doncleth Posted July 6, 2005 Share Posted July 6, 2005 Hi all, Just finished watching D.A.R.Y.L. on DVD and I was happy to see an Atari 800XL appearance in the movie. I then did a search on the net for an Atari 8-bit movie list but can't seem to find one. Any more movies I should check out? Cheers, Don 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Fandal_ Posted July 6, 2005 Share Posted July 6, 2005 Hi all, Just finished watching D.A.R.Y.L. on DVD and I was happy to see an Atari 800XL appearance in the movie. I then did a search on the net for an Atari 8-bit movie list but can't seem to find one. Any more movies I should check out? Cheers, Don 886809[/snapback] I'm not 100% sure but I think that some 8-bit Atari appeared in great "The Thing" movie. Kurt Russell played chess with Atari and then destroyed it because he lost. F. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jetboot Jack Posted July 6, 2005 Share Posted July 6, 2005 Try Videodrome (800 downloads the videodrome signal) and True Stories (in the Mall - a store and shoppers laden with XL stuff)... sTeVE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jetboot Jack Posted July 6, 2005 Share Posted July 6, 2005 Oh and of course Cloak and Dagger! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted July 6, 2005 Share Posted July 6, 2005 Also there is an Atari 800 on a TV in the movie The Stuff. It's a bad horror film. Allan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foebane Posted July 6, 2005 Share Posted July 6, 2005 Hi all, Just finished watching D.A.R.Y.L. on DVD and I was happy to see an Atari 800XL appearance in the movie. Happy to see 800XL running Pole Position, unhappy to see PP include a high score table, which it never had. Also, the fact the Atari is the girl's reminds me of Alex the hacker in Jurassic Park. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sikor Posted July 6, 2005 Share Posted July 6, 2005 Hmm, are some movies... For example: "Pan Samochodzik i niesamowity dwór" - polish movies ("Mr. carsman and incredible palace"); 5 or 6 other movies from Poland... TRON (if I remember); Hmm, try find discussion on Atariage archive post (was this thema) and at Atariarea.krap.pl... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doncleth Posted July 7, 2005 Author Share Posted July 7, 2005 Happy to see 800XL running Pole Position, unhappy to see PP include a high score table, which it never had. Also, the fact the Atari is the girl's reminds me of Alex the hacker in Jurassic Park. 886923[/snapback] Hi Foebane, Yes the High Score on PP was a bit of a joke isn't it? And also the way they fast forwarded the game. Even my 6-year old son picked that up. :-) But then it is a movie right? Also, there was another appearance of the 800XL (and the 1050 drive) when DARYL was back at the lab/base, where he was playing Missile Command and a Space Invaders-like game (not sure what it was). I should capture that scene and post it here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oesii Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 I'm surprised Greg isn't all over this yet but here's a great page with all the Ataris on film (and TV): http://www.ataritimes.com/features/atarifilms.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emkay Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 I'm surprised Greg isn't all over this yet but here's a great page with all the Ataris on film (and TV): http://www.ataritimes.com/features/atarifilms.html 887270[/snapback] If I remember correctly, in the german movie "Momo" you see an 800 XL. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tezz Posted July 10, 2005 Share Posted July 10, 2005 In the Jackie Chan movie "Police Story" the scene where he has to steal incrimiating "data" clearly features an 800xl including shots of the screen display. Also, another less known secret that I noticed many years ago. Somewhere (I think in this film or maybe another Jackie Chan movie) is where the music for Amurote was .. er "inspired" from.. or copied! Check it out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunstar Posted July 11, 2005 Share Posted July 11, 2005 It's not an 8-bit, but IIRC, in the failed U.S. TV show "the flash" (from the comic book hero-at least I think it was 'the flash", it was definately a failed super-hero TV show like 'the flash', maybe a clone superhero) they used Atari ST's in the survailence van in the show. I know this isn't a movie, but Atari systems did show up in several TV shows of the years, years ago... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sikor Posted July 11, 2005 Share Posted July 11, 2005 Hmm, Terminator and Terminator II. Looking T800 is atari xl machine language source code - decode it. This structure was use only on 8-bit atari (see at DOS control mnemonics) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mos6507 Posted July 11, 2005 Share Posted July 11, 2005 Hmm, Terminator and Terminator II. Looking T800 is atari xl machine language source code - decode it. This structure was use only on 8-bit atari (see at DOS control mnemonics) 889576[/snapback] This site says it's Apple assembly: http://heim.ifi.uio.no/~haakonhj/Terminato...wers/q7.9.shtml Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lbaeza Posted July 12, 2005 Share Posted July 12, 2005 (edited) TRON (if I remember); Hi That was an Apple III on Tron: Regards Edited July 12, 2005 by lbaeza Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Osbo Posted July 12, 2005 Share Posted July 12, 2005 there was a disney movie I saw a while ago. Three o four kids find some extraterristrial engine I think, so they made a ship and they program a sphere in a home computer, they flew out in the space. while building the thing, the 'geek' installs a computer in the ship so he can run the program, I can swear it's an atari xl... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sikor Posted July 12, 2005 Share Posted July 12, 2005 (edited) This site says it's Apple assembly: http://heim.ifi.uio.no/~haakonhj/Terminato...wers/q7.9.shtml 889614[/snapback] No, this is wrong. Decode text from movie - there are virtual disc sector calling in structure Atari DOS II if I good remember. You can find this info at some number of "Atari magazyn", old polish atari newspaper. Hmm, search here: http://tajemnice.atari8.info/ - you can translate it or look at some Atari Magazyn scans. Hmm, this is true in 100% in Terminator, in Terminator II - I don't know... But I think, that it is true too, because on end subtitles are thanks for Atari firm, I do not find Apple's firm... Edited July 12, 2005 by Sikor 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mos6507 Posted July 16, 2005 Share Posted July 16, 2005 This site says it's Apple assembly: http://heim.ifi.uio.no/~haakonhj/Terminato...wers/q7.9.shtml 889614[/snapback] No, this is wrong. Decode text from movie - there are virtual disc sector calling in structure Atari DOS II if I good remember. You can find this info at some number of "Atari magazyn", old polish atari newspaper. Hmm, search here: http://tajemnice.atari8.info/ - you can translate it or look at some Atari Magazyn scans. Hmm, this is true in 100% in Terminator, in Terminator II - I don't know... But I think, that it is true too, because on end subtitles are thanks for Atari firm, I do not find Apple's firm... 890227[/snapback] Someone should fight this out in Wikipedia then: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS_Technology_6502 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mos6507 Posted July 16, 2005 Share Posted July 16, 2005 on end subtitles are thanks for Atari firm, I do not find Apple's firm... Atari's credit in Terminator 2 probably had more to do with them providing a Portfolio that Ed Furlong used to hack into ATMs. As for Tron, an Atari 800 was used to generate some sound effects like the engine noise of the recognizers. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xrbrevin Posted May 7, 2020 Share Posted May 7, 2020 Atari 800 in Chocky episode 1 at 18m 49s Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
griff3125 Posted May 8, 2020 Share Posted May 8, 2020 On 7/6/2005 at 10:20 AM, _Fandal_ said: I'm not 100% sure but I think that some 8-bit Atari appeared in great "The Thing" movie. Kurt Russell played chess with Atari and then destroyed it because he lost. F. It was an Apple II with a "Chess Master" fake cover, the chess game was a real apple app and the voice was John's Carpenter's then wife, Adrienne Barbeau. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pusakat Posted May 22, 2020 Share Posted May 22, 2020 From "Electric Dreams" (1984), at the computer store. A boxed Atari 800 on the shelf, upper right corner. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sikor Posted May 22, 2020 Share Posted May 22, 2020 "Paradyzja" - - Polish theater TV based on the Janusz A. Zajdel short novel, few Atari 800XL and 130XE (most of them unplugged), some computers effects was made on Atari 130XE (it is documented in end texts) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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