If you loved the John Wick movies, you may appreciate the mini-TV series The Continental: From the World of John Wick. The show tells us how Colin Woodell (Winston Scott) takes over the Continental Hotel from Mel Gibson (Cormac O’Connor). As we discover the young Winston, we meet the young Charon (played by Ayomide Adegun). I recommend watching the three episodes!
We also knew that the universe of John Wick likes retro, and the Commodore 64 in particular. Indeed, every time a contract is issued for John, they use a C64 to update the assassins worldwide. Well, in the Continental, Connor Crawford (Orson) also uses a vintage Commodore computer – a Pet – to compute statistics and run his algorithm predicting the outcome of the bloody takeover.
What he didn’t see coming is … I won’t spoil it for you; watch the series! To conclude today’s post, I owe you an apology. Indeed, I haven’t posted for the last few weeks as we are moving into our new home. If all goes as expected, we should be done by mid-December 😊.
It must be mentioned, though, that the venerable PET 2001, regardless of the bravery of the machine and/or its programmer, could not have produced these graphics. – This somewhat applies another meaning to the (Personal) “Electronic Transactor”. 🙂
Absolutely true, and worth mentioning! I am not a PET aficionado, so I don’t know if there are high resolution modern graphic cards available for the machine, or if it is just a video trickery used in the show 🙂
I think, there was a (quite obscure) graphics board back in the 1980s, but don’t cite me. I don’t know if would have done 80 cols graphics or if this would have been available for the PET 2001, particularly. (The PET 2001 was strictly 40 columns at 60Hz, while there was more variation in subsequent models. Also, these chiclet keyboard models didn’t have any sockets for option ROMs.) Having said that, a PET 2001 capable of this kind of graphics would be awesome (while probably less fun, which ultimately is always in the limitations and restrictions).
I guess, as these shots are both fun and impressive, for a TV show, it’s just the right amount of “transacting”.