Notices by Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social), page 47

@IvanDSM Of course. They had to. It wasn't completely uncommon at the time, and several popular utilities did exactly this.

@mirabilos This is the DOS version!

That's cute. PartitionMagic pretty successfully copies the look of Windows 95, although it's purely a DOS program, despite the confusing "DOS 32-bit Win95 executable" notice in the About screen. I don't even have Windows installed on this machine.

@stage7 But then there was also stuff like this:
https://youtu.be/mVAIj0elLR8?si=R4p1PXtjHvVYrpih

which makes sense, a lot of DOS resolutions did, but it's still odd to see, in our future where 60hz is the default and we only see more than that in rare gaming circumstances

Found this on my 2017 backup. I don't recall making this.

@vampiress

@vampiress It's been a while since I looked at the first film, but I think it was fairly easily to tell which shots were done with which kind of a camera. So much of it is clearly upscaled & oversharpened. But then apparently a special effects house went over a lot of the footage to remove a lot of obvious motion artifacts.
And there's also the *only* slow-mo shot done on film. 😄

@vampiress Compression artifacts, and all that other stuff that came from using essentially store bought cameras in combination with wide lenses and fast motion. It was mid-2000s after all.

@vampiress Maybe the only other example of a studio movie that absolutely shouldn't have happened is 1993's Freaked with its $12 mil budget. But that one got buried in the end instead of released.

@vampiress I kind of feel like stuff like Crank 2 hasn't happened maybe ever. It's a $20 mil Troma movie, basically.
Speaking of digital film cameras, a sizeable chunk of the first film's budget was used to remove digital smearing from pro-sumer cameras that were used for a lot of the film.

@vampiress I watch it once every year. It is gloriously trashy insanity.

@vampiress ... and then it became so popular on DVD (!) that a sequel got commissioned right away, and the two dudes just wrote the most insane thing ever in hopes of moving on to something else instead, but the studio greenlit it without even reading the script, so... they just made it. 🤷♂️

I remember only for an hour
Move right through me, can you feel the power?
I don't know what's going on
It scares me, but it won't be long

🔊🎵 #OPL3MIDI

Order direct from Peter Norton
($1 from 1988 is about $2.55 today)

Box art of the day: #DOSGaming

Troddlers (Atod Design/The Sales Curve, 1993) #DOSGaming

@foone They should have a guy, but going with the theme it should be a re-enactment of the bridgekeeper scene.

There's a showing of Monty Python and the Holy Grail soon, and there's no way I would go to see that. There's absolutely 0% chance that everyone in the audience will manage to resist an impulse to quote the whole thing.

@sonneveld Troddlers
https://www.mobygames.com/game/3606/troddlers/screenshots/