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I hope this gets released. I worked for Eugene Jarvis (indirectly) and certainly knew and appreciated a lot of the others in these snippets.

These were titans that saw an entire industry as it could be as opposed to the "entrepreneurs" we see now that stand on the shoulders of giants and still manage to only reach their navels.

> These were titans that saw an entire industry as it could be as opposed to the "entrepreneurs" we see now that stand on the shoulders of giants and still manage to only reach their navels.

Do you really believe that, or are you just being melancholic? Every age has their visionary genuis enterpreneurs en the small-scale incremental-evolution enterpreneurs. The "enterpreneurs we see now" include people like Jason Fried, Elon Musk and Daniel Ek. Yeah, and founders of the get-a-notification-when-someone-unfollows-me-on-Twitter-app businesses, but people like that were around in the eighties too - you just haven't heard of them.

And, really, there's nothing wrong with either.

As mentioned in the article, the music is well worth checking out for this documentary (http://zoeblade.bandcamp.com/album/8-bit-generation). Lets hope a completed film gets released.

Sounds fantastic - having this in a film/documentary with the right cutting work would be totally awesome <3

Thank you!

Hey! I love your music! Don't suppose you have any idea what's going on with this doco?

Thanks! I'm afraid I don't really know much more than anyone else here. I could tell you anything you'd like to know about the soundtrack itself, but as far as the rest of the film goes, I pretty much have just the trailers and archive of the website to go on, the same as everyone else. Sorry I couldn't be of more help!

I get the same feeling listening to this as the tron-legacy ost by Daft Punk. Would label the album genre as 'epic coding music' ;)

The last bit of news anyone has been able to find is related to a screening in June 2012: https://www.facebook.com/events/407114895977032/

Just checking out the trailers, it actually pains me to think that this series might never see the light of release. Wow.

Agreed. would happily put up money on kickstarter to see this funded to the end.

They only finished making the first episode of six hours and there were a dozen hours filmed/planned?

First episode is called "Insert Coin" It's the premiere of the first episode (the only one which is complete up to now) 45 min Shown Thursday, June 7, 2012 at 8pm

So they never finished it. Maybe ran out of money to produce it? Definitely out of time by Feb 2012

World Premiere: Screening of the first episode "Insert Coin" of the brand new documentary, 8-Bit Generation. Playing the Revolution“ with interviews with veterans of the game industry (A Junk Food & BasicNet production / Written by Tomaso Walliser Lorenzo Faggi / Directed by Davide Agosta / Special consultants Massimo Temporelli, Bruno Grampa and Cecilia Botta).

   8bit Generation documentary series out in February 2012
   
   Junk Food, a "content for humans" production company, proudly announces 8bit Generation.

   This forthcoming 12 hours documentary series is divided in two main stories covering the birth of the personal computer and videogame era: each story will be 6 hours and 6 episodes long, starting from the mid 70's all the way through the 80's and the first 16bit machines.  

   With something like 50 (and more to be added) original and unreleased interviews to the fathers of the modern world, 8bit Generation is going to be, by far, the most complete, accurate and the biggest video product on retro gaming and retro computing for years to come.

   Interviews feature Apple founder Steve Wozniak, Commodore founder Jack Tramiel, Atari founder Nolan Bushnell, tv game inventor Ralph Baer and many others.

   8bit Generation is going to be released worldwide February 8th 2012 in DVD/BD format and in 5 (plus 1) different packages.

   Find out more information and news and watch video trailers at www.8bitgeneration.info where you can also pre order your favorite copy.  - Tomaso Walliser Junk Food C.E.O.

After digging around a bit, I found one of his domains still working lostinfashion.it and it was renewed to 2013 recently - check the whois for email and phone number

You can also get the "who we are" page to work in the archive if you change the date http://web-beta.archive.org/web/20111128013424/http://www.8b...

All sorts of leads on the "who we are" page.

I'm fairly certain the director has a LinkedIn profile that's updated. (There are a few with the same name that aren't.) There's also a Twitter account with that name, but it's been inactive for about a year. Any "web sleuth" with a Linked In paid membership could toss him an email if they were so inclined.

I've asked two people on Twitter if they were the writers listed on the Facebook ad. One Lorenzo Faggi replied no. Others with that name are rather inactive. I'm still waiting on the presumed Tomaso Walliser to answer.

I'd love to know just how many were done, what became of them, and if they're no longer interested in pursuing the project, if they would post the footage they did film for the public to tinker with.

Woz: "What about Apple Records"

Jobs: "They are a record company, we are a computer company"

Woz: "That all it takes?"

Jobs: "Yeah"

Someone should take a Delorean to 88, and play that bit to Steve a few years back... I think he forgot.

We'd first need to somehow revive him before we can take him on a Delorean ride.

I don't think anyone suggested taking him along, but even so you could take make pitstop in 2009 and pick him up if need be.

Anyone interested in the early days of personal computers should check out Triumph of the Nerds. It's many of the same people but interviewed 16 years ago. Awesome stuff.

First Episode on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFL9IyJ_qHk

Wikipedia Page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumph_of_the_Nerds

I do hope Jason's able to find the crew that was working on this. Jason does great work and I'd love to see their powers combined.

very cool. i'd throw some money at it if it appeared on kickstarter.

This looks totally up my alley. I would have gladly paid for this had it been available. Heck I just dropped some cash on the soundtrack album (and I seldom pay for music) and its wonderful. Hopefully this hitting HN and the resulting websites will get enough attention to finish this off.

I would gladly help fund this if money is at all an issue - based on that trailer I think a lot of people would do the same.

Does anybody know the name of the song in the first trailer?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_...!

I have checked the page of Zoe Blade, but do not think the music is featured on here list. thank you.

It's Ame Sakusan, from my (currently unreleased) album City Lights. You can stream it from https://soundcloud.com/zoeblade/ame-sakusan if you'd like.

Restricted access to this site by the uk porn filters. Is there something dodgy about it (before I make a telephone call to confirm I am over 18).

No.

It's a legit site, and the linked post isn't dodgy at all. I'm guessing the domain is on the filter list because textfiles.com hosts an archive of all sorts of old BBS textfiles, some of which are probably erotic fiction (it's a gigantic archive that includes a bit of nearly anything).

Want to see. I would pony some money up to help get it finished, whoever is behind it should put it up on Kickstarter.

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