ReBoot FAQ, part 1 of 3
Smith and O'Halloran
>the past few weeks, could someone please tell me a web site where I can find
>it, and other Reboot info? Thanks in advance.
Here it is.
Subject: ReBoot FAQ, 1 of 3
Contents: Introduction, Toys, Cards, Q and A, Glossary
Date: Mon Jan 22 06:00:05 PST 1996
From: Joe Smith <jsm...@inwap.com>
Joe Smith's Unofficial ReBoot Home Page
Joe's unoffical ReBoot home page
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The "Unofficial ReBoot Home Page"
This site was the first one announced on the net. (It was announced as
www.best.com/~inwap/Reboot.html and is now at www.inwap.com.)
April, 1995 - Joe Smith
www.inwap.com/reboot/ = "The Unofficial ReBoot Home Page"
First web site with JPEG images of the characters and toys, has the full
press kit from Alliance Productions. Lots of text; designed to be posted
to alt.tv.reboot and rec.arts.animation newsgroups on USENET.
May, 1995 - David Francis
uts.cc.utexas.edu/~ifex534/main.html = "ReBoot Home Page"
Flashier presentation, selected as Spider's Pick of the Day for 30-Jun-95.
July, 1995 - Irwin Toys
www.irwin-toy.com = "Irwin Toys Home Page"
From the producers of the ReBoot action figures and play sets.
August, 1995 - Alliance Communications
alliance.idirect.com/reboot/ = "Welcome to the Reboot Web Site"
This is the official home page from the show's producers and distributors.
Looks very nice, but does not even have an episode guide. Be sure to
visit the Central office and sign up with the Birthday Club.
November, 1995 - Sony Signatures, TV Merchandise
www.sepc.sony.com/SSI/TV/Reboot/reboot.html = Sony Signatures
Has three different T-shirts for sale.
=== Howdy! ===
My name is Joe Smith and this is the editorial section of
my "Unoffical ReBoot Home Page". (To jump directly to the good stuff,
just click on the ReBoot icon above.)
I started getting interested in the Saturday morning cartoon show "ReBoot"
because:
* It's done with 100% computer animation.
* The CGI (Computer Generated Imagery) looks pretty cool.
* The character names and places are filled with puns on
the computer industry.
* The plots are better than your typical Saturday morning fare.
== History of this document ==
Mid March, 1995
The local ABC station stopped moving the time slot around (it had been
6:30am for a while). In the middle of March, I started recording ReBoot.
My housemates agreed that this was a nifty show, and knew there were more
puns and in-jokes than each of us noticed individually. It
was time to merge this knowledge and make it available on the Net.
26-Mar-95
Around March 26th, I posted a query to USENET, asking if anyone had a
complete episode list. I also asked if there was a FAQ (list of
Frequently Asked Questions about the show) and/or a list of the puns.
I also searched Lycos, Yahoo, and a couple of other search engines for
references to ReBoot on the World Wide Web, but had no luck there.
31-Mar-95
After a week of no response, I decided to create my own home page for
ReBoot. Inspired by the Lurker's Guide to Babylon-5 and Mr. Bumpy's
home page, I started typing in everhthing I knew about the show.
At that time, I had only three episodes on tape, and a clipping from
Daily Variety.
2-Apr-95
I posted a preliminary FAQ list on April 2nd, and that brought a response
from some people who work at BLT Productions, where ReBoot is created.
(At their request, those sources are being kept nameless.)
Both BLT Productions and Alliance Communications (the distributors) are
planning to have their own pages on the Web; I'm looking forward to that.
(Alliance Releasing, the motion picture division, is on the net to
promote their film "Johnie Mnemonic", but Alliance Productions, the
television division, is not on the Net yet.)
6-Apr-95
The pictures on the Characters page came straight from the people at
Reboot. They were converted to GIF and JPG format on 6-Apr-95.
17-Apr-95
The press kit from Alliance Communications arrives. The four long pages
of press releases section ("Renewed", "Info", "Details" and "People") are
exact duplicates of the press kit (as far as can be done in HTML).
10-May-95
The product manager of Irwin Toys gave me a call, and he's planning to have
some sort of URL printed on the boxes when the ReBoot toys come out.
20-May-95
Made sure the document looks reasonable with Mosaic-2.5 and with
text based browsers (such as Lynx).
6-Jun-95
Press kit with photos of the Irwin Toys product line arrives.
First batch of toy photos scanned in. More to come.
9-Jun-95
Added color images to the Contents page and made related sub pages use
color coded backgrounds.
10-Jun-95
Got e-mail from Bill Sweetman, Manager of Multimedia Project at
YTV Canada Inc. I will be getting the YTV logo soon.
11-Jun-95
Had to change most of the background colors since it looked just awful
under Windows. (Any RGB value that is not part of the base color set gets
dithered, and the dot pattern causes flicker and makes small fonts
difficult to read.)
[Note to HTML authors: Although there are 16 million combinations for
BGCOLOR="#rrggbb", only three are guaranteed to look good on all platforms
(Mac, PC, UNIX). They are: "#c0c0c0" (default gray), "#ffffff" (white),
and "#000000" (black). Colors in the tool bar, such as "#ff0000" (bright
red) and "#ffffcc" (pale yellow), are OK but any other color is a gamble.]
12-Jun-95
Added "page n of 41" and the URL to each page so that documents are self
identifying when printed out.
26-Jun-95
Updated the episode guide to include the names of the next 10 episodes.
(They will be shown during the 1995-1996 season.)
30-Jun-95
David Francis's Reboot Page was chosen as Spider's Pick of the Day.
Before that, my ReBoot page was seeing about 170 hits per day.
On 6/30 and 7/01, I got 2735 hits in 24 hours.
5-Jul-95
Updated the URL pointing to Steve's checklist. Added descriptions of the
images (including the size of each JPEG file) to Heroes and Villains.
7-Jul-95
Added announcement from Alliance; Birthday party for Enzo, ABC to show
new episodes August 12. Alliance's official ReBoot home page will be
launched on August 2nd.
11-Jul-95
Created separate images for Hack and Slash on the "Bad Guys" page.
Added pointer to http://www.irwin-toy.com and new logo for them.
29-Jul-95
Updated schedule of episodes since ABC is
showing two episodes each Saturday from now until the new season starts.
1-Aug-95
Added pictures of the Irwin Toy playsets.
8-Aug-95
Digitized an overview of Mainframe and added it to the Locations page.
This is now a clickable imagemap, like the Characters page.
The names of each sector are in a table (one that was designed to
look reasonable when viewed with Mosaic-2.6 for X/UNIX).
12-Aug-95
Added "Talent Night", the episode about Enzo's birthday.
20-Aug-95
Changed the names of some files so that the whole shebang can be copied
onto a laptop PC. (Now I can take ReBoot to Science Fiction conventions.)
24-Aug-95
This page was rated among the top 5% of all sites in the
Internet by Point Survey.
8-Sep-95
Added description of ABC's Saturday Morning Preview, in which Megabyte
shows up and demands his own prime-time special.
23-Sep-95
Added info from the activities at the Puzzle Zoo in Santa Monica, CA.
This includes some pictures from the new Brendan McCarthy comic "Z-Men".
15-Oct-95
Finally got around to entering pages for "Identity Crisis" and "Infected".
12-Jan-96
The counter for www.inwap.com/reboot/ exceeded 50,000 hits.
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=== Welcome to ReBoot ===
This is the 53,517th access since 29-Mar-95.
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"ReBoot" is a half-hour of computer animation that is being shown on ABC
Saturday mornings at 9:30am. It has great computer generated characters and
backgrounds, and has good stories sprinkled with puns based on the computer
industry. This document describes the ReBoot cartoon show and ReBoot toys.
[ image='images/Logo-bw.gif' descr='(ReBoot)' ]
== Introduction to the show ==
* Production.
* Brendan McCarthy, the character designer.
* [ image='../img/new.gif' descr='[new]' ] Mainframe Entertainment is looking for more animators for a new show:
* [ image='../img/new.gif' descr='[new]' ] Interview on The Anti-Gravity Room, 13-Jan-96 on the YTV network.
* Characters
* good guys
* bad guys
* Locations.
* Sectors of Mainframe
* Specific Sites
== The episodes ==
* The episode list.
* The opening sequence (with audio).
* Title credits and end credits.
* Promo spots (teaser clips)
* Saturday morning preview (8-Sep-95)
* Tetralogy: "Nullzilla", "Gigabyte", "Trust No One", "Web World War". [ image='../img/new.gif' descr='[new]' ]
[ image='irwin/Irwin90.gif' descr='Irwin' ]
== Merchandise ==
[ image='images/FleerLogo.gif' descr='Fleer' ]
* 2 episodes available on video tape.
* Irwin Toys.
* Fleer Ultra trading cards.
* Sony Signatures sells T-shirts.
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== FAQ ==
* Frequently Asked Questions (with answers).
* Trivial observations.
* Glossary of computer terms.
== Publicity ==
* Comments from the Net.
* Press releases.
* Second Season.
* ReBoot renewed for second season.
* Information about the show.
* Details about the characters.
* The people who make ReBoot.
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== Pointers to other ReBoot resources ==
[ image='ytv/YTV-icon.gif' descr='(YTV)' ]
* Newsgroups: alt.tv.reboot
* Company references: BLT, Alliance, Irwin, ABC, YTV
* Viewer references: other home pages
* The official ReBoot Home Page went on-line August 4th.
It has several QuickTime movies.
* (If you are running Mosaic-2.5 or 2.6 for X/UNIX, you need this short-cut
because Alliance's ReBoot page has tables.)
* People who tape ReBoot.
== Index ==
* The End
* List of pages
* List of images
== Acknowledgments: Text ==
The authors of the press releases and news articles are listed in the
section under "Press releases". All the other text you see here was
authored by Joe Smith. If you intend to incorporate some of this information
in your document, please put a link back this page.
