"The Thing" from Carpenter

Winterbottom · Post by **Winterbottom** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 3:22 pm

Hi!
In the movie "The Thing" (1982, John Carpenter) there's Kurt Russel playing against a chess machine. Does anybody know, what computer system this is? And what program? Or is it no real program, but just set up for the movie?
Thanks!
Here's a link to some pictures:
http://movie-chess.hemobile.de/showfilm ... &pfad=8084

Bill Rogers · Post by **Bill Rogers** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 3:51 pm

Would you believe "Microchess" from Peter Jennings? From memory only as I never owned an "Apple" computer but I think that is what it is.
Bill

gerold · Post by **gerold** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 4:15 pm

Bill Rogers wrote:Would you believe "Microchess" from Peter Jennings? From memory only as I never owned an "Apple" computer but I think that is what it is.
Bill

There was a computer from down under that had nice chess
program on it at that time. I think it had a math coproccessor.
I had Apple at that time. The apple had a math
coproccessor used for the CAD programs. It may of had
a chess program on it.

Alessandro Scotti · Post by **Alessandro Scotti** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 4:56 pm

Looks like Sargon II on Apple... great movie by the way!

Kirill Kryukov · Post by **Kirill Kryukov** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 5:14 pm

The Thing is one of my top 5 favorite movies. By the way, computer is the only woman character in the film (voice).

Winterbottom · Post by **Winterbottom** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 8:33 pm

Thanks all for your help!

Alessandro Scotti wrote:Looks like Sargon II on Apple... great movie by the way!

I think, this is it!
Any emulator-geek here, who can give me a link to a SargonII-Disk-File (.dsk) for the apple? Should be abandonware, as SargonIII is already abandonware.

Winterbottom · Post by **Winterbottom** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 10:14 pm

OK, I've found it!
Here are some nice very old chess games for the apple II:
ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II ... tegy/Chess

Jack Lad · Post by **Jack Lad** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 12:53 am

Movie

The Apple II version of Sargon II

Microchess 2.0

http://www.fadden.com/techmisc/cassette-protect.htm

Jack Lad · Post by **Jack Lad** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 1:20 am

Alessandro Scotti · Post by **Alessandro Scotti** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 1:33 am

Kirill Kryukov wrote:The Thing is one of my top 5 favorite movies. By the way, computer is the only woman character in the film (voice).

Ah, great bit of trivia!

The pair Carpenter/Russell has produced some of my favorite movies too: The Thing, Escape from N.Y., Escape from L.A. and Big Trouble in Little China. I watched these again not too long ago... the latter is still one of the best even after a dozen views!

P.S. Suggestions are welcome if you have to recommend other classics with Kurt Russell not listed above!

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