BleepCast / Phil´s Blog http://blog.philstrahl.com Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:00:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Phil Strahl © 2010; CC by-nc-sa 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ philstrahl@gmail.com (Phil Strahl) philstrahl@gmail.com (Phil Strahl) posts 1440 http://philstrahl.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/blog-feed-image.jpg BleepCast / Phil´s Blog http://blog.philstrahl.com 144 144 BleepCast - Level The BleepCast 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, then you just discovered your favorite podcast! chiptunes, 8-bit, retro, nintendo, games, c64, fun Phil Strahl Phil Strahl philstrahl@gmail.com no yes BleepCast – Level 8 http://blog.philstrahl.com/2010/08/31/bleepcast-level-008/ http://blog.philstrahl.com/2010/08/31/bleepcast-level-008/#comments Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:00:32 +0000 Phil Strahl http://blog.philstrahl.com/?p=1613 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!

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  • This level occupies 13 MB in your memory and has a time limit of 14:14 min.
  • This podcast is EXPLICIT because I of my occasional pottymouthism.

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]]> http://blog.philstrahl.com/2010/08/31/bleepcast-level-008/feed/ 3 14:13 BleepCast – Level 8 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! chiptunes, 8-bit, retro, nintendo, games, c64, fun Phil Strahl yes no BleepCast – Level 7 http://blog.philstrahl.com/2010/08/27/bleepcast-level-007/ http://blog.philstrahl.com/2010/08/27/bleepcast-level-007/#comments Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:00:33 +0000 Phil Strahl http://blog.philstrahl.com/?p=1590 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!

Level Information:

  • This level occupies 51.5 MB in your memory and has a time limit of 56:27 min.
  • This podcast is for once NOT EXPLICIT because I could keep my f**king mouth shut – yaaay!

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]]> http://blog.philstrahl.com/2010/08/27/bleepcast-level-007/feed/ 0 56:27 BleepCast – Level 7 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! chiptunes, retro, c64, rob hubbard, commodore, games, 80's, games Phil Strahl no no BleepCast – Level 6 http://blog.philstrahl.com/2010/08/25/bleepcast-level-006/ http://blog.philstrahl.com/2010/08/25/bleepcast-level-006/#comments Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:00:06 +0000 Phil Strahl http://blog.philstrahl.com/?p=1573 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.

Level Information:

  • This level occupies 41.5 MB in your memory and has a time limit of 45:27 min.
  • This podcast is EXPLICIT because occasionally I get quite profane…

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]]> http://blog.philstrahl.com/2010/08/25/bleepcast-level-006/feed/ 4 45:27 BleepCast – Level 6 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. chiptunes, retro, c64, rob hubbard, commodore, games, 80's, games Phil Strahl yes no BleepCast – Level 5 http://blog.philstrahl.com/2010/08/10/bleepcast-level-005/ http://blog.philstrahl.com/2010/08/10/bleepcast-level-005/#comments Tue, 10 Aug 2010 13:00:20 +0000 Phil Strahl http://blog.philstrahl.com/?p=1556 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!

Level Information:

  • This level occupies 50 MB in your memory and has a time limit of 55:27 min.
  • This podcast is EXPLICIT because occasionally the dreaded F-word escaped my mouth. It’s a fuckin habit — I’m sorry

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]]> http://blog.philstrahl.com/2010/08/10/bleepcast-level-005/feed/ 2 55:27 BleepCast – Level 5 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! chiptunes, 8-bit, retro, nintendo, games, c64, fun Phil Strahl yes no BleepCast – Level 4 http://blog.philstrahl.com/2010/07/29/bleepcast-level-004/ http://blog.philstrahl.com/2010/07/29/bleepcast-level-004/#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:00:10 +0000 Phil Strahl http://blog.philstrahl.com/?p=1545 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!

