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RimWorld is a construction and management simulation video game developed by Canadian game designer Tynan Sylvester and published by Ludeon Studios. [3] Originally called Eclipse Colony, it was initially released as a Kickstarter crowdfunding project [4] in early access for Microsoft Windows, macOS, and Linux in November 2013, and was released on October 17, 2018.
The Tube is a United Kingdom music television programme, which ran for five series, from 5 November 1982 to 24 April 1987. It was filmed in Newcastle upon Tyne and produced for Channel 4 by Tyne Tees Television, which had previously produced the similar music show Alright Now and the music-oriented youth show Check it Out for ITV; production of the latter ended in favour of The Tube.
Mechanical television or mechanical scan television is an obsolete television system that relies on a mechanical scanning device, such as a rotating disk with holes in it or a rotating mirror drum, to scan the scene and generate the video signal, and a similar mechanical device at the receiver to display the picture.
The Colour of Magic (24 November 1983. (1983-11-24) ) Created by. Terry Pratchett. The Discworld is the fictional world where English writer Sir Terry Pratchett 's Discworld fantasy novels take place. It consists of an intersteller planet-sized disc, which sits on the backs of four huge elephants, themselves standing on the back of a world ...
Allen B. DuMont. Allen Balcom DuMont, also spelled Du Mont, (January 29, 1901 – November 14, 1965) was an American electronics engineer, scientist and inventor who improved the cathode ray tube in 1931 for use in television receivers. Seven years later he manufactured and sold the first commercially practical television set to the public.
Terry Pratchett's The Colour of Magic is a fantasy - comedy two-part British television adaptation of the bestselling novels The Colour of Magic (1983) and The Light Fantastic (1986) by Terry Pratchett. The fantasy film was produced for Sky1 by The Mob, a small British studio, starring David Jason, Sean Astin, Tim Curry, and Christopher Lee as ...
Cathode ray tube, showing the yoke (copper coils and white plastic former) around the rear neck of the tube. A deflection yoke is a kind of magnetic lens, used in cathode ray tubes to scan the electron beam both vertically and horizontally over the whole screen. In a CRT television, the electron beam is moved in a raster scan on the screen.
Guest starring John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson. 5. 5. Match Unto My Feet. January 13, 1977. Guest starring Brenda Donohue; Valri Bromfield appears briefly, uncredited. 6. 6. Memoirs of Anton Chekhov.