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Organization: Penn State University
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 21:10:52 EDT
From: Young Indy <EMW107@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars,rec.arts.tv
Subject: Young Indiana Jones Chronicles

    For all you Indy fans out there, if you haven't seen the new episodes of
Young Indy, you better reschedule your Monday nights..you're definately
missing some quality programming.
    As for the rumors that George Lucas is spending $1.5 million on each epi-
sode, they seem to be true. The action segments were outstanding, the cinema-
tography impeccable, and the overall intricate structure of the screenplay
just wouldn't let you catch your breath. All I can say is, if you haven't seen
this show, give it a shot. Lucas is really putting out some quality television
programming.
    And since I don't want to give out any spoilers, I won't. But I do hope you
take my advice and check out next week's broadcast. You won't regret it.

                                     -Ed

   ====================================================================
               Edwin 'Big Ed' Weiland - EMW107@PSUVM.PSU.EDU
              Architectural Engineering; Penn State University
       "You're just a petty bureaucrat with a gun." -- Indiana Jones
   ====================================================================
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
From: rosenlof@milton.u.washington.edu (Karen Rosenlof)
Subject: Re: * Star Wars movies on cassette....LETTERBOXED!
Followup-To: rec.video.releases
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 22:40:43 GMT

In article <1992Sep25.134416.5150@ra.msstate.edu> paul@pj.tmc.edu (Thorongil) writes:
>So where do the breaks occur in Star Wars, ESB, and ROTJ ?  Are they
>well placed or not? 
>
It's going to depend on which version of the disc you have.  I have the
"Special Widescreen Edition" of all three.
Let's see if I can remember...

SW
side 1/2
	Luke at Obi-Wan's house
		|		<- it's either here
	Meeting room on Death Star
		|		<- or here
	Finding blasted Jawa Transport

side 2/3
	can't remember

ESB
side 1/2
	Luke and R2 heading off to Degoba
		<- here
	Falcon being chased by star destroyer

side 2/3
	Luke Leaving Degoba
		<- I think it's here
	Falcon arriving at cloud city

ROTJ
side 1/2
	Solo saying good bye to Lando
		<-	This is close, may be off a little
	Imperial Shuttle leaving

side 2/3
	Luke Strikes at Emporer with light saber
		<-	here
	Demolition team on Endor

The break that bothers me the most is the 2/3 break in ROTJ.
The seem reasonably well placed. Since all three movies are
very close to 120 minutes and all are on 3 LD sides (total 180
minutes available), the producers must have had quite a bit of
flexibility when they chose the breaks.
From: dyko@mundil.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Darren Yiu Ming KO)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Is the Emperor dead?
Date: 27 Sep 92 19:48:53 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia


	
	The Emperor of the Darkside seemed to be dispensed quite easily?
	You call that the power of the Darkside? Or is there more than
	that meets the eye?
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
From: gfm@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (George Francis McBay)
Subject: Re: Vaders death
Organization: /etc/organization
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 02:50:37 GMT

In article <199210030341.AA15234@mihi.une.edu.au> jbell@mihi.une.edu.au (Master of Puppets) writes:
>Umm, why exactly DID Vader die????
>Luke withstood MUCH more than Vader from the emporer
>whats the story?

	It is my understanding that the Emperor's electrcity bolts shorted
out lots of Darth's electrical life support systems..  Notice how his breathing
apparatus seems more strained after he gets hit. DV's physical body probably
didn't suffer much permenant damage as Luke's didn't seem to.  However without
his life support, he was doomed...




Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
From: wyman@rtsg.mot.com (Mark S. Wyman)
Subject: Re: X-WING
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 14:05:14 GMT

joshuali@usc.edu (Joshua Ling) writes:

>has anyone seen the latest issue of COMPUTER GAMING WORLD (I think that's 
>the title)? The cover has a picture of an X-Wing and there is an article
>inside on the new LucasArts simulator. It looks great!!!! And from the
>way they talk about the game in the article, the movement of the
>simulation should be very good.

