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The year is 2010. High school. I'm a big guy walking down the hallways singing this out loud with my lady friends while people stare at me like the guy from the Cheetos commercial who sings that Taylor Dayne song. 

THE POINT IS THIS SONG IS STILL LIT 7/8 YEARS LATER 

 

 

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It's one of the most 80's thing, I guess. But I like this song so much, because I can't sleep and often end talking to myself. 

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I need to introduce you to Leo. Pop? bleh no thanks, metal cover of pop songs? hell yeah baby!! this guy is cover god

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8 hours ago, Myst.Haruko said:


It's one of the most 80's thing, I guess. But I like this song so much, because I can't sleep and often end talking to myself. 

 

Even more 80s...

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9 hours ago, Myst.Haruko said:


It's one of the most 80's thing, I guess. But I like this song so much, because I can't sleep and often end talking to myself. 

3 cheers for Art of Noise, Max Headroom and the genlocked Amiga computers that generated the background and effects.

 

Overcome by sentiment and nostalgia for my beloved wonder computer, I thought, "Why not throw up an Amiga demoscene prod? After all, they're music videos, too."

 

So here it is, the legendary "9 Fingers" by Norwegian demoscene group Spaceballs, all the members of which named themselves after characters from the Mel Brooks film. That's a matter of some moment, because the first time I saw this, I thought maybe it had been done on an Amiga video workstation -- and being European, that would have meant a MacroSystem V-Lab Motion card with Movieshop software -- because it looked to have some really wonderful posterization effects. But how did they stuff it all on 2 880K floppies and play it on an Amiga 500 with a 7.14Mhz CPU?

 

Well, it turns out there is actually no video. The lead programmer of Spaceballs, Major Asshole, wrote his own raster-to-vector program, thus the original video was converted into triangles. He then wrote a color-fill and vector-trace program, and Travolta wrote the music MOD, "Last Test." The result was put on floppies, then loaded into RAM, sent through pre-calc, and generated in realtime on the target computer. Geek Bliss. ;)

 

 

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