August 27, 2010
BleepCast, Computing, Quotes, games, music, people, retro
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This is the BleepCast on Rob Hubbard, part two. Everything you want to know about the man that taught the Commodore 64 to produce grand sound-scapes and catchy tunes amidst the incoherent 8-bit turds coated with incompetence in the early 80′s. We will hear his later music, hear him talk about his time in the US and why he eventually came back. Don’t miss it!
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This is the BleepCast on Rob Hubbard, part two. Everything you want to know about the man that taught the Commodore 64 to produce grand sound-scapes and catchy tunes amidst the incoherent 8-bit turds coated with incompetence in the early 80's. We will hear his later music, hear him talk about his time in the US and why he eventually came back. Don't miss it!
August 25, 2010
BleepCast, Quotes, games, music, retro
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Two words that describe this and the next BleepCast: Rob Hubbard. The man that taught the Commodore 64 to produce grand sound-scapes and catchy tunes amidst the incoherent 8-bit turds coated with incompetence in the early 80′s. This level is huge, so it’s clipped into two. And you better stock up on extra lives and get ready to enjoy Hubbard’s music, hear Hubbard’s voice and lean about the man in a tenaciously researched podcast. This is part one.
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Two words that describe this and the next BleepCast: Rob Hubbard. The man that taught the Commodore 64 to produce grand sound-scapes and catchy tunes amidst the incoherent 8-bit turds coated with incompetence in the early 80's. This level is huge, so it's clipped into two, loading break: two days. So you better stock up on extra lives and get ready to enjoy Hubbard's music, hear Hubbard's voice and lean about the man in a tenaciously researched podcast. This is part one.
August 10, 2010
BleepCast, Seph Carissa / texx sound, films, games, retro
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The BleepCast inspects covers, remixes and de-makes of our favorite tunes in the last 30 years in this level and asks how everything started, how it evolved and where it all went. This is a broad topic and so there’s no screwing around: This BleepCast hits you massively with 50 minutes of pure nerdsound, spoken and played alike. And the best of all: You’ll love it! I’m happy, Bob!
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The BleepCast inspects covers, remixes and de-makes of our favorite tunes in the last 30 years in this level and asks how everything started, how it evolved and where it all went. This is a broad topic and so there's no screwing around: This BleepCast hits you massively with 50 minutes of pure nerdsound, spoken and played alike. And the best of all: You'll love it! I'm happy, Bob!
July 1, 2010
BleepCast, Computing, music, retro
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There it is, what you haven’t been waiting for ever since: The BleepCast podcast is all about chip-music, retro gaming and memories from the good old times when we all were young and begun having no life, instead indulging in shitty games with shitty music, or as we call it: “Classics with epic soundtracks”. So if you want me to take you back to the past to play the shitty games that suck ass, then you just discovered your favorite podcast!
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There it is, what you haven't been waiting for ever since: The BleepCast podcast is all about chip-music, retro gaming and memories from the good old times when we all were young and begun having no life, instead indulging in shitty games with shitty music, or as we call it: "Classics with epic soundtracks". So if you want me to take you back to the past to play the shitty games that suck ass, then you just discovered your favorite podcast!
Level Information:
This level occupies a good 42 MB in your memory and has a time limit of 46:24 min.
This podcast is EXPLICIT because occasionally the dreaded F-word escaped my mouth. Sorry!
The first appearance of the term BleepCast at SongByToad.com. Still: I stick with the name and hope that nobody's gonna be a dick about it.
Jon Dunn's short bio on GiantBomb so you can read it yourself.
David Whittaker's awesome Total Recall theme from the Amiga.
A list of Jon Dunn's games which he made music for.
"Now you're playing with power -- SUPER P
February 20, 2010
Reports, games, retro
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Max, a former fellow student, asked me a few weeks ago whether I was interested in buying some old gaming consoles with a bunch of games from him. Since I started collecting and maintaining old computers and gaming consoles a couple of years ago, starting with the few I had since I was a kid, I was interested in Max’ offer, expecting not more than a few dusty plastic boxes with missing cables and scratched game discs with broken jewel cases to add to my museum. Man, was I wrong!
