In my game, I'd like to use a monitor close up and see the character, in the 80's, hacking into some server or something and trying to download some files.
I know that everything was text based, so if anyone knows how the hacking looked like (the commands and stuff), could tell me.
-Eigen
It was all done in tellnet through dos
if your running windows hit run and type in tellnet
Its still around in windows but it was done in dos back then.
type help and it will show u the commands
It's telnet, not tellnet (not to be rude in correcting you, but tellnt won't have any effect :))
Oops Sorry
Dos??! Wtf.. Wasn't it done on *inux Computers?
UNIX rather
Unix was TEH hacking OS in the 80's.. But now we got these damn hax0r-kiddies that use their parent's Wind0wz machines cause they don't know anybetter.
I think it'd be safe just to have a big black screen with green text ala Matrix
You could have an Amber display to have an accurate look without looking too much like other films and the like.
I like Amber displays more anyway.
http://www.accessorl.net/~cyberwar/codehacks.html#common
By scrolling down from there about two inches you can get an example of what a hacking code MIGHT look like.
Basically just type a lot of crap, and people shall praise you.
EDIT:
Give it a second or two to load completely. And don't have your speakers up too loud, because it has some blooming annoying background music at the start....
omg Las.. I totally forgot about amber screens..
Yes, do those.. Much 1337er