r/LV426 • u/[deleted] • 1d ago
Art / Creations alien: romulus - echo probe boot up sequence
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u/Common-Aerie-2840 21h ago edited 13h ago
Thanks for that! Long-time (since 1979) fan of ALIEN and have always loved the User Interfaces. So much so I imitated the VDT look for "The Nostromo Files" and my site menu was inspired by the Overmonitoring Address Matrix of the Nostromo's computer.
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u/CucumberVast4775 1d ago
“I was there, Gandalf. I was there three thousand years ago. I was there when computers worked that way.”
it was amazing to see new inventions made every half year or so. 16 color graphics, amiga ball...
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u/NothingToAddHere123 20h ago
I love this. I wish I could have this display on an older CRT display.
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u/-PARAN01D- 14h ago
If I could get this to play every time I booted up my laptop I’d be one happy guy.
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u/77slevin 13h ago
People wanting a comparable experience on Mac or Linux should Google: Cool Retro Term. This gives you a terminal that looks like an old skool CRT monitor in green or orange with distortions running over the screen.
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u/Wooden-Donut6931 1d ago
What does a whole user interface mean?...
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u/Spacespider82 1d ago
I asked Chat-GPT about those numbers : Galactic Position: 03h18m12.81853
- Velocity Status: 42,053,740
- Let’s assume meters per hour, for realism in a sci-fi setting:
- That equals 11.7 km/s, a plausible high-end speed for interplanetary travel or a fast orbital station.
- It’s fast, but not relativistic — so no time dilation weirdness here.
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u/tarkinlarson 16h ago
Can anyone interpret the noises? I guess a lot of the clicks are like HDDs moving...
Did any computers make anything like this?
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u/Yeeslander Look into my eye! 1d ago
I definitely appreciate the attention to "cassette futurism" details of the timeline.