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Title: Sci Fi Currency Converter
Post by: radiator on 28 June, 2013, 10:16:32 AM
Planning a holiday to Westeros, or Hogsmeade, or Tatooine this summer? Then you'll probably need:

http://www.moneyinadvance.co.uk/sci-fi-currency-converter/ (http://www.moneyinadvance.co.uk/sci-fi-currency-converter/)

It even has Mega City creds!
Title: Re: Sci Fi Currency Converter
Post by: TordelBack on 28 June, 2013, 10:39:30 AM
Very clever, love the calculation rationalisations.  However, maybe a bit disappointing that you only get decimal outputs for each 'coin'. I'd like to have seen breakdowns into Galleons, Sickles and Knuts!
Title: Re: Sci Fi Currency Converter
Post by: Colin YNWA on 28 June, 2013, 10:51:08 AM
Good to see the Pound so strong. Means any 2000ad artists living in fictional Sci-Fi and fantasy locations will have more incentive to get work from Tharg...

... oh yeah...
Title: Re: Sci Fi Currency Converter
Post by: von Boom on 28 June, 2013, 01:31:54 PM
Nice to see the Dredd cred and dollarpound. I only wish they'd do the Dune Solaris and hhgttg Ningis.
Title: Re: Sci Fi Currency Converter
Post by: Pete Wells on 03 July, 2013, 08:53:39 PM
It was actually ME who gave those people the information for that site. They said they were from Leeds University and creating an app. I used the most famous mention of creds from Dredd's world that I could think of - Melda Dreep's 4 cred freezy whip. I figured that an ice cream costs around 2 pounds, so the going rate (20 odd years ago) for the pound compared to the cred was 2 creds per pound. I told them to factor in inflation but they obviously didn't.

Cool to see it up and running.