The history of this document is kept in the editorial page.
== Acknowledgments: Images ==
The nifty pictures on the Characters/Heroes/Villains pages are courtesy of
the friendly folks at BLT Productions. The originals were 720x576 or
576x720 RGB files in Silicon Graphics format; they have been converted
to JPG and GIF for viewing
== Miscellaneous ==
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The Unofficial ReBoot Home Page has been rated among the top 5% of all sites
on the Internet by Point Survey.
Three identical reviews, with different backgrounds:
jpeg text gifs
The show which preceeds "ReBoot" on most ABC stations is "Bump in the Night".
Matthew Flatt maintains Mr.Bumpy's Unoffical Home Page.
This document looks best when viewed with Netscape's Navigator version 1.1
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The text of these documents can be accessed by reading
ftp://ftp.inwap.com/reboot/readme.txt
Updated: Jan 22, 1996 02:13
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ReBoot: Production
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=== The Show ===
[ image='characters/reboot.gif' descr='(ReBoot)' ]
ReBoot is produced in Canada and is 100% CGI (Computer Generated Imagery).
Seven episodes were originally produced for the first season (ABC 1994).
An additional six episodes were added to the first season when the
the show was renewed for a second season. The show has won a
Gemini Award for the Canadian best animated program/series on YTV,
Youth Television, the network for young people in Canada.
The concept for ReBoot was copyrighted in 1991 (which is the date in the
end credits), but the first show was produced in April of 1993 and shown
in the US on ABC in September 1994. Much of the visual design of the
show was done by Brendan McCarthy, a well-known comic book artist.
Brendan has a new project: Z-MEN.
It takes six weeks to produce a pair of half-hour shows.
== Created by BLT ==
BLT Productions
5th Floor 1045 Howe St.
Vancouver, BC, Canada V6Z 2A9
Phone: (604)681-3595, Fax: (604)681-3517
= 6-Dec-95: Mainframe Entertainment will be starting a new 26-episode show. =
Send your resumes to:
Barb Dawson
Mainframe Entertainment Inc
710-1045 Howe St.
Vancouver, BC, Canada V6Z 2A9
ba...@reboot.com
== Distributed by Alliance ==
Alliance Communications Corporation
920 Youge Street
Suite 400
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4W 3C7
Phone: (416)967-1174, Fax: (416)960-0971
Contact: Suzan Ayscough, Director of Communications
== Co-produced with YTV ==
[ image='ytv/YTV-icon.gif' descr='YTV' ]
YTV
64 Jefferson Avenue - Unit 18
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M6K 3H3
Phone: (416)534-1191
E-mail: in...@ytv.ca
=== The Setting ===
[ image='characters/cast.gif' descr='cast of characters and logo' ]
The story takes place in the city of Mainframe, somewhere on the Net.
The bad guys are trying to break out and access the Supercomputer.
Every once in a while the User downloads a game, and the citizens of
Mainframe are called to battle.
During the opening sequence, Mainframe shows up as a round city
floating above a sea of blue. If you look carefully at the 2 o'clock
position, you can see the three olive-drab skyscrapers that are Baudway.
(The buildings are the size of a larger "The Broadway" department store.)
Dot's Diner is on the top level near Baudway.
Megabyte's tower, the Silicon Tor, is somewhere in the industrial sector.
Hexadecimal has a lair under the streets of Lost Angles.
Phong lives in the Principle Office at the very center.
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ReBoot: Characters
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This is a clickable imagemap. Click on a character's
face to go to that section of this document.
Or click on the corners of the image to see the larger
(1024 x 599, 123K) version of this poster.
(It's OK to click before the picture finishes loading.)
== The Good Guys ==
* Bob the Guardian
* Dot Matrix
* Enzo Matrix
* Frisket the dog
* Phong the ancient
* Mike the TV
* Cecil the Maitre'd
* Binomes: Ones and Zeros
* Stripe and Rasta Mon
== The Bad Guys ==
* Megabyte, big blue meany
* Hack and Slash, red and blue dummies
* Hexadecimal, scarlet lady
* Scuzzy the cat
* Mouse (a female hacker)
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ReBoot: Heroes
The Good Guys
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The color images on this page are courtesy of some of the fine people
at BLT Productions. Thanks, guys!
=== The Good Guys ===
[ image='characters/heroes.gif' descr='[JPG: Bob Dot Enzo Frisket]' ]
Most character names and place names are puns on computer-related names.
See the Glossary for details. The good guys have the diamond icon
(white triangle pointing up, dark triangle pointing down, white semicircle
above, dark semicircle below).
Each small image here is a sample of a much larger image. Clicking on them
will show much larger JPEG images. Most of them are about 720 x 560 pixels.
== Bob ==
[ image='characters/bob.gif' descr='[JPG: Bob's face]' ]
Voice: Michael Benyaer
Bob is a Guardian. His goal is to mend and defend. He has to mend
ruptures in the interface, and defend his friends from their enemies and
from the User's games. Bob is human shaped with a blue face, hair that is
the shiny gray of pure silicon, and wears an all-purpose device called
Glitch on his armband. Bob's diamond icon is upside down compared to
everyone else, has a gold background instead of white, and is shiny instead
of flat.
His "hot shot" attitude has caused problems with the relationship between him
and Dot (which appears to be strictly platonic). He has an apartment
down by the docks, where he works on his car (which looks like a cross
between a hovercraft and a 1950's Cadillac with fins).
== Dot Matrix ==
[ image='characters/dot.gif' descr='[JPG: Dot's face]' ]
Voice: Kathleen Barr
Dot owns Dot's Diner, the place where most of the stories start. She
is a successful business woman, and either hates Bob for being such a macho and
insensitive protector, or loves having a man around. She is human shaped
with green skin (same as her kid brother, Enzo) and black hair.
== Enzo ==
[ image='characters/enzo.gif' descr='[JPG: Enzo + Frisket]' ]
Voice: Jesse Moss/Matthew Sinclair
Enzo hates being the little kid, but can't help acting like one.
("Can I go with you to Level 31, Bob? Can I, can I, can I, please.")
He is human shaped with green skin and usually wears blue pants, a white
shirt with the number 01 on it, and a baseball cap. He is spotlighted in
"Enzo the Smart".
== Frisket ==
[ image='characters/frisket.gif' descr='[JPG: Frisket]' ]
Voice: (growls a lot)
A red and yellow dog the size of a pony. His jaws are so strong that
he can catch cannonballs in mid air, hold down an armored tank, and has a V8
with supercharger under the hood. He takes orders only from Enzo. The episode
"In the Belly of the Beast" centers on Frisket.
== Phong ==
[ image='characters/phong.gif' descr='[JPG: Phong]' ]
Voice: Michael Donovan
Phong is the "ancient one" for the show; he knows everything.
His body looks like something that came out of the Stanford AI Lab
in the 1970's; primitive locomotion (single roller), rudimentary hands
(three-pronged grabber). His gold head is bald on top and he wears
a port-red tunic with Chinese dragons embroidered on it. Instead of the
usual diamond icon, Phong has a Chinese Yin/Yang symbol. To obtain his
wisdom, the seeker has to play him at is favorite game, Pong.
== Mike the TV ==
[ image='characters/mike.gif' descr='[JPG: Mike]' ]
Voice: Michael Donovan
Instead of a tv announcer, Mainframe has an announcer TV. Mike has
all the bad qualities of an obnoxious announcer and won't shut up. (In fact,
he is so unbearable that his remote ran away and now no one can shut him off.
In one episode (Wizards...), Mike gets to prove that he is an asset
to the community.
== Cecil the Maitre'd ==
[ image='characters/cecil.gif' descr='[JPG: Cecil]' ]
Voice: Michael Donovan
Cecil typifies the snotty French waiter, and appears to have decended
from the original Macintosh computer.
== Binomes: Ones and Zeros ==
[ image='characters/binomes.gif' descr='[JPG: Many Ones and Zeros]' ]
Voice: various
Most of the inhabitants of Mainframe are Ones and Zeros.
* One - tall and narrow, made of three cubes stacked up. The bottom cube
has the legs, the middle one has the arms and a mouth, the
top cube has a single eye. (The eye is reminiscent of HAL from 2001.)
(Megabyte has one servant with legs and mouth on bottom, eye in
the middle, and arms with bulging biceps on top.)
* Zero - short and round, spherical.
The arms and legs are connected to end caps which rotate independently
of the middle section. The eyes and mouth are texture mapped.
* Five - a character (usually blue-violet) in that shape of the
number "5". The eyes along the vertical edge and the mouth is
at the sharp corner.
* Seven - Black with noticeable texture. The eye and mouth are at the
sharp corner.
* Eight - Orange, wears small derby hat.
* Nine - we might never see this character. See "Quick and the Fed"
for details.
== Specific Binomes ==
[ image='images/Capacitor.gif' descr='[JPG: Captain Capacitor]' ]
* Captain Capacitor - a peg-leg One who is the main character in
"The Crimson Binome". Voice: Long John Baldry
* Dino DeHorrendous, the Director, is a Zero with a mustache. He wears a
red felt hat, monocle, and carries a megaphone.
* The Cameraman - a shy One with a blue hat. Tends to hide behind other
people, usually seen behind the Director on the camera crane.
* Al - the owner and cook at Al's Wait and Eat on Level 31. Al is heard
but never seen. In "The Great Brain Robbery",
Al is completely covered with rope.
* Al's Waiter - a surly-looking brown and green One that takes orders
and shouts them to Al in the kitchen.
== Other Data Sprites ==
Data Sprites are highly evolved energy forms like Bob, Dot, and Enzo. The
keep the Mainframe functioning by operating services such as buses, shops
and restaurants.
In "Medusa Bug", there are at least two other
Data Sprites the same size and shape as Dot, but with different hair styles.
= Rasta Mon =
Voice: silent
Rasta Mon was seen at Al's place in "Quick and the Fed".
