Get Lamp Filmmaker Scolds DVD Rippers... For Doing A Bad Job With The Rip
from the get-it-right dept
I've been meaning to check out the movie Get Lamp (a documentary about text adventure games) for a while now, as I've heard good things about it (and, it should be confessed, I was an avid, potentially obsessive, consumer of text adventure computer games in the 80s). Also, I've always been a fan of the filmmaker, Jason Scott's other project Textfiles.com. While I hadn't had the chance yet, TorrentFreak has the nice story of how Scott reacted to the DVD of his film being ripped and put online. First off, it should be noted that those who ripped it posted a nice ode to Scott with the rip, and urged folks to buy the DVD, even noting that they purposely left off some of the extras to give people incentive.Scott saw it, thanked them for the "heartwarming" NFO file, and then scolded them for screwing up the rip:
I've just downloaded the torrent, and while the image quality and sound quality is excellent, you've made a mistake.In the end, he notes: "While, again, I am pleased you wrote such kind things about me, this mixed-up version makes it look like I made a flawed DVD with doubled scenes, and takes away the entire puzzle sequence, which I am rather proud of." The rippers quickly fixed it and posted a fixed version. Now, the movie is released under a Creative Commons Share-alike license, so Scott (not surprisingly) is perfectly willing to have the movie spread, but it's still a nice story of a filmmaker responding positively to people ripping his film and sharing it online.
The DVD, as I've mentioned before, is interactive with a non-interactive version as well. To accomplish this and save space on the DVD (since it's packed with stuff), I have a set of discrete tracks that are either summoned (via the interactive choice) or played as a playlist (via the non-interactive choice). Unintentionally (and I do really mean it, it was unintentional), this has made the movie a tad harder to rip, because the movie is in pieces scattered throughout the DVD, and not in any obvious sequential order.
Playing the AVI that FLAiR has released shows that you have ripped only some of the tracks, and ripped one extra one that shouldn't be in there.
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Infocom
I remember actually playing the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy game.
There was also a "create your own text adventure" program that I owned. I can't remember the actual name of it, but it kind of sucked, in that it couldn't parse more than two words. I still half-finished my own game, loosely based on Heavy Metal comics.
Ah, the C-64 memories, when "POKE" and "PEEK" were my only friends...
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Remember those magazines, that didn't come with disks or anything, but actually printed the machine code that you had to type in by hand? And the final number was a checksum of the entire line?
Also, you remember sprites? The SID chip? Using GOTO loops to simulate pauses in the program?
Ever get a copy of Ghostbusters on cartridge? So much faster than loading it in from the tape drive.
10 PRINT "I am a dork from the 1980s"
20 GOTO 10
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Hitch hikers guide the text adventure ... So did you ever figure out that you had to collect all the lint and put it in the thing your aunt gave you and plant it? :)
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Shh!! Don't tell me how Get Lamp ends...
/ medallion #1379
Karl: I had a 'boughten' copy of HHGTTG for my Apple //. A friend of mine, how had gotten a pirate version, was semi-sorry he hadn't purchased it, 'cuz he was missing out on all the cool stuff that came with the game: The Microscopic Space Fleet, the Belly Button Lint, the Don't Panic badge, the No Tea, and the Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses!
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buy this film
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Hah!
Cheers all around, guys.
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Oooh c'mon...
All of the nostalgic comments remind me of Castle Wolfenstein. Achtung, schweinhund!
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I loved that game, so dark, so good....
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C-64 ROFL
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Looking forward to it.
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"I've bee meaning to check out..."
Typo? Or is my English getting worse?
"and, it should be confessed, I was an avid, potentially obsessive, consumer of text adventure computer games in the 80s"
You just gained a ton more respect from me ;)
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Typo? Or is my English getting worse?
Typo. Fixed. Thanks.
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zork forever!
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And no lesson was learned
Get Lamp is licensed Creative Commons-Attribution-Sharealike-NonCommercial. Yes, CC-SA-NC, not CC-SA as stated in this Techdirt article.
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