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mparrish11:
What kind of computer was used for the tiles/etc.....

Kind of looks like an Amiga

chris319:
Two PCs and a still-store device were used. One PC displayed the numbers. When a number was opened it revealed the second PC underneath which displayed the prizes. When a panel was opened on the second PC it revealed a colored rectangle into which was chroma-keyed the still store containing the puzzle.

Mike Tennant:
[quote name=\'chris319\' date=\'Nov 28 2003, 05:37 PM\']Two PCs and a still-store device were used. One PC displayed the numbers. When a number was opened it revealed the second PC underneath which displayed the prizes. When a panel was opened on the second PC it revealed a colored rectangle into which was chroma-keyed the still store containing the puzzle.[/quote]
And yet they were able to make home versions at the time that ran on a single computer?  This just seems like overkill for a relatively simple game.  I can understand, for graphics quality, having the chroma-key shot of the puzzle since a PC at the time couldn't have displayed it as well.  It seems hard to understand the need for separate PCs for the numbers and prizes, however.  If my little Commodore 64 could handle all three layers at once, why couldn't a PC at the time handle two?

clemon79:
[quote name=\'Mike Tennant\' date=\'Dec 1 2003, 08:02 AM\'] If my little Commodore 64 could handle all three layers at once, why couldn't a PC at the time handle two? [/quote]
 Note that the animation and graphics on your little Commodore 64 weren't even remotely close to broadcast quality.

Frankly I'm surprised, what with Video Toasters and what not, that the board wasn't run from Commodore Amigas.

Mike Tennant:
[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Dec 1 2003, 12:34 PM\'][quote name=\'Mike Tennant\' date=\'Dec 1 2003, 08:02 AM\'] If my little Commodore 64 could handle all three layers at once, why couldn't a PC at the time handle two? [/quote]
Note that the animation and graphics on your little Commodore 64 weren't even remotely close to broadcast quality.[/quote]
I'm well aware of that, but I figured that the high-end PC that Goodson and NBC surely would have purchased would be able to handle two layers and still perform admirably in both the graphics and animation departments.  The graphics weren't too complicated on either layer.  I'm not arguing with the fact that it was done this way; I'm just somewhat surprised that they found it necessary to use two PCs to do the job that my one little computer could do.


--- Quote ---Frankly I'm surprised, what with Video Toasters and what not, that the board wasn't run from Commodore Amigas.
--- End quote ---
That is surprising.  It also seems possible that, had it been done that way, one Amiga would have sufficed.  Amigas were pretty nifty computers which, unfortunately, never caught on with the general public, which was the case with most Commodore stuff after the C64.  I finally gave in to the PC behemoth and junked my Amiga in 1996.

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