Spectrums on the TV and/or in movies?
Hi,
I've seen a number of threads on these forums about Spectrum sound being used on TV, but does anyone know of any films or TV programmes that actually had a Spectrum visible on screen?
Other home computers of the time appear here and there (mostly BBC micros, perhaps because of BBC bias?).
Thanks.
I've seen a number of threads on these forums about Spectrum sound being used on TV, but does anyone know of any films or TV programmes that actually had a Spectrum visible on screen?
Other home computers of the time appear here and there (mostly BBC micros, perhaps because of BBC bias?).
Thanks.
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"Terminus", a rare french SF Movie where the Spectrum is used in one scene as wireless communication terminal (I like the soundtrack from this movie)
"Peng! du bist tot", a german crime/hacker TV movie, there the Spectrum was put on a Robot, which was very intelligent by the way.
I wonder if BBC used Spectrum (or Acorns) in Doctor Who episodes. Haven't see any...
Wow! They're pretty obscure - well done for spotting those!
I believe they used Acorns - the Tardis used a BBC micro keyboard for a while I think, although this is from memory - I've not watched any eighties vintage Dr Who since, well, the eighties!
Acorns all the way. In The Five Doctors the TARDIS console has various BBC-Micro-drawn computer graphics, and in The Caves of Androzani the chief baddie runs his entire operation from a Beeb.
Yes, I saw those stories a while back. I remember seeing the Beeb.
Also remember seing the Beeb a lot in "The Adventure Game".
As for the speccy, this probably isn't what the original question meant, but of course we have "Micro Live" and similar programmes.
It's probably already been posted on WoS, but how funky is this?
I just can't find any reference to the film on IMDB though :(
Some effect from ZX Spectrum were taken, in "Seksmisja" SF comedy in 80s.
Also effects from ZX appeared (like I wrote some time ago) in videclips of electronic music artist - Marek Bilinski (known for ZX fans from many AY covers of his song, in demos), also in 80s.
Spectrum itself seems to appear in one of mentioned videoclips, but it's in "developer case" with huge keyboard.
Links on YouTube available if anyone's interested.
http://mister_beep.republika.pl/
I wonder if these are not one and the same: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088083/
I'll check out the Youtube videos, thanks!
Technically a Polanski.
http://sergei-d.livejournal.com/126162.html
But is it really Zx Spectrum??? These color pallette doesn't look like Spectrum for me
Holy fuck! That's the one! WOOHOO!!!
Looks fine to me. It's probably because of background lighting, the TV screen's settings and also how well the camera picked up the image from the TV screen.
Yes, yes - exactly the same.
I found it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERfUNVVoFjE
ZX effect starts on time 8:49. And they're rather short, heh. ;)
Before & later there are effects from some old PC XT, I suspect.
Today the movie is classic of comedy in our country.
http://mister_beep.republika.pl/
Yes, it's Spectrum.
It's not really palette - it's filmed from monitor so it makes changes in vision. Light from movie crew and stuff... Also there were weird inventions in that time, some green monitors and other colors...
Also the screen can be displayed from some our ZX Spectrum (sometimes colors were not exactly the same like original ones) like Junior or Unipolbrit.
But for me it's simply taking shot from glass of monitor. Also you can get this effect by shoting your tv screen with your camera, you know.
Greetings!
http://mister_beep.republika.pl/
It's a shame that the Spectrum itself isn't actually visible. That's what I'm after! :smile:
- on time 0:41 there is visible a printout from ZX-Printer.
- on 1:31 there is a monitor visible and seems like they shown C=16 but screen comes from ZX Spectrum (somewhere under f*cking table or what??)
- on 1:50 some ZX game
- 1:54 - also ZX game
- 2:20 - as above
- 2:30 - as above
- 2:40 - as above
- 2:51 (you can guess ;) )
- 3:03
That's all. So it's still not the required thing.......
So the ZX itself must be in the second one videoclip. Hm.
http://mister_beep.republika.pl/
Marek Bilinski - "Ucieczka z tropiku"
Among visible ZX Spectrum games and programs, there is some...... machine.
Time 0:42.
It could be mentioned before ZX Spectrum put in case for developers, with stronger keyboard and so on. Maybe anybody can recognize it and confirm or deny.
Well, that's all from me on this subject.
Regards.
http://mister_beep.republika.pl/
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=rNXVEjz5U9s
Nice one! And I notice this in the comments, from 'rupertgo':
Rupert Goodwins, by any chance? I think it is. Another one for Geoff's "it's a small world" files...
"Peng! Du bist tot!": Germany, 1986:
http://en.sevenload.com/videos/h7zCh9p-Peng-Du-bist-tot-1-3
It won the prize as best german movie in 1987 (reference: http://wapedia.mobi/de/Peng!_Du_bist_tot)
Time index:
29:45
A Rubber-key Sinclair ZX Spectrum!!!
This was AFAIK never aired outside germany, so it is very exclusive material (Oh yes, and the Roboter like naked woman, as you will see later... This is the ultimate evidence that Spectrum is not gay, even with the rainbow on its side).
There's also a ZX81, if anyone's interested, in an episode of the TV show "Whiz Kids" (http://www.tepg.se/showtitle.php?id=216).
(The famous speed-chess sequence from "Gambit")
There are Spectrum keys floating through outer space in the trailers for the Kiddy Grade sci-fi anime series - although I've not noticed any Speccy link in the episodes themselves.
Same procedure as last year, madam?