Posted by Jens Kilian on 09/23/06 15:47

"Samurai" <samurai88@basicisp.net> writes:
> There is a great deal on "computer screens," very crude graphics, but they
> could have been rear-projected. When Dallas and Ripley confer with Mother
> there are numerous shots of screens and messages. However, in the DVD these
> are the "classic" neon green of the ALIEN franchise. They are crips and
> clear as opposed to the crappy scrolling binary numbers, etc of other
> scenes.

IIRC, at least some of the displays in _Alien_ were screenshots of the classic
"Star Trek" game. At least they looked like the BASIC version (published
in Creative Computing) that I remember.

If you don't know what I'm talking about, see

http://www.dunnington.u-net.com/public/startrek/

Bye,
Jens.
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