Better yet, if you have a PC you can see a slide show of pictures from the
upcoming game.  I got mine from GEnie but someone will probably upload it
to the net soon.  Looks hot.  Well.....for a game ;)

Mark Wyman
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
From: etlgtme@etlxd32l.etlxd (Grant McFarlane,XD/GEEC,GH)
Subject: Re: HELP!  Star Wars Speech!
Reply-To: etlgtme@etlxd32l.etlxd
Organization: Ericsson Telecom, Burgess Hill, England
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 13:44:32 GMT

In article bz0cp@rpi.edu, goldek@sage4b.its.rpi.edu (Ken Goldenberg) writes:
>Help!
>
>I have to give a speech on StarWars, and I'm looking for lots of "little"
>facts that I can use to spice it up.  I'm pretty comfortable on the topic, but
>if SW is is, say, the first movie to employ X,Y,Z or revolutionized the QBKT
>computer processing camera doohickie, I'd really love to be more technical.

Here's something I remember from ages ago. The original sound of the laser
blasts was recorded from striking an electricity pylon's stabilizing cable
with a wrench.

Well you did say no fact was too trivial !!

Grant.
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From: ss@wpi.WPI.EDU (Scott Streeter)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Archive News for MAC users
Date: 1 Oct 92 15:35:55 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: wpi.wpi.edu


Here is how to get the uncompressing program for MAC users.

On the ftp site:  sumex-aim.stanford.edu

The program to uncompress UNIX Compress (.Z) files is:

info-mac/util/maccompress-32.hqx

-- 
 Scott Streeter                             Keeper of the Star Wars Archive
 ss@wpi.wpi.edu                             wpi.wpi.edu        130.215.24.1
From: mt2f+@andrew.cmu.edu (Martin Thurn)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: Star Wars soundtrack
Date: 26 Sep 92 18:46:05 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Speaking of limited soundtracks...
  Does anyone know if any additional music from ANH is available
anywhere?  I remember back in 1978 or so hearing on the radio an
"extended" version of the "final battle" track.  Also there was a second
"Cantina Band" theme which I've never heard outside of the movie itself.
 - - Martin Thurn    thurn+@cmu.edu
From: beresis@romulus.rutgers.edu (Michael Beresis)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: FTP SITE: Any SW Sounds for the MAC
Date: 1 Oct 92 03:30:00 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

n9041679@henson.cc.wwu.edu (brian h. harper) writes:

>sally@anableps.berkeley.edu (S. A. Wilson) writes:




>>Ciao,

>>Can someone copy some ANH, ESB, RotJ sayings and upload them to the 
>>ftp site? Some of the better sayings from the three movies would be
>>great to have.

>I have a few, and will record a few of my own soon, so look for some in the
>next couple of weeks...

>Any personal requests? 

>-Brian Harper


   You must do:

"Your over confidence in your weakness."
"And your faith in your friends is YOURS!"

						*grin*
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
From: tmw4r@fulton.seas.Virginia.EDU (Thomas Munroe Walsh)
Subject: Re: Star Wars Miniseries from Dark Horse Comics
Organization: University of Virginia
Distribution: na
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 23:35:25 GMT

In article <1992Sep27.225415.18779@wam.umd.edu> barmiyan@wam.umd.edu (Amy Rebecca Ewing) writes:

>  [RE:  Marvel Star Wars series]
>I think the early Archie Goodwin stories were well done. Some of the
>Al Williamson art was truly great, although the art from Palmer's 
>tenure was good too. They had a lot of good ideas there: like the
>Empire building a new "Death Star" except in a different configuration.
>It's almost like they second-guessed Lucas.
>Anyway, Marvel did have a good run.
>
>--Brian
>Penn State Class of '92 (yep, an alumi)
>

Actually, the original story was going to be about the construction of
a second death star but Lucas vetoed the idea.  (I wonder why :) )

,------------------------,----------------------------------------------,
| T. J. Walsh            | "This deal keeps on getting worse all the    |
| University Of Virginia | time."                                       |
| tmw4r@virginia.edu     |                                              |
`------------------------^----------------------------------------------'
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 21:24:55 EDT
From: <DCC117@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject:      Delta Source Scrutiny

