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Transformers think in BASIC?!

Postby Ramrider » Mon Oct 29, 2007 6:43 am

I've just been going through the Headmasters DVD box set (on loan from ThunderThruster), and in a few of the episodes (particularly the earlier ones) there are some scenes where you see from the TFs' viewpoint. As is often the case with such things, there's various bits of computer text flashing across their HUDs as they analyse what they see.

But here's it's all BASIC coding! :))

This amused me no end.
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Postby ThunderThruster » Mon Oct 29, 2007 6:46 am

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if they're thinking in basic, does that mean that alot of our latest code is more advanced than they are?
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Postby Ramrider » Mon Oct 29, 2007 6:52 am

Possibly. Or maybe they somehow evolved BASIC to the point where they don't need to come up with a new system... :P
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Postby Malicron » Mon Oct 29, 2007 1:27 pm

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Well, if Transformers think in basic, no wonder Starscreem's plans never worked. :P
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Postby Dead Metal » Mon Oct 29, 2007 3:15 pm

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well it was hietech back then.
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Postby Ramrider » Mon Oct 29, 2007 3:20 pm

But most of the coding I noticed were 'print' lines... :-?
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Postby Dead Metal » Mon Oct 29, 2007 3:24 pm

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well they do speak modem... which is weired, and I'm sure the animators just put in some code gibberish so it would look real.
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Postby sto_vo_kor_2000 » Tue Oct 30, 2007 3:06 am

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Whiner-tron wrote:Well, if Transformers think in basic, no wonder Starscreem's plans never worked. :P


Or Megatrons too :-P
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Postby Leonardo » Tue Oct 30, 2007 3:14 am

Maybe that's why Transformers' brains fit on floppy disks?
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Postby Aurax » Fri Nov 02, 2007 2:32 am

Leonardo wrote:Maybe that's why Transformers' brains fit on floppy disks?


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Postby sto_vo_kor_2000 » Fri Nov 02, 2007 2:40 am

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Aurax wrote:
Leonardo wrote:Maybe that's why Transformers' brains fit on floppy disks?


PR#6


I dont get it :-?
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Postby Aurax » Fri Nov 02, 2007 2:47 am

In Apple's flavor of BASIC, that was the command one would use to reboot from the floppy. Not pure BASIC, but 'twas the one I cut my teeth on.
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Postby sto_vo_kor_2000 » Fri Nov 02, 2007 3:03 am

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Aurax wrote:In Apple's flavor of BASIC, that was the command one would use to reboot from the floppy. Not pure BASIC, but 'twas the one I cut my teeth on.


I never get computer humer :sad:
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Postby Pyrostrata » Fri Nov 02, 2007 9:32 am

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sto_vo_kor_2000 wrote:
Aurax wrote:In Apple's flavor of BASIC, that was the command one would use to reboot from the floppy. Not pure BASIC, but 'twas the one I cut my teeth on.


I never get computer humer :sad:


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