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Tron 1.5: Rise of the Virals

lekvar — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:26:28 -0800

By now you're surely aware of Tron Legacy, the sequel to 1982's Tron. Tron Legacy will have a soundtrack by Daft Punk as counterpoint the score in the original composed by Wendy Carlos. But what of the Trons that Never Were? Listen to the soundtrack to Tron 1.5: Rise of the Virals and find out a little about the process behind the sequel that didn't make it. The story as presented may or may not be true, but Any Way You Want It must be heard to be fully understood.

Tron in 5:30 to Daft Punk Songs

mrgrimm — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 20:28:22 -0800

Tron in 5:30 to Daft Punk Songs (SLYT) (previously)

Daft Punk is playing on my Game Boy

hellojed — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:13:14 -0800

Do you like Daft Punk? Do you like 8 Bit tribute albums? Then you'll probably dig Da Chip, a Daft Punk tribute album. Quasi-related: Daft Punk has also been tapped to make 24 original tracks for the upcoming Tron sequel. Here's a preview from a Comic-Con event.

END OF LINE.

Afroblanco — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 07:06:51 -0800

There's a new Tron movie coming out, and it promises to be kind of rad. In other news, the trailer seems to mash-up perfectly with Michael Jackson's Beat It. Yeah, I've been trying to stop re-posting Kottke, but this one was just so tasty and delicious I couldn't resist.

I guess we're going to have to Tron for this

filthy light thief — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:24:45 -0800

Cheech and Chong discuss the current financial times, but cannot agree on economic forces in regards to the real price of goods, and decide they'll have to "Tron for this." This video is the second of Mean Magazine's videos made in some collaboration with Microsoft, through a series of "Cinemash" shorts. The videos are streaming on MSN, though they're sharing a clip of Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Sid and Nancy. (previous Mean Mag video on the blue)

The Making of Tron

SpacemanStix — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:37:32 -0800

Although the movie Tron was groundbreaking due to its unprecedented and extensive use of CGI in 1982, after pre-production, it only took four months to shoot and nine months to complete all of the special effects. From Computer Animation Primer published in 1984, we learn a bit about the technical process, which seems amusingly tedious by today's animation standards. For example: "The process of making TRON required artist-designers to interact with programmer-technicians, and this presented some interesting problems. The TRON atists were at Disney studios in Los Angeles, and the programmers were at Mathematics Applications Group, Inc. (MAGI) in New York.... Modems were used to send low-resolution motion tests to the director at Disney before committing the images to film. For example, after MAGI received the storyboards for the vehicular animation from Disney, they took these crude images and plotted them in three views using combinatorial geometry on a 40 x 60 inch Talos digitizing table. They then made flowcharts of the speed and tables of the moving objects for the camera path. The results then went back to Disney for corrections in pacing, staging, and animation." Here's an interesting background look at the development of the movie, from inception to conclusion, and including a postmortem: "Science fiction films that are heavily visual are often a tough sell. When George Lucas tried to set up Star Wars, he had a hard time drumming up any interest because it was completely unintelligible in treatment form. The Wachowski Brothers reportedly had to create extensive graphic novel style storyboards for The Matrix before Warner Brothers really got it. When Lisberger and company went out to sell Tron, they were ready. 'We had hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars invested in the project when we went to Disney,' he said. 'We had it storyboarded, we had designs, we had budgets, we had staff, we had schedules, we had sample reels - I mean, we had everything but money.'" If this makes you feel at all nostalgic, perhaps you'll enjoy being reintroduced to some of the merchandising that came out at the time, including the motion picture soundtrack on cassette, collecting cards, and the Intellivision videogame. And just for fun, here's a fan re-making of the Tron light cycle scene using cardboard.

Unprotected Memory

CrunchyFrog — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 21:27:47 -0800

So, you watched the movie Tron, and now you want to run your computerized guy off of the game grid and into the rest of the computer system? That's exactly what Daniel Wellman did on his Apple IIgs.