 I was just rereading bits and pieces of Dark Force Rising, thinking about
the ch'hala-tree assumption.  The first description of the trees that I
found was a passage where Luke is repeatedly touching the surface of a
ch'hala tree in a careless manner, and the tree responds to his touches
with flashes of color.  Meanwhile, he's talking about C'baoth and about
Jomark.  This got me thinking that maybe the information transmission was
by tactile contact somehow, by some kind of biochemical interaction with
the skin of the person who touches the plant ( I know that's a stretch,
but oh well ). So I thought that maybe the flashes don't necessarily have
to correspond with information transmission.
     Then, I came across a later part where Han is exiting the (?) Council
Chamber and is following Fey'lya, and Han abruptly YELLS something down
the length of the corridor to get Fey'lya's attention.  At that moment,
the nearest ch'hala tree responds with a burst of color! So we have that
they are sensitive to sound, and I think that's all we need for the
argument.  Excuse me if this passage has been cited already.
                                                             - THARIZDUN
From: Patrick_Andrew_Barnes@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: * Star Wars movies on cassette....LETTERBOXED!
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 92 16:50:57 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <1992Sep22.025801.1626@pro-freedom.cts.com>
  <SS.92Sep23084519@wpi.WPI.EDU> <1992Sep23.191826.1@camins.camosun.bc.ca>

In case you all haven't noticed, your threat is Star Wars movies on cassette
and this is rec.arts.sf.starwars, so how about moving this tedious irrelevant
misplaced comparison of video cassettes and laser discs to a more appropriate
newsgroup and and quit cluttering up this area with completely off the 
subject messages?
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
From: Jem.Lewis@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Jem Lewis)
Subject: Re: Han Solo books...
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 01:22:16 GMT

In article <1992Sep28.175128.2773@wkuvx1.bitnet> futrena@wkuvx1.bitnet writes:
>To those of you who like to read about the _STAR WARS_ universe, there
>is an extremely fasinating set of books about Han Solo and Chewbacca
>before they met up with Luke Skywalker and Ben Kenobi on Tantooine. 
>They are written by Brian Daly (sp).  Although the names escape me at
>the moment, they end about the time Han decides to work for Jabba the
>Hut.
>
>Find them and read them.  You will not be able to put them down.
>-- 
	Last I looked they were out in paperback for $4.95 as _The Han Solo
Adventures_.  I think they were titled _Han Solo at Star's End_, _Han
Solo's Revenge_, and _Han Solo and the Lost Legacy_, although I'm not too
sure of the title of the last one.
	They were a pretty good read, and the author was pretty failthful
to Solo's character IMO.  I think there was also a series about Lando, but
I haven't read them yet.

--
   The opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the University of
     North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Campus Office for Information
        Technology, or the Experimental Bulletin Board Service.
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Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars,rec.arts.tv
From: sharonc@meaddata.com (Sharon Crichton)
Subject: Re: Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
Organization: Mead Data Central, Dayton OH
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 12:42:47 GMT
Reply-To: sharonc@meaddata.com
Distribution: na

In article <92272.211052EMW107@psuvm.psu.edu>, Young Indy <EMW107@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
|>     For all you Indy fans out there, if you haven't seen the new episodes of
|> Young Indy, you better reschedule your Monday nights..you're definately
|> missing some quality programming.
|>     As for the rumors that George Lucas is spending $1.5 million on each epi-
|> sode, they seem to be true. The action segments were outstanding, the cinema-
|> tography impeccable, and the overall intricate structure of the screenplay
|> just wouldn't let you catch your breath. All I can say is, if you haven't seen
|> this show, give it a shot. Lucas is really putting out some quality television
|> programming.
|>     And since I don't want to give out any spoilers, I won't. But I do hope you
|> take my advice and check out next week's broadcast. You won't regret it.

Let me second this opinion: Last night's episode (Indy fights in The Somme)
was one of the most powerful and moving pieces of episodic tv that I have
ever seen. The battle scenes, choreographed to the very somber music, were
incredibly gut-wrenching. This show deserves as many Emmy awards as it can
cart away, IMHO.

Question with spoiler attached (I hope the Control-L works):


Is Indy's friend Remy' dead? I know that he was at least seriously injured in
the last scene at the castle/villa, but considering how close he and Indy were,
there wasn't much grieving shown on Indy's part. I wonder if they're setting
this up for a reunion between the two (although I hope it would be a lot
sooner than the reunion between Indy and the suffragist woman he fell in love
with).