Level Information:

  • This level occupies almost 24 MB in your memory and has a time limit of 26:16 min.
  • This podcast is EXPLICIT because occasionally the dreaded F-word escaped my mouth once again.
  • The 1541 Floppy Drive. Easy to think inside the box- Because it’s so huge and heavy.
  • The Great Giana Sisters for the C64. Total Super Mario Bros. ripoff. Nintendo won lawsuit against the programmers. Now legendary.
  • The Competition Pro joystick. Mean Red & Black Gaming machine. Durability +5. Discard after playing “Summer Games” or “Winter Games”.
  • GORILLAS.BAS is also on the Wikipedia, by the way. I still haven’t checked out the source code.
  • Sokoban. Behold out the eye-cancerous CGA presentation.
  • The Secret of Monkey Island, the good old one. With good old Reggae influenced music.

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]]> http://blog.philstrahl.com/2010/07/29/bleepcast-level-004/feed/ 2 26:16 BleepCast – Level 4 .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! c64, giana sisters, commodore 64, monkey island, sokoban, 1980's, summer games, epyx Phil Strahl yes no BleepCast – Level 3 http://blog.philstrahl.com/2010/07/22/bleepcast-level-003/ http://blog.philstrahl.com/2010/07/22/bleepcast-level-003/#comments Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:01:58 +0000 Phil Strahl http://blog.philstrahl.com/?p=1540 This all new episode of the BleepCast deals with gamifications of great movie scores. If you were already alive in the 80′s, going to the movies or just watching classic flicks from the 80′s on your VCR you probably had once the urge to become Indiana Jones, Marty McFly or Luke Skywalker yourself. Then you just had to go out (yes, I know, that’s the hardest part in the life of a nerd) and get yourself one of the games that had licensed movie content among them, and usually some crappy game as well. Although sometimes you would be surprised by actually real good games…

Level Information:

  • This level occupies almost 40 MB in your memory and has a time limit of 43:29 min.
  • This podcast is EXPLICIT because occasionally the dreaded F-word escaped my mouth once again.

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]]> http://blog.philstrahl.com/2010/07/22/bleepcast-level-003/feed/ 4 43:30 BleepCast – Level 3 This all new episode of the BleepCast deals with gamifications of great movie scores. If you were already alive in the 80's, going to the movies or just watching classic flicks from the 80's on your VCR you probably had once the urge to become Indiana Jones, Marty McFly or Luke Skywalker yourself. Then you just had to go out (yes, I know, that's the hardest part in the life of a nerd) and get yourself one of the games that had licensed movie content among them, and usually some crappy game as well. Although sometimes you would be surprised by actually real good games... games, chiptunes, nes, snes, commodore 64, movies, reviews Phil Strahl yes no BleepCast — Level 3: Delayed http://blog.philstrahl.com/2010/07/15/bleepcast-level-3-delayed/ http://blog.philstrahl.com/2010/07/15/bleepcast-level-3-delayed/#comments Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:32:34 +0000 Phil Strahl http://blog.philstrahl.com/?p=1536 Hey folks! I’m sorry but I have bad news: Since I am in the yummy crunch time of a time-crunching critical project, I have to put working on the upcoming level of the BleepCast on hold. So my apologies to all my many loyal listeners (thanks Conny & Jürgen!). Some time next week the new BleepCast will launch, nevertheless, and deal with the broad topic of games after movies and some additional tit-bits tidbits of random trivia, served ice-cold — just for you! Until then: Let’s kick some ice!

]]> http://blog.philstrahl.com/2010/07/15/bleepcast-level-3-delayed/feed/ 0 BleepCast – Level 2 http://blog.philstrahl.com/2010/07/08/bleepcast-level-002/ http://blog.philstrahl.com/2010/07/08/bleepcast-level-002/#comments Wed, 07 Jul 2010 22:01:55 +0000 Phil Strahl http://blog.philstrahl.com/?p=1522 This new episode of the BleepCast is all about ninjas, the sneaky Japanese spies that overran games & movies in the 80′s and have either gradually disappeared or gradually perfected their stealth since their first appearance in 1983 on the CoCo. A shinobi may be silent but their quests have always been accompanied by some epic exotic scores. Let’s follow the ninja and listen to his melodies.

Level Information:

  • This level occupies 36 MB in your memory and has a time limit of 40:00 min.
  • This podcast is EXPLICIT because occasionally the dreaded F-word escaped my mouth once again.

