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Jack Tramiel’s Commodore 64, Atari ST in Music, Remembered, as Vision Lives...
(CC-BY) Axel Tregoning. (CC-BY) Marcin Wichary. Jack Tramiel, who died this week, had as deep an impact on computer music for the everyday musician as just about any computing industry pioneer. While...
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RetroCade Synth Board Re-programs Itself Into Atari, C64, Amiga [Open Source...
You know in sci-fi how you’ll see robots and other machines that can transform, re-program themselves on the fly for a new task? (Okay, sometimes they’re evil robots.) Well, imagine a single-board –...
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Play a Retro-Sounding Commodore 64 Emulation in a Browser with WebSID
Dirty, low-fidelity digital sound comes to your shiny, high-fidelity digital device. Yes, WebSID is a beautifully-grungy emulation of the legendary SID synthesis in the Commodore 64. Because it runs...
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SidTracker 64 Puts Retro Chip Music Creation on Your iPad
Pity the iPad. Unlike the Commodore 64, Apple’s wundertablet doesn’t come with a state-of-the-art SID synthesizer chip inside. Well, now emulation solves that problem. SidTracker 64 is both an...
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8-bit Remake of Hasselhoff’s True Survivor is the Best Thing We’ve Watched...
Okay, we hit some sort of nerd singularity just now. Start with David Hasselhoff’s cheeky, cheesy “True Survivor.” Remake it on the 8-bit SidTracker 64 app. You’ll swear all of this actually happened...
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Virtuoso Commodore 64 composer Martin Walker is back
News for nerds: one of the musicians who was most adept at coaxing intricate music from chips is set to make a return. And that means it’s time for some chip music. Nowadays, the MOS Technology SID...
View ArticleCram Commodore 64 speech synthesis into your rack with this firmware
The open hardware Braids macro oscillator gets an alternative firmware that brings new features – including a speech engine known from the Commodore 64 days. Speech synth means modular synthesis:...
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Strange Moog history: a telephone, a table hockey game, more
You know the Minimoog and the modular. But do you know The Operator – a business telephone? Or the Moog table hockey game? The Moog name wound up in some strange places in the 80s. These creations have...
View ArticleCommodore CBM 4064 with insanely powerful MSSIAH cart and Look Mum No Computer
Look Mum No Computer is denying what is literally written in his artist name and going full compy, with none other than the massive Commodore PET 64 (aka CBM 4064). Best of all, this ’82 beast has a...
View ArticleThe Commodordion: 8-bit instrument made of taped-together C64s and floppies
Eat your heart out, Roland V-Accordion. Meet the Commodordion, an 8-bit chip instrument with bellows made of floppies and gaffer tape - and a surprisingly deep feature set. The post The Commodordion:...
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