He has no lines, so we don't know if he is for or against Bob and the gang.
Rasta Mon has small purple shades, long dreadlocks (that have what appear to
be knives or "control points" tied to the ends). He has a scarlet face that
looks like a typical computer programmer.
= Stripe =
Voice: silent
Stripe is another character seen in Al's Diner. She has orange, white
and black strips on her shirt and hair. She also has no lines, but is listed
by name in the collectable cards, along with Rasta Mon.
== Hi-Res images in JPEG format ==
You can click on the outlined images above, or on the names below.
720 x 576 69K Bob, Dot, Enzo, Frisket
610 x 720 50K Bob's face
576 x 720 29K Dot's face
720 x 540 33K Enzo and Frisket running from HD
999 x 750 69K Frisket in warehouse
720 x 540 32K Phong in his game room
720 x 540 51K Mike the TV
720 x 576 48K Cecil in door of diner
511 x 727 65K Group of binomes
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ReBoot: Villains
The Bad Guys
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=== The Bad Guys ===
The bad guys don't help out when the User tasks Mainframe with a game.
Each small image here is a sample of a much larger image. Clicking on them
will show much larger JPEG images. Most of them are about 720 x 560 pixels.
== Megabyte ==
[ image='characters/mega.gif' descr='[JPG: Megabyte sitting]' ]
Voice: Tony Jay
Big meanie (computer virus) with blue metal skin, a green mouth, and
a red Neptune-like crest on his head. He speaks with a mid-Atlantic accent and
has several minions at his beck and call. He is often seen as a legless
torso sitting at the floating control panel, but he can strap on a pair of
legs and go bounding with great speed.
He has two green crescents on his chest, a triangle on his sternum, and four
short vertical stripes below the ribcage. His servants are branded with a
black square that has the same image; it looks like an un-smiley face.
(The actor who provides Megabyte's voice, Tony Jay, has been seen as Lex
Luthor's assistant Nigel St. John on "Lois and Clark".)
== Viral Binomes ==
Megabyte's servants have red and green eyes instead of black and white ones,
are usually dark blue in color, and have the black and green unsmiley face
logo.
== Nibbles ==
Nibbles is a Null, a green worm with white markings. It is seen in
"The Quick and the Fed" crawling up on Megabyte's shoulder.
It turns dark blue when MB got careless and squeezed poor Nibbles. (Nulls
in the wild are known to suck up all the energy around them.)
== Hack and Slash ==
[ image='characters/hack.gif' descr='[JPG: Hack and Slash]' ]
Voice: Gary Chalk and Phil Hayes
Voice: Gary Chalk and Scott MacNeil
A matched pair of bumbling one-wheeled robots, "rolling teapots".
Hack is red, Slash is blue. (Even Megabyte has problems remembering which
one is which, as mentioned in "Quick and the Fed".) They sound like
Gilbert Gottfried and are better at being "yes" men than henchmen. (They have
so much weaponry that there wasn't much room left for brains.)
== Hexadecimal ==
[ image='characters/hex.gif' descr='[JPG: Hexadecimal]' ]
Voice: Shirley Millner
Woman who wears tight scarlet clothes and has a white mask for a face.
She has a helmet with 5 spikes, making her look a bit like Medusa.
She lives on the island of Lost Angles, which is connected to Mainframe by
a spooky looking Gilded Gate Bridge.
== Scuzzy ==
[ image='characters/scuzzy.gif' descr='[JPG: Scuzzy]' ]
Voice: silent
The football shaped critter, Scuzzy, acts like Hexadecimal's familiar,
the same way that a black cat is a familiar for a witch. Scuzzy does not
speak, but communicates by playing back scenes that it has recorded.
(The green dome on top of its head is where the pictures are shown.)
In "The Medusa Bug", we see what happens to
poor Scuzzy when Hexadecimal gets upset - Scuzzy splits into pieces when
it falls through a hole in the floor.
== Mouse ==
[ image='characters/mouse.gif' descr='[JPG: Mouse]' ]
Voice: Louise Vallance
Mouse is a human shaped woman with lilac-colored skin, flaming red
hair, a white shirt and black pants. She has intricate tattoos around her
eyes and forehead and speaks with a pseudo-Texas drawl. She has a
reputation of being able to sneak into and out of places without being
noticed. On her finger she wears a ring with her Mouse signature. This
ring appears to be as powerful as Bob's Guardian Tool.
She was mentioned in passing in "The Crimson Binome" and is the
main character in "The Great Brain Robbery".
Bob has tangled with her before; when she tried to hack into the Supercomputer
while Bob was on duty.
== Hi-Res images in JPEG format ==
You can click on the outlined images above, or on the names below.
720 x 720 86K Cast: large MB in back, heroes in middle, logo in front
720 x 576 54K Megabyte with Nibbles
720 x 540 55K Hack and Slash
700 x 525 32K Hexadecimal on her throne
720 x 540 38K Scuzzy in HD's Lair
720 x 576 31K Mouse, the female hacker
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Overview of Mainframe
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Or click on the corners of the image to see a larger image (640 x 480, 63K).
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A Sea Wall Street G Prime D Sea
Beverly Hills
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Baudway Dot's Diner
Floating Point Park Lost Angles Kits Sector (the Net)
== The main sectors ==
((0)) Center
12-2 G Prime
2-4 Baudway
4-6 Kits Sector
((6)) Lost Angles
6-8 Floating Point Park
8-10 Beverly Hills
10-12 Wall Street
== Specific Locations ==
* Dot's Diner
* Bob's Apartment
* Principle Office (Phong's residence)
* Archives
* Hex's Lair (in Lost Angles)
* Megabyte's Silicon Tor (in Sector G Prime)
* Old Man Pearson's Data Dump
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In addition to Irwin Toy, there is "Canada Games Company Limited", who are
making 100-piece jigsaw puzzles. Walmart (Canada) has 3 different sets:
1) Enzo, 2) Frisket, 3) Everybody.
[ image='irwin/Irwin90.gif' descr='Irwin' ]
This is the 8,958th access of this page.
From a member of the production crew (April 7, 1995):
The action figures and playsets will be coming out soon. There is stuff
like a Hex head, where the face opens up and there's a little set with a
jail or something inside (like Mighty Max). Besides the figures, there's
the typical birthday decorations, Halloween costumes, underpants, etc.
The figures will be made by Irwin. They're Canadian only so far and are
going to try to break into the US with this toy line.
== ReBoot toys via mail order ==
The Puzzle Zoo ("The world's most unique toy store!") in Santa Monica does
sell the ReBoot toys via mail order. You can contact them at:
Puzzle Zoo
1413 Third Street Promenade
Santa Monica, California 90401
Phone: (310)393-9201
Fax: (310)393-9891
== May 31, 1995 Irwin USA ==
[ image='irwin/IrwinLtd.gif' descr='Irwin Toy Limited' ]
From: Chuck Sakolsky - Irwin Toys
Scott Irwin asked that I fax you the names of the retailers who will he
carrying the ReBoot figures. We will be shipping the 3" figures within a
couple weeks, Followed by the 5-1/2 articulated figures with accessories in
late July, and the micro playsets with mini-figures in August.
The figures and playsets will be carried at the following national and
regional retailers:
* Toys-R-Us * Ames * Hills * Bradlees * Caldor *
* Target * Kay Bee Toys * K-mart * Wal-Mart *
* Clover * Family Toy Centers * FAO Schwarz *
These are the major accounts. There will be literally hundreds of others,
mainly comic book retailers, action figure dealers, and lots of independent
toy retailers.
Irwin USA
Chuck Sakolsky - Toy Sales to Retailers
555 South Federal Highway, Suite 330
Boca Raton, FL 33432
Phone: (407)347-1043 or (800)399-1043
Fax: (407)347-0846
E-mail: FPY...@prodigy.com (MR CHARLES SAKOLSKY)
Irwin Toy Limited
43 Hanna Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M6K 1X6, Canada
Phone: (416)533-3521 or (800)268-1733
Fax: (416)533-3257
E-mail: ir...@irwin-toy.com or ir...@inforamp.net
Scott Irwin - New Toy Product Development - Advertising
Peter Irwin - International Toy Sales and Licensing
Paul Waxman - Product Manager
Debbie Brown - Publicity
== June 2, 1995 Irwin Toronto ==
From: Paul Waxman
From deep inside the world of Mainframe comes REBOOT. Join Bob as he
teams up with his friends Dot and Enzo battling the evil forces of
Megabyte and his disciples of doom, Hack and Slash. And help this
triumphant threesome overcome the cunning and beautiful Hexadecimal,
another virus trying to destroy the peace of Mainframe. But beware,
because at any moment a game may be dropped into a sector, raising yet
another challenge for the heroes of Mainframe to defeat.
[ image='irwin/3inEnzoBob.gif' descr='Enzo/Zip Enzo Bob/Zip Bob' ]
= 30000 - Colorful 3-inch Figures (set of 12) =
The whole Reboot world in your hands. Bob standing, Bob on Zip Board.
Enzo standing, Enzo on Zip Board. Frisket, Dot, Phong and Hexadecimal.
Hack, Slash, Megabyte standing, Megabyte with weapon.
Available- June 1995
[ image='irwin/3inDotPhong.gif' descr='Frisket Dot Phong Hexy' ]
[ image='irwin/3inMega.gif' descr='Hack Slash Megabyte' ]
(See note about misprinted Bob cards.)
= 30001 - 5.5-inch Poseable Action Figures (set of 6) =
[ image='irwin/5inchToys.gif' descr='action figures' ]
Each figure comes with a collectible 'Slammer Disc'. Assortment includes -
Bob with Glitch; Enzo with Articulated Zip Board; Megabyte with Moving Jaw
and Horrible Extendible Claws; Hexadecimal with Four Changeable Faces; Dot
with her Maitre'd Cecil; Hack and Slash with Popping Head and Limbs.
