The CGI for the first season of Babylon 5 was rendered solely on a network of Amiga-based Video Toasters. That's why it looks so incredibl
y bad.
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And they didn’t keep any assets so a remaster would mean doing from scratch.
To be fair, that probably wouldn’t take nearly as much time these days, but AI upscaling would be easier. What a time to be alive.
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jonbob loves you, Fri 5 May 2023, 20:39,
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Even if they had, good luck opening 30 year old files on anything other than the original hardware and software.
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Turtle Power & Knuckles, Fri 5 May 2023, 21:35,
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You never know with industry stuff.
www.discreetfx.com/openvideotoaster.html
If it’s obscure, someone on the internet is bound to have made a pet project out of it. Not saying that it actually works but I wouldn’t be surprised.
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jonbob loves you, Fri 5 May 2023, 21:56,
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I haven't tried it in recent versions
but you used to be able to import Deluxe Paint IFFs into Photoshop.
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Turtle Power & Knuckles, Sat 6 May 2023, 0:31,
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For CGI at the time it was pretty damn good.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Fri 5 May 2023, 22:27,
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Yes.
Hollywood films of the era like The Lawnmower Man, Hideaway and Super Mario Bros had massive budgets and still look like shit by modern standards. It's all that the tech of the time was capable of.
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Turtle Power & Knuckles, Sat 6 May 2023, 0:35,
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