Author: Peter Swimm

  • FamiTracker 0.3 Appeared

    famipngAfter many beta releases, finally a new version of Famitracker. Details:

    Version 0.3.0 is ready! News in this version

    – MMC5 expansion sound support

    – Improved pattern editor (possible to select 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

    – Customizable keys for note cut, repeat and clear field

    – Added second highlight

    – Added a repeat action key

    – Added a second highlight option

    – Fixed a bug with the tremolo effect

    via FamiTracker.

  • No, this isn’t VORC Circa 2004, NEW PAZA RAHM

    inbetweenthumbnailIts a fun day here at TCTD with another oldish school dominator with a new release, “InBetween Ep”. This is a Promo ep for his upcoming release  “Megatac 2” set to drop 2009-05-31.

    New Promo EP by Paza Rahm!

    Inbetween EP

    Tracklist

    ———–

    • A.Inbetween (Remix)
    • B.Asdf (Remix)
    • C.Time (Remix)
    • D.Inbetween (Elevatormixmix)

    www.pazarahm.com
    Download/Listen –>Last.fm<–

    via Forums | 8bc.org – Online Chiptune Media Sharing.

  • On the FMA: Bud Melvins 657,644 + New Release Popular Music

    657644_frontThis weeks FMA article is about the wonderful worldly Bud Melvin. An excerpt:

    I once read an interview with a sci-fi writer who said that you can only take so many liberties with your audience. You could have a story with dragons, one with telepathy, or a story with time travel, but combining the three takes an enhanced level of skill than does merely using the one alone. Perhaps the most skillful, time traveling, telepathic dragon in the modern chip music scene is one Bud Melvin.

    Read the article, and then download his early release 657,644, in its highest quality web release ever. Also Bud Melvin has a new release “Popular Music”, available on vinyl and free download.

  • OTAKU PLAY Preview

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    Editor: Disclaimer – I have a track on here. Yea self promotion.

    GameSetWatch writes:

    Romanian publication Otaku Magazine — an “independent platform [designed to promote] visual art from national and international artists” — announced its fifth issue, titled Otaku Play, which looks to explore “the universe of players and play of all kinds”, “how and when you play”, and “what you learn while playing and where … you risk arriving when you remain blocked within the same play”.

    The 132-page, English-language issue includes articles “Virtual Worlds Unplugged”, “A Short Visual History of Videogame, NES Coffee table” and an interview with chiptune artist Nullsleep.

    Otaku Play also comes with “New York Poster” (photo past the post break), a fabulous pixel cityscape from renown pixel art group eBoy, though its a quarter of the original print’s size.

    While Otaku is only printing 350 copies of the issue, each copy will come with an interactive DVD packed with chiptune music, live performance video from Blip Festival events, and trailers for indie games like Blueberry Garden, Osmos, Cletus Clay, and more.

    More Details after the jump:
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  • Lil’ Bits!

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    Tiny Cartridge has news of the US release of PictoBit: The second-best DSiWare game, Art Style: PiCOPiCT (right under Art Style: Hacolife), is finally available in North America as PiCTOBiTS. It is imperative that you purchase this addictive puzzler, if nothing more than for its YMCK remixes of classic NES/Famicom songs:

    “Super Mario Bros. Part 5” by YMCK
    “Super Mario Bros. Part 4” by YMCK
    PiCOPiCT’s “Ending” (Credits) song by YMCK

      Make sure to read my PiCOPiCT review, too.

      And a positive review of Reformat the Planet. In other bits:

      • Neil Baldwin has updated his Duty Cycle Generator blog, this time with background and audio of the game Ferrari Grand Prix.
      • Little-Scale has provided a new “Chip Tune Music Uploader” the idea is to avoid ugly media fire or similar download sites.  But seriously kids, get a website!
      • Finally, VORC has upped a new demo video of 8-Bit Prophet