Ages- 4+
Available- July 1995
[ image='irwin/Playsets.gif' descr='[Three play sets]' ]
= 30002 - Micro Playsets (set of 3) =
Ages- 4+
Available- August 1995
Megabyte's Throne Room
[ image='irwin/PlayMega.gif' descr='[Megabyte's Throne]' ]
Open Megabyte's Laboratory with the hologramed game cube key. Inside Megabyte
sits on top of his throne. Shoot a collectible 'Delete Disc' at Megabyte.
Hit him and release Dot, who is trapped in the dungeon underneath Megabyte's
Throne. Have Bob rescue Dot from the deadly nulls inside. The disc shooter
connects to the playset so it can fire at other playsets. Comes with 3
painted figurines and null pile.
Hexadecimal's Lair
[ image='irwin/PlayHex.gif' descr='[Hexidecimal's Lair]' ]
Open Hex's lair with the hologramed computer cube key. Inside, Hex sits on
her throne atop a firing disc shooter. Hex can fire at Bob or you can remove
the disc shooter and fire at Hex. Free Enzo who's trapped by Hex's razor
sharp teeth before dangerous nulls get at him. Includes play environment, 3
painted figurines, null pile, disc shooter with collectible 'Delete Disc'
and game cube key.
Hack and Slash Vehicle Bay
[ image='irwin/PlayHack.gif' descr='[Hack and Slash Vehicle Bay]' ]
Open the Vehicle Bay with the hologrammed computer game cube key. Inside
Hack's ABC Vehicle moves ahead and fires a collectible 'Delete Disc'.
Playset comes with moveable "SPIKED" wall, upper holding cell, moveable
weapons, control tower with gangway and other features. Contains play
environment, 4 painted figures, ABC Vehicle with disc shooter, game cube key.
= 30004 - Bob's V262 Turbo Drophead Car =
[ image='irwin/Bob-Car.gif' descr='red car' ]
Bob is incessantly working on this "beauty" so it will be ready to ditch
Megabyte and his cohorts. The trunk opens up and contains a Zip Board
Launcher. One Zip Board is included. A shooter is attached to the front
hood of the car firing a collectible 'Delete Disc'. The vehicles spring
suspension creates a unique and realistic "hovering" action.
= Misprint =
Note to collectors: The first batch of 3-inch Bob figures had a misprint on
the packaging. In the process of converting Bob's image from SoftImage format
to Adobe Photoshop to hardcopy, the colors got messed up. Bob's face is a
nice light blue on the TV show and on the action figure, but the first printing
of the card that holds the toy came out with a noticably purple shade. This
mistake was corrected on later print runs - not many exist.
== August 7, 1995 ==
From: FPY...@prodigy.com (Charles Sakolsky)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.reboot
Subject: Re: Reboot toys/figures
Date: 7 Aug 1995 00:12:30 GMT
The 5-1/2" figures are just getting into distribution now, starting
mainly on the west coast. Within a week or so, you'll be able to find
them in Toys R Us, Kay Bee, Puzzle Zoo, Toy Town, some K-marts, and
several other retailers in California.
By late August or early September we will ship to the other parts of the
country. They will be available in all the above chains plus Ames,
Bradlees, Caldor, FAO Schwarz, Family Toy Centers, Hills, Target, Venture,
Wal-Mart, Army Air Force Post Exchanges, as well as other toy and comic
book retailers.
The Micro Play Sets will be available in September, and Bob's V262 Turbo
Drophead Car will be in very limited distribution in October, and may be
hard to find.
The 3" figures are in all the above retailers in most of their locations.
If you don't see them, ask the toy manager; he may have them in the back
room. Sales have been very strong and some stores can't restock quickly
enough.
If your local dealer doesn't currently have ReBoot on order, ask him or
her to contact our National Sales Office at 1-800/399-1043 for ordering
information. Sorry, we do not sell directly to consumers.
Thanks for asking.
Chuck Sakolsky
Irwin Toys
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== ir...@inforamp.net ==
Selected press releases from Irwin Toy in Canada.
= July 7, 1995 =
From ir...@inforamp.net
The Irwin Toy Home Page is now on-line.
(Check out the story of the Slinky.)
= January 19, 1995 =
Alliance Communications Corporation, on behalf of Mainframe Joint Venture,
and Irwin Toy Limited have reached an agreement whereby Mainframe has granted
Irwin the license to manufacture and distribute certain toys based on ReBoot,
the animated television program, in both Canada and in the United States.
= April 28, 1995 =
Irwin Toy and ReBoot merge to create Terminally Cool action figures.
Irwin Toy has taken the characters from this hugely successful television
program and created a line of action figures, vehicles and mini-playsets.
The ReBoot line includes 3" figures which will be available in June
(assortment of 12). The 5-1/2" action figures (available for Fall
delivery) are fully poseable and each figure is accessorised. Also
available for Fall delivery is Bob's V262 Drophead Car featuring spring
suspension, realistic engine sound and a Zip Board launcher. Three assorted
mini-playsets complete the line - Megabyte's Throne Room, Hexadecimal's
Lair and Hack and Slash Vehicle Bay.
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Table of Contents:
* The Promo Card
* Special Advertisement Section in WIZARDS #44
* Complete checklist (text only)
See also:
* Steve Staton's Fleer Ultra Reboot Card Checklist (with pictures).
* He runs the ReBoot Trading Card Mailing List.
* Instructions on how to join are on his checklist page.
The cards themselves come in a purple foil package with black and gold ink.
The front has:
Premiere Edition
Fleer Ultra
ReBoot
Computer Generated Images
8 cards
The back says:
ReBoot (tm) & (C) 1995 Mainframe Joint Venture
[ image='images/Logo-bw89.gif' descr='(ReBoot)' ]
Produced and distributed exclusively by
Fleer Entertainment, Mt. Laurel, NJ 08054.
Made & printed in the USA.
Distributed in Canada by Fleer Ltd./Ltee.
Collect the following limited-edition insert cards:
10 Chromium cards, approximately 1:6 packs.
10 Suspended Animation cards, approximately 1:6 packs.
5 Holoblast cards, approximately 1:9 packs.
No guaranteed number of limited-edition cards per box.
With these odds, 5 of every 9 packs have 8 plain cards,
and 4 out of 9 packs will have 7 plain and 1 special card.
The cards are available at comic book stores and shops carrying
baseball cards. Also carried in some Target and K-Mart stores.
== Promo Card ==
The promotional card that was included in WIZARDS Guide To Comics #44 (Apr-95)
has "Dot Patrol" on the front. The back has:
= The Mega-Hit of Saturday Morning TV in a Mega-Hot Card Set! =
[ image='images/Fleer1.gif' descr='ReBoot logo' ]
150-Card Series, Plus 25 Chase Cards.
* Computer Generated Images
* Terminally Cool Holograms
* High-Tech Suspended Animation
* Totally Tubular Chromium Cards
ReBoot (tm) & (C) 1994
Mainframe Joint Venture
== Special Advertisement Section ==
= Pages 107-110 of WIZARDS Guide To Comics #44 (Apr-95) =
(page 107)
== ReBoot Premiere Edition ==
[ image='images/Fleer1.gif' descr='ReBoot logo' ]
== Fleer Ultra "ReBoot" ==
= Computer Generated Imagery
High-Tech Special Effects
Terminally Cool Characters =
(pictures of #4: "Megabyte", #120: "Glitch Cutter", and #84: "Dot Patrol".)
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= Computer Generated Imagery, =
high-tech stories, and state-of-the-art chase cards
compile to make Fleer Ultra Reboot
March 1995's hottest set!
= The Megahit of Saturday Morning! =
The ReBoot animated series is taking Saturday morning by storm.
Airing at 8:30 AM EDT/PDT on ABC, its tearing up the competition.
Taking today's technology to the limits, ReBoot is displayed
exclusively in CGI -- Computer Generated Imagery. A visually
captivating combination of computer graphics, software lingo
and ping-zing action, ReBoot is a hit with kids and teens.
This high-energy ground breaker is just the right format to
make ReBoot a number one hit with trading card collectors.
(pictures of #19: "Bob Wants You", #52: "Enzo Reboots")
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= Fleer: An Icon in Cards! =
Continuing a long line of successful card sets such as Fleer
Ultra X-Men '94, Marvel Cards Spider-Man, '94 Flair Marvel
Universe, and '94 Marvel Masterpieces, Fleer logs on in
March 1995 with Fleer Ultra ReBoot.
= THIS 150 CARD SET FEATURES: =
* Exclusive computer-generated images.
* Gold foil Stamping
* UV coating
= MEGAHOT CHASE CARDS! =
Three state-of-the-art limited-edition chase card sets featuring:
HOLOBLAST Terminally cool cards featuring
computer-generated images joined with three-dimensional holograms.
CHROMIUM Totally tubular chromium cards
featuring the heroes and villains of Mainframe!
SUSPENDED ANIMATION High-tech images of
Mainframe's key characters.
(pictures of #119: "Megabyte's Grasp" and #1: "Dot Matrix".)
(The pictures on this page and the next are mislabelled; "Compu Boss"
is the one with Dot wearing glasses.)
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(pictures of #5: "Hexadecimal" and #42: "Compu Boss".)
== Fleer Ultra Reboot - Checklist ==
= Note: =
The checklist published in the magazine is wrong. The list of images changed
between the time the ad was created and when the cards came out. Most of
the names printed there did not make the final cut.
The only things right in the magazine's checklist are the "KEY PLAYERS"
(cards 1 through 9 and a half) and the description of the special cards
(HOLOBLAST, CHROMIUM, and SUSPENDED ANIMATION).
See Joe's checklist or
Steve's checklist
for a full list.
