Elite - Braben and Bell on TV Friday C5 7.30 ish
 

Sorry for the last minute news, but anybody interested in Elite in the UK might want to watch Channel 5 tonight (Friday) at about 7.30 - I think.

Cheers.

Brits Who Made The Modern World, Channel 5, 19:30

My arse they did!

If you miss it and you are in the UK it is available on demand

http://demand.five.tv/Episode.aspx?e...me=C5134750003

A few lies (not least of which was they sold a copy of Elite for every BBC Micro) but on the hole a good documentary.

Would help if the full synopsis was quoted: managed to create the worlds first FULLY 3D computer game in their bedrooms.


Which is true.

Anyway to download it rather than stream it?

a download/another link would be much appreciated ;)

Try one of many Firefox extensions, DownloadHelper is the one I'm using.

and after that upload it to the zone... :cheese

It doesn't seem to work with Windows Media Player streaming through firefox.

oh, shiiitz... :(

Anyone got tunebite? That can rip the streaming from the computers display (bit like fraps).

WMP 11 crashes on my machine when I access the site, what format is the video stream in?

or maybe... you've got the official m$ wmp firefox plugin tonyyeb?

i've tried this on another site and it worked, maybe this one get's fooled too ;)

right click on the movie, select [Properties], drag and select and copy the entire link from [File -> Location:] to here ;)

should look something like this:

Where do i get the 'unofficial' WMP plugin for firefox?

:blased are you making fun of my speech difficulties? :blased

:p

here, would be a good start :)

Are you saying I should or should not have the official MS WMP plugin? I HAVE the Microsoft one installed. The link points to the Microsoft one.

lol, okay i was just checking

If that had been part of the full synopsis I would have. But it wasn't.

Five's TV Guide said "The documentary series looking at the untold stories of British scientific innovations focuses on the development of Britain's 1.4 billion pound computer game industry. In the early 1980s, two pioneering Cambridge undergraduates set out to achieve the seemingly impossible task of developing the world's first 3-D computer game."


Which is not true ;)

Edit: I think we were looking at two different pages.

How about this:

rtsp://scds65.lon.llnw.net/a800/o1/bthttp/five/downloadstore/britswhomadethemodernworld/movies/Brits-Who-Made-The-Modern-World_S1_E3_Episode-3_STREAM.wmv

Opens in WMP.

awesome! thanks, downloading it now with flashget :cool

131mb, btw

Downloading too. Great stuff. Can watch it when i'm bored now. Cheers 5h00n4y