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

Oh, and I forgot the most fun bit: Vidocq was actually a real person. You probably haven't heard of him unless you were French. Reading his Wikipedia page is like reading an adventure novel. Crazy shit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne-Fran%C3%A7ois_Vidocq

@mr_creosote You might be

@even_more_damned_muteKi wait... what?

@even_more_damned_muteKi But... I'm not the death generator guy. 👀

An interesting thing about Berlin 1948 is that instead of featuring any kind of digital sound it comes with a cassette tape that one is meant to play during the credits & the intro.
#DOSGaming

@brooke I uploaded an MKV as well as a region-free NTSC ISO.

@juliobiason Yeah, the music video is on the DVD. I actually owned Apocalyptica's Cult album back in the day.

Seriously though, this movie is freaking CRAZY. Watch it.

@Gamrok I watch it almost every year, even though I don't think it's that great of a movie. 😅

@kai Ok, Vidocq is *much* both more fun and more crazy than Battlefield Earth.

I wanted to put this up during the spooky season, but the Internet Archive was in read-only mode then.
The MKV is just a direct stream copy of video, audio (English & French) & subtitle (English & Spanish) tracks, no re-encoding. Grab that if you don't want to deal with an ISO.

Vidocq (2001) is the 1st major feature film that was shot entirely on HD digital video. A French film directed by special effects guru Pitof (Catwoman) & designed by Marc Caro (The City of Lost Children,) it is a fascinating blend of fantasy horror and visual excess. It is also not very good.
One of my all time guilty pleasures. This is its only US release - a single layer DVD that surprisingly includes an English dub:

https://archive.org/details/vidocq-us-dvd

@damianogerli The UI could definitely use some work. But seems like an interesting historical adventure game, at least for the little while that I've played of it.

East vs. West: Berlin 1948/Berlin 1948 (Time Warp Software/Rainbow Arts Software, 1989) #DOSGaming

@shdon https://bitmidi.com/baltimora-tarzan-boy-mid

I am a very cautious and safe Tetris player. My body *rejects* all attempts of trying to create a set-up for a t-spin triple. 😭😭😭

Jungle life
I'm far away from nowhere
On my own like MIDI boy
Hide and seek
I play alone while rushing cross the forest
Monkey business on a sunny afternoon

🔊🎵 #OPL3MIDI

Your reminder that you could be playing any old Microsoft Flight Simulator for DOS *right now* instead of waiting to log into MSFS2024. 🤷♂️
#DOSGaming

@wbpeckham Asked around and apparently these days people are building from this, which is based on the 2017 code
https://github.com/nillerusr/source-engine

@Gamrok Just by looking it up right now learned that Jamestown apparently supports one mouse per local player. That's a 4 player game.