Wayne Farmer (wa...@rbdc.rbdc.com) informs me there is an 8.5" x 11" promo
sheet for the Reboot cards with pictures of 9 cards:
* #1. Dot Matrix (with sign to Dot's Diner in background)
* #5. Hexadecimal (in front of an arch, looking fierce)
* #6. Frisket (the dog)
* #42. Compu-Boss (Dot wearing glasses, at the bar in the Diner)
* #84. Dot Patrol (Dot carrying two big guns)
* #52. Enzo Reboots (pressing icon on his cap, red bar in background)
* #119. Megabyte's Grasp (MB holding Enzo, demanding his magnet back)
* #120. Glitch Cutter (Glitch turning into a cutter)
* #???. Dragon Chase (Bob in golden armor with bronze sword and bronze
shield; he's standing, facing front, watching the head of a
large-horned dragon.)
"Dragon Chase" does not appear part of the set any more. This closest I've
seen is #78. "Battle to the Bone", #81. "Armor Clad Bob", and
#C7. "Sir Bob". The labels to "Dot Matrix" and "Compu Boss" were switched;
they printed wrong in the promo.
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== Fleer Ultra Reboot - Checklist ==
= Key Players =
* Dot Matrix (with sign to Dot's Diner in background)
* Bob (on a zip-board in the Data Dump)+
* Enzo (just him)+
* Megabyte (low angle shot lookup up at the big meany)-
* Hexadecimal (in front of an arch, looking fierce)+
* Frisket (the dog)+
* Phong (holding a supercharged Viral Erase Command)+
* Cecil (at a jaunty angle)
* Hack (the red one)
* Slash (the blue one)
= Data File =
(Has name, format, function, and sound byte.)
* Dot (on a leopard-skin picnic blanket)+
* Bob (looking slightly surprised)+
* Enzo (with a smirk)+
* Megabyte (showing sharp fingernails, left arm turned to stone)+
* Hexy (smiling, with claws extended)
* Hack & Slash (blue floor, yellow border)+
* Phong (in the middle of playing a game of Pong)
* Frisket (growling)+
= The Guardian =
(Focus on Bob)
* Bob Wants You (finger pointing, car in background)
* A Job For Glitch (Bob pressing on Glitch)+
* Watchful Eyes (close up of side of his face)
* Hard Driver (Bob in his car, wearing seatbelt)
* Software Scare (Bob looking shocked; mouth wide open)+
* Surge Protector (Grim looking, leaning forward aggressively)
* Mission Man (Bob carrying viral eraser, Principle Office in background)+
* Disarmed Guardian (sneaking up on software pirates, without Glitch)
* On The Hunt (wearing goggles from Starship Alcatraz)
= Megatrouble =
(Focus on Megabyte.)
* Megabyte's Face (showing three rows of sharp teeth)-
* Pumped Up (squeezing Nibbles until it turns blue)+
* Wicked Window (specifications for the UNFORMAT command)+
* The Prize (displaying the Medusa Bug, red background)+
* Mega Threat (crawling up the side of a building)+
* Evil Looks On (looking into holding tank)+
* Powering Up (connected to pink harness)
* Mega Tear (demanding that Bob stabilize the tear)+
* Evil Clutches (showing his claws)+
= Love That Dot =
(Focus on Dot.)
* Cover Girl (close up of face)
* File Manager (wearing glasses, secretary in Vid Window behind her)+
* Dot -- The Eyes (pulling down her shades, out in park)
* Dot's Crew (blond One in a bikini, redhead Zero with green shades)
* Not Again! (Dot looking surprised)
* Compu-Boss (Dot wearing glasses and black+white outfit, at bar of Diner)-
* Picnic Pause (on the leopard skin picnic blanket, up on one elbow)-
* Body Copy (at the gym, white leotard and black leggings)+
This scene is not in any of the first 15 episodes.
* Bombshell (in an out-of-character costume: a red miniskirt!)+
This scene is not in any of the first 15 episodes.
= Mischief Maker =
(Focus on Enzo.)
* Delivery Boy (in Diner, "Enzo's Overwrite Delivery Service")
* Puppy Love (Frisket's head is almost bigger than Enzo)
* Turbo Yo Yo (distracting to Hack and Slash)+
* Thrill Ride (driving an Armored Binome Carrier)+
* Hyper Activity (Enzo sitting on Bob at the Diner)
* En Guarde! (holding a stun saber)
* Enzo Reboots (pressing icon on his cap, red bar in background)
* I'm Not Basic! (he protests)
* Bad Boy (with an evil grin)
= Queen Of Chaos =
(Focus on Hexadecimal.)
* Hexy's Face (close up, very wide open mouth)+
* Mistress Of Mayhem (reaching out to grab you)+
* Lost Angles Lady (standing on Gilded Gate Bridge, shooting fireballs)
* Her Majesty (seated on throne, smiling, holding a happy mask)
* Crocodile Tears (tears of fake sympathy)
* Struttin' Her Stuff (scene from opening credits)+
* Terminal Tease (crouching down near the sea)
* Personality Shift (happy face but threatening claws, on GGB)-
* Fiendish Footprint (standing tall, looking menacing)+
= Bit Parts =
* Mike (looking pumped up)
* Scuzzy (the cat-like critter)
* Binomes (group of eleven)+
* Dino DeHorrendous (the movie director)++
* Captain Capacitor (the Crimson Binome)+
* Mr. Christopher (accountant holding up a clipboard)+
* Princess Bula (at the bottom of the stairs)+
* Software Pirate (a One holding the ship's steering wheel)
* Mouse (close up of face, showing filigree tatoos)+
* Lt. Chauncey (viral One with commander's cap, on an ABC)+
* Stripe (orange and black hair, orange/white/black stripes on shirt)++
* Rasta Mon (scarlet face, control points in his dreadlocks)+
= ReBoot Games =
* Danger Ahead (Dot and Bob after the race, "This is not good")+
* Formula 1 (Enzo driving racecar)+
* Battle to the Bone (Bob in gold fighting skeleton)
* Armor Pile (Dot in gray armor, knocked to the floor)+
* Lady Enzo (Enzo's costume has his legs off the floor)
* Armor Clad Bob (in golden armor standing on top of table)+
* Bone Warrior (skull in old battered helmet)+
* Heavy Metal (Bob falling into pit full of steely spikes)+
* Dot Patrol (carrying two big PCU guns)+
* Command Leader (at control panel of Starship Alcatraz)+
* Corrupt File (the User as escaped prisoner in Starship Alcatraz)-
* Hunting The User (Bob at foot of stairs holding a big PCU gun)++
* System Bug (big round prisoner knocking Bob off elevator)
* Quick Draw (Dot holding chip in Alcatraz)-
* Retro Dot (in Star Fighter just outside Ice Cave)+
* Nice Catch! (Megabyte holding Dot after her Star Fighter is hit)+
* Dot's Magic (holding wizard's crystal ball)+
* Sneak Peek (Bob as thief looking around a corner)
* TV Warrior (Mike as a barbarian with big sword)
* Elfin Magic (Enzo with bow and arrow)-
* Skullipede (white worm with yellow teeth and skull head)++
* System Spiker (hefty User with spiked mace)++
* Fu Man Chooser (User as Chinese magic man)+
* Macro Monster (User's green goblin thief)+
* Knightmare (black knight with sword upraised)+
* Super Freak (User's red athlete)+
* Triple Team (User's yellow, orange, and blue athletes)+
* Mega Flop (General Dot after having her fort blown up)
* Biker Babe (in black leather, near white/violet motorcycle)
This scene is not from any of the first 10 episodes
= Program Blips =
* Power Band (Glitch extends an orange bar)-
* Hex Marks The Spot (Enzo and Frisket running from Hex)+
* Prize Possession (Megabyte holding Medusa Bug, blue background)-
* Elbow Room (Bob measures size of tear, Megabyte stands by)+
* The Chase Is On (Frisket and Enzo running away from Hexy's lair)+
* Nose Job (Bob tweaks the supercharged V8 inside Frisket's nose)+
* Sitting Pretty Evil (Hex on throne, legs crossed)-
* Back Seat Driver (Dot driving Bob's car, Bob looking upset)
* Sisterly Advice (Dot talking to Enzo)
* Reigning Champ (Bob looking down)++
* Port of Call (Dot with megaphone)+
* Heavenly Hologram (Dot's apology to Bob)
* Motherly Advise (Dot talking to evacuating binomes)
* Cyber Romance (Bob and Dot at the park after fake apologies)+
* Megabyte's Grasp (MB holding Enzo, demanding his magnet back)+
* Glitch Cutter (Glitch turning into a cutter)+
* Dancing Queen (Princess Bula pops up out of deck of ship)+
* Stun Sabre (Bob holding the file-lockout weapon)+
* Dog Chow (Frisket eating the UNFORMAT command)+
* Hex's Clutches (Hex flying circles around Bob in a noose)
* Dead End (Bob caught by Megabyte's harness gun)++
* Hi Ho Frisket (Enzo riding on Frisket to get away from MB)
* Friendly Foes (Hexadecimal gloating as Megabyte's arm turns to stone)
* Cliff Hanger (Megabyte hanging on the outside of his Tor)-
* Admiral Matrix (Dot with pirate's hat)
* Holo-Dot (fake hologram of Dot making an apology)
* System Bomb (Dot after small tear blows up in her face in "The TIFF")+
(The text on back of the card talks about Enzo being upset with
everyone going 8-bit, but this picture is not from "Enzo the Smart".)