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]]> http://blog.philstrahl.com/2010/07/08/bleepcast-level-002/feed/ 1 40:00 BleepCast – Level 2 This new episode of the BleepCast is all about ninjas, the sneaky Japanese spies that overran games & movies in the 80's and have either gradually disappeared or gradually perfected their stealth since their first appearance in 1983 on the CoCo. A shinobi may be silent but their quests have always been accompanied by some epic exotic scores. Let's follow the ninja and listen to his melodies. chiptunes, 8-bit, retro, nintendo, games, c64, fun Phil Strahl yes no Flattr: June’s Cake http://blog.philstrahl.com/2010/07/02/flattr-junes-cake/ http://blog.philstrahl.com/2010/07/02/flattr-junes-cake/#comments Thu, 01 Jul 2010 22:46:22 +0000 Phil Strahl http://blog.philstrahl.com/?p=1512 I like Flattr. I like the idea of it: Flatter people with a click that is the digital equivalent of a coin ringing in a tip-jar. And for some reason it became customary to blog about how much you made past month. You get tipped, and you tip yourself. It’s social. No surprise: It’s from Sweden. They compare it to having a piece of birthday cake and giving a slice to everybody you want to flatter. The more people you flattr, the smaller the slices get. At the end of the month it’s payday: Everyone on Flattr empties their jars and counts the coins. There are people who had an income of more than 500 €, the are many more people who had about 10 € by the end of the day. And now I am going to spill the beans myself.

I made 1.07 €. Plus taxes.

For a Web 2.0 thingie that’s still in beta I’m rather surprised by that. In fact I made 90% of that the first day after I signed up with Flattr. The rest of the month was spent by posting creative stuff I did to Flattr, hoping some people would enjoy my music, my videos, my podcast, my photos or this blog as much as they’d toss me a coin.

In retrospect I even feel a little odd: Instead of doing the stuff I usually do for free and mainly for myself, it became a habit to wiggle them under people’s noses every day, hoping they would drop me some spare. Like a shabby one-man-band-guy on the street I play all my different instruments uni-sono, hopping around like a court jester and shout, strong yet friendly, for some monetary attention.

What has become of me?

I still have the PayPal donate-button on my posts labeled donationware and you know what? People actually clicked these. In the last 3 years I made 13 bucks that way. Without trying to sell myself out. And now: I spend considerable more time attempting to get my work noticed than I spend actually making cool stuff.

This has to end. The cake is a lie!

Hereby I declare, officially, that I will concentrate more on creating content than in the last weeks — while keeping my hopes up to find one day an actual bill in my tip jar, instead of the Euro-equivalent of nickels, dimes, buttons and small rocks. Well. Or at least really many of those. Why? Because I’m a greedy bastard who wants to take this girl out for dinner and the movies, you know. Well, at least I admit it, right?

And if you like this post then, please, flattr me.

]]> http://blog.philstrahl.com/2010/07/02/flattr-junes-cake/feed/ 5 BleepCast – Level 1 http://blog.philstrahl.com/2010/07/01/bleepcast-level-001/ http://blog.philstrahl.com/2010/07/01/bleepcast-level-001/#comments Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:01:44 +0000 Phil Strahl http://blog.philstrahl.com/?p=1472 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 POWER!“. Sigh.
  • The terrible, terrible ending of Jurassic Park on the SNES. Watching this puts me back in the rage I first had as a 11-year old.

Level Suffixes:

  • @C64Takeaway pointed out that Jon Dunn’s “Forever Autumn” subtune #1 *is* Comic Bakery by Martin Galway (!) according to the HVSC, which I shamefully didn’t check for the ‘cast. So stealing from your own work would be “reinterpretation” (Dunn from Dunn), stealing from some other’s work (Dunn from Galway for Jurassic Park on the NES) is, well, stealing.

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]]> http://blog.philstrahl.com/2010/07/01/bleepcast-level-001/feed/ 1 46:24 BleepCast – Level 1 This episode deals with the composer Jonathan Dunn, his work on the Jurassic Park games and Total Recall and my childhood memories of heartbeat-sensors, continue-screens and scanned pictures. BleepCast, Computing, music, retro Phil Strahl yes no