Big Bear.
This film is now on Amazon Prime for free. It's really amazing. Nice shots of Little Santa Anita Canyon and a lot of stuff in Utah I've never heard of.
Taco wrote: I will load this movie onto seventeen thousand 5.25”s. I may have a spare drive in the garage next to the pile of bike frames. I wish I was kidding.
Sure, and I checked your math, seventeen thousand (360KB) diskettes sounds about right for a 90-minute blu-ray. Of course the hard part will be editing a 5GB-file into 180KB chunks. (The 360KB diskettes are double-sided.) Maybe Dima can whip up a program to help us automate that process. Oh, and a box of ten diskettes runs about ten bucks on Ebay. Do you happen to have $17,000 in a shoebox under your bed? I'll check my couch cushions but I doubt I have enough to cover the expenses.
Boy do I have good news for you. 360KB is the capacity of the original 5.25" floppy, but at some point in the 1980s, the higher-density disks came out that could store a whopping 1.2MB! That is 1.2 MILLION bytes, or almost 10 MILLION bits. That's a lot.
That IS good news! So we'd only need about four or five thousand of those. Also that would make for a much better viewing experience. Instead of changing out standard disks every quarter-second or so of the movie, we might actually get close to a full second of playing time on each high-density disk.
The Apple II software? Those machines didn't have hard disks. There was a BASIC interpreter in the BIOS, or you could run applications by booting into them from diskettes. There was a "DOS" you could run from a diskette? 3.3 was a very common version of MS-DOS. It's all meant to confuse.
dima wrote: I'm confused. Why do you have Apple-branded "DOS 3.3 sample programs for II, IIe and IIc"? What does that even mean?
I'd have to acquire an Apple II to tell you which programs are on the diskette, if it still works. The thing is in great condition, but it's 37 years old.
In the mid-80s, my dad bought a Laser 128 (Apple II clone), but it died. We just have the Compaq now. Also, my dad taught high school math, and the school used Apple IIs. The diskette might have been for those machines. They had two floppy drives. You would put the DOS disk in one and your storage disk in the other. Does that make sense?
Sean wrote:
In the mid-80s, my dad bought a Laser 128 (Apple II clone), but it died. .......
Friend of mine had that same computer, we started playing a computer baseball game and later graduated to the computer version of Strat-O-Matic which I'm still doing 35 years later.
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