Category: Chipmusic

Toons from various consoles.

  • Chipflip on Other uses of Computer Hardware

    Not being a huge Queen fan, i’ve avoided posting this:

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    But leave it to goto80 to make the subject fresh with this excellent post on chipflip.

    An excerpt:

    I just found a version of Bohemian Rhapsody performed by an Atari800XL, 8? floppy drive, TI 99/4a, 3.5? floppy drive and four HP ScanJets. It’s apparently the hottest youtube-clip in Canada right now, yip yip! The same author also has Funkytown performed by C64/modem/printer and TI99/4a. Mentioned as his inspiration is James Houston’s Big Ideas (Don’t Get Any) which had a slow start of its Internet career, but has received lots of internet attention by now. It’s James’ final project for design school, so the visual aspect is also well worked through. A very special clip. It’s a ZX Spectrum with scanners, harddrives, and printers that performs a Radiohead-cover. James “placed them in a situation where they’re trying their best to do something that they’re not exactly designed to do, and not quite getting there”.

    Fun reading! Rock the Matrix!

  • Low Bit Playground 12.0 – Tokyo, April 18th – pt2

    This is the second and final part of our coverage of Lo-Bit playground 12.0. Part 1 can be found here.

    20:00 – Tanikugu

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    LBPG is incredibly well organized, all acts have their equipment laid out and ready to go before the doors open. Tanikugu’s rig was by far the most interesting. They had no less than 4 Midines carts plugged into 4 AV Famicoms with 4 bridge adapters hooked up to 2 laptops. Unfortunately they had difficulties with one of the Midines units from the outset. The set was fairly minimal, mid paced, perfectly competent Famicom techno but I felt they didn’t really get their feet under them due to the technical problems. Watch this space though, who knows what Tanikugu could evolve into.
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  • Duty Cycle Generator Creates a new NES sound Driver?

    Via an update on the essential Duty Cycle Generator blog, Neil Baldwin writes about news of his new NES sound driver. Sounds Drool!

    I figured I could take the best bits of my old sound driver, improve the stuff that didn’t work properly, throw in some of the flexibility from MML/PPMCK and make my ultimate NES audio driver. So over the last few weeks I’ve actually written a brand new NES driver, from scratch, which I’ve nicknamed ‘Nijuu’

    Gory tech details at his blog. Sounds great!

  • 8bit.fm Launches

    showcase-bottomSo on this painfully slow Thursday, we luckily have the appearence of 8bit.fm. The station seems to showcase a mix of classic game toons, orgional scene releases, nerdrap, and game remixes. All together it might be not enough of what you dig, but it seems to be a deep mix based on the short time I played with it.

  • Bit Shifter’s Information Chase Back in Stock

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    For those who perfer things of the flesh, very limited qunaities of Bit Shifter‘s Information chase is now back in stock. In related news (at least news to me), there is now a 8bitpeoples Store.