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For Love of Chips: Chipsounds Instrument and EP and the Gear That Inspired Them

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
BASIC for iPhone released to app store

Posted: October 1st, 2009, 2:07pm PDT

Long time ago, back when the coolest thing in store, was a Commodore 64 some games were released in source code of BASIC language. You want to relive it on your iPhone with a legal app from an app store? Now you can: Description from the developer: There has already been 8-bit Video Games for iPhone. But how about games older than that? iBASIC presents you some of the most popular games in Home Computer Era (late 1970s to mid-1980s) and makes them running on iPhone/iPod Touch. There i
The Commodore 64 Musical Aesthetic

Posted: September 26th, 2009, 8:27am PDT

The Commodore 64 Musical Aesthetic26Sep09 | Feed for this Entry | Filed under: Computer Music, Music News The Commodore 64 was the best-selling home computer system of all time, and still draws a large crowd of retro-gamers.Despite its popularity, though, the music of C64 games has rarely been analysed in academic articles. Karen Collins’ Loops And Bloops: Music of the Commodore 64 Games discusses the technical constraints of C64’s SID soundchip and how this sha
The Atari Laptop Old School Computer Becomes Portable

Posted: September 15th, 2009, 7:07pm PDT

With the new video gaming systems on the market, a lot of us still remember fondly where it all started. By this, we don’t mean the NES, but actually Atari and Commodore computers. These were the first home computers that didn’t take up too much space. Well, Ben Heck has modded one to become a laptop! Read More… Posted in blogs, technology Tagged: Apartment Therapy, Atari, blogs, computer, retro, technology, unplggd, video games
Commodore 64 titles on the iPhone

Posted: September 7th, 2009, 6:54pm PDT

Fans of the Commodore 64 platform will be pleased to note that they will be able to see games on the iPhone in due time after the developer made some changes to align it with Apple's SDK. This means the developer managed to work around a clause from Apple that stated, "An Application may not itself install or launch other executable code by any means, including without limitation through the use of a plug-in architecture, calling other frameworks, other APIs or otherwise. No interpreted code may
Legendary Arkanoid Comes to the iPhone

Posted: September 7th, 2009, 12:11pm PDT

Monday, September 7th, 2009 by Steven 0 Add a CommentFans of retro games who also happen to own an iPhone have many reasons to rejoice this week. First, a Commodore 64 emulator, together with a couple of licensed games, was approved for sale in the App Store. Now, one of the best known games of all time, Arkanoid, has also arrived to the iPhone. If you’re unfamiliar with the title of Taito’s classic game from 1986, you probably know it as “that brick breaking game.” In the game, you assum
Legendary Arkanoid Comes to the iPhone

Posted: September 7th, 2009, 11:02am PDT

Fans of retro games who also happen to own an iPhone have many reasons to rejoice this week. First, a Commodore 64 emulator , together with a couple of licensed games, was approved for sale in the App Store. Now, one of the best known games of all time, Arkanoid, has also arrived to the iPhone . If you’re unfamiliar with the title of Taito’s classic game from 1986, you probably know it as “that brick breaking game.” In the game, you assume command of a spaceship whose goal is to break brick
Legendary Arkanoid Comes to the iPhone

Posted: September 7th, 2009, 10:10am PDT

Fans of retro games who also happen to own an iPhone have many reasons to rejoice this week. First, a Commodore 64 emulator , together with a couple of licensed games, was approved for sale in the App Store. Now, one of the best known games of all time, Arkanoid, has also arrived to the iPhone . If you’re unfamiliar with the title of Taito’s classic game from 1986, you probably know it as “that brick breaking game.” In the game, you assume command of a spaceship whose goal is to break brick
Legendary Arkanoid Comes to the iPhone

Posted: September 7th, 2009, 10:10am PDT

Fans of retro games who also happen to own an iPhone have many reasons to rejoice this week. First, a Commodore 64 emulator , together with a couple of licensed games, was approved for sale in the App Store. Now, one of the best known games of all time, Arkanoid, has also arrived to the iPhone . If you’re unfamiliar with the title of Taito’s classic game from 1986, you probably know it as “that brick breaking game.” In the game, you assume command of a spaceship whose goal is to break brick
Back to the Future: iPhone gets a C64 emulator

Posted: September 7th, 2009, 9:39am PDT

A previously rejected iPhone title offering emulated play of Commodore 64 titles has been approved after the developer made changes to align it with Apple’s SDK. It allows the iPhone to act as a system that was what was once Apple’s staunchest competitor.According to a report by TouchArcade, Manomio’s $4.99 C64 title was rejected in June despite having lined up all the proper licensing rights.The sticking point for Apple appeared to have be the inclusion of the Commodore BASIC 2.0 interpreter, w
Commodore 64 emulator reaches iPhone/iPod Touch

Posted: September 7th, 2009, 8:06am PDT

The iPhone has just gotten a dose of retro goodness with the introduction of a nostalgia-whetting Commodore 64 emulator letting portable gamers pull up some true classics. It’s finally been approved after initially being shown the door by Apple. But now it’s been approved and can be yours with five games for the generous price of £2.99. For that price you’ll get classics Dragons Den, Le Mans, Jupiter Lander, Arctic Shipwreck, and Jack Attack with more retro charms to come in future.
BC-KID – R-TYPE – KATAKIS (Classici gratuiti da Factor 5)

Posted: August 29th, 2009, 5:34pm PDT

Tre classici dell’era Amiga in versione gratuita grazie a Factor 5, software house conosciutissima per aver convertito la serie Turrican su Amiga. Già disponibili da qualche tempo sul sito ufficiale, BC-KID, R-TYPE e KATAKIS sono liberamente scaricabili in formato .adf per essere utilizzati con un emulatore Amiga. Ricordo che Cloanto ha da poco rilasciato la versione 2009 di Amiga Forever , una suite completa per emulare legalmente tutti gli Amiga prodotti dalla Commodore (se no
Vintage Video Games - Still As Popular As Ever

Posted: August 28th, 2009, 10:02pm PDT

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! It defies logic really that in this day and age retro video games can still hold appeal, even the generation that was brought up with Commodore 64 games and various Amiga, Atari & Armstrad games now use today super powerful consoles. So why do Vintage Video Games still have such mass market appeal?The type of games and systems that make us feel nostalgic vary from person to person, however amongst the aforement
8-bit Trip

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
Lookin’ Back #13 - Commodore Plus/4

Posted: August 2nd, 2009, 1:00am PDT

For the lucky 13th edition of Lookin’ Back, I take a trip back to the very beginning of my gaming life. Gather round for a story, children. I am in my mid-20s and I’ve been playing games for most of my life up to this point. When I was around 6 years old, I came home from school one day and got a drink and sat down on the couch in front of the box TV with my brother. My Dad came home from work and then he went upstairs with my Mum. They shouted for me and my brother to close our eyes a
GP2X Wiz MAME/Amiga/Console Emulator

Posted: July 22nd, 2009, 3:00pm PDT

Retro gaming is one of the most fun and exciting things you can do and with the GP2X Wiz MAME/Amiga/Console Emulator , you will be enjoying all kinds of game systems, game systems, computer platforms, and consoles. A matter of fact, more than any other hand held emulator. You can run all your favorite games including Atari ST games, Commodore 64, NES, SNES, Gameboy, Gameboy Advance, NeoGeo, Flash Games, to name a few. Emulation Software Available for Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore VIC20/64/128, G

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