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Bradley Trainer Support in MAME 0.62
TheAlchemist writes "The Bradley Trainer was a modification to Atari's Battlezone arcade game created for the US Army to help train personel in the use of the Bradley Fighting Vehicle. Supposedly only two of these machines were built, and of the two only one of them is known to exist today. The latest version of the arcade enumator MAME (0.62) has support for the Bradley Trainer, which hasn't been emulated until now. Pictures and more information of the Atari Bradley Trainer be found on this site, and screenshots of it running in MAME can be found here."
Now I need to worry about impressionable school kids in trench coats carrying tanks as well?
Better start carrying a few extra lives with me.
it's still illegal to play the rom unless you own the original, which, especially in this case, is highly doubtful.
I didn't realize tanks had score and high score displays in them! Schweet. :)
The US Air Force is using a modified version of Choplifter originally from the Apple II to train its personnel for the Commanche Helicopter.
"enumator"?!?!?! That was painful even by /. standards...
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Maybe they meant "enumerator". I always wanted to enumerate an arcade. (Only every time I went in an arcade, I just kept "enumerating" my losses in quarters...)
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"By clicking on this link you stipulate that you own one of the original machines".
Don't be silly. I don't have the simulator. I've got the damned tank in my backyard. It's just that the neighbors got upset last time I blew up their Buick.
Sure, but they *wouldn't* like the Bradley if it had been constructed without the safety modifications mentioned in the film. Hot aluminum vapor filling the cabin when the tank gets fired upon isn't a good thing...
:-)
Plus, it was originally designed as a fast troop transport and ended up a slower smaller tank after decades of bureaucracy and *billions* of dollars--a huge waste of resources at the taxpayers' expense. Remember the outcry against military cost overruns in the 80s? The Bradley was one of the big reasons.
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I for one found this interesting. If you look beneath the surface, you see a glimpse into history of what was actually being used to train our soldiers during the cold war.
We may live in a world now where this level of application is laughable, but look at the fact that during the 80's this was cutting edge.
With this in perpective, this game was probably much more advanced than the training programs used by the people we were training to fight. Sure, it probably wouldn't have trained people as well as blowing stuff up in the real thing, but this was a pretty large step into modern military training.
I had never heard of this before, so I did find it worthy to be posted here. The re-relase story may not be too interesting, but the idea of early military computer based training is to me.
And you don't have a lieutenant four years younger than you yelling through the headset all the while.
I miss the good ol' days! *sniff*
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