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Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
From: AVRK90@waccvm.corp.mot.com (Kevin Cox)
Subject: Young Indy
Organization: Motorola
Date: 28 Sep 1992 21:28:35 MST


I've been watching for Young Indy for a couple of weeks now, but
don't see it.  Is it on ABC or ???  I don't see it in the TV Guide
for Phoenix, am I just missing it?  Thanks for any info!

Kevin

Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
From: malak@grebyn.com (Michael Malak)
Subject: Re: Happy Birthday...
Organization: Grebyn Timesharing
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 01:12:08 GMT

In article <91594@netnews.upenn.edu> worthm@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Michael A Worth) writes:
>
>Who was born first, Luke or Leia?

Timothy Zahn is evidently going to wait until the third book of his Heir
to the Empire series to let us know.  In the second book, Luke tells
Han when hee asks just this question, "we haven't really figured it out
yet."  (that's a paraphrase of my memory of reading the book).  In my
opinion, it's an obvious foreshadow that they are twins and that they 
will be able to combine their powers in a unique way.
From: cshamis@desire.wright.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: Archive Site News (question)
Date: 6 Oct 92 22:56:19 GMT
Organization: Wright State University

> 
> I agree that GIFs are preferable, however, if Scott has a utility to convert
> gif to jpg, is there a utility to convert jpg to gif?  If there is you could
> convert all files to jpg and then just put the utility to convert back to 
> gif in the archive . . . Just a thought.

Just so you guys know, (although most of you probably allready do), GIF and
JPEG are not just two diffrent formats.  They are also /VERY/ diffrent
compression techniques. 

 GIF - uses binary compression allgorithms that we are all familliar with.

JPEG - uses (for lack of a better term) OPTICAL compression.

The important thing to know is once an immage has been JPEG'd you are going to
lose some resolution.  Now, granted your going to GAIN a LOT of space.  JPEG
compression gets FAR better results than GIF, but there is a price.  GIF
compression has no sacrifice of resolution.   

Now, on some pictures, your never going to notice the diffrence, but on others
JPEG will really yuck-up a picture.  Also this is something a freind of mine
noticed.  When he had a GIF of an Anime picture, when he JPEG'd it, the picture
got BIGGER!  I think this is because there where only 20 odd colours in the
picture and the GIF compression was better suited.

Hey I know theres some people out there that know a HECK of alot more about
JPEG and GIF than I do, but theres even more that know NOTHING!!!!!

Just make sure you guys examine both formats carefully before you choose one!

Later - Me
CShamis@Desire.Wright.Edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
From: 10726446@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au (LAU WAI KUEN)
Subject: Re: Yoda's Conversation
Organization: Faculty of Engineering, Monash University 
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 03:58:23 GMT

In article <1992Sep28.175122.19683@sol.UVic.CA> acameron@engr.UVic.CA (Alan  Cameron) writes:
>From: acameron@engr.UVic.CA (Alan  Cameron)
>Subject: Re: Yoda's Conversation
>Date: Mon, 28 Sep 92 17:51:22 GMT
>In article 1a7c36INN2oo@bigboote.WPI.EDU, mmartin@wpi.WPI.EDU (Matthew Wayne Martin) writes:
>>
>>	I'm pretty sure Yoda says (in ESB) " For 800 years have I trained Jedi,
>>My own council will I seek as to who is to be trained."  It's been awhile since
>>I last saw ESB, so I don't know if this is exact.
>
>
>That sounds about right to me...I have seen ESB fairly recently...that is the part when Yoda is talking to Obi Wan about training Luke isn't it??
>
>Alan Cameron
>
>
>

  Does anyone know why Yoda speaks the way he does?  The only explaination
I've found is in MAD magazine;

"What expect you from man 800 years old.  English perfect."

He might have done it to begin with to throw Luke off track, and
test him.  Why continue when the charade was uncovered though?

Hal
Organization: Miskatonic University
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 23:30:49 EDT
From: Brian Panulla, MooCow <BJP108@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: Z-95?

