Month: March 2009

  • Little-Scales fatter SN76489 bass

    via 8bc

    Big Bass:
    Normally with the SN76489 (on the Sega, for example) there isn’t much bass at all (ie. the chip can’t go very deep in pitch), which is why I thought I would underclock a discrete SN76489 and see what it sounds like.

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    Let’s Change The Duty Cycle:
    Some further experimentation with the under clocked SN76489 revealed that it is possible to change the duty cycle of the sound output without too much effort.

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    Timbral Droner:
    A hypnotic droning sound, due to phase differences and duty cycle changes.

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  • FOReVER 10 oldschool demoparty

    foreverx1You want a 100% oldschool demoparty experience? You can’t go anywhere better than FOReVER! PCs and Macs not allowed (unless they are slaves of the oldschool machines ;)

     

    :: party name: FOReVER|neXt – 8-bit computer party 
    :: date: 13-15. o3. 2oo9
    :: scenes: all 8bit: [atari] – [commodore] – [zx spectrum] – [amstrad cpc] – [sam coupé]
    :: location: EARTH/EUROPE/SLOVAKIA/TRENCIN/club SOMER – MERINA – near MAX shopping centre and TMM showground
    :: entrance fee: 13 € (one entrance fee for all FOReVER days)
    :: visitors: in FOReVER|neXt will be 68 visitors. 

    official page: http://forever.zeroteam.sk
    visitors list/registration: http://forever.zeroteam.sk/visitors.php

    “Slovakia is in Schengen since last year, that means if you live in Schengen zone, you don’t have to stop and pass check points on every border.[…] Another positive is, that since 1st of January 2009, Slovak currency changed to EURO. “

  • New 8BP Release: Cornbeast – Chip Hero

    8bp094The 8BP team is back on the release track and put up for us a release from Swedish legend Cornbeast. 

    “Cornbeast delivers Chip Hero, five songs from the soundtrack of an imaginary future video game where players perform along with the chip music hits of tomorrow, using controllers resembling the gaming gear of yesterday. Post-modern musical sensibilities collide with pre-information-age hardware, not so much closing the loop as introducing something unconventional, unexpected, and occasionally upbeat.”

     

    Download it from 8bitpeoples!

  • Blockparty 2009 Invite by XPLSV

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  • The “Retr0brite” Project

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    via Lazerbeat

    “Anyone who has dug their old computer or console out of the cupboard or loft for some retro gaming will probably have noticed that it maybe hasn’t worn too well with the test of time. The plastics these machines were made of is called ABS and to make it flame retardant (just in case it catches fire after a marathon session) the plastics manufacturers added chemicals that caused the plastic turn yellow or, even worse, brown over a long period of time.

    It was originally thought that the yellowing was permanent and that the only solution to this was to paint the plastic in its original colour and cover the problem up. However, a chance discovery was made in March 2008, by The CBM Museum at Wuppertal in Germany, that immersing parts in a solution of Hydrogen Peroxide could partially reverse the process. This was initially taken up by the Amiga community in Germany (http://www.a1k.org) and the idea eventually found its way to the English Amiga Board (http://eab.abime.net), where a madcap collection of chemists, plastics engineers and retro hackers managed to perfect this concept and put it on steroids, with help from other forums.”

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