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[ The Retrobits Podcast ] Show 063: The Joystick
Show 063: The Joystick
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What if computers programmed us?
Welcome to Show 063!� This week's Topic: The Joystick!
Topics and links discussed in the podcast...
Want to take your retro hobby into your virtual reality world?� Now you can buy retro computer models for Second Life.� No, really.
The DECWriter printing terminal.� Whether it's black and white or color, it's prettay.� It's so prettay...
Now you can play Centipedes anywhere you've got Java and a web browser.� Check out Atari's Games site!
If you need a CompactFlash card for your Apple II, you're in luck.� And, for the Apple I.� Yes, you read that right!
A2Unplugged is coming out with new episodes - they are at #4 and counting...
Be sure to send any comments, questions or feedback to retrobits@gmail.com.
For online discussions on Retrobits Podcast topics, check out the Retrobits Podcast forum on the PETSCII Forums page!
Our Theme Song is "Sweet" from the "Re-Think" album by Galigan.
Thanks for listening!
- Earl
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[ Scene.org News ] Main 2006 and X 2006
Main 2006 and X 2006
Last weekend was once again stuffed with demo parties. Not all of them have spread their releases yet, but those who can't wait can already download the results and releases of the french Main party and the results and releases of the dutch X party for C64.
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Intro Inferno Gfx Contest
Intro-Inferno is open for almost one year now! For the coming month, several contests will happen: gfx, coding and ascii...
The first one is the gfx contest, pretty simple as its the first contest ever to happen on Intro-Inferno: logo compo
ALl details can be found here: http://www.intro-inferno.com/index.php?action=comments&id=56
Feel free to participate and get a chance to win the 50 euros! (thanks to our annonymous sponsor
)GFX contest will take place by and then with different themes, stay tuned for more!
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[ MSX Resource Center ] Jaki Crush Main theme by Hackurl
Jaki Crush Main theme by Hackurl
The Japanese chiptune composer Hackurl has released yet another MSX flavored music remake. This time, he made an MSX version of the main theme to Compile/Naxat's pinball game Jaki Crush.
Relevant link: Jaki Crush Main theme by Hackurl
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mdS released fresh Live-Netlabel-Mix by elapse
mdS released fresh Live-Netlabel-Mix by elapse
A fresh Netaudio MiX by elapse. It's again in chip, bleep, cuts`n`clicks
direction, but this time this live mix was recorded in "cube-club" in
Chemnitz. It contains some previously unreleased tracks by elapse which
will be released as ep soon...
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KPLECRAFT 1st Full Album "Hamlin" available on Nov.17th!
KPLECRAFT 1st Full Album "Hamlin" available on Nov.17th!
KPLECRAFT's long-awaited 1st full album "Hamlin" is going to be released on Nov.17th!
This 65 minutes CD consists of 13 tracks including eight tracks made with Gameboy(nanoloop1.2) and acoustic instruments, three tracks with the NES and mck (one of them also featured live drums), and two remixes. With three guest vocalists, we tried to break new ground of acoustic-hybrid chip music.
You can preorder it via Japanese HMV shop, and listen to a digest mp3 here.
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[ raww.org ] raww.orgy 2007 announced
raww.orgy 2007 announced
In keeping with my current spate of announcements (well, I've made one other announcement over on my blog today), I guess it's time to announce the next raww.orgy. In fact I should have announced it ages ago but it's only now that I've decided on a date. Going against what I told Gasman (well I was drunk), and what I told evilpaul, and indeed going against the "popular" vote, the party will be held from Friday 9th February 2007, until Sunday 11th February 2007. In fact, going against some voters views the party will actually happen! The location as always will be... my lounge, Yeovil, Somerset, United Kingdom. As such space is limited, tho' we can squeeze people in if need be.
I've not had a chance to update the raww.orgy website - I'll do that in due course, tho' much of the information in the forums will remain the same (I still have tweaks to make to my latest site, hence the delay). Until then please contact me to let me know if you're interested in coming. As I say, space is somewhat limited but I'll endeavour to get you "in" if you ask nicely.
