Category: videos

  • Big Mess O’ Wires

    gallery3Via Infradead

    One more demo: I wrote a music visualizer to show off the AY chip tunes, and also converted a bunch more AY songs for use with BMOW. Now there’s something cool to look at while you listen to that glorious 8-bit music!”

    http://www.stevechamberlin.com/cpu/2009/03/29/music-visualizer/

    talks about the different chips he was thinking of using for the audio here.

    “The AY-3-8913 is a variant of the AY-3-8910, which was used in systems such as the Atari ST, Amstrad CPC, Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Intellivision, and Vectrex. It was also at the heart of the Mockingboard sound card for the Apple II family.”

    http://www.stevechamberlin.com/cpu/2009/01/11/audio-plans/

    earlier demo of ay

    http://www.stevechamberlin.com/cpu/2009/02/07/music-demo/

    Project Page

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  • Meneo Interview

    460_1852079Meneo Interview on a new podcast from Forcefed Fistfuls. Details:

    This week we put our focus on latin America (from Argentina to Mexico) for ‘Mas Fuego, Mas Bajo!’, our special on latin American electronics and street music.

    With focus on a few key artists and record labels pushing different unique sounds – we’re putting our south-of-the-equator sister continent on blast, exposing movements in Reggaeton, Cumbia, Hip Hop, Funk Carioca, Baile Funk and more. Find out what all these genres are if you don’t know already and if you do, enjoy some classic and harder to find gems….

    via An interview with Guatemalan chiptune artist Meneo, live from Barcelona.

  • sasakure.UK – Hello Planet

    More Japanese Vocaloid chiptune pop!

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    Lyrics and mp3 (scroll down) can be found on sasakure.UK’s website.

    via

  • Dear Scene: Do your best to not make this terrible.

    Here’s the deal: Boing Boing has come into possession of some wicked footage of an anonymous Atari Computer Camp excursion that has everything you could ever want from grainy stock video: namely, yellowed and over-saturated money shots of retro-tech, and a bevy of over-eager and still-innocent pre-teens banging out BASIC to make crossword crosses out of the words Van Halen no joke and gawping at the awesome limitless power and future of computers.

    via Do you make chiptunes? Help us score these retro-videos. – Offworld.

  • Lil’ Bits!

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    Tiny Cartridge has news of the US release of PictoBit: The second-best DSiWare game, Art Style: PiCOPiCT (right under Art Style: Hacolife), is finally available in North America as PiCTOBiTS. It is imperative that you purchase this addictive puzzler, if nothing more than for its YMCK remixes of classic NES/Famicom songs:

    “Super Mario Bros. Part 5” by YMCK
    “Super Mario Bros. Part 4” by YMCK
    PiCOPiCT’s “Ending” (Credits) song by YMCK

      Make sure to read my PiCOPiCT review, too.

      And a positive review of Reformat the Planet. In other bits:

      • Neil Baldwin has updated his Duty Cycle Generator blog, this time with background and audio of the game Ferrari Grand Prix.
      • Little-Scale has provided a new “Chip Tune Music Uploader” the idea is to avoid ugly media fire or similar download sites.  But seriously kids, get a website!
      • Finally, VORC has upped a new demo video of 8-Bit Prophet