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v85rawdeal
21st August 2008, 22:29
Noticed some choice viewing for Friday evening.

Brits Who Made the Modern World
Five - 19:30 - 20:00
Computer Games
Peter Snow learns how two Cambridge undergraduates pioneered Britain's £1.4bn computer games industry. David Braben and Ian Bell took the first steps to imagining a 3D electronic world, despite the fact that Eighties computers had just a fraction of the memory capabilities of a modern mobile phone.


Should be a bit of an eye-opener and who knows, maybe a hint or two about Elite IV...
Puni/Void
22nd August 2008, 09:14
That's a documentary that could be interesting to watch. Would love to see how it all started (Elite).
v85rawdeal
23rd August 2008, 13:07
In the end, I was a bit disappointed about the program. Perhaps they tried to cram too much into half an hour, but it seemed to end so suddenly. I think at least an hour long programme would have been better suited to such a topic. It was a good programme but could and should have been so much better.
Stephen Coates
23rd August 2008, 14:07
In the end, I was a bit disappointed about the program. Perhaps they tried to cram too much into half an hour, but it seemed to end so suddenly. I think at least an hour long programme would have been better suited to such a topic. It was a good programme but could and should have been so much better.

I thought it was quite good as I didn't really know much about Elite. I will have to get a copy of it to play sometime. Especially now I have finally got my BBC connected to my CM8833-II and no longer have to use the RF modulator on the television.
Teho
23rd August 2008, 14:07
I'd really like to see this regardless. Looked for it at a couple of popular places, but it seems nobody's made this particular episode available yet. Does the network that airs this have it archived and viewable on the net?
v85rawdeal
23rd August 2008, 14:20
No, but I do have it available as a .ts file. VLC will play this format file, but I will have a go at converting it to avi or something

Tell a lie, its available here (http://demand.five.tv/Episode.aspx?episodeBaseName=C5134750003)
Teho
23rd August 2008, 16:19
Thanks, but unfortunately "For UK audiences only" is what I get. But I did see that this is episode three of the show, and I found both the earlier episodes when I looked around earlier. So I figure this one will be available soon as well then. Or maybe I could dig up a good UK-based proxy. I'll look into it when I have time later. :)