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Isn't General MIDI simply the mapping of certain instruments to certain numeric IDs? It doesn't dictate the actual sounds or samples that are used, does it? Given that, why would i…

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I like that your go-to for prog rock is "Eye in the Sky." I really can't fault it; my first thought was that technically Yes is more iconic of the genre, but it's probably less-kno…

Is... WHAT?

To be fair, if they said "ya" they're probably in Scandanavia...

It's not free. They didn't have a business model for most of their existence. Google, famously shitty at branding (and that's being kind), paid an obscene $1.6B for YouTube because…

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The thing does seem awesome, except I don't see any mention of: 1. Hardware sprites (except in Wikipedia in regard to one TI chipset) 2. Redefinable character sets 3. Fine scrollin…

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To be fair, development continued into the mid-2000s.

It was also fun. The "Reveal" icon is a guy who opens his trenchcoat when you roll over it. Missing the late Peter Warner, designer. Fun historical note: When Steve Jobs flew the S…

I think Steve Jobs was always kind of pissed that he couldn't get away with dumbing-down Shake. But when your clients are Peter Jackson's WETA, and ILM, you're not going to be able…

No. Some of the retiming stuff that was added to Shake later was also added to Motion/FCP. But the whole point of Motion was to leverage GPU power to produce swoopy, polished-looki…