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Amstrad CPC • Art Stuffs • Interviews • Pixel Art • videos • Visual Artists

Steel Raining - Amstrad CPC comic!

Steel Raining is a web comic created by Alberto Silva from Spain. His description of it goes something like this: “In the world’s biggest metropolis, a silent buzz vibrates. A buzz that makes men in suits howl. There’s a symbol drawn with chalk on the floor, a girl trapped in an IC and a neon guitar.”

And why are we covering this here? Alberto, to promote the second season of his web comic, created a teaser edition that runs exclusively in Amstrad CPC machines. We minced a few words with him about what drove him, a non-retro, non 8-bit, non-coder person to do this.

You can read the interview and get the original Amstrad CPC executable right after the jump:

Continue reading Steel Raining – Amstrad CPC comic!

Releases

Baseck - Gameboy Thrashin' Turntable Bangin

New Mix for the world at large… featuring a smashing blend of 8 LSDJ gameboy tracks from “Creatures” as well as some all new unreleased tracks from the next album (wink) plus a little crazy scratching, insane ear splitting noise and deranged vocals. You know… the usual.

Listen
Track Listing:

All Banged Up
Unbalanced
Thrash Dance
Remain in the Muck
Hooptie Rollin’
Wiggidywacadactyl
Chemicals
Skybones

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TCTD Links for 2010-04-29

software

NTRQ V1.3 updated

V1.3 – April 29th 2010
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Added pitch fix for PAL version. All future releases will include a PAL version of the ROM (ntrq_PAL.nes) and an NTSC version (ntrq_NTSC.nes). Rename the version you want to use as “ntrq.nes” or you might find you can’t load your .sav files (emulators look for a .sav file that matches the ROM file name, generally).

V1.2 – April 29th 2010
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– Fixed bug where pausing and song and restarting it would cause the song to play incorrectly if you were using a chain of speed settings in the Speed Table
– Made some changes to the priority system used for screen updating to hopefully kill that long-standing screen glitch bug.
– Fixed bug where setting $40 as an aux parameter in an instrument would produce an extreme vibrato effect.
– Added highlighting to Pattern grid. Every 4 steps the grid changes from light to dark grey as a visual aid. I’ll perhaps put in some way of configuring this display. Want to make sure it’s not causing any screen glitches first though.

NTRQ V1.3 not V1.2.