Computers in Movies!

I'm going to have to watch it again, but I thought in office space they had pc's running mac OS. I'm not completely sure. I'll have to watch it tonight. I'll see it and let you know.

Nice <b><font color=green>Lizards</b></font color=green> <b>crunch</b> Trolls cookies....... Yummy!!

remember ID4, the guy uploaded a virus from a laptop into the alien computer, and the progress bar showed <font color=green>Uploading Virus...</font color=green> - it was too good! the aliens came from light years distance with a IBM compatible!

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Yeah, no kidding. My dad said "We don't even know if they're using Binary computers."

Anyhow, that was pretty funny. And the "Chatting with host" box was pretty good too.

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Or just a simple "format c:"

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Video-Game/Movie trivia via Mame.dk

Cloak & Dagger was released in 1984 by MCA, and starred Henry Thomas (E.T.), and Dabney Coleman (War Games). The video game 'Cloak & Dagger' was featured in the movie in the form of an Atari 5200 cartrige (Erroniously refered to as a 'tape' throuout the movie) that reveieled plans to a military 'Invisible Bomber' when a certain point value was reached. The plans do not appear in the arcade game. Pity...

Before Atari was sold to the Tramiels, they worked on providing prop's and technical assistance for a movie called Cloak & Dagger. Atari, at the time, was working on a prototype of a coin-op game called Agent X which they renamed Cloak & Dagger for the movie. Also used in the movie was the Atari 5200 Supersystem and the main prop was a video game cartridge of Atari Cloak & Dagger for the Atari 5200 system. Another part of the movie shows development work being done on an Atari 800 home computer system. Atari also had many props set up in the Video Game/Dungeons & Dragon store such as boxes from Cloak & Dagger and also boxes for Tempest for the Atari 5200. Actually, the 5200 cartridge didn't even exist: it was a 5200 cartridge of another game with a "Cloak & Dagger" label slapped on it. The Cloak & Dagger played in the movie was not the Arari 5200 cartridge. They took the output of the coin-operated game, converted the signal, and piped it to a TV set. Another interesting fact: Henry Thomas wasn't really playing the game; instead, Atari sent down the game's software developer, Rusty Dawe, to play the coin-op game for the movie! So they showed Henry Thomas furiously working the 5200 controller, cut to the television showing Rusty's progress in the game (sometimes even with Henry's reflection in the screen), and back again. Rusty - Russell B. Dawe - got his own full-screen credit at the end of the movie for the game design. Also, in the game store scenes, there were Atari 5200 Cloak & Dagger boxes shown. Those were also just mockups made for the movie.

Another piece of trivia:
The movie studio had the movie under development as Cloak & Dagger. The game cartridge that was in the original screenplay was... Donkey Kong (at the time, the most popular home videogame)! Someone at either the movie studio or Atari found out about the other, "the secret agent recovers secret plans from bad guys" plots sounded like they were made for each other, the deal was signed, and the Agent X game was renamed Cloak & Dagger. The prototypes, had stereo sound (Atari went with mono sound for the final hardware) and the pre-Cloak & Dagger faceplates. The ROMs were upgraded to reflect the name change, however, so, on the inside, the machine is a real Cloak & Dagger!

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i found Back to the Future as techicaly most correct, but the time machine needed 2.5 Giga Volts to make its travel, the figure is sure amusing. 2.5 GV!

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LoL!!!

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why are computers too slow in the movies? they always seem to display text at a rate of 1 character per second!

and the sound they make while printing each character, I guess they are advanced dot matrix CRT printers!

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