Halloween Costume Prop Program

snapman's picture
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This past Halloween I made a "mid-90s Hollywood-style Hacker costume". I looked silly enough with my ex-trendy wardrobe, but it was my Micron GoBook laptop (Windows ME, 64MB Ram, PCMCIA Modem, 3 1/2" Floppy drive, 2Gig internal!) that completed the look. I took screen captures of every UI seen in the film Hackers for reference, and then did additional research into various top-ten lists of improbable and unrealistic hacking in films, to ensure my interface would have that look that makes you wonder if its creator had ever used a computer in their life.

Controls are Space, Enter, Shift, Arrow Keys, Escape, and Keyboard Mashing.

Move over, Crash Override, Acid Burn, Lord Nikon, and Cereal Killer. Here comes Venom Byte!

Hack the Planet!

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HACKERTOOL.zip4.91 MB

Comments

sergiocornaga's picture

This is fantastic! You have

This is fantastic! You have the best ideas for everything. Any pictures of your costume?

qrleon's picture

These production values are

These production values are off the charts. I love how you can just mash the keyboard and it will spell out authentic-sounding pseudo-hax for you. And the "hack the world" screen is just brilliant.

Also holy shit I have to see hackers. Hugh Jackman's hacking scene in Swordfish simply cannot compare. WOW.

snapman's picture

Notes

You'll need to copy the fonts from the fonts folder to your machine to get everything to show up correctly.
I won first place at a Halloween costume contest!
I might post a photo of the rest of the costume sometime soon.