Oh, and get working on your 256b Intro's, AY Music, and Screen$ for the compos... who knows I may even get the prizes ready for presentation on the day.
icabod, Thursday, October 19, 2006
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[ Demoparty.net ] GREP 2006, December, 8th - 10th, Sweden
GREP 2006, december, 8th - 10th, SE
date: December, 8th - 10th
country: Sweden
Nature and Traktor are once again bringing back the true GREP-spirit!
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[ MSX Resource Center ] Megus AY/YM music collection
Megus AY/YM music collection
Source: Vorc
The ZX-Spectrum chiptune composer Megus has released more than 40 songs composed in PT2/PT3 format, which he composed between 1995 and 2006. As these songs can be played on MSX as well, using PT3 Tools, and one of the tracks is the popular Powerrun from Laserdance (which we all know in its Impact version) it's well worth checking out for MSX fans as well.
Rele...
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[ VORC News ] Infinite Game Music Vol.6
Infinite Game Music Vol.6
To deliver the best chiptune blend ever, Lou Eightecs teamed up with pixelart master Dmauro (David Mauro) and Virt's chipmusic loving fiance TrueStar (Kristi H.) to create Infinite Game Music Vol.6.
Including chip musicians such as USK, disasterPEACE and Jon Baken along games like Shinobi 3, Double Dragon and Earthbound, this installation of the series kicks ass harder than ever before!
Inside you'll find tunes from games such as Shinobi 3, Maniac Mansion, StarFox 2, Double Dragon, Gremlins 2, Turrican 2 and many others!! Download the music and cover from here
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[ Demoparty.net ] FiCK 2006, december, 1st - 3rd, SE
FiCK 2006, december, 1st - 3rd, SE
date: december, 1st - 3rd
country: SE
FiCK is the combination of three classic Atari-ish meetings in Sweden, namely IMParty which saw it's final precense last winter, DHS Xmas and Falun Coding Konvention.
The party itself can be reached at http://fick.dhs.nu/
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[ Scene News Network ] Mick Rippon releases
Mick Rippon releases
sub214: Mick Rippon - The Balance
Mick Rippon guest releases on mephtik.net. The Balance was previously released on Mick's homepage, but he feels it didn't get enough attention, so here it is again. Catchy pop rock like only Mick can do.
sub213: SuspenLute - You Run Like a Girl
SuspenLute brings us a rock arrangement of some obscure music from a Japanese video game. The transitions are seamless as Suspen grungifies several songs from the game.
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Development site created
Development site created
Today I created a separate development site for mac scene also. Please use http://winlab.csbnet.se/development/ for experiments, both code and content-wise.
It's a completely separate site with it's own source code and it's own database tables.
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[ The Retrobits Podcast ] Show 062: The PDP-11 Minicomputer
Show 062: The PDP-11 Minicomputer
Topics and links discussed in the podcast...
It's not retro, but you can hook it up to retro stuff (that's one of my main purposes)...the Propeller 32-bit 8 core microcontroller! Electronics super-fun...
Another interactive fiction environment - have a look at Eamon, and the many games available for it!
The Wikipedia page on the PDP-11 - a good starting point. And one for RSTS as well...
Here's a nice picture of a PDP-11/20 front panel. See those switches? Remind you of an IMSAI?
Man, Bitsavers.org has an incredibly impressive collection of vintage computer manuals, in PDF format. Nice.
I know, you want to play with a PDP-11 emulator, don't you? Admit it! And then, have a look at SIMH...
FAQ on the PDP-11, lots of reading here! Make sure to check out the models that were made!
More info sources on the PDP-11, here, and here...
For a look at the PDP-11's big brother, point your browser to PDP Planet!
Be sure to send any comments, questions or feedback to retrobits@gmail.com.
For online discussions on Retrobits Podcast topics, check out the Retrobits Podcast forum on the PETSCII Forums page!
Our Theme Song is "Sweet" from the "Re-Think" album by Galigan.
Thanks for listening!
