Notices by Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)

@SnoopJ Eggers' movie is interesting because despite very clearly using Murnau's and Herzog's versions as a starting point, Eggers doesn't actually copy anything, and that includes the original's iconic imagery, which *every* other version references. Eggers' movie is basically its own.

Ok, the 2023 was not good, but it was still a fun watch, in a way. It was entertaining to see it fumble pretty much every single one of its, mostly good, ideas.

This week I have watched:

- Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922, dir. F. W. Murnau)
- Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979, dir. Werner Herzog)
- Shadow of the Vampire (2000, dir. E. Elias Merhige)
- Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (2023, dir. David Lee Fisher)
- Nosferatu (2024, dir. Robert Eggers)

3 of them I've seen previously, and the 2 most recent ones were new to me.

It was cool. Each update managed to find its own identity, and the Count was portrayed completely differently in each one.

Meanwhile in 1996...
❤️ LET ME BE YOUR VALENTINE! ❤️
https://youtu.be/ByTuHDdZOX8

@xtof @root42 It's the mmplayer and the .mmm files that aren't quicktime.

@root42 It's 2 different players in the same folder. Microman video is in the "mmm" format.

@root42 I think Monolith had their own video format at that time. Not too sure what was special about it though.

Intro from the Monolith CD (1995) version of the 1993 Windows 3.1 platformer Micro Man: #NotDOS

@th3rdsergeevich I guess I somewhat enjoyed Monolith's take on it in "Get Medieval", but at this point I'm not so sure that I didn't enjoy it in an ironic way.

@th3rdsergeevich It is *not* my genre at all (I played the actual original Gauntlet arcade only once) and I wasn't really intro any PC clones of it that I've played, so I'm very much the wrong person to ask. 🤷♂️

The Black Orb (Carl Erikson, 1989) #DOSGaming

UI/UX

Oh MIDI, Lord, trouble so hard
Oh MIDI, Lord, trouble so hard
Don't nobody know my MIDI but God
Don't nobody know my MIDI but God

🔊🎵 #OPL3MIDI

@snakequake If you sound card was generic enough for it to get id'd during the installation, yes.

Velkommen by Stan LePard aka Windows XP installation music

@loadhigh I always preferred the original. It is such a streamlined experience that still pretty much holds up as is. The sequel is pretty good, but it does feel like a mishmash of ideas often, and some of the puzzles are a bit questionable.

@neb the internet can often be fickle.

A soundtrack for the upcoming game Metaisland by Stéphane Picq released ahead of the game to commemorate the composer's passing.
https://picq.bandcamp.com/album/metaisland-stephane-picq

@kewliomzx I... I don't. 👀

@tredstone The Terminator: Future Shock (Bethesda Softworks, 1995)