/vr/ - Retro Games

>>8986894
Didnt he actually make a couple of games?

what are your favorite ones?
>JP (NES)
>JP (Genesis) 1st one
>JP (SNES)
>JP (Arcade)
>Congo (Saturn)
Is the Sega CD JP game any good?

>>8986894
You are going to love AmigaOS then.

>>8988060
the computers used in JP are amigas?

>>8986894

>>8988039
>JP (SNES)
This is the one. It's Zelda with guns and dinosaurs. It's the perfect formula and I'm surprised nobody else has copied it.

>>8986894
Michael Crichton was an actual genius. After he graduated med school and became an MD, but wrote novels the whole time. He hated being a doctor and managed to make enough money through his works that he never had to work as one. The fact that he breezed through med school while writing multiple novels a year is such a galaxy brain flex on the rest of us. But what made his works great is that he truly understood science and industry, and their faults.

crichtkino

Do you think debugging 2 million lines of code is easy?...or cheap?

>>8988387
Time for useless knowledge:
Despite the Apple PC visible, they were actually using SGI workstations for the majority of computers in the movie. That nifty 3Dish filesystem seen in the movie can be downloaded and used with the correct version of IRIX on a compatible SGI workstation. This was mostly a result of all the SGI workstations they used to make the graphics and special effects for the movie. With so many people involved in the movie familiar with the SGI setup, it was just easier to have them create the screens they wanted for the movie using SGI systems than to create the right mock-ups with Apple or IBM machines.
And now you know something you probably didn't care about.

>>8986894
test

>>8988826
welcome back

>>8988820
I care, thanks anon

>>8988232
Based, hack the planet.

>>8988820
>That nifty 3Dish filesystem seen in the movie can be downloaded and used with the correct version of IRIX
There's also a linux clone of that called fsv. But it looks a bit different, it doesn't have that comfy blue sky and green ground for example. I think there's a Windows version too.

Also, the book had a lot of illustrations of computer interfaces (like pic related) scattered throughout.

I read the Andromeda Strain in jail. I remember it being pretty entertaining, it's a shame we never got a game out of it

check this out,

https://jurassicsystems.com/

>>8989256
Got caught pirating Windows, huh?

>>8989351
I forgot to delete my ROMs after 24hours

>>8986894
I read one of his books about a swarm of killer nanobots that could infect humans and take over their bodies. Was pretty entertaining.

>>8988250
>breezed through med school
no shit, he went to Harvard.

>>8988242
Wasn't the first one in that style the NES game? I remember it being kinda fun, and nice to look at, I just never got too far as a kid. Might replay it sometime.

What's the best SS emulator to play Congo? Anything I should know before starting the game?

>>8988820
Also something, the video feed he was talking to is clearly a prerecorded video file with the seek bar moving visibly moving on-screen. In their defense, personal computers of that size were realtively new at the time so I don't know how they could've done it much better

>>8991462
The NES game is pretty good, but it's a more traditional level-based design. The SNES is open world and really captures that "lost in the jungle" vibe.

>>8988069
It's a Unix system! You know this!
(I bet it was installed by INTERACTIVE CD-ROM)

Friendly reminder that while in the FPS segments of Jurassic Park for SNES, you should use the D-pad in port 1 for movement and the mouse in port 2 for aiming.

>>8988250
He also wrote a much smarter Malcolm than the movie who had more of a "science is going too far" argument. People made that same claim when he wrote and directed the movie Westworld as well (which is relevant as the movie is basically a proto-JP), and he went on to clarify that science isn't the problem, it's corporate greed prioritizing profit over rationality and safety. Maybe the thing Crichton was trying to say was that you shouldn't play God not because "dinosaurs are extinct and we need to respect that" and more because "rich CEOs like you will find a way to fuck it up and create disaster."

>>8988820
This is pretty good trivia anon, thanks for sharing.
SGI workstations are also intrinsecally connected with /vr/ through Rare, I remember all the "they use the same computers as Jurassic Park" for DKC promotion, good times.

>>8992645
Is the book better than the movie?

>>8993294
Quite a bit, it's definitely worth reading.

>>8988820
irix is fucking gorgeous so it seems like one very happy accident if that's true