Charlie Richmond of Richmond Sound Design fame has on his site a PDF detailing the retrofit of the show control system for the Waterworld show at Universal Studios Hollywood he did in 2007. The old system was run by an Amiga and used MSC for just about everything. They ended up having to replace and test the entire system in about 2.5 days.

Unlike most “behind the scenes” stuff, this PDF has a bunch of pictures of the old and new system as well as descriptions of how things work. It also contains the crazy timeline they had to work with for the retrofit.

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