I rewatched that movie a year or so ago and was pleasantly surprised at how well it has held up. Still a really good flick.
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TLDW; I hope he has those floppies backed up to some modern storage. I don't miss how unreliable floppies were.Unrelated to the topic, but I caught this video a few days ago and I'd think it's pretty cool to see for any nerdy Wargames fan:
The guy that created the Wargames soundtrack still has his original floppy disks for the Synclavier II FM synth that he used to create that opening song heard through the arcade scene. He loads from a floppy, plays it through again and breaks it down. Pretty neat.
I have a copy on dvd that I got for free out of kids meal or something like that, lol.I rewatched that movie a year or so ago and was pleasantly surprised at how well it has held up. Still a really good flick.
Do you know in what episode?For what it's worth, there was an unexpected dedicated MH in a Simon & Simon episode.
10 mins isn't long for something you're interested in, so I conclude that you meant to say: NIDW.TLDW; I hope he has those floppies backed up to some modern storage. I don't miss how unreliable floppies were.
The song featured in the main arcade scene 'Video Fever' is one of my favorites, some think it sounds like a Missing Persons song, like Destination Unknown.
I've read about it before and the band who made the song (The Beepers) swear that it was a just the style of the music at the time and no relation, I believe them.
10 mins isn't long for something you're interested in, so I conclude that you meant to say: NIDW.
I only bother saying that because he directly addresses your point and it isn't a problem. I have a couple Synclavs (newer ones from the late 80s) and I haven't had any disk issues either, but these days they're only used for booting and diagnostics as there are other means to move files back and forth to Macs.
Seeing as it's one of your favorites, you might be interested in watching that vid I posted then (post #19), because it was made by a dude from The Beepers playing the song you're talking about off his original disk on original hardware. Not something you get to see often!
Seeing as it's one of your favorites, you might be interested in watching that vid I posted then (post #19), because it was made by a dude from The Beepers playing the song you're talking about off his original disk on original hardware. Not something you get to see often!
Good, I figured he did.10 mins isn't long for something you're interested in, so I conclude that you meant to say: NIDW.
I only bother saying that because he directly addresses your point and it isn't a problem. I have a couple Synclavs (newer ones from the late 80s) and I haven't had any disk issues either, but these days they're only used for booting and diagnostics as there are other means to move files back and forth to Macs.
Seeing as it's one of your favorites, you might be interested in watching that vid I posted then (post #19), because it was made by a dude from The Beepers playing the song you're talking about off his original disk on original hardware. Not something you get to see often!
Love it.
They used them until the end (1992?). Other than maintaining a decades-old library on floppies like he is, it isn't worth ditching the floppy for most clav users as it's used so little, and you can run SCSI-to-card adapters to replace the "Winchester" hard disks. There is also a solution that plugs into the CPU cage and lets you drag & drop files from a Mac, so these things are usable in the 21st century.Wow, do the newer Synclavs use the 5.25 inch floppies? I still use 3.5 inch discs in my Akai S950 and they have held up.
MIDI is there if you need it, but wasn't commonly used. The Synclav itself is actually the big rack that his laptop is sitting on (the mac is running clav-specific terminal software) and you can see the row of MIDI ports at the top of the rack, but he built that entire song in the box, in FM using the Clav's sequencer.That's really cool.. and no MIDI! The disk he had labled 'Wargames' looks just like my 8-bit Atari floppies. Very cool bit, thanks for sharing!

Me too, because I made it up and didn't google anything! hahNow I'm really cornfused about NIDW:![]()
Anthony Marinelli also worked on Michael Jackson's Thriller and many other big records.
Anthony's channel is amazing, on multiple levels. I've been bingeing his stuff for a while. It's one of those channels you feel is way underrated, and should have far more subscribers. I hope he keeps at it, and finds the audience his material deserves.
It's not just the synth knowledge, but the music history, and interviews he's managed to document are a serious gift to society. He's captured parts of pop culture history that should be in the Library of Congress. If he hadn't documented a lot of the interviews he's done with the 'behind the scenes' folks who've made so much of the stuff we grew up with, it would have been lost.
You'd never realize how many people were directly involved with making Thriller, who were not Michael Jackson.
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Season 4, episode 18 "Slither". It's unfortunately a depressing episode about teen drug use and exploitation. The dedicated havoc is definitely there if you pay close attention but there's unfortunately no direct shots of it. Here's a screenshot from 26:49 where you can see a bit of the name in the background.Do you know in what episode?

@pat9000 Now we know your other passion, aside from arcade games. Seems like you might be full of rare knowledge on this subject as well!!They used them until the end (1992?). Other than maintaining a decades-old library on floppies like he is, it isn't worth ditching the floppy for most clav users as it's used so little, and you can run SCSI-to-card adapters to replace the "Winchester" hard disks. There is also a solution that plugs into the CPU cage and lets you drag & drop files from a Mac, so these things are usable in the 21st century.
Yeah, floppies generally work fine for me too. I don't have floppies in about half of my gear anymore, but it's worth converting to cards/USB on pretty much everything, if only for capacity.
MIDI is there if you need it, but wasn't commonly used. The Synclav itself is actually the big rack that his laptop is sitting on (the mac is running clav-specific terminal software) and you can see the row of MIDI ports at the top of the rack, but he built that entire song in the box, in FM using the Clav's sequencer.
The Sync II is only an FM synthesizer and the keyboard itself is just a controller and all the electronics are in the rack.
The last-generation ones from ~'88+ are mostly sampling systems with optional FM and hard disk recording, like this one taking up space in my bench area. I used to do some repair work for LA TV/film guys that still run these, as there are still a bunch in use. If you can fix game boards you can probably fix a clav. There are ~125 boards and a dozen fans to cool it all in the bigger one I have (the main rack is 5' tall and weighs about 600lb), but it's mostly just the same hardware repeated up to 96 times. Neat systems.
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Season 4, episode 18 "Slither". It's unfortunately a depressing episode about teen drug use and exploitation. The dedicated havoc is definitely there if you pay close attention but there's unfortunately no direct shots of it. Here's a screenshot from 26:49 where you can see a bit of the name in the background.
Awesome. Need to grab that episode.Season 4, episode 18 "Slither". It's unfortunately a depressing episode about teen drug use and exploitation. The dedicated havoc is definitely there if you pay close attention but there's unfortunately no direct shots of it. Here's a screenshot from 26:49 where you can see a bit of the name in the background.