Author: Peter Swimm

  • Steve .. IN THE CUT

    Steve writes

    “I just wrote an article for London based newspaper The Cut (available free at plenty of places in and around London) about chipmusic (specifically the current UK scene – this issue is a special UK/London one). You can see it at The Cut site here, and also you can download the whole paper in .pdf here (the article actually looks quite nice), although I’ve also posted here in full. The point of the article was to redress the balance of fucking dreadful chipmusic media coverage, and I think I’ve at least done that…”

    Congrats! You can read the text of the article on 8BC.

  • environmental sound collapse – necromancy

    necromancy500

    A terse and serious release with little info about it. Heavy chip doom, available on 8BC.

    download here

  • Exessive Acronym Explosion: TSS’ “NYPWP8: TIWIUD” For order

    nypwp8splashAnother cool sounding cover arrangement from the ever prolific TempSoundSolutions.

    Shawn Phase writes:

    “Now Youre Playing With Powar 8: This Is Where I Usually Die is the 8th video game cover cd by Temp Sound Solutions. This 25 song album depicts emotions brought forth of games with seemingly excessive difficulty levels and the lasting impression that comes with them.”

    This album is $10 ($12 for international orders) through Paypal

  • reViSiT 1.00.3 Pro update available

    Post Blip, truly great puns will come at a premium this week.

    Chris Nash Writes:

    “I’m happy to announce that reViSiT v1.00.3 Pro is now available to experiment participants, packed full of improvements, tweaks and fixes – including:

    · Improved graphics performance
    Optimised drawing code now considerably lightens the load on the CPU for nearly all screen updates. Additionally, memory handling improvements have enabled me to move from a 16 colour pattern display, to one with over 16 million colours, thus enabling…

    · Pattern font smoothing (anti-aliasing)
    Like other text in Windows, the pattern fonts now take advantage of anti-aliased (smoothed) fonts, which will not only make your pattern look much nicer, but also make those awkward in-between font sizes easier to read.

    · Full-colour instrument labels
    If you though the four instrument colours in previous versions was restrictive, you can now choose from 4 million times as many. To select a colour for an instrument, select its label in the Instrument List and hit Enter.

    · Rock-solid stability*
    With this version, I am proud to say that there are no outstanding issues in my inbox. I’ve had a handful of crash reports from some unlucky users over the last few weeks, but having sifted out the non-reViSiT issues and put pay to the remaining bugs, I’m looking forward to adding some “documented” features. (* it’s up to you to prove me wrong!)

    As ever, the release notes / readme.txt tell the full story, now it’s up to you to tell the world about reViSiT! Now at release status, reViSiT’s waiting in anticipation of it’s first review on KVR…”

    Learn more about the reViSiT experiment here!

  • Free Scraps 08 Pixel

    free-style-scraps-08-pixelvia Attractmo.de

    “Free Style Scraps 08 Pixel is a book + CD-ROM combo pack filled with 8 bit pixel art. The CD–ROM contains a ton of stock pixel art in EPS and JPG format, and the book is filled with creative ideas for implementing the pixels in your designs. It’s perfect for the lonely chiptune artist in need of some quick cover art, or for anyone that needs a little bit of retro videogame inspiration.”

    Currently Japan-only, but there is the suggestion they might try and import some copies, follow the link for details.