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- From: pjfoley@sage.cc.purdue.edu (PJ Foley)
- Subject: Re: Movie demos
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- Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
- References: <1992Nov7.213459.1282@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 18:19:08 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov7.213459.1282@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> clueless@bradley.edu (Matthew Simmons) writes:
- >Are there any demos out there which simulate what computers do in movies?
- >You know, like in Patriot Games, when they're in CIA HQ in Langley, when the
- >computer sitting behind Jack is busily putting text and graphs and maps on
- >the screen, generally looking busy and impressive, but in all probability
- >doing nothing?
- >
-
- There is a great blan}er for MS-DOS machines (actually a module for
- After Dark) that puts graphs and even little configurable non-sense captions
- and units of measure. So you end up with somthing like:
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- "Tallied goat beard count at Microsoft (Kg/sec)"
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- Followed by a great green-on black line graph. SOmeone must do this
- for the Amiga (as a commodity, of course!).
-
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