Category: atari 2600

  • Retro Thing: Atari Flashback Portable

    While at the Midwest Gaming Classic in Milwaukee, Retro Thing shot exclusive video of the prototype Atari Flashback Portable. This pocket-sized game has a built in screen, and plays your favorite Atari 2600 ROMs downloaded into its internal memory. Marty Goldberg tells us about plans to bring the Portable to market in the near future

    via Retro Thing: Exclusive Video: Atari Flashback Portable.

    Coupled with the usb port, this might be just the thing to get people working on more serious 2600 composition. At $75 AND dual keypad support, I’d be all over this :D

  • Offworld on: Treewave

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    In reality it just gives me an excuse to post the above video.

    Producer Paul Levering made special note of (I was happy to hear) one Dallas act in particular that I think fits both criteria: Paul Slocum and Lauren Gray’s Tree Wave, who list their MySpace ‘sounds like’s as: My Bloody Valentine / Stereolab / Lali Puna / M83 and Postal Service, and I can’t say it much better. Above is their video for their best track, Sleep.

  • Midi synth Control of the atari 2600

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    ThemindOfPat writes:

    Sort of like synthcart, only with more synth and less cart! Less hacking/drilling a vintage VCS, too.

    After months of distraction I finally got around to implementing: 1) my own clock so I don’t need an Atari MB, and 2) MIDI control. Laughably enough, it took me like 2 hours, so it was a welcome break from banging my head against other projects for days straight. I’m quite pleased with the results! Still would like to add a couple features but this is enough to run genuine “Atari sounds” off my sequencer… good enough for government work, as they say!

    Ignore the JX-3P and PG-200 in the background, those are for another project that I’ll stick up in a couple weeks. :)

    Also please ignore the distortion and amount of times I say “um.” I’m still getting used to recording myself.

    Questions welcome! Enjoy!

    PS: It pains me to use the tags “circuit” and “bending” just because I hate that cliche so much. Plus that crowd seems to more enjoy glitching known hardware rather than building predicable stuff from scratch. Still, hopefully it will be, as the internet says, relevant to their interests.

  • Announcing the 2008 TCTD Awards

    Handcarfted using only the finest child labor.
    Handcrafted using only the finest child labor.

    As 2008 comes to a close, the staff at TCTD takes time to take stock and acknowledge the best and brightest achievers in the International Chip Community. TCTD is pleased to announce that we are accepting nominations for the following Categories.

    Please email all one paragraph or less nominations to:

    2008@truechiptilldeath.com
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  • Blip Festival Schedule Announced

    Nullsleep till Brooklyn
    Nullsleep till Brooklyn

    And TCTD will be there day by day, live blogging the audio bacchanalia. More after the jump!
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