Tron's light cycle scene "Sweded"

stbalbach — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 16:14:10 -0800

Tron's light cycle scene 'Sweded'

The Mellotron

goodnewsfortheinsane — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 18:03:01 -0800

You may have never heard of it, but you've damn near certain heard it. The Mellotron (FortuneCity link) is a keyboard instrument; each of its keys triggers a tape with a pre-recorded instrument on it. It was effectively the world's first sample player. [more inside]

Information wants to be free.

goodnewsfortheinsane — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 13:35:06 -0800

Wikipedia wrangling once more: the entire German edition was shut down this week over the contents of a single entry. The parents of the article's subject, a German hacker who died in 1998 under mysterious circumstances, are displeased with his real name being disclosed in the encyclopedia. It is now back online; however, the future of the family's efforts is currently unclear, not only due to the German order's debatable validity in the US - but also because the order was, initially at least, mistakenly addressed to St. Petersburg, Russia, instead of St. Petersburg, Florida.

Tron Lightcycle Game

jonson — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 13:25:03 -0800

Armagetron Advanced is a free network enabled Tron lightcycle racer for windows, OSX & linux. Attractive graphics and interesting camera controls make up for a fairly difficult opponent skill level. Screenshots here, download link here.

lightcycles!

roboto — Fri, 30 Apr 2004 16:19:04 -0800

Lightcycle deathmatch! If you've been looking for an excuse to parade around in your Tron underroos or are just plain sick and tired of that little room you've been locked into, hop on a lightcycle in SWRON and play some chicken. single and multiplayer

Jim Maynard has assimilated

moonbird — Tue, 20 Apr 2004 12:37:07 -0800

TRON becomes you... sort of.
(a beautiful obsession)

Classic Games Convention.

ringmaster — Sat, 29 Mar 2003 20:43:49 -0800

Classic Games Convention. For those of you into vintage games, tomorrow is the last day to check out PhillyClassic 4, a vintage game fest at which developers will release new vintage games. Some industry personalities will be present, including Sid Meier of Civilization fame, and Cindy Morgan from everyone's classic game movie, Tron, soon to have a sequel (the game, not the movie). Play a vintage game on a current system, or relive the good old days of Vectrex. Leave your quarters at home (the games are on free-play), but bring your joysticks to donate to the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

kliuless — Tue, 04 Jun 2002 19:00:21 -0800

In light of the highly anticipated Tron 2.0 - Tron Killer App next year, (has its own google directory :) here're some v.cool production illustrations from the original visionary Tron! Includes sketches of Yori's apartment from the infamous deleted love scene :) [also see mo eb iu s!]

obiwanwasabi — Mon, 21 Jan 2002 22:27:19 -0800

The next killer app? Scheduled for release in 2003, Google meets Echelon in a project that could spell the end of privacy as we know it. (Flash warning)

swift — Mon, 29 Oct 2001 07:46:35 -0800

Halloween is almost here; time to start work on that Tron costume.

ed — Fri, 27 Jul 2001 13:51:51 -0800

Tron returns with a vengeance. With a theatrical sequel, a 20th anniversary DVD and a first-person PC shooter, you have to wonder why Disney is rollling out the red carpet all of a sudden.

jjg — Thu, 07 Dec 2000 15:17:31 -0800

Hey gamers! Do you still harbor a fondness for the '80s cult classic Discs of Tron, but you're unwilling to give up your favorite first-person shooter? Welcome to Discs of Quake.

mathowie — Thu, 13 Apr 2000 00:51:45 -0800

One of Roger Ebert's all time favorite movies is Tron. I remember seeing it as a kid and being amazed, but after looking at some of the movie previews for it at this site, it seems just plain goofy. Oh, by the way, I found this at the imdb, which apparently is some sort of Tron sequel, as a upcoming tv show/series, but Harry says they're also working on a film for release in 2002.