tron
"Boris F. was a german hacker under the pseudonym TRON, doing a lot of advanced chipcard hacking and crypto gear development. TRON died in 1998, he probably committed suicide, but there is a slight chance he was murdered. ↑[...]"—Now German courts act against de.wikipedia because TRON's offline family-name was published in full there. Someone who knew TRON in person now has published an
↑extensive article at /. which unveils a complex story. The whole controversy and everything in its wake is an interesting example of negotiation and reasoning within cyberculture.
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tron 2.0
For some early cyberculture items the franchise- and adaptation-roundabout seems to spin forever. The 1982 silverscreen-movie
↑Tron was followed by Bally Midway's
↑identically named arcade game in the same year. 1983 saw the computergame
↑Discs of Tron, and, more recently, in 2004,
↑Tron 2.0 and its ports/spinoffs
↑Tron 2.0 Killer App. A comic book series based on Tron 2.0 was cancelled due to licensing issues with Disney. But now Slave Labor Graphics (
↑SLG)
↑seems to pull it through:
TRON
by Landry Walker, Eric Jones and Louie De Martinis
This new comic series continues where the TRON 2.0 video game left off, chronicling the adventures of Jet Bradley, a talented young programmer who is trapped in a computer mainframe.
Issue #1 is tentatively scheduled for April 2006.
↑Tron-Sector's image gallery contains
↑15 pieces of concept art for the upcoming graphic novel.
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Sat, 21 Jan 2006 | 12:48 | category:
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