Author: Peter Swimm

  • A Short History of The C-men

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    Julian of The C-men posted a little history of The C-men in time for their 10th anniversary show.

    An excerpt:

    Well, seems 10 years have gone by fast.

    Me and a guy called Sjors Trimbach started veejaying 11 years ago, somewhere in november. We did our first gig in the back of an old american musclecar, having 2 amigas on the backseat, projector set up outside on the deserted area of a waste disposal factory.

    We both met in artschool, at the media art department in Enschede and we had a nice stack there of amiga 4000 computers. Since I owned an amiga 1200, I taught Sjors about deluxepaint ( the animation program by electronic arts), and we did art installation stuff together (including some daft live pong installation in 98 : P )

    Sjors had a background in comics, and this was his opportunity to use his experience with that to do proper animation.

    At some point, some vj’s from Amsterdam gave a lecture at our school, and they showed their home made program mnu, which was written specially for the amiga.

    At the time I was making intricate animation stuff, and was frustrated about the fact that it couldn’t be altered once it was made, so I gave the program a go. And before we knew it, we got into veejaying.

    Read the rest at 8bc.org

  • TCTD tweets from 2009-10-05

    • Animal Style Teletime Preorder: http://bit.ly/JXDYh #
    • More Saskrotch – Live in the Machine Pt1 On HandheldHeroes http://bit.ly/EMLR5 #
    • 8bitweapon discusses all thigns 8bit on the 8 extravaganza 8bit podcast. 8bit. #
    • The C-men !0 year anniversary party looks fab: #
    • 10 Musicians inspired by chip sounds without being chiptunes: http://tinyurl.com/ydrqy75 #
    • Amiga Tracking Workshop in Glasgow http://is.gd/3YTKd RT: @firebrandboy #
    • KeygenMusic September Update: http://keygenmusic.net/?page=news #

  • KevtrisFPGA Synthesizer updates

    Another update from the mythic kevtris FPGA chip emulating synthesizer:

    Long story short, the conversion was a success, and I ended up fixing a few bugs and adding some features along the way. I ended up 100% redoing my OPL3 core, and vastly simplified and improved it, reducing device resource usage immensely. To date, I have full support for the following sound chips: SID quad, POKEY quad, OPL3 full support, NES audio, N106 8 chan wavetable, VRC6 3 channels, VRC7 FM synth, MMC5 two squares+digi, FME7 3 squares, and FDS audio 1 chan wavetable. The wishlist of additions is: Atari 2600 with extended range, Gameboy sound, and coleco/SMS sound SN76489. These shouldn’t be too tough, but before I can implement those I need to emulate the target CPUs which are Z80 and GBCPU.

    Read More: FPGA Synthesizer Progress « kevtris.org.

  • Steve – Adventures in Sound

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    Packed with uplifting harmonies and topped with shimmering melodies (what on Kittenrock???) Steve effortlessly slings together three tracks of super fresh arcade electro funk and a shimmery disco remix by Rico Zerone

    via kittenrock.

  • Saskrotch – I’ll Have You Naked by the End of This ROM

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    In the early summer of 2007, the first demo from I’ll Have You Naked By the End of this ROM, an 8 second loop from Mustard, was played for Nullsleep over tinny DS speakers. Thirty months of discarded demos, obsessive re-writes, and at least three mastering sessions later, one of the true innovators of chipbreak brings you 5 tracks of high speed guilt trips and over joyous ceremony. This is Raw. This Is Saskrotch.

    via 8bitpeoples.