Terminal Program - Wargames Movie?
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turndownfowut · 2016-08-13 21:00

Can someone remind me what the name of the terminal program was where
you could do something to make it act like the WHOPR from the movie
Wargames?

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bakb0ne · 2016-08-13 21:27

telnet wopr.absd.org

or

https://codepen.io/deluxive/pen/lxEGs

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turndownfowut · 2016-08-13 21:40

I mean the Terminal Program you ran, like Telix.

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JokerCharlie · 2016-08-14 08:55

Do you mean something like the war dialer?  Or are you talking more
about the terminal session that emulates the WOPR?

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balkenbrij · 2016-08-14 13:41

i think there was none in the movie but scripted (see
http://imsai.net/movies/wargames.htm ) For actual terminal programs i
think you had a couple to choose from listed
[here](http://www.digitalresearch.biz/CPM-FAQ.HTM#Q14). Personally
i've only used kermit at later times, i'm not sure how popular that
was.

e: from that link;

    Mike, with his cohort in programming, Steve Grummette,  had
written
    some code to provide the illusion that Matthew Broderick was
actually
    entering data and getting output on the monitor. In fact, the
IKB-1
    keyboard could be programmed with a few keystrokes to output an
ASCII
    sequence whenever any key was subsequently pressed.

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ebookit · 2016-08-14 19:36

It was on a modified Altair using a text to speech adapter and some
kind of graphics in a terminal emulator. I think it was special
effects.

When you talk about terminal programs like Telix, there used to be a
DOS program that turned text to speech for DOS to work with Telix,
QModem, Procomm Plus and others because I worked in a college computer
lab back in the early 1990s and had blind students we set it up for.

I think the program was called Flipper, but it did not work in
graphics mode like when Windows was loaded or the app used CGA/EGA
instead of Text mode.

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Paco_Smithereens · 2016-08-15 20:58

One of the things you will notice in the terminal sequences is that
the cursor keeps disappearing, which isn't normal for any terminal
software I've ever used:

http://imgur.com/a/S68Fq

I suspect it wasn't terminal software at all and the cursor was fairly
badly emulated by the computer program which simulated one.

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grazzt519 · 2016-08-15 21:44

I believe the software that was called "terminator" (or something
really similiar) had a secret key combo (maybe alt-something or a fn
key?) and then prompted you for a password, if you entered joshua, it
would take you to wardialer software.

If you meant something that acted like whopr, then Ive never heard of
that.

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turndownfowut · 2016-08-15 23:33

That's exactly what I was referring to.

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grazzt519 · 2016-08-16 18:25

I just installed terminator2, and from my vague 20+ year memory, I
think its the correct software, I just dont remember the key combo to
bring up the password prompt, so if you ever figure it out, do share.
:-)

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turndownfowut · 2016-08-17 00:18

Can you post a screenshot of Terminator2? How are you running it,
DOSBox?

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turndownfowut · 2016-08-17 00:24

I think this was it: http://www.terminate.com/tour/tour-host.html

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grazzt519 · 2016-08-17 11:58

Yeah Im running it in dosbox, and I dont think it was terminate, but
it might have been.  So many term programs back then, all looking the
same.

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braxbrax · 2016-08-21 06:31

Here's a video on Youtube of [Terminator
2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jcpR4meElI) comms program.