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Posted: October 21st, 2009, 8:52am PDT
The Blip Festival , a three-day music and arts festival, returns to New York City this year at Brooklyn’s Bell House December 17th, 18th, and 19th. The festival showcases the use of the former heavyweights of computing such as the Commodore 64 and Amiga, the Atari ST and 2600, and the Nintendo Entertainment System and Game Boy to create arresting music and visual art. Artists announced so far include: Bit Shifter Chromix Disasterpeace failotron Fighter X I, Cactus
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Posted: October 14th, 2009, 10:50am PDT
By Peter KirnRelated: 8-bit, artists, Atari, chip, chip-music, chiptune, coleco, commodore, gaming, history, inspiration, Mac, Nintendo, PCs, plogue, retro, Sampling, sega, SID, soft-synths, Software, synthesis, Windows& more Taste the rainbow of the Spectrum ZX home computer. Photo (CC) diebmx.Call it the 8-bit preservation society. Chipsounds is now available. It’s a new programmable soft synth, filled with custom oscillators and samples of famous and obscure vintage chips, accompanied by an
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Posted: September 2nd, 2009, 3:57pm PDT
1984 was the date for me. Apple IIc sported the tiniest green monochrome screen in history. I used to get into arguments with my friend over whose computer was better. Commodore 64 or the IIc. Traded in my Atari ST in Fall of 91 and got my first mac to score music and program MIDI. Good times. I even owned a Mac Clone (Power Computing) in the early 90s.
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Posted: August 24th, 2009, 11:15am PDT
Amazing Lego stop motion animation takes you on an old school video game adventure. 08/24/2009 | Games, Web Tags: 80s, animated, Atari, Commodore, Lego, Nintendo, Pac-Man, rad, retro, Super Mario Bros., Tetris, toys RelatedOlympus Pen StoryThe Top 11 Animated Music VideosTransformers Stop Motion – Instruments of DestructionLego Predator
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Posted: August 24th, 2009, 5:23am PDT
I was a child of the television. Cartoons, Brady Bunch reruns, Family Feud (I so wanted to be on that show but the biggest thing holding me back – besides, you know, the rest of my family being on board – was creepy-ass Richard Dawson insisting on kissing all the females.), Tic Tak Dough, Smurfs, Snorks, Disney, Fraggle Rock, etc. I was a child of video games. Duck Hunt on the Commodore 64, Defender and Pac-Man on the Atari, Super Mario on the SNES, Final Fantasy on the Game Boy. While I gre