'I don't want you to think of this as just a film.We're rewriting the history of human thought with what we're doing.' So begins the first film to dramatise the life and times of Apple founder Steve Jobs. With new biopic 'Steve Jobs' in theatres soon, we look back at 1999's 'Pirates of Silicon Valley'. 'Pirates' focuses on the heated personal rivalry between Steve Jobs of Apple and Bill Gates of Microsoft, recounting the parallel and often intertwined stories of the two companies and their tempestuous founders.

Written and directed by photojournalist and documentary-maker Martyn Burke, the TV movie was based on the book 'Fire in the Valley: The Making of The Personal Computer' by Paul Freiberger and Michael Swaine. It was first shown on TNT in June 1999. Noah Wyle, then in the middle of his role as Dr. Carter in 'ER', plays the hippie-turned-executive Jobs.

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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is played by Anthony Michael Hall, relegated to TV after his '80s teen movie heyday but soon to have something of a career revival as the lead in 'The Dead Zone'. Wyle is uncannily similar to the young Apple co-founder: Jobs' real-life college buddy and Apple employee #12,, 'I found myself thinking it was actually Steve on the screen.' But Hall's is the more interesting performance. In the popular imagination Gates is the nerd and Jobs is the visionary, but 'Pirates of Silicon Valley' slyly suggests who's the winner, Hall topping Gates' awkward smirk with the steely, dead-eyed gaze of a poker player. Walter Isaacson's biography of Jobs describes Gates as one of the few people resistant to Jobs' infamous 'reality distortion field', and while Jobs the mercurial visionary might dismiss his Harvard-educated rival Gates as having 'no taste', the film portrays the calculating Microsoft man playing Jobs like a fiddle. 'Success is a menace,' says Hall as Gates.

'It fools smart people into thinking they can't lose.' Noah Wyle is an uncanny Steve Jobs (left) and Anthony Michael Hall is a steely Bill Gates in 1999's 'Pirates of Silicon Valley'. Turner Network Television Although it clearly lacks the Hollywood prestige of, the men behind the new Jobs biopic, 'Pirates of Silicon Valley' is shot with real verve. Cleverly opening with a recreation of Apple's iconic 1984 advert, the film keeps its potentially technical subject matter light, with visual flair from the opening monologue fake-out to the camera tracking over the chaos of a counter-cultural riot or prowling down a boardroom table. The parallel stories of the two companies are narrated by their respective co-founders Steve Wozniak and Steve Ballmer, long-time friends of Jobs and Gates. You might recognise the ebullient Ballmer's dulcet tones: he's played by John DiMaggio, the voice of Bender in 'Futurama'. Their narration is brought to life as Ballmer breaks the fourth wall to step out of a frozen scene and explain how Gates built his vast fortune on a lie, while Woz wanders into a Mac's graphic user interface and begins pointing stuff out.