Re: TRON likened to an Apple II

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@garberstreet.com>]

"Ken Gagne" <kgagne@gamebits.net> wrote in message news:51982e
4e-4d05-4d82-b57e-26917fe4a1e9@y14g2000yqm.googlegroups.com...
> I was reading a feature about this December's sequel to the
> 1982 cult classic TRON:
>
> http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=63479
>
> "Returning from the original film will be familiar sights
> such as the famed light cycles, gladiatorial disc battles,
> and imposing recognizers, all brought up to date by a team
> of concept artists brought in from all different engineering
> & design disciplines, most of them the tops in their field.
> There are new toys at play as well (think CARS) and the
> guiding principal seems to have been that over the decades
> the Tron program has been upgrading itself to match the
> increasing sophistication of the times. Think about the
> evolution between an old Apple II and a modern day iMac."

I saw TRON several times, back then, and most recently, last
year a couple times, and I must say, now that I'm growed up,
I don't really enjoy it all that goodly.   8^(

> Does that mean we can expect the new TRON movie to have
> an emulator that makes the original film accessible?
>
> -Ken

Das ist gut, Ken und, auch lustiges.   8^)

Bill