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Max, a former fellow student, asked me a few weeks ago whether I was interested in buying some old gaming consoles with a bunch of games from him. Since I started collecting and maintaining old computers and gaming consoles a couple of years ago, starting with the few I had since I was a kid, I was interested in Max' offer, expecting not more than a few dusty plastic boxes with missing cables and scratched game discs with broken jewel cases to add to my museum. Man, was I wrong!
So yesterday I finally had the cash together and some time to pick up the heavy packing case with tons of 1990's state of the art consoles. There was a a black Game Boy pocket, a painted PlayStation ("it glows under a UV-lamp"), a SNES with 50/60 Hz switch ("So you could play Japanese titles as well"), Nintendo 64 with memory extension, a Sega Dreamcast with modem and keyboard and a Sega Genesis with 32x extension and SEGA-CD drive, something so bulky that you just gotta love it. Everything in good to very good condition, compl
May 8, 2009
Animation, CGI & Rendering, Compositing, Lectures, Random Thoughts, Reports, Technology, filmmaking, games, people, photography, ranting, retro, video
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7:30 am and somebody walks downstairs. Good morning to me. My program for today was mostly about tracking and motion capturing and heavy duty compositing. You might have guessed: It was the day of Benjamin Button.
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7:30 am and somebody walks downstairs. Good morning to me. My program for today was mostly about tracking and motion capturing and heavy duty compositing. You might have guessed: It was the day of Benjamin Button.
After enjoying the breakfast a little too long I was rushing down Königsstraße in my car so I would make it to Pixar's RenderMan presentation. I already knew what it was going to be considering last year ("The Über-Sprite", the rocket, the fast-rendering motion blur) but Pixar is rather generous in handing out posters and presents and I wanted me to get another teapot for my collection [1. ...that consists so far of one Ratatouille-themeded teapot.]. I was too late, the room bursting with people. Obviously, word had spread that you get presents. People can be so greedy. I asked if I could make a reservation for the afternoon but it was in vain.
There I was standing, lacking a teapot and a clue of what I wanted to see instead. I headed to the biggest hall and ended up in "PhotoReal Faci
February 13, 2009
Computing, Reports, music, retro
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When my mom brought me the car from the autoshop after a minor crash last year (not my fault, though), she also brought along my now weak and old PC, formerly known as “The Beast” that I used before assembling my new Beast, which is after two years also losing some teeth and is not the fastest one out there anymore. I remember the days when I was bragging about the Athlon FX-53 chip in its cozy 939 socket on my Abit AV8 motherboard. Yes, I was a proud daddy!
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My Old Computer, originally uploaded by Phil Strahl.
When my mom brought me the car from the autoshop after a minor crash last year (not my fault, though), she also brought along my now weak and old PC, formerly known as "The Beast" that I used before assembling my new Beast, which is after two years also losing some teeth and is not the fastest one out there anymore. I remember the days when I was bragging about the Athlon FX-53 chip in its cozy 939 socket on my Abit AV8 motherboard. Yes, I was a proud daddy!
When I turned it on a couple of days ago I was happy that it still worked after those many days of neglect. Somewhat. I got a beeeeeeep -- beep -- beep -- beep -- beep error code and the thing turned itself off. On closer inspection the fan of my ancient graphics card was not operating so I pulled it out of its cute AGP slot and the next day I bought a new one -- a nVidia GeForce FX 5200 for as little as 35 €!
In the good old days the nVidia GeForce FX 5900 T I had to repl
Oh my god — it’s a bonus level! It’s a bonus to past BleepCast levels where I want to add a few of things or just pop in particular personal perspectives. And now there’s finally a way to do so! This bonus level deals with some awesome music for the SNES I totally forgot to play; and then there was this… misconception in BleepCast Level 1 that I need to fix — bleep-style!
This is a rather personal episode of the BleepCast and deals with the first games I had been playing when I was a little kid and how my love for chipmusic eventually evolved over the years. I take you back to the 1980′s once again: You know the time, but most of you won’t know the place: My brain. Enjoy music from the C64, early PCs and some ramblings from my youth. If you don’t like it… then you’re a poo-poo-head!
