The Extended Module Player, or xmp, is a portable command-line module player for Unix and Unix-like systems such as Linux, BSD, Solaris, HP-UX and MacOS X, and also QNX, BeOS, Windows, OS/2 and AmigaOS. Xmp plays over 90 mainstream and obscure module formats from Amiga, Atari, Acorn, Apple IIgs and PC. There are experimental plugins for Audacious, Beep Media Player, XMMS and Winamp.
Thanks Peter Kirn!
Yet another HVSC release. This time we have 1045 new and an amazing count of 897 fixed SIDs. Also we have 20 PlaySID/Sidplay1 specific SIDs eliminated. The collection contains now 38,714 tunes. Have fun listening! For the full text of the announcement please read here
After this update, the collection should contain 38,714 SID files!
This update features (all approximates):
1045 new SIDs
897 fixed/better rips
20 PlaySID/Sidplay1 specific SIDs eliminated
133 repeats/bad rips eliminated
1076 SID credit fixes
81 SID model/clock infos
23 tunes from /DEMOS/UNKNOWN/ identified
10 tunes from /GAMES/ identified
81 tunes moved out of /DEMOS/ to their composers’ directories
11 tunes moved out of /GAMES/ to their composers’ directories
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…)
Arkos Tracker is a freeware Windows-based tracker to compose music for the AY3-8912, a soundchip used in the Amstrad CPC, but also on MSX, Spectrum, Atari ST and many other computers in the 80’s.
Arkos Tracker is born from the native CPC tracker called STarKos, which I also programmed. It retains most of its features, extends some, and will evolve in future versions.
via [Grimware].
This is weekly demo special edition! Since I am behind two weeks, I decided to post this related news item.
Once upon a time I used to go all the time to a site called GFX ZONE which was a repository of demoscene pixel artists, both old and new. Those fanatic of digital graphics and the demoscene probably remember it (you can still watch it, in its zombi state, clicking here)
Long defunct, I now found this site, recently re-launched, with a huge archive of pixel art to dive on. Run by the awesome Bitfellas crew, the site is pretty amazing, and a -necessary- stop for every pixel art aficionado.
Ah, the good old days when we actually DID antialiasing, and by hand.
Most recommended visit: Artcity
Illustrating this post: one of my favourite pieces by one of my favourite artists, “Too much clubbing” by Cyclone, from Germany. Check out his gallery.