* Software Package (Hexadecimal cozying up to Bob)
* Enzo Captured (Slash and Hack grab him on his way home from school)
* Fetch Format (Enzo is tied up and Frisket has just saved him)
* Stone Cold Mean (Megabyte turned to stone, but his eyes still glow red)
* Power Struggle (Megabyte tries to push Bob off a tower)
* Terrible Twosome (Hack and Slash blocking the way)
* Serious Interfacing (MB taunting Bob and Enzo via a two-sided Vid Window)+
* Best Face Forward (Hexadecimal rejects the mask with timer)
* Bogey Man (Megabyte running down a tunnel)
* Decimal's Point (Hexadecimal holding a fireball and pointing)
* Playing Catch (Frisket catches cannonball that the pirates fired)+
* Head to Head (Megabyte confronts Enzo, up close and personal)+
* Mega Mission (Slash and Hack executing orders from Megabyte)+
* Binome Squad (viral binomes covered by a B.S.'n P Approved liferaft)+
* Late Night With Mike (Mike interviewing Coach Enzo)+
* Face to Face (Megabyte holding Bob up to his eye level)-
* The Getaway (Bob running from Hack and Slash)+
= Checklists =
* Checklist 1 (cards 1-75, same image as heroes)
(The description of cards 76-83 should be here, but they're not.)
* Checklist 2 (cards 84-150, C1-C10, SA1-SA10, HB1-HB5, same image as
poster)
= Chromium =
(Cards stamped with metallic foil.)
* Circuit Racer (Dot in a Formula-1 car)-
* Interstellar Virus (Megabyte's head)-
* Cosmic Captain (looking pensive, white uniform)
* Damsel in Distress (Enzo looking peeved)
* Space Cop (Dot on patrol with big guns)
* Floppy Driver (Enzo in a Formula-1 car)-
* Track Baller (Bob in a Formula-1 car)-
* Rocket Attack (Dot in white, looking determined)
* Sir Bob (knight in gold armor)
* Armed Guardian (Bob carrying a PCU gun)
= Suspended Animation =
(Transparent cards, image visible from both sides.)
* Dot (in a crouch)
* Bob (falling)-
* Enzo (on a zip-board)-
* Megabyte (on the edge of a platform)-
* Hack (near edge of platform)-
* Hexadecimal (cape open, holding orange ball lightning)
* Frisket (jumping)
* Phong (head tilted, saying something)
* Slash ()-
* Cecil and Mike (Cecil grabbing Mike's rabbit ears)
= HoloBlast =
(The first name on each card is shown as a silver hologram, the second name is
shown as a color image in a Vid Window.)
* Enzo and Megabyte (Enzo on a hallway)
* Megabyte and Hexadecimal (MB sitting in his control chair)
* Hexadecimal and Bob ()-
* Bob and Dot (Bob in his apartment)
* Dot and Enzo (Dot at the Diner)
= Promo Card =
* "Dot Patrol" on front, "Premiere Edition" on back
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== Questions with Answers ==
* Q: Can I have my ReBoot story made into an episode?
A: Not unless you 1) have an agent and 2) have proven yourself
by writing to spec a screenplay on a subject other than ReBoot.
Due to legal ramifications, producers will not accept
unsolicited manuscripts. That's the way showbiz is.
* Q: How many episodes are there?
A: The first season was 10 + 3 episodes. In the US, the last 3 were
shown as part of the second season, which had another 10 episodes
for a total of 23. Details are in the episode guide.
* Q: Why does is the end credits say "copyright 1991"?
A: The concept for ReBoot was copyrighted in 1991. The first episode
was completed in 1994 (after 18 months of work).
* Q: What is the translation of the binome joke in "Talent Night"?
A: Assuming A=1, B=10, C=11...Z=11010, Johnny O'Binome says:
10100 1 1011 101 1101 11001 10111 1001 110 101
T A K E M Y W I F E
10000 1100 101 1 10011 101. 0.
P L E A S E Oh!
Answers were posted on 22-Aug-95 from
David Francis ,
Greg Nesmith and
Bill Davidson .
* Q: In "Talent Night", when Megabyte is playing the guitar, Bob commands
Glitch for a B.F.G. What does it stand for?
A: It's a reference to the DOOM PC game. There, BFG stands for Big
Ferocious Gun. Here BFG stands for Big Fancy Guitar.
* Q: In "Infected", Hexidecimal asks "You wouldn't be trying to delete me,
now would you?" and Megabyte replies, "Now is that any way to treat family?"
What does this mean?
A: Alliance's offical ReBoot page has biographies of the characters.
You want to check out http://alliance.idirect.com/reboot/bios/hex-b.html
where Hex reveals her biggest secret: "I am Megabyte's sister". And
http://alliance.idirect.com/reboot/bios/megabyte-b.html has MB's
biggest secret: "One day I will self-replicate and Gigabyte will attempt
to replace me." It will be interesting to see what HD has to say about
her brother's plans for upgrade. (This was all explained in "Nullzilla".)
* Q: Does Bob have a last name?
A: Nope. The name Bob came from a file format used on the old Bosch FGS
animation system that was popular in the 80's: the files were referred
to as .bob files.
* Q: How would you describe the color of Bob's hair?
A: That's what pure silicon looks like before it is grown into a crystal
to make computer chips. It is both shiny and dark gray at the same
time. It fractures like a large chunk of glass or obsidian.
* Q: What is the meaning of Dot's name?
A: The term "dot matrix" describes a type of computer printer.
* Q: What does "Enzo" mean?
The current speculation is that it came from the condition code bits
on a 8080 microcomputer - Even_Parity, Negative, Zero, Overflow.
Answer from people who work for the show:
Not bad, not bad...but not true, either. Fact is, the name Enzo has
no hidden meaning - the character was a late addition to the show,
and when it came time to choose a name, somebody suggested Enzo and
it stuck. I think I like your explanation better...
Yet another bogus retronym comes from Byte magazine, April 1990:
U.S. Sage (Longwood, FL) has developed a chip that incorporates
most Ethernet hardware functions. The company hopes that PC
makers will user the Ethernet Needing Zero Overhead (ENZO)
chips on their motherboards.
And in Italy, Enzo is a nicname for Vincenzo.
* Q: What is Megabyte's pet worm?
A: MB's worm is Nibbles, a Null. There's actually a story behind Nibbles,
which may be told in a future episode.
* Q: What is the foot-ball sized critter that hangs around Hexadecimal?
A: That's Scuzzy (i.e. SCSI).
* Q: Are they creating ReBoot on an Amiga or other consumer machine?
A: They use Silicon Graphics workstations:
* Hardware: assorted workstations: Indys, Indigo2s, Onyxes.
* CPU: 150MHz MIPS R4400
* RAM: 64-128 MB (varies from machine to machine)
* Software: SoftImage3D V2.66, plus some custom in-house stuff.
* Q: Who did the visual design for ReBoot?
A: Much of the visual design of the show was done by Brendan
McCarthy. Brendan is a well-known comic book artist who has a
very...uh, fertile...imagination.
* Q: What units of time are used in Mainframe?
A: They say nanosecond where we would say minute; their microsecond is our
hour, their second is our day, and a minute a month.
* Q: Is the wise man named Pong or Phong?
A: Phong, and his favorite game is Pong. Both became big names in
computer graphics in the early 1970's. Pong, created by Atari, was
the first successful coin-operated video game. Phong Bui-Tuong
described a better method for shading polygons in the CACM in June
1975. His method produces more realistic images than Gourand
shading.
* Q: How long does it take to create an episode?
A: It takes six weeks to produce a pair of episodes. They have two
or more stories being produced in parallel, so that they don't
have all 30 animators reporting to a single director.
* Q: A friend in Canada mentioned a scene in one episode that was not shown
here in the US. Why?
A: The ABC Broadcast Standards & Practices (BS&P) department regularly
ask the production company to change scenes or sound effects because
they're perceived as being too violent.
* Q: What does Bob say to Glitch to go through the stained-glass window
to the castle in "Quick and the Fed"?
A: "B.S.'n P.", the name of the television censors in Hollywood.
(See answer to previous question.)
* Q: What is the writing the liferaft that comes out of the big gun in
"The Belly of the Beast"?
A: "B.S.'n P. Approved". Enzo's big gun had to be made non-violent.
* Q: What is the name of the guy at the counter at Al's Wait and Eat?
A: He is "Al's Waiter".
* Q: Will we ever get to see Al himself?
A: Nope. Al is heard but not seen. (We know he has the general shape
of a One when Sgt. Smiley had him completely covered with rope in
"The Great Brain Robbery".
* Q: How many episodes has Hexadecimal been in?
A: Only two so far: "Racing The Clock" and Medusa Bug".
Hexy will be in at least one of the first 4 episodes of the 2nd season.
* Q: Has ReBoot won any awards?
A: It won the "Gemini Award" (the Canadian equivalent of the Emmy Award)
for best animated show.
* Q: Have the people who work on ReBoot won any awards?
A: Yes, they are listed in the Alliance Press Release.
* Q: When Enzo and the crowd are asking Phong's advice in "The TIFF",
who is the guy with the indigo face floating up and down near the
big orange Eight?
* A: That is Rasta Mon. There is a better shot of him in Al's Diner
in "The Quick and the Fed".
* Q: What is the name of the armored troop carriers MB uses?
A: They are Armored Binome Carriers (ABC, not to be confused
with the American Broadcasting Company.)
* Q: Why are Bob, Dot, and Enzo so different from the others?
A: Check the glossary in Details
section of the Alliance press kit, under the heading
COMPUTER SPRITES.
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* Q: Was that really Gillian Anderson doing the voice of Data Nully in
Trust No One?
A: Yes it was.
* Q: Why did David Duchovny not do the voice of Fax Modem in Trust No
One?
A: Speculation includes the idea that Duchovny does not like to continue his
Mulder character outside of The X-Files. It has also been surmised
that ReBoot would not meet his price.
* Q: What's this BS&P I keep seeing and hearing?
A: Broadcast Standards and Practices is the network self-consorship
department that decides what can and can't be seen and heard. ReBoot
episodes have often been changed based on demands made by the ABC
network BS&P department. Sometimes it's as small a change as removing
a sound effect. BS&P demanded that ReBoot not show imitatable acts of
violence (such as throwing a rock through a window), so the animators
at BLT started putting digs at them into them storyline. The first
time was in The Quick and the Fed, when Bob makes the stained
glass window disappear while riding on a dragon. In the Belly of
the Beast has a large gun that shoots out a liferaft that says
"BS&P Approved". In Talent Night, the Small Town Binomes sing
"BS&P" to the tune of "YMCA". Note that Miss Emma Fee in that epiode
is a "Prog Censor".
