That reminds me that I have some video I took of my students back in the mid-1980's. Back then, I brought my SX-64 to class, and since that was the only computer in the room, the students would use that to play educational games or to print items with the program, Printmaster. For the sci-fi movie they wrote, I filmed them with the Sanyo Beta 7300 (separate, portable VCR) with connected JVC videocamera. The movie -- their take on Star Trek: The Original Series -- had good guys behind the spaceship's control console (the teacher's desk) pushing keys on the SX-64 (on the console) providing the appropriate "spacey" sound effects. The good guys would talk to the bad guys through the off-screen viewscreen. The bad guys behind their own spaceship's control console (same teacher's desk) would threaten the good guys (same SX-64 on the console except in a different position). A space battle ensued with lots of camera shaking, students swaying back and forth, and videotaped photos of spaceships in Star Trek. Ah, those were the days!highinfidelity wrote:OUnfortunately we didn't take pictures (nobody would take pictures at school back then, God only knows what a pupil could go through if caught taking pictures at school back then) otherwise those would be very nice snapshots of the eighties.
Perhaps I should show that video at CommVEx!
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug
July 27-28 Commodore Vegas Expo v9 -
http://www.portcommodore.com/commvex