I personally was appalled by the drawing of the Z-95 in the Tatooine Manhunt
adventure. I read the desription of the plane in HSaSE over and over again.
This fighter does not resemble what Daley describes at all!!! Arrgghhh. I love
the RPG, but when they pull stuff like this it reminds me too much of FASAs
Star Trek game.....'Nuff said.
______
Brian Panulla                                              Hail Sinfonia!
bjp108@psuvm.psu.edu / ender@vivaldi.psu.edu / moocow@fubar.bk.psu.edu
(The opinions expressed above are mine alone, and do not reflect those of)
(Penn State University, or the Center for Academic Computing, so there!  )
From: mmartin@wpi.WPI.EDU (Matthew Wayne Martin)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re:New Star Wars Books
Date: 6 Oct 1992 02:39:10 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: wpi.wpi.edu

	In regards to new Star Wars books, and their being canon, let's
remember that the HTTE Sourcebook clearly states inside that all events
taking place after ROTJ are purely speculation, and Lucas reserves the right to
change anything that's written.  In other words, none of the new stuff is
really canon, because it can always be changed.
	Furthermore, who cares about the relationship between the Flint novel
and the Young adult series.  The young adult series SUCKS!!!!! and is an
abuse of the Star Wars name.  I mean Luke flying a Y-Wing, Vader's glove
supposedly making it to Mon Calamari, and the whole concept of the Jedi
prince Ken.  In these books, Luke is such a weenie, even more than usual. 
Also, they're totally inconsistent with the Zahn novels.  If you remember,
Yoda's existence and his training of Luke was known only to two people:
Luke and Leia (who knows by the time of HTTE).  This was not common
knowledge as the young adult series assumes.  These books serve their purpose,
they're okay reading for kids, but are too lame to be considered a canon
part of the SW universe.


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From: tapio@nic.funet.fi (Tapio Keih{nen)
Subject: Re: Movies?
Organization: Finnish University and ResearcH Network, FUNET
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 92 22:09:02 GMT

In article <1992Oct1.122308.7891@ac.dal.ca> cscf0022@ac.dal.ca writes:
>	I'm new to this group, so I don't know if this question has already 
>been answered.  Are there going to be anymore Star Wars movies? If yes when,
>and who will star in them?  Thanks.
>
Yes, there probably will be more Star Wars movies in the future.
No-one knows when, but I think that first of the next three movies
will appear around May 20th, 1993. Actually, I've bet some money on it
:-). No-one - except Lucas (hopefully:-) - knows anything about them
yet.

Now FLAMISH PART of my message directed not only to cscf0022 but all
'new-to-this-groupers': 

Why people don't read the FAQ (which should be posted more frequently,
IMHO...) or last 100 or so posts????????????!!?!?!?!?!??! When every
newcomer asks the very same questions, 'oldies' will be rather tired
to answer them - and even to read them.

FLAME OFF.

Nothing personal.

--
Tapio Keihanen - tapio@nic.funet.fi \ / "Never look back, never turn!"
                - k135528@cc.tut.fi / \        -Ronnie James Dio, 1981
From: barnejd@wkuvx1.bitnet
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: Amanaman: Who is he?
Date: 30 Sep 92 10:08:23 CDT
Organization: Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY

In article <1992Sep29.124911.2175@vax1.mankato.msus.edu>, petra@vax1.mankato.msus.edu writes:
> OK, all you STAR WARS junkies, I got question for you.  Who is Amanaman?  Did
> he appear in any of the movies, or is he a figment of Kenner's imagination?  A
> couple of my friends and I would really like to know.  E-mail or post(readers
> discretion).

Hmmm, maybe he was the 6th replicant... 

(Yes, I know this joke doesn't technically belong on here)

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From: curtw@euler.jsc.nasa.gov (Curt Wiederhoeft)
Subject: Basis for Yoda character?
Organization: Lockheed Engineering & Sciences, Co., Houston
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 16:30:58 GMT

Please excuse me if this is a FAQ, but it's something I just noticed.
I was watching the Frank Capra movie "Lost Horizon," and the character
of the High Lama, (aka Father Perot) reminded me a LOT of Yoda. Does
anyone know if Lucas based Yoda's mannerisms, postures, etc. on this
character? Please respond by e-mail, as I don't normally read this
group.

Also, on a completely different subject, last night Showtime flashed an
"R" rating flag before the start of RotJ. Has the rating changed, or was
this just a boo-boo?

Curt Wiederhoeft
curtw@euler.jsc.nasa.gov                Will design spacecraft for food.