* Q: What does Bob mean when he asks Glitch for a B.F.G.?
A: In Talent Night, Bob needs a Big F---ing Guitar for his guitar duel
with Megabyte. The BFG idea comes from the Doom game, where a Big
Ferocious Gun (a BFG-9000, actually) is needed to beat a monster.
* Q: What's the deal with the penguin I keep seeing?
A: It's a tribute to animator Nick Park's award-winning Claymation short,
The Wrong Trousers. The penguin is seen in Identity Crisis and
Trust No One.
== Unanswered Questions ==
* Was a pilot episode created before production got started?
* Is the Algorithm Theatre and Electro Cinematek the same building?
* What's playing at the Algorithm?
* Are those really Bus Terminals in the background?
* What are the names of the low-lifes in Al's? (Zero with
a toque, the rim-shot drummer).
* What does ATFL stand for? (owners of the copyright)
* We've seen a momma binome with a baby binome. Do sprites have parents?
* Did Dot and Enzo start out as binomes, or were they full-fledged
data sprites when Mainframe first came online?
* What really happened to Dot's father and all the other sprites?
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ReBoot: Trivia
Trivial Observations
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=== Did You Notice ===
== Things found in almost every episode. ==
Quotes
* "Alphanumeric!" -- Enzo
* "This is bad -- very bad" -- Bob
* "I don't think so!" -- Bob
* "That was easy enough" -- Bob
* "Don't you just hate it when that happens?" -- Bob
Look for
* The "Calvin Spline" sign outside Dot's Diner, visible through window.
(Calvin Kline clothing.)
* "DeeCee's Power Bar" billboard.
(D.C. power bars supply +5 volts in the bigger computers.)
* "Merrimac Monitors" billboard.
(Famous battle between iron-clad boats; the Merrimac and the Monitor.)
* "Grab A Byte" billboard.
* Triple "Ener" G. (Energy.)
* "Ray's Custom Zip-Boards".
=== Quotes ===
== "The Tearing" ==
* "There once was an old README file that said, 'Keep you friends
close, and keep your enemies closer.'" -- Phong
* "Stay frosty" -- Bob
* "Hidden file commands, ya gotta love 'em." -- Bob
== "Racing the Clock" ==
* "Why do I always get lost in Lost Angles?" -- Bob (after being flipped
upside down and rotated 270 degrees.
* "Don't quit file so easily." -- Dot
* "I should have copy and pasted the truth." -- Enzo
* "Soothing 32-bit lotion, because you itch." -- Mike
== "Quick and the Fed" ==
* "Doesn't anyone here know how to reverse magnetic erasure?" -- Bob
* "Why is everybody avoiding him?" "Because Seven ate Nine!" -- Toque
== "Medusa Bug" ==
* "Bob's in a wait state outside" -- Enzo
* "I don't keep you two around for your brains, now, do I?" -- MB to H+S
* "Whoa! Could you repeat that in plain DOS?" -- Bob
* Phong opens his inner sanctum by saying "Greek action".
* "Now that is one strange lady" -- Bob, about Hexadecimal
== "The TIFF" ==
* "Sometimes you gotta stop and smell the daisy wheels." -- Bob
* "Holograms by Holomark.
When you care to project the very best." -- Mike (as a card)
== "In the Belly of the Beast" ==
== "The Crimson Binome" ==
* "He tasks me, and I shall have him." -- Dot
== "Enzo the Smart" ==
* "Everything's gone 8 bit!" -- Enzo
* Phong opens his inner sanctum by saying "Yada, yada, yada".
* "Maybe we should call a Diagnostic Program." -- Dot
== "Wizards, Warriors, and a Word from our Sponsor" ==
* "Slices, dices, cuts/copies/pastes; it even formats Julienne fries",
"$99.99.99" and "Bucket-o-Nothin' -- Mike
* "Ooo! - give me the jaggies" -- Dot
* "Stay frosty" -- Bob
* "BMMN - Bad Monster Movie Network" -- Mike
* "An eternity of useless products to rot your skeezy little mind, forever" -- Mike
* "Mike! Logoff!" -- Bob
== "The Great Brain Robbery" ==
* "I'm a little source code, short and stout; here is my input, here is
my out" -- Enzo
* "You know I don't do toast!" -- Mouse
== "Talent Night" ==
* "You're smoke, Bob!" -- Enzo
* "1010011011101110111001101111001110101100001100101110011101" -- a Binome
* "The jam is moldy in the kitchen and the rolling rabbit gathers no moss".
== "Identity Crisis, Part 1" ==
== "Identity Crisis, Part 2" ==
== "Infected" ==
== "High Code" ==
== "When Games Collide" ==
* "I'm not goin to push that button. Everytime I do something bad
happens" -- Hack and Slash
== "Bad Bob" ==
== "Painted Windows" ==
== "AndrAIa" ==
== "Nullzilla" ==
== "Gigabyte" ==
* "I am become Gigabyte, destroyer of systems!" -- MB + HD + web
== "Trust No One" ==
== "Web World War" ==
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ReBoot: Glossary
Glossary of Computer-related Terms
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== List of terms and puns * found in the show ==
Jump to: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
- 0 -
1000000000000 In binary notation, the same as 4096.
1024 Two raised to the 10th power, 1 K, kilo.
1,048,567 Two raised to the 20th power, 1 M, mega.
1138 Original film by student George Lucas (of Star Wars
fame) was "THX-1138".
1138 * In "The Tear", Alpha Wing proceeds on heading 1138.
1400 In 24-hour notation, the same as 2:00pm.
24-bit True color computer display, 8-bits each for Red, Green, Blue.
4096 Two raised to the 12th power, 1000000000000 in binary notation.
8-bit VGA display on IBM-PC, has less resolution than 24-bit displays.
8-bit * Low-resolution images of Bob and the others when Mainframe's
clock was slowed down.
$99.99.99 * The price Mike the TV was advertising.
- A -
Algorithm A method for calculating something.
Algorithm * The movie theater in Mainframe, down by the Bus Terminals.
Alphanumeric String of characters, letters and digits only.
Alphanumeric * Enzo's way of saying "Awesome!"
ATFL * ? (seen in the credits)
- B -
Backspace The key used to delete mistakes.
Backspace * "Backspace, backspace!" = "Retreat, run away!"
BASIC Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code,
a simple language that Bill Gates ported to the original IBM-PC.
Basic * Used as an insulting description of someone. Also "low density".
Baud One signal change per second, used to measure modem speeds.
Baudway * Seen on large buildings outside Dot's Diner, also refers
to the conduits carrying the 1's and 0's digits.
Binome * See "One" and "Zero" characters.
Binomial Mathematical expression with two terms separated by "+" or "-".
Bitmap Memory on a video display card where graphics are stored.
Bitmap * "Me and good old Frisket just kicked Megabyte's bitmap".
BLT BLock Transfer, copying pixels from one place to another.
BLT * Brough Limited Television, the production company.
BOB Blitter Object for Amiga and Bosch.
Bob * The Guardian of Mainframe.
Boolean Type of logic using two values; true/false or one/zero.
Bosch FGS Animation System An earlier computer used to create images.
Boshbilt * Name seen on Peterbilt truck in opening sequence.
Probably named after James "Bosh" Boshier, the Editor.
BSP Binary Space Partition and is used in computer graphics
"for hidden surface removal in the case where the viewpoint changes on
a geometrically static scene."
B.S.'n P.Broadcast Standards and Practices. The network censors.
B.S.'n P. * Spell to get through stained glass window (Quick
and the Fed). Seen on liferaft in "The Belly of the Beast".
Tune sung by the Small-Town Binomes in "Talent Night"
Bug Error in program.
Bus Terminator A resistor pack that prevents ringing on a high-speed
electrical bus, such as on the SCSI bus.
Bus Terminals * The bus depot near the Algorithm Theatre.
Bula * Name of the South Seas princess in the Crimson Binome.
- C -
CGI Computer Generated Images.
Calvin Spline * Seen on billboard outside Dot's Diner.
Capacitor Electrical device for storing an electrical charge.
Used in D.C. power supplies.
Capacitor * Captain Capacitor is the Crimson Binome, aka Gavin.
Capacitower * Tall building in each sector that runs that sector.
Censor Person who declares that some things are not suitible for
children to view. (See also sensor.)
Clock Controls how fast the computer runs.
Clock * Very large pendulum that controls Mainframe.
COMMAND.COM The program on MS-DOS personal computers that listens for
commands to be typed on the keyboard.
command.com * The unseen mayor of Mainframe.
CPU Central Processing Unit - the main piece of hardware in a
computer. Example: Intel 386, Motorola 68030, SPARC.
CPU * Convertable Pursuit Unit; changes from a submarine to a police
car (One Adam 12, roger!)
- D -
D.C. Power Bar Thick wire carrying several amperes of direct current.
Decahertz Ten cycles per second. Three decahertz is 30 frames per
second, the same rate that an NTSC television image is updated.
Decahertz * Al, the cook in Al's Wait and Eat, runs at only 3 decahertz,
whereas most computers run at several megahertz.
DeeCee's Power Bar * Seen on billboard outside Dot's Diner.
Def Leppard Had a music video "Let's get Rocked" by the creators of ReBoot.
Dip Switch A set of switches small enough to fit into socket designed
for Dual Inline Pin chips. (Used to configure modems and such.)
Dip Switch * "Those guys are a bunch of dip switches."
Dire Straits Their music video "Money For Nothing" had simple CGI characters.
Dodecahedron Regular solid with twelve sides, each one is a pentagon.
Dot Matrix Type of printer, as opposed to daisywheel and laser printer.