- Earl
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Spontz - Die Anderung 2 Final
Spontz - Die Anderung 2 Final
I just got the word from merlucin himself, Die Anderung 2 Final is released! Go download it at http://www.spontz.org/index.php?pageID=90
This sure adds some motivation to finish the productions database 
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[ raww.org ] Koopaville Source
Koopaville Source
Because you know you really do want it, Gasman has posted a blog entry with some detail of his Sundown-winning ZX demo "Koopaville". Complete with source (if you're brave enough to read it). Go have a look while I trundle to the staff canteen for a bacon roll. Go on.
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[ VORC News ] new release: microdisco vol 2 - songs 4 the road
new release: microdisco vol 2 - songs 4 the road
microdisco, Berlin's number one chip-and micromusic label, starts the autumn
season with a new compilation of blasting hitz: "songs 4 the road" - 4 non-stop
driving pleasures !!!
13 Songs composed by 13 famous international chipmusicians such as "Naomi Sample" from Germany, "8bit construction set" from L.A., "kittenrock" from the UK and
"bacalao" from Switzerland. The cherries on top of the cream are contributions
by Atari legends "d-force" and "timbral" from the YM Rockerz and a super smash
hit by talented newcomer "mm"! get your seatbelt fastened!
"Songs 4 the road" will be available from the evening of 16th. of October on "www.microdisco.de" - your dealer for free and quality online chipmusic.
Letz bring chipmusic back to the streets!
"Songs 4 the road"- play em loud and do not drive without...
4 more infos,contact: -email-
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[ Slengpung ] Some more F6
Some more F6
Some more pictures from your resident Hungarian party, by TrX and Ziona
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C64.com Let’s Scroll it!
Let's Scroll it!
The idea behind doing a demo in the first place was born in 2004. I just got the urge to write a lot of scrolltexts again. I first asked Rambones of the legendary The Supply Team if he wanted to code it. He said yes, but I didn't hear from him while I was designing the demo. It turned out that he had given it a couple of tries, but failed. His coding-skills weren't quite the same anymore.
I started to look around for another coder that would be able to code the stuff I had designed, but also someone with his own ideas. I found that coder in HCL of Booze Design. He gave me the thumbs up, the demo took a slightly different direction, and we started working. Various private matters delayed the demo until this year, but we were lucky because the copy-party X2006 was around the corner.
The whole idea with the demo was to do something that sounded and looked good with a scrolling function in focus. The fact that it got some very hot coding in it as well, is just a bonus. I wanted to release something people would come back to, and what better way is there than to cram lots of scrolltexts and music in it? Check out the complete credits-list below. It's rather impressive.
Personally, it's been a great and sometimes tough journey. HCL is the best bloody C64 coder out there, and he's also a very good friend. Always kind and always up for the task. It's been a pleasure to work with him. Getting all the C64 scrolltexts from your old-time heroes was really cool. And to have my friends write some text was cool too. The toughest part for me personally, was drawing the hires-picture of Kylie. It took me ages and a bit of help from The Sarge to finish.
Over all, I've had a blast, and would like to thank everyone that contributed!
If you have any comments on the demo, good or bad, get in touch. Feedback may result in a new demo in another 10 years.
Post-X2006 Fleming Show with lots of new SIDs and remixes
http://www.slayradio.org
Ziphoid - 2006-10-16 00:00
On Tuesday, October 17 at 20:00 CET, Andreas 'Morpheus' Wallström and his trusty sidekick John 'Ziphoid' Carehag will bring you a post-X2006 Fleming Show following the event in the Netherlands this last weekend.
The show will feature a party report and also lots of new SIDs from well-known composers such as Jeroen Tel, Drax, Hein and Chapelier and remixes of those SIDs by remixers such as Jeroen Breebaart, Makke, Hazel, Markus Schneider, Dafunk, Moog and Markus Holler.
The new SIDs has been especially made for the demo Let's Scroll it! released by C64.com, which also boasts with scrolltexts from over 70 people from the C64 world. Names such as Rob Hubbard, Ben Daglish, Jonathan Dunn, Richard Joseph and Markus Schneider appear amongst them, to name a few.
