Atari The Last Starfighter video game

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I saw this today.
http://www.atarigames.com/ataritri [...] .jpeg.html

If you look in the back row left there is a file called "The Last
StarFighter".
Rumor has it that this game was never produced but this picture is from
the Atari archive. Either this is a practical joke [I doubt] or some
documentation really does exist.
any thoughts?

Don

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everytime I try to access that I keep getting a "Bad Encrypt
Dictionary" error in acrobat. Any idea? Is the Reader I'm using too
out of date? Is the file bad, or my copy of acrobat reader?
Thanks,

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I created all of the docs with Acrobat Pro 7.0. You may need to
upgrade your reader.

Scott

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Definitely doesn't work with Acroreader 6.0

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"Martin White" <guddler@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1126657200.249215.290180@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> I'm not sure I'd be wanting to install Reader 7 just yet for the sake
> of reading an Atari document!!
>
> I read somewhere about 2 weeks ago that there are still issues with it
> on linux (foreign language support) and Mac OS X (forget what
> problems!) - that's why i plumped for 6 at the highest.
>
> At work we still insist on receiving files in v5 max from clients. If
> they go higher they have to resubmit. Most clients are still producing
> v3 or 4 though so it's a non issue.
>
> What was the driving force behind producing it all in v7??
>
> Would like to know what the features were that it gave above and beyond
> 5.
>

I haven't used 7, but I have to get 6 because older versions would not let
me convert PDFs to certain graphic file formats.

Dane.

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This is the proposal for the Arcade Version. I have dug up partial
bits of source code, but only bits of it.

Scott

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Very neat to skim through. Thanks! I still get the feeling space lords
looks alot like this origional game plan. Anyone else think so? or not?

-isaac


info@atarigames.com wrote:
> This is the proposal for the Arcade Version. I have dug up partial
> bits of source code, but only bits of it.
>
> Scott

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"JammaBoards" <timhensel@jammaboards.com> wrote in
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> What was the arcade game the the guy was playing in The Last
> Starfighter movie?

"Lennie Scwartz and his Billie Goat Myrtle"

is that a trick question?

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LOL!! Fair enough, neither would I want to either!

Interesting that you're running OSX. Maybe I'll go up to 7 too then. It
was one Apple's Discussion forums that I was reading all about the v7
problems and the recommendations not to use it. Sounds like it's been
resolved...

Martin

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Isaac W. wrote:
> It was a fake cab if i remeber my trivia correctly. Some super computer
> driven graphics (back in the 80's) It was sound effects and probably a
> blank screen with the nice graphics overlayed in post production.

The movie graphics were rendered on a Cray Y-MP.

Post-processing overlaid graphics didn't exist back then, matte was what
was used, and it was usually obvious, Star Wars (series) being the
notable exception.

From what I recall, the 'game' screen shots were simply a TV monitor in
the cabinet running a generated scene from tape.

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"Anonymous User" wrote:
>Sample of source code:
>http://www.ionpool.net/arcade/atari/starfighter_sample.txt

Judging by "; STELLA REGISTERS" in that listing, I'd say the source you
linked is Atari 2600 code.

The World of Owen Rubin
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OMG! 2600 Pacman! I remember getting that thing, being so excited
then about 30 seconds later saying *?*

Worst port ever!

Mike Doyle

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Well, maybe its the bottle of wine, but I was getting all nostalgic and
sentimental reading that outline design for The Last Starfighter ...
you see ... the author is a certian "Chris J Horseman". Thats the VIP
"dude" that interviewed me when I thought I was off to california from
here in the rainy UK, for a job in the arcade games design division.
Trouble was, just as I was about to 'go west' ... Atari inc
spectacularly imploded, and the job was no more. CJH dissapeard off the
radar quicker than a rat out of a drainpipe, and that was that. Luckily
I was re-routed to Atari Europe.

JMTPW on a saturday evening

And who was it that wanted that Bubbles Cocktail - I've got a minty
mint working one sat here right now, doing service as a side table. You
could adapt to a Robotron Cocktail with a pair of Darrins Robotron CP's
....

Archer.

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> The movie graphics were rendered on a Cray Y-MP.

Now you only need your PC

http://www.roguesynapse.com/games/last_starfighter.php