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Re: Apple ]['s on the big screen
- Subject: Re: Apple ]['s on the big screen
- From: Shawn Beattie <sbeattie@sparc5.augustana.edu>
- Date: 1997/06/09
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: Augustana College, Rock Island IL
- References: <5lm4bo$bpo$1@news.ccit.arizona.edu> <5lq51r$cso@cwis-20.wayne.edu> <5ncibk$3cvo@newssvr01-int.news.prodigy.com> <pdueck-0806972049520001@dial5.pli.mb.ca>
- Reply-to: sbeattie@sparc5.augustana.edu
Perry Dueck wrote:
>
> In article <5ncibk$3cvo@newssvr01-int.news.prodigy.com>,
> TTSH35A@prodigy.com (Phil Abel) wrote:
> > Am currently watching MST3K take a shot at "Parts: The Clonus Horror"
> > and I see that they are using an Apple II to simulate "cool control room
> > high tech ops monitoring stuff". Somebody is typing in repeated
> > Applesoft BASIC "LIST" on a brief BASIC program. There is also a small
> > HGR routine to draw a grid on the screen. No actual CPU in sight, but
> > the display is unmistakably Apple II.
>
> Can you please explain what MST3K is? And what is "Parts: The Clonus Horror" ???
>
> Regards, Perry Dueck
Mystery Science Theater 3000...it can be found on the SciFi channel.
They
comment (to put it nicely) on old 40s/50s/60s movies, often scifi
flicks.
Sometimes it's pretty funny IMHO.
Shawn