herr_prof wrote:
Are Text Adventures game text art?
Nowadays it's called interactive fiction. So, actually it's literature!
130 Feb 29, 2012 3:38 pm
Topic: TEXT-MODE (15 replies, posted in Graphics, Artwork & Design)
I was missing a good gallery of text art (PETSCII in particular). So Raquel Meyers and me started a tumblr. It has a bit of everything - pure text-mode stuff, "poetry" and typography, typewriter stuff. If you have suggestions feel free to post them here or there or everywhere.
Meanwhile I'll try to figure out smart-ass categories for different text art. (Should tile-based works be called text art, since text mode demos often use custom fonts? ... )
131 Feb 22, 2012 10:37 pm
Re: 2011 was bad and 2012 so far has been bad (7 replies, posted in Releases)
thumbs up! especially like BCHIP1.
132 Jan 12, 2012 10:34 pm
Re: out of the ordinary SID musicians(SPOONFEEDPLEASE) (34 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)
Zzap69 (funny), Linde (floppy), Chantal Goret (fucky), The Mighty BOGG (king of BASIC 2.0-pop), Mortimer Twang (dub). I think with these you'll be pretty safe from pwm-arp-barfz.
133 Dec 28, 2011 7:15 pm
Re: On the Topic of DJ'ing with Chiptune Equipment - Who has done it? (17 replies, posted in General Discussion)
If you need a gimmick, use the real hardware. Boys like it a lot! 
Mixing your own chip-things with turntablism sounds like a good idea to me. Crowdpleasing for sure, just give people some room to breathe aswell.
Afaik there are very few beep-jockeys. Joakim Cosmo, C64-demoscener and DJ since the 80's, uses Serato and sometimes does SID-only sets as Jucke (highly recommended). Trez & Brioche DJ'ed a lot of chip shows before 2006 or so.
There's plenty of mashups, of course. Some of them are here: http://is.gd/2cT36q
135 Dec 23, 2011 10:15 am
Re: On Chipmusic Nights (81 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Peter, so you are one of the insidious Northern outsiders with questionable objectives meddling in local politics, buying up plantations at fire-sale prices and taking advantage of Southerners?
Whenever someone talks about moving forward, I'll talk about evil satan terror.
136 Dec 22, 2011 11:58 pm
Re: On Chipmusic Nights (81 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Yeah. But:
Don't forget all the evil that came out of chipmusic 'opening up'. The most famous chipmusic today is often just a beepy version of whatever's popular atm.
Ghettos are important, and sometimes I wish there more of them. It's a refreshing alternative to being Open and iEverywhere. There are some spots available in the demoscene, if u're interested.
137 Dec 20, 2011 3:24 pm
Re: Chip tunes in the public (73 replies, posted in General Discussion)
it's not digital technologies: it translates light into sound. it's like a reverse process of how film sound works. there you have a separate 'track' for the audio, eventhough it's light. so, you can also "paint sound" into that soundtrack, which several experimental film makers did early. am i right, cTrix?
(so yes, it's definitely fakebit)
138 Dec 20, 2011 2:24 pm
Re: Chip tunes in the public (73 replies, posted in General Discussion)
That's a great idea, let us know if you can make sense of it.
There's plenty to read about these sort of things. Several ppl in Russia had similar things going, but also in Europe and USA I think there were some audiovisual waveform boogie-boogies.
139 Dec 7, 2011 11:30 pm
Re: Complete Gameboy Trackers, Sequencers, Synths list . . . (94 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
I think GHX made some pretty sweet PWM unlike any other software, iirc.
Btw, BlackBox is the name of the crew - Music Box is the name of the software. (That's the shit we had to put up with before Carillon/LSDj. Worst tracker ever?)
Edit, also perhaps Looper Advance and Pocket Music - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Boy_music
140 Nov 9, 2011 8:30 pm
Re: Chip tunes in the public (73 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Mega-btw: this is the earliest use of chip-like music (not just timbre) that I've come across. It was made with paper in Soviet in the 1930's. How about that? Start like one minute into the clip.
141 Nov 9, 2011 7:36 pm
Re: Chip tunes in the public (73 replies, posted in General Discussion)
re:linde, this was the cracktro-commercial that was on national swedish tv. (i guess it's OT, sorriii)
142 Nov 2, 2011 9:38 am
Re: Soundchip-based synthesizers (17 replies, posted in Other Hardware)
yep, i've already been in touch with CYBERYOGI about this. the obvious choice for spiritual sound chip matters.
143 Oct 31, 2011 10:18 pm
Re: Soundchip-based synthesizers (17 replies, posted in Other Hardware)
Hehe. Well, I'd still consider this as a new product. (maybe that says more about me) By now I guess the question is: why weren't the soundchips for computers and consoles used for other things, back in the days? Still too expensive & easier with analogue things, or...?
144 Oct 31, 2011 6:14 pm
Re: Soundchip-based synthesizers (17 replies, posted in Other Hardware)
I guess there were also some overlaps with speech synth chips aswell. But... There must be atleast some cheap keyboards and toys with soundchips inside. Or, why not?
@nitro: the other way around?