Month: April 2009

  • Hardsid4u Winamp Plugin Appeared

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    The Hardsid Team has released a new method for Playing sid files using the hardsid4u hardware. Details:

    * Seek in .sid files on cycle-accurate SID hardware!
    * Remote-control your SID files using an IR remote controller! (free plugin
    req.)
    * Enjoy the benefits of Winamp playlists! (+song-length support)
    * Put sub-songs on your playlists! (not just that annoying default-song)
    * Build interesting community SID listening stats published at

    http://www.hardsid.com/stats.php

    Download the plugin from:

    Powered by the ACID64 core:
    http://www.acid64.com

  • zan-zan-zawa-veia mole soul ep

    27Long awaited release from zan-zan-zawa-veia for fans of the uneasy listening progressive chip maximization. II writes:

    This cream of nine month’s work is a set of curious songs sung by a neglected NES, buried alongside the sounds of dinosaurs – progressive rock, the earliest game soundtracks, cabaret and other such styles left to hibernate. All six pieces avoid the immediate and mechanical, instead delving naturally into exploration.

    01 Silk Webs

    02 Look Away

    03 Clan Duat

    04 Cats Play

    05 Kheimoni

    06 Snow Hare

    via II » Blog Archive » mole soul ep.

  • BreakpointTV LIVE from BP2009

    Watch it now, they already played some awesome demos.

    They’re a bit late on schedule though, the official inauguration finished minutes ago!

    BreakpointTV.

  • BOOdAw’s Nes News round Up: Famitracker! Dev Carts!

    A Couple of updates via

    Changes in v0.3.0

    MMC5 expansion sound added
    Updated pattern editor (selection in multiple channels, drag’n’drop, control+drag = copy, shift+drag = mix)
    Ctrl+wheel = transpose selected notes
    Shift+wheel = increase/decrease instrument, volume and effect values
    Scroll lock = toggle follow mode
    Control+D = Duplicate frame
    It’s possible to edit directly in the frame editor by double clicking it
    Added a repeat key
    Added second highlight
    Added a second highlight option
    Customizable keys for note cut, repeat and clear field
    Fixed a bug with the tremolo effect
    Fixed the volume restore bug on note offs in VRC6 channels

    And also news of a new Powerpak alternative
    via

    UNES
    is a PowerPak alternative.  Albeit quite goofy and a very original
    design of its own pretty much makes the NES an extension of your
    personal computer.  The UNES would liken more to SIO2PC and APE (of
    Atari 8-bit) than current flash carts — even though that is not the
    most accurate example.

  • Various Artists – Level Up

    VA - LevelupA little while ago I was looking for tunes by one of my favorite artists, Eat_Rabbit and I found a compilation album I had never heard before. The list of musicians read like a who’s who of European Chipmusic so it was an obvious download. I am no expert, nor do I pretend to be “hip”, “groovy” or “cool” but I do seem to be lucky enough to stumble across quality releases that people don’t mention to regularly. Seems like a reasonable concept for a column?

    Ukrainian netlabel DWD Records released Level Up in November 2007 and from the first track its awesome. Cornbeast, who you might recognize from his recent 8BP EP opens with a nice stompy Gameboy tune. Electrox from Stu of Dropdabomb fame is perhaps a little darker to my mind than some of his other tracks? “Dig You Own Tomb” is weird and wonderful even by Eat_Rabbit standards. If I had a gun to my head I guess the genre would by “Egyptune”? perhaps “Gameboy Cairock”? who knows?  I am sure most of you have heard of Goto80? Good stuff, “Honolulu” is an ace little C64 track in the middle of the album. Uoki-Toki contributes a Game-boy track called Gorilka Dance. If you like it, check out his Myspace, there are 6 or 7 EPs for download. I don’t feel brave enough to guess what Datassette or Paza used for the final two tracks but I like them both and the round out the release well.

    Level up has been in pretty high rotation for me over the past couple of weeks, some of you may have heard it before but if you missed it first time around, its well worth your time. If you like it, drop by DWD Records and send them a nice mail, maybe we could convince them to put out some more releases…

    01 Cornbeast – “Acid Rock” 01 Cornbeast – “Acid Rock”
    02 Stu – “Electrox”
    03 Eat_Rabbit – “Dig your own tomb” 03-eat-rabbit-dig-your-own-tomb
    04 Goto80 – “Honolulu”
    05 Uoki-Toki – “Gorilka Dance”
    06 Paza – “Damnfool”
    07 Datassette – “Where The Hell Am I?”

    DWD Records
    Complete Release – 34mb.zip