Revelation Tiger II and some Synth
Friday, December 2nd, 2005Okay, first, an addendum to the Revelation on Tiger 10.4.3 issue: if your came is crashing, try running it without depth of field and other atmospheric special effects enabled. Several people have reported success with this.
Now, on to the synth. From TK’s blog comes news of a remix album tribute to American video game composers, and as one may expect, the Myst games make an appearance. Perhaps surprisingly, they make a rather prolific appearance, accounting for four out of the fifteen tracks on the album. Earthworm Jim, Commander Keen, Doom (again, obviously 
), 7th Guest, and Grim Fandango also make appearances. I’s a pretty fascinating album, even though I’m really only familiar enough with the Myst music to really recognize the themes that the remix is sporting.
As far as the Myst music is concerned, it’s pretty entertaining, though I’m still not sure the Myst theme works as acid jazz. It sounds really good in some places and not so good in others, but on the whole, the track is fun to listen to. There’s also a remix of the Exile main theme, which Jack Wall has actually heard, and amusingly described as “what it would’ve sounded like 20 years ago”. He’s pretty much spot on with the assessment, too… it’s very MIDI-esque, but it’s a lot of fun to listen to.
Personally, my favorite out of the Myst tracks is track 11, “Zappers Freedom”, which is a remix of the Catherine’s Freedom and Moiety Theme tracks from Riven (admittedly, some of my favorite Myst music from any game, so I may be slightly biased here ).
I recommend going and downloading this album immediately. It’s quite a lot of fun to listen to.