Dot Matrix * Owner of Dot's Diner, big sister to Enzo.
Dungeons and Dragons The ancestor of most role-playing games.
- E -
Electro Cinematek * Pacific Cinemateque theatre near BLT studios, Vancouver.
ENZO Ethernet Needing Zero Overhead - an Ethernet on a chip idea
for IBM PC compatibles that never caught on.
Enzo * The name of Dot's kid brother - this name has no hidden
meaning, according to the producers.
Ethernet A cable that connects computers together so they can
talk to each other.
Exec The program in a TOPS-20 computer that listens for commands
to be entered.
Executive Secretary Phong is Executive Secretary in the Principle Office.
- F -
File Lock To protect a file from being read, written, or deleted.
File Lock * Force field that immobilizes Mainframe inhabitants.
Finite Having a definite limit. Not infinitesimally small, nor
infinitely big. Contrast with transfinite
Five * An inhabitant of Mainframe.
Fixed Point A way of expressing numbers with an implied decimal point.
For instance, when money is expressed in cents, the decimal
point for dollars is always two digits from the right.
Fleer * Company producing the ReBoot trading cards.
Floating Point A way of expressing numbers where the decimal point is
allowed to move. Used in scientific calculations.
Floating Point * The spot in the park.
Fong See "Phong".
Format Program that erases everything on a hard disk and sets up
an empty top-level directory.
Fortran FORmula TRANslator - old (and current) language for doing
mathematical computations on a computer.
Frisket Stencil use by airbrush artists to cover certain parts
of a painting while they work on other parts.
Frisket * Enzo's red and yellow dog, incredibly strong jaws.
- G -
Gavin Captain of "The Love Boat".
Gavin * Gavin Blair is creator and head animator
Gavin * Real name of Captain Capacitor, the Crimson Binome.
GIF A common way of storing a computer image in a file.
Gifelli * Name of a tire company sponsoring Formula-1 race in Mainframe.
Glitch An unexpected electrical disturbance that makes a program
or machine act strange.
Glitch * Bob's multipurpose Guardian's Tool.
- H -
Hack Used to be a term of honor - the ability to make a
computer due useful tricks.
Hack * One of Megabyte's henchmen, the red robot.
Hexadecimal Base 16 numbers, 0-9 and A-F.
Hexadecimal * Female villian in Mainframe.
Hidden Files MS-DOS has a way of making critical system files be
hidden, so they don't show up on a regular directory listing.
Hidden File * Trick Bob uses to convince Megabyte they have left.
- I -
Indigo A type of workstation built by Silicon Graphics Inc.
Indy A low-end version of SGI's Indigo.
- J -
Jaggies The stair-step effect when a diagonal line is drawn on a bitmap.
Jaggies * Dot says "that's creepy, it gives me the jaggies".
JPEG A way of compressing a computer image in a file.
- K -
Kilo Prefix meaning 1000 or 1024.
- L -
Lost Angles * The sector of Mainframe that includes Hexadecimal's Lair
Low Density Floppy disk with only 720 K bytes instead of 1440 K.
Low Density * Another insulting term.
- M -
Mainframe Big computer, typically bigger than 6 feet tall, 10
feet wide and 3 feet deep.
Mainframe * The city in the computer where ReBoot takes place.
Matrix An array; layed out rows and columns.
Megabyte 1,048,576 bytes, a unit for measuring memory or disk size.
Megabyte * Main bad guy in Mainframe.
Megahertz One million cycles per second. See Decahertz.
Microchip Computer's microprocessor and memory are made of up silicon
microchips.
Micro-Chip * Seen on sign in Formula-1: Silicon Snacks, Micro-Chips.
Microsecond One millionth of a second (0.000001 seconds).
Microsecond * "They should have been home microseconds ago." (Hours)
Mic (pronounced "mike") Short for microphone.
Mike * The announcer TV.
Minute * "I haven't have this much fun in minutes." (Months)
Modem Modulator-Demodulator - device for sending computer
data over the phone lines.
Modemed * To transmit oneself from one electronic city to another.
Mouse Device for moving the pointer on a graphical display.
Mouse * A female hacker that has given Bob trouble in the past.
- N -
Nanosecond One billionth of a second (0.000000001 seconds).
Nanosecond * "Enzo should be home from school any nanosecond." (Minutes)
Net The Internet or some other large network of computers.
Net * The larger world that Mainframe is a part of.
Nibbles Old computer game written in Qbasic.
Nibbles * Megabyte's worm pet.
Null Byte of 000, pointer to nothing, or the empty set.
Null * The species that Nibbles belongs to.
Nullify To make something ineffective, to cancel it out.
Nullify * What happens to the citizens of Mainframe when they lose a
game with the User - the sector is destroyed and the sprites
are turned into Nulls.
Nybble Half a byte - 4 bits. Pronounced "nibble".
- O -
Octahedron Regular solid with eight sides, each one is a triangle.
One A bit that is "on" - binary code is ones and zeros.
One * Inhabitant of Mainframe, tall and skinny, three stacked cubes,
a type of binome.
Onyx A high-end power workstation from Silicon Graphics Inc.
Overwrite To write over part of a file, to obliterate what was there.
Overwrite * Enzo's Overwrite Delivery Service in "Racing the Clock".
- P -
PCU * Prisoner Containment Unit gun in "The TIFF".
Phong A way of shading polygons so they don't look like flat surfaces.
Phong * The all-knowing wise man of Mainframe.
Pong Ancient video game that made Atari into a big business.
Port, Authorized A low-numbered access port on a TCP/IP host.
Port Authority * Place where Bob worked in the Super Computer.
Primative In 3-D solids modeling, intricate shapes can be formed out of
the primative shapes: sphere, cube, cone, cylinder.
Primatives * A band in "Talent Night"; cone, sphere, cube.
Punch and Judy Olde-time puppet show where the puppets often hit
each other with a stick.
Punchcard Ancient form of computer storage, paper, holds 80 bytes of data.
Punchcard and Qwerty * Puppet show on the boardwalk in "The Crimson Binome".
- Q -
Quantum The smallest unit of energy that can be added to a
subatomic particle (such as electrons and photons).
Quantum Shake * A high-energy drink available at Al's Wait and Eat.
Qwerty A keyboard with the letters QWERTY on the top row.
(Typewrite keyboard as opposed to numeric keypad.)
- R -
Ray Tracing Calculating what path a ray of light would have taken
from an object to your eye.
Retrieve The act of searching for an entry in a computer database
and returning the results.
- S -
SCSI Small Computer System Interface, used for disks and tape drives.
Pronounced "scuzzy".
Second * "Hurry, you haven't got all second, you know!"
Sensor A device for sensing something, like temperature, pressure, etc.
Sensor * Miss Emma is a "Prog Sensor" in "Talent Night". See censor.
Scuzzy * The football-shaped familiar belonging to Hexadecimal.
SGI Silicon Graphics Inc, manufacturer of graphics workstations.
Silicon Semi-metallic element. In raw form, looks like obsidian
but is shiny gray.
Slash * One of Megabyte's henchmen, the blue robot.
Spline Way of drawing a smooth curve through 2 or more points.
Sprite Easily movable graphics element, built into hardware. (Bullets
and rocketships in some video games are implemeted as sprites.)
Sprite * Dot, Enzo, and Bob are highly-evolved data sprites.
Supercomputer Very fast number cruncher, such as a CRAY-MXP.
Supercomputer * Megabyte's goal for world domination, the place that Bob
came from.
- T -
Texture Mapped Wrapping an image (such as eyes and mouth) to a surface (such
as a sphere) instead of calculating more 3-D polygons.
TIFF Tagged Image File Format, used for storing 24-bit images.
Tiff * A misunderstanding between Bob and Dot.
Toast * The Video Toaster is a video graphics board for the Commodore
Amiga computer. It is used on Babylon 5 and seaQuest DSV.
Toque A Canadian stocking cap, conical with a knit ball on top.
Transfinite Going beyond or surpassing any finite number, group or
magnitude. Contrast with finite.
Trias Jenny Trias was the ABC Head of Children's Programming.
Trias Effect * The only thing capable of stopping Megabyte's Medusa Virus.
- U -
Unformat Program that attempts to reverse the destructive effect
of the FORMAT command. Works only if FORMAT saved certain
critical bits of information somewhere else on the disk.
Unformat * A device capable of reducing a binome to its components parts.
- V -
Video Window A window on a computer screen that displays full-motion video.
Vid Window * Two-way video telephone used all over Mainframe. Small objects
can be passed through the window from one place to another.
Virus Program designed to infect a computer, do something nasty
and copy itself so that other computers can be infected.
Virus * Megabyte and Hexadecimal are two different types of viruses.
Viral Eraser Program that looks for and eliminates computer viruses.
Viral Eraser * Mainframe's defense against viruses, looks just like a plain
ordinary pink eraser.
- W -
Wait State When the CPU wants to access memory, but the memory bank
can't respond right away, it sends a signal that tells the CPU
to wait for the next clock cycle.
Wait State * "Bob's in a wait state outside" says Enzo to Dot.
Window A rectangular area on a computer display screen for interacting
with programs. Built into a Macintosh, Amiga and Atari. Added
to UNIX (X-Windows) and now included with new workstations.
Finally added to the IBM-PC as Microsoft Windows.
Wizzywig * Production company in Mainframe, used by Enzo to convince
Dot and Bob that Megabyte kidnapped him in "The TIFF".
WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get (pronounced "whizzywig".)
A word processor that shows what the finished page looks like.
- X -
X Coordinate of a point in 2-D; distance from left edge.
- Y -
Y Coordinate of a point in 2-D; distance from top (or bottom).
- Z -
Z Coordinate of a point in 3-D; distance from the viewer.
Zero * Inhabitant of Mainframe, circular shape,
a type of binome.
Zipboard * Pair of flying disks that one stands on. (Better than a
motorized skateboard.)
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