That Software that you wish existed...

I for one, know of some software that has been in movies or hollywood shows that does not exist (not that I think it does)

Post the Software that you wish existed from the movies...




My first one, is the game that 'Josh Baskin' and Tom Hanks play in the movie, BIG (1988).
I dont think it exists, and it was just a simple demo or example game (prop) someone would have made for the movie.
Looks interesting to play. The closest thing I used to play, was Space Quest II. lol.





The second one, is 'MacSpeak' seen in the Disney movie, Blank Check.
Looks like it may have been running OS 7 or OS 8. Not sure on that though.

I could not find a picture of the program running clearly, but here is a YouTube video of the program being used in the movie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wfn_Luuv6iE&feature=related
I remember searching the net high and low for this program because it seemed legitimate.

Reason was, because I got a Directors Macintosh - Power PC 5500 (performa) so I thought it would be cool to have and mess around with at the time
This one exactly: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/Power_Macintosh_5500.jpg

You can see in the top left corner of the screen, it says 'Macspeak'. Anyone heard of this program, or is it another fake demo prop made for the movie?

 

There is a terminal command that is basically the same thing as what was demonstrated there. "say <whatever>" will use a speech synthesizer to "say" whatever you tell it. I don't know how old the program is, but it may be the same thing.

 

War games came to mind instantly!

 

Pfft, amateurs...

Bishop of Battle ("Nightmares", 1983):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKTN93kdVK0

 

Here's a good one, the software in anti-trust

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6LEXXtEHwg&feature=fvwrel

 

My Amiga does the exact same thing.

This has a GUI with a talking mouth in the movie apparently.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3ODe9mqoDE

Everyone dreamed to play this... in the 80's!

 

Well, the 2006 version is called 'Walls'. A game mode in Tony Hawks Project 8

 

Dear god why!?

Light Cycle 3D is a great homebrew game!

 

All of the GUI-based hacking software used in the movie "Hackers", because apparently, command lines are too mainstream (or... not mainstream enough?)

 

I'd say the 3D directory navigation thing from Jurassic Park, but someone already made that in the 90s (except it looked a lot worse, of course), because I remember having it on some PC Format disc.

 

Because it is a hilarious game where the skaters are huge, and all the scaling is incorrect

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfiQYRn7fBg&feature=related



I wish I had a Macintosh Quadra 700...
http://starringthecomputer.com/feature.php?f=11


It does exist.

It was made by SGI and you can still download it and use it! (or a replicated version of it IIRC)


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsn
http://www.siliconbunny.com/fsn-the-irix-3d-file-system-tool-from-jurassic-park/
http://web.archive.org/web/20070409024417/http://www.sgi.com/fun/freeware/3d_navigator.html
http://fsv.sourceforge.net/

I have not tried it yet, because I do not know what on earth IRIX is.


Now, can anyone here perform a Dr. John and make a Dinosaur from preserved mosquitoes and frog DNA so we can make our own Jurassic Park? lol

 

I've seen a few mockups, though seems useless, especially because...
Its a Unix system, should know this.

Edit: I hadn't seen haunted's post when I wrote that.

 

If that 3D layout was done today it be fully textured lol..

I wish the UI of the PC in Die Hard 4 existed.

 

Ah yes.
'Uploading Virus'
Dont press DELETE or the C4 on the power supply will trigger

I believe you can get a theme you know...

http://www.cupfighter.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/nmap-diehard4-1080p-1920x801.png

 

I also thought I would share my Windows batch code for the Jurassic Park Computer System seen in the YouTube video above
(here it is again if you cant be bothered to scroll up http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfiQY...eature=related - you can tell I am a fan of JP).

(for those script kiddies out there who will stumble upon my code and not know how to use it)
Make a textfile,
Call it and rename the extension to jp.bat or jp.cmd,
Right click on the file,
Select edit,
Paste the code below in,
Save and run.


@echo off
title Jurassic Park, System Security Interface - Version 4.0.5, Alpha E
color 17
echo Jurassic Park, System Security Interface
echo Version 4.0.5, Alpha E
@ping -n 2 127.0.0.1 > NUL
echo Ready ...
echo.
set /p new_variable="> Access security "
ping -n 2 127.0.0.1 > NUL 2>&1
echo access: PERMISSION DENIED.
echo.
set /p new_variable="> Access security grid "
ping -n 2 127.0.0.1 > NUL 2>&1
echo access: PERMISSION DENIED.
echo.
set /p new_variable="> Access main security grid "
ping -n 2 127.0.0.1 > NUL 2>&1
echo access: PERMISSON DENIED.... and....
:MAGICWORD
ping -n 2 127.0.0.1 > NUL 2>&1
echo YOU DIDN'T SAY THE MAGIC WORD!
goto MAGICWORD
@ echo
pause.


All you do is press enter 3 times and it loops on a variable. Yay!

 

LOL! My personal favorite was the 3D interface for the Gibson.