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A mobile application that integrates with the forum, so people that use the apps can use the forums functions and view posts from within that app, rather than having to open their mobile web browser and keep switching between windows. I installed the scripts that enable users of the forum to use Tapatalk, but of course using it mandatory, it's down to personal preference.
 
It also saves on data use too as it doesn't load all the data intensive graphics that the normal site uses to make it pretty. ;)
 
Thanks Falken.

Loving the Avatar -Wargames :)
 
It's where my username comes from, also have a copy of the WOPR computer programmed, the map of the world was a bit of a pain to reproduce.
 
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It's where my username comes from, also have a copy of the WOPR computer programmed, the map of the world was a bit of a pain to reproduce.
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As yes! Falken is the scientist who made Joshua if my memory serves me right? Favourite film of my youth - still watch it when its on, have it on dvd somehwere too. Bet the WOPR computer with the world looks cool, very pimpy :) One of my mates will be envious he loves the film...
 
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It talks too, nicked the audio tracks from the film, not got round to teaching it tic tac toe yet, but it's possible.
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It talks! Ubber cool! I just text my mate, he thinks you are a genius and deserve the Nobel prize for doing that, I am inclined to agree. Dont teach it 'Global Thermonuclear War' though :))
 
:P I used to spend most of my IT lessons watching that film, they made a sequel in 2008, called "Wargames the dead code", it was panned, but I quite like it.

There's also a remake in the pipes, the big whigs in Hollywood are working on it.
 
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:P I used to spend most of my IT lessons watching that film, they made a sequel in 2008, called "Wargames the dead code", it was panned, but I quite like it.

There's also a remake in the pipes, the big whigs in Hollywood are working on it.
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I am going to ebay the sequel, never knew they made one! Hope they dont re-make it, I really dislike the idea of remaking classics
 
I don't think it would be quite the same, computers are ubiquitous now, there's very little mystery, and now people have had time to get used to them there's not so much of a fear factor. Strangely, that film is responsible for the change in definition of the word hacker (and the resulting crime wave it caused).
 
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I don't think it would be quite the same, computers are ubiquitous now, there's very little mystery, and now people have had time to get used to them there's not so much of a fear factor. Strangely, that film is responsible for the change in definition of the word hacker (and the resulting crime wave it caused).
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I quite agree, there was something unknown about the capabilities of a computer and the idea the one could control the fate of the world was a very real one coming out of the cold war. You have made me want to watch it when I get home tonight now :)
 
:P The scariest part is that there were and are computers very much like WOPR involved in nuclear planning, the Russians were once silly enough to give one launch permission, called the system "dead hand", they got fed up with it when it kept trying to launch due to sensor faults (I hope they scrapped it).
 
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:P The scariest part is that there were and are computers very much like WOPR involved in nuclear planning, the Russians were once silly enough to give one launch permission, called the system "dead hand", they got fed up with it when it kept trying to launch due to sensor faults (I hope they scrapped it).
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That is a scary thought. I always find it a mind melt to think that space flight was done with computers less powerful than a Spectrum 48k, I think Appollo 11's computer system was around 2k but I could be wrong. However, I am sure you'd find a way of speeding it up :)
 
It was quite a powerful computer for it's day, but for most things you don't need something that's particularly powerful, we're just used to having lots of memory and CPU cycles to play with, most computer resources are consumed because they can be, not because they have to be in order to accomplish a task... then again the Apollo computer wasn't that amazing, it crashed.
 
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It was quite a powerful computer for it's day, but for most things you don't need something that's particularly powerful, we're just used to having lots of memory and CPU cycles to play with, most computer resources are consumed because they can be, not because they have to be in order to accomplish a task... then again the Apollo computer wasn't that amazing, it crashed.
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Memory has always been a “ bugbear “ of mine ( Ali ) with the explosion of memory, programmers have got lazy, OK you can argue that modern graphics require lots of memory and CPU speed, but in the olden days you couldn't just add memory, you found a way round it. Oh what fun we had writing programs for ZX spectrum, Commodore 64 and not forgetting The BBC 6502, simple machine code.

As for Wargames great film, but Electric Dreams did it for me. Destroyed many a computer trying to replicate this one.. and a few cans of coke to.. Maybe that's why I stuck to hardware, and let the programmers do their thing, so that I could make the “ black box “ actually do something practical..:(|)

Lisa But mostly Ali... xx
 
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Memory has always been a “ bugbear “ of mine ( Ali ) with the explosion of memory, programmers have got lazy, OK you can argue that modern graphics require lots of memory and CPU speed, but in the olden days you couldn't just add memory, you found a way round it. Oh what fun we had writing programs for ZX spectrum, Commodore 64 and not forgetting The BBC 6502, simple machine code.

As for Wargames great film, but Electric Dreams did it for me. Destroyed many a computer trying to replicate this one.. and a few cans of coke to.. Maybe that's why I stuck to hardware, and let the programmers do their thing, so that I could make the “ black box “ actually do something practical..:(|)

Lisa But mostly Ali... xx
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Speccy and C64 those were the days, I had an Amstrad CPC464 but my friends had the other two. I used to love Little Computer People must have been like the first 'Sims' type game ever. Great fun
 
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