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UA 571-C Remote Sentry Display Program from Aliens Resurrected

9 pointsby tschakover 2 years ago

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tschakover 2 years ago
Well, I had to test the development environment, somehow!<p>(apologies for the audio, new filter chain, and I only had time to record this ONCE)<p>As part of @tr1nitr0n and myself rebuilding the GRiD Development Environment from batches of GRiD server hard drives, I needed something to test that the development environment that could compile Pascal, PL&#x2F;M, Fortran, C and Assembler was working as expected. Then I thought about the sentry remote weapon system scenes that were cut from the theatrical release of James Cameron&#x27;s Aliens (1986) film, which used GRiD Compass II 1129 laptops. GRiD had developed a set of working displays in GRiDBASIC for the film. These were never released, but now that the same tools are working again, I recreated them.<p>Video: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;-hjH8cOvskk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;-hjH8cOvskk</a><p>GitHub Here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tschak909&#x2F;UA571C" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tschak909&#x2F;UA571C</a><p>Release with raw Hard disk image here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tschak909&#x2F;UA571C&#x2F;releases&#x2F;tag&#x2F;UA571C-V1.0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tschak909&#x2F;UA571C&#x2F;releases&#x2F;tag&#x2F;UA571C-V1.0</a>