Category: Music Artists

  • 8-Bit Operators • WANNA HLD YR HANDHELD, VOL. 2


    Volume 2 out now, featuring 11 more crazy interpretations of all your fave Beatles tracks, both the hits and deep album cuts.  Grab both volumes now as a Bandcamp exclusive for one low price:

    http://beatles.8bitoperators.com/

  • 8GB – Live in Tokyo 2010

     

    Official blurb:

    In his first time in Japan (and Asia), 8GB delivers a mighty blow to an unsuspecting Tokyo crowd at the fantastic first installment of Blip Festival Tokyo in Koenji High, Tokyo, Japan, September 5th 2010.

    Link

    via 8GB’s official feed

    Don’t forget, 8GB’s latest track is available in the Chip in: Japan fundraising compilation!

  • TCTD Interview with AY-Riders’ Yerzmyey

    This week TCTD talks to Yerzmyey, organizer of AY Riders, producer of awesome tunes, lover of the z80 and generally all round amazing guy. So thanks very much to Yerz for being so generous with his time and lets get down to business!

    Lazerbeat – Where are you from?

    Yerzmyey – Ah, well. I come from Rubber Planet. ;) A place where all computers have rubber keyboards. ;) Well, actually that’s not exactly true. :) ZX Spectrum was highly popular in PL, in 80s and early 90s, however, somehow it stopped suddenly and now literally only a few people support the machine here. Cry, cry! As for geography matters ;) , my mother’s family came here from Czech and Austria (in that time it was connected with Hungary) and my father came here from Lithuania.

    LB – It looks like you have been active in the Demo scene for for over 20 years. How old were you when you founded H-PRG? Why did you start it?

    Y – First programs we made with Mr Hangman about 1987. We were 12 years old or so, in those days. :) We were only making games (just occasionally some simple pseudo-demos, haha). The games were not that bad actually :) – ugly but playable. Sadly in those times the only thing we had for saving the progs – was a tape-recorder, so the games didn’t survive to the present day, heh. Our the earliest programs that have survived come from 1989, so I took the date as a beginning of the HOOY-PROGRAM group. :)

    And what is funny, it wasn’t me who started all of this, it was my younger brother (who isn’t very interested in 8-bit nowadays, after all) who met Mr Hangman – and HE started making ZX games with him. :) I only joined them. But then my brother lost interest (well, not in playing games but in making them :) ), and I stayed. In this way we founded a team. ;)

    They were funny times. :) I remember that we had to be very careful and save our programs very often because every time Mr Hangman’s refrigerator/fridge turned on – then ZX Spectrum got reset, hahaha. :)

    Also, while loading (from tape of course) everybody was forced to leave to room, so as not to disturb the loading process. (more…)

  • TCTD Twitter Posts for 2010-02-05

  • Goto80’s Come Together video by Erik Nilsson

    Anders writes:

    Tomorrow the 8 Bit Operators Beatles Tribute is out, and here is the video to my contribution for it. It was made by Erik Nilsson, who recently made a mechnical orchestra. He animated this video on a Commodore 64 BBS (popular before the Internet), where the text gets written on the screen slowly enough for you to work with different animation techniques. Petscii and Skweee, how sweet life can beee. And thanks for the expert help, Rosaroos.

    via GOTO8O