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Re:Unseen Thunderbirds film reels found in garden shed by steve1977 on Tuesday October 08, 2024 @08:36AM (#41776670)
The ZX Spectrum bit seems unlikely, considering that was a Z80 box and the quality of those graphics is pretty good.

See the Terrahawks game on the Spectrum:

https://youtu.be/diLez1bM3jo

Is there a source for this, that would actually be interesting.

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Re:Unseen Thunderbirds film reels found in garden shed by wyldfire on Tuesday October 08, 2024 @08:48AM (#41776791)
> the quality of those graphics is pretty good.

IIUC grandparent post refers only to the sphere & ships projected into 2d stills, not all of the titles. A software wireframe renderer seems "easy" compared to modeling the ships. Even if it took a day to render each one, this was all done in the service of a pilot episode, so probably not a lot of pressure. They're on the screen so briefly before fading to the filmed miniature, I suppose it would easily hide most issues.

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