Good day all,
As a Aliens fan and grid owner , I came across this site in search of sentry terminal software but found as everyone else there is no such beast for the grid and some debate if the program on screen was even real or not. I decided to try and write one myself for dos, electronics being a hobby of mine I have done a small amount of programming, but I like learning new things, I did a basic version using turbo pascal on my gridcase 1530 here
http://youtu.be/-QSUCo-9G3k as you can see it is not very attractive, but before I spent anymore time on it changing the fonts I tried it on my gridcase 3 ,well it ran so slow it was useless. So I scrapped that plan and went straight for the real deal and began to program it in assembly , being a collector of grids I had a 1139 , but it had no OS so was dead , I reached out on this Board , and with the help of Bug Stomper who supplied me with a OS and also had done all the pixel counting to make bmp fonts and screens . Noble who had some invaluable technical documentation for the compass series ,I believe I can put to rest that the program was indeed real and working in the sentry scenes, So the long wait , years and years buy the age of some of the threads is almost over!!
Here is a few pic's of the work to date ,
Look at those ammo counters go!!
http://youtu.be/bA33TVG5k0chttp://youtu.be/K0oQN1bef7U