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What a great post! I would love to read more of these for other films. > Everything in the set was real. We couldn't fake any of it, because audiences are so s

What a great post! I would love to read more of these for other films. > Everything in the set was real. We couldn't fake any of it, because audiences are so sophisticated now in their knowledge of computers. > ... > - Cory Faucher (Special Effects Coordinator) This sentiment seems to run throughout the movie, and I believe it's why it's held up so well in terms of visuals, I don't think it would have aged nearly as well as it has if more CGI (or other ways of "faking" things) had been been used. As for the question (in <references[9]>): > Some code associated with Nedryland is visible on screen. It looks like actual source code[9] with Classic Mac OS API functions calls. That looks like old Pascal, and since the window has MPW (Macintosh Programmers Workshop) in the title, that's probably it?

OwlsParlay 3mo ago
"audiences are so sophisticated now in their knowledge of computers" It's funny they say this back in 1993. It feels like we've gone from computers being a niche but beloved piece of tech to a ubiquitous and reviled piece of tech.
solarkraft 3mo ago
What a respectful view of the audience. Too bad this approach was replicated what feels like approximately 0 times after it. https://youtube.com/watch?v=kl6rsi7BEtk https://youtube.com/watch?v=kl6rsi7BEtk
- mike_hearn 3mo ago
  A lot of it came from Creighton. He always researched the technical details of his books to a deep level, and in fact he was also a successful computer programmer, winning an Academy Award for some scheduling software he worked on (and author, and medic and screenwriter!). What's great is he self-identified as a hacker. https://www.atarimagazines.com/creative/v11n2/26_Michael_Crichton.php https://www.atarimagazines.com/creative/v11n2/26_Michael_Cri... > Although he does not consider himself an expert programmer or serious hacker, Crichton is in favor of hacking and the people who do it. He explains: "It's perfectly OK for a movie director to eat and sleep movies and to have no other interest in life--that's Stephen Spielberg. He's applauded for it; he's lionized. It's fine for a symphony conductor to have no other interest than music, or for a painter to live to paint. So why isn't it OK for a person who loves computers to be totally wrapped up in computers? "I think the answer is that it is OK. I like hacking. I think the most boring thing in the world is to sit down with a bunch of flowcharts and think everything out before you start programming."
  - ColinWright 3mo ago
    > ... "Creighton" ... Do you mean Michael Crichton, the author of the original book? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic_Park_(novel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic_Park_(novel)
    - ahartmetz 3mo ago
      Surely. The name is pronounced like Creighton.
      - nemesisj 3mo ago
        The name rhymes with "frighten". Source: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/english/crichton https://dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/english/crich... Also a Source: Name is Scottish origin, I live in Scotland.
        ahartmetz 3mo ago
        I mixed up German and English pronunciation of "ei". The German one sounds like English "i", so it would be Crighton.
        marssaxman 3mo ago
        Also a source: back in the '90s, I once resolved a disagreement with a friend over the pronunciation of the man's name by emailing him to ask, and "Crichton rhymes with 'frighten'" was his exact answer.
    - mike_hearn 3mo ago
      Yes, my mistake!
  - Atotalnoob 3mo ago
    An academy award for software?
- glenstein 3mo ago
  Thanks for the link, and boy is that a whopper. Do my eyes deceive me or is there literally a shot of the computer looking at them from its computery perspective, through its screen, with some layer of visual digital artifacts over it at the 14 second mark?
- bigcityslider 3mo ago
  What about Jurassic Park 2? Never saw it
- stevenwoo 3mo ago
  Mr. Robot and Person of Interest(iirc) got a lot of details right.
einsteinx2 3mo ago
> Everything in the set was real. We couldn't fake any of it, because audiences are so sophisticated now in their knowledge of computers. It’s funny he said that because when I first saw Jurassic park as a computer nerd kid, I was calling out the “this is UNIX, I know this” scene where she then flies around the file system in a 3d rendered file browser as typical movie computer BS. Turns out it was a real application running on a real SGI machine, and ironically I was calling it out specifically because of my knowledge of computers (not having any idea about SGI machines at the time but having a ton of experience with DOS and Windows 3.1). My family who didn’t have much computer knowledge didn’t think anything of it.

OwlsParlay 3mo ago

"audiences are so sophisticated now in their knowledge of computers" It's funny they say this back in 1993. It feels like we've gone from computers being a niche but beloved piece of tech to a ubiquitous and reviled piece of tech.

solarkraft 3mo ago

What a respectful view of the audience. Too bad this approach was replicated what feels like approximately 0 times after it. https://youtube.com/watch?v=kl6rsi7BEtk https://youtube.com/watch?v=kl6rsi7BEtk

mike_hearn 3mo ago
A lot of it came from Creighton. He always researched the technical details of his books to a deep level, and in fact he was also a successful computer programmer, winning an Academy Award for some scheduling software he worked on (and author, and medic and screenwriter!). What's great is he self-identified as a hacker. https://www.atarimagazines.com/creative/v11n2/26_Michael_Crichton.php https://www.atarimagazines.com/creative/v11n2/26_Michael_Cri... > Although he does not consider himself an expert programmer or serious hacker, Crichton is in favor of hacking and the people who do it. He explains: "It's perfectly OK for a movie director to eat and sleep movies and to have no other interest in life--that's Stephen Spielberg. He's applauded for it; he's lionized. It's fine for a symphony conductor to have no other interest than music, or for a painter to live to paint. So why isn't it OK for a person who loves computers to be totally wrapped up in computers? "I think the answer is that it is OK. I like hacking. I think the most boring thing in the world is to sit down with a bunch of flowcharts and think everything out before you start programming."
- ColinWright 3mo ago
  > ... "Creighton" ... Do you mean Michael Crichton, the author of the original book? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic_Park_(novel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic_Park_(novel)
  - ahartmetz 3mo ago
    Surely. The name is pronounced like Creighton.
    - nemesisj 3mo ago
      The name rhymes with "frighten". Source: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/english/crichton https://dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/english/crich... Also a Source: Name is Scottish origin, I live in Scotland.
      - ahartmetz 3mo ago
        I mixed up German and English pronunciation of "ei". The German one sounds like English "i", so it would be Crighton.
      - marssaxman 3mo ago
        Also a source: back in the '90s, I once resolved a disagreement with a friend over the pronunciation of the man's name by emailing him to ask, and "Crichton rhymes with 'frighten'" was his exact answer.
  - mike_hearn 3mo ago
    Yes, my mistake!
- Atotalnoob 3mo ago
  An academy award for software?
glenstein 3mo ago
Thanks for the link, and boy is that a whopper. Do my eyes deceive me or is there literally a shot of the computer looking at them from its computery perspective, through its screen, with some layer of visual digital artifacts over it at the 14 second mark?
bigcityslider 3mo ago
What about Jurassic Park 2? Never saw it
stevenwoo 3mo ago
Mr. Robot and Person of Interest(iirc) got a lot of details right.

einsteinx2 3mo ago

> Everything in the set was real. We couldn't fake any of it, because audiences are so sophisticated now in their knowledge of computers. It’s funny he said that because when I first saw Jurassic park as a computer nerd kid, I was calling out the “this is UNIX, I know this” scene where she then flies around the file system in a 3d rendered file browser as typical movie computer BS. Turns out it was a real application running on a real SGI machine, and ironically I was calling it out specifically because of my knowledge of computers (not having any idea about SGI machines at the time but having a ton of experience with DOS and Windows 3.1). My family who didn’t have much computer knowledge didn’t think anything of it.