A Final Unity

~ Friday May 22 2009 17:30
Have you seen the new Star Trek movie yet? No? Go see it, it’s awesome. Even if you’re not a fan of the series you’ll probably enjoy it.

I’ve been a Star Trek fan for years now. I started watching The Next Generation when it was first broadcasted in Europe, but I’m not sure how I started watching. At first I could only see it on BBC2. I just started learning English in school, which was not really enough to understand everything the characters said, but enough to understand the basic story. Watching Star Trek without any subtitles helped me to get better at English. And well, for me it remained interesting until the end. In a way I even liked the last series Enterprise. It wasn’t good, but it wasn’t that bad.

When we finally got a computer with a sound-card and CD-ROM player (a 486 machine), I decided to buy the game Star Trek The Next Generation: A final Unity. I think it was around 1994. I even bought the book with tips tricks and walkthrough. This game was at that time the best kind of game you could play. I still have the game complete in its original box.



These were the recommended system specs for the game:
- 66 MHz 486 DX or Pentium processor
- 8 MB of RAM
- a Hard Drive with a minimum of 20 MB
- 2x Speed CD-ROM Player with 300 Kb/s sustained transfer rate
- DOS 5.0 or later
- SVGA graphics (640x480 pixels at 256 colors)
- 512 KB Video RAM
- a Mouse
- a Sound Blaster or 100% compatible.

So my system could barely play this game as you can imagine from these gigantic system specs.



I recently stumbled upon it online as a DOS-box download. So now I can play it in OSX on my Mac Pro. I think (hope) this isn’t illegal, because I still have the original disc. It’s just fun to play through it again after all these years.

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Blog History

2010

2009

NPA vs Social, the perception of time in marketing Friday July 24 2009 18:30
A Final Unity Friday May 22 2009 17:30
An editors dream Thursday April 02 2009 18:00
Television 2.0 Thursday February 26 2009 09:00
Reverence for Reference Tuesday January 13 2009 09:00

2008

The New Hope Monday October 06 2008 00:00
From Podcasting to Droidmaker Sunday July 27 2008 17:00
The End of Traditional Cinema...for me Tuesday June 10 2008 17:00
May and June are busy (again) Thursday June 05 2008 19:30
NAB: Red Scarlet 3K for 3K Saturday April 19 2008 18:00
Against Fitna Wednesday March 12 2008 15:00
It's a Wonderful Blu World Thursday February 21 2008 15:00
Bloggen is moeilijk Saturday January 26 2008 18:30

2007

Voltooid Verleden Tapes Thursday December 06 2007 21:00
Met Leopard op Safari Wednesday November 07 2007 18:00
WoKun going Blu..and gaming.. Thursday October 11 2007 16:50
Cult en FaceBook Friday October 05 2007 18:00
IBC en Diploma Thursday September 13 2007 15:30
Groeten uit Nederland Sunday September 02 2007 18:32
Vakantie...Business as usual Thursday August 02 2007 15:00
Geslaagd!!! Friday June 22 2007 13:10
1 week voor mijn examen... Saturday June 16 2007 15:03
Mark of the Unicorn Saturday June 02 2007 17:00
Pre pre-examen Tuesday May 15 2007 11:07
Camouflage is af Wednesday May 02 2007 22:15
Dead or Alive Wednesday April 18 2007 17:15
Werkelijkheid - Camouflage Sunday March 18 2007 17:56
15 april - NAB Saturday March 03 2007 17:15
Tikkie ik ben m Monday February 19 2007 16:20
Paper is af! Saturday February 03 2007 16:11
Harde wind Thursday January 18 2007 15:00
Papier hier...dankuwel! Wednesday January 17 2007 16:36
Nezumu san Sunday January 14 2007 12:50
Apple en Hyves Update Wednesday January 10 2007 12:00
6 jaar MSN Tuesday January 09 2007 14:00
And a Happy New Year Monday January 01 2007 19:30

2006

Het einde van mijn Hyves Saturday December 23 2006 23:00
Was opvouwen Wednesday December 13 2006 09:34
Batch Capture Monday December 11 2006 13:14
Novemberdrukte Tuesday November 28 2006 15:30
Drukte op de set Tuesday November 14 2006 09:40
Onderweg Monday November 06 2006 09:46
Vertraging Sunday November 05 2006 13:37
School Troubles Tuesday October 31 2006 12:25
Herfstvakantie... Thursday October 26 2006 12:25
School Wednesday October 04 2006 09:40
It's alive...alive... Sunday October 01 2006 15:00

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I am a video editor and web developer from the south of the Netherlands (Noord-Brabant), a town called Veldhoven, which is west of the City Eindhoven.

For years I have kept myself busy with audio and technology. Inspired by Herman van Veen, I started to play the violin at age 9 at the Veldhovense Muziekschool. I played until I was 13.

When I was 11, I started volunteering at our local radio/tv station (Stichting Lokale Omroep Veldhoven) where I started presenting a show called Kids Radio. After a few years I was the engineer and guide of the program. In the meanwhile I did a program called J.A.M. with my friends Jurjen van Loon and Marcel Kennis. We saw how the big boys were doing radio at 538 and wanted to replicated that as much as we could. After J.A.M. I did a clubmusic program Called Club Veldhoven, with my friends Richard van de Donk and Sjors van Dalfsen.

Because there was no audio school at the level I was at in 1998, I started studying Multimedia Design at the Graphic School in Eindhoven (now Called the Eindhovense School). In the second year, I made a video documentary about Walt Disney for the art history and appreciation class. The making of that documentary was so much fun, that I really wanted to learn more about post production. In the same year I started learning animation in Maya.

In 2000, I switched from radio to television at the local radio/tv station. With a group of people we made a registration of the Cult en Tumult Festival, one of the biggest free open air festivals in the Netherlands. In that schoolyear, I had traineeships at Verhagen and Dierks Media Productions. In the year that followed, I edited Floortje>> with Jurjen. In 2003 I started at the HKU, where I studied Audio Visual Media. I graduated in 2007 at editing.

Because of Evangelion and Love Hina, I became a big anime fan. In 2002 I started the fansite CardcaptorSakura.NL. Before anime, I was a Star Trek fan (I just watched, no cosplaying).

In 2004 I started my own company called Anillusion Digital Productions and did projects for Universal, MTV USA, Domusic and ds2p.

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