657 Reply by Bit Shifter

(603 replies, posted in Past Events)

WavFace wrote:
Koala Kids! wrote:

What are hotels like around the venue?


this is what im wanting to know. you NEW YORKERS help us out

Being New Yorkers we don't stay at a lot of NYC hotels. I've heard good things about the Gershwin Hotel, which seems to be sort of half-hostel half-hotel, i.e. if you want a bed in a dorm-style room they offer those, or if you want a fancy full-on private hotel-style room they offer those too.

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658 Reply by Bit Shifter

(87 replies, posted in Past Events)

Pumped. Thanks to Jake & everybody involved in organizing. Excited to rub shoulders with the Canadian chip massive.

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659 Reply by Bit Shifter

(295 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Personally I'd love to see █████████, ███████████, ████████████ and ███████████ and maybe even ██████████ though I'm sure it'd be tricky because of ████████████ ███████.

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660 Reply by Bit Shifter

(7 replies, posted in Releases)

Sycamore Drive wrote:

second and final chipmusic release by Sycamore Drive

No! Whyyyyy?

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661 Reply by Bit Shifter

(102 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

Speaking from experience — major "caveat emptor" with the EMS USB cartridges. Ordered some from EMS and defects in their bank toggling feature made them practically useless. There are workarounds (putting a copy of LSDJ in both banks, physically removing a capacitor from the cartridge board) but overall I was pretty non-plussed.

There are also the Smartboy cartridges. I have one of these (thanks kitsch!) and it's been fantastic.

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662 Reply by Bit Shifter

(265 replies, posted in General Discussion)

I couldn't believe this thread was still going on (or that it existed at all); then I saw who the OP was and it all made sense.

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663 Reply by Bit Shifter

(28 replies, posted in Past Events)

#gtfudixls

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664 Reply by Bit Shifter

(603 replies, posted in Past Events)

This is why we can't have nice things.

Blip is cancelled because of this thread.

OK not really.

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665 Reply by Bit Shifter

(19 replies, posted in Other Hardware)

http://www.fmraudio.com/rnc.htm

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666 Reply by Bit Shifter

(8 replies, posted in General Discussion)

I've got my hands full with Blop Fostovol but c'mon NYC step up, we cannot allow ourselves to be scooped by pixls.

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667 Reply by Bit Shifter

(21 replies, posted in Releases)

Same. |m|/    >__<    \|m|

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668 Reply by Bit Shifter

(603 replies, posted in Past Events)

low-gain wrote:

I'm pretty sure this is the official shirt for blip fest. wink

A classic.

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669 Topic by Bit Shifter

(603 replies, posted in Past Events)

/// AND WE'RE BACK...

This year’s lineup features artists from such exotic locales as Australia, Japan, and New Jersey, and includes many of the top performers from New York City. The artistic sensibilities of the performers are difficult to pigeonhole and classify, hitting notes that are smooth, classy, abrasive, aggressive, dancey, thought-provoking and, above all, always intriguing.

3-day festival passes & single-night advance tickets are now available, so get on board before yesterday’s future becomes tomorrow’s past.


// PERFORMING AT BLIP FESTIVAL 2011 ... //

Anamanaguchi
BEASTMODE
Bit Shifter
Bubblyfish
Chipzel
cTrix
Enso
exileFaker
4mat
Henry Homesweet
knife city
minusbaby
M7Kenji
NNNNNNNNNN
NO CARRIER
Noisewaves
Nullsleep
Party Time! Hexcellent!
Ralp
Stagediver
Starscream
Peter Swimm
Talk To Animals
Ten Thousand Free Men & Their Families
Tristan Perich
Ultrasyd
vade
visualicious
Wet Mango
Zen Albatross



// WORKSHOP //

Blip 2011 NESDEV Workshop
—
Saturday May 21
1:00PM – 5:00PM (with a 15-30 minute break)
Eyebeam R&D Lab

presented by:

Don Miller (a.k.a. NO CARRIER)
Andrew Reitano (a.k.a. Batsly Adams)
Rachel Wooley (a.k.a. Party Time! Hexcellent!)
Patrick Todd (a.k.a. Bucky)

In this workshop you’ll learn the basics of NES programming. First, a detailed overview of the NES: the CPU and instruction set, graphics, and sound. After that you’ll have the chance to make your own graphics and music. Finally, you’ll insert these elements into a provided game framework. Source code and software will be provided. Attendees are encouraged to bring a laptop with Windows XP or higher.

Prior knowledge of the NES isn’t required, but a basic understanding of programming techniques and the use of a tracker for music creation wouldn’t hurt.

http://blipfestival.org/2011/daytime-events/




// BLIP FESTIVAL NEW YORK 2011 //
Fifth Anniversary Edition
presented by 8bitpeoples & The Tank

May 19-21 2011 · at Eyebeam
540 West 21st Street
New York NY 10011 US
map: http://goo.gl/ju6DT

http://www.blipfestival.org
http://twitter.com/blipfestival
http://www.eyebeam.org
https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=105798896165311

So mark your calendars, get excited, and we hope that you'll start making travel arrangements to come to New York to celebrate this five-year milestone with us. And this time, you can leave your parka at home.

Josh / Jeremiah / Mike
Blip Festival



// SPECIAL THANKS //
The Blip Festival New York 2011 has been made possible thanks to the generous support and cooperation of:
· Busy Beaver Button Co. · http://www.busybeaver.net
· Cube Services Inc. · http://www.cubepasses.com
· Dailymotion · http://www.dailymotion.com
· Experimental Television Center · http://www.experimentaltvcenter.org
· The Randy Hostetler Livingroom Music Project · http://www.livingroom.org
· Fangamer · http://fangamer.net
· The Free Music Archive · http://freemusicarchive.org
· Gaijin Games · http://www.gaijingames.com
· Greightbit Mods · http://www.greightbit.com
· Grooveshark · http://listen.grooveshark.com
· Mammoth Printshop · http://www.mammothprintshop.com
· Nonfinite Electronics · http://nonelectronics.com
· Red Hook Winery · http://redhookwinery.com
· Sixpoint Craft Ales · http://sixpoint.com
· WFMU · http://www.wfmu.org

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670 Reply by Bit Shifter

(13 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

I've seen the Nintendo Power branded flash cartridges at the Akihabara Super Potato before (though not the last time I was there, in September). So it's not out of the question.

Interestingly (though besides the point) they also had Super Famicom cartridges with the same design scheme (white case, cartridge label with an array of blank spaces). Don't know the story behind the cartridges but I assume they're writeable too.

edit: these:

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671 Reply by Bit Shifter

(7 replies, posted in Releases)

Ordered a couple of days ago. Can't wait.

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672 Reply by Bit Shifter

(195 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Zen Albatross wrote:

A great man once said: "The drinking scene has a chiptune problem"

Edit: I don't remember who it was though. I was probably drunk.

It was a great man named Jessen Jurado!

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