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March 21, 2008
...To Defend The Frontier Against Xur and the Ko-Dan Armada...
Got The Last Starfighter on HD-DVD from Netflix today.
It looked amazing - and when I consider that they did all this in the early 80's on a single Cray makes the technical achievement even more impressive. According to that Wikipedia article, X-MP they used to render that movie was about 1/10th the processing power of the CPU in the machine I'm typing this on. My new GeForce 9600 has five times as much memory as the high-end configuration of the Cray (128MB) - and that's just my graphics card.
Now I wanna play the game (which looks way better than did the Atari version that was plugged in the end credits).
And the theme's gonna be stuck in my head all night, I can tell.
Posted by dberger at March 21, 2008 10:00 PM