Sorry I guys I was meant to spend a good hour thinking about something really interesting to write about but then I started playing a text-based Discworld MUD/MMORPG and now I don’t know if I’ll ever be ready to blog again. I have some more thoughts relating to the virtual reality business essay so I [...]
Just to clarify a point from the first essay: I do not mean to propose anything about the actual name of the VR product. “Realise” is what I believe companies will call the process of virtualisation for the reasons I have already laid out. For now instead of referring to the ubiquitous “companies” I am [...]
The message of the future is: “Realise Your Dreams.”
Everyone who comes here knows that I love chipmusic. I guess a lot of people don’t want to bother with chipmusic because it “all sounds the same to me” or whatever or maybe they don’t like the sound of the chip. Sure, those are fairly legitimate concerns. BUT if you haven’t given any chipmusic a [...]
Yay! I got home today to find a little package on the table that had come all the way from wherever “Hickory, NC, 28601″ is in the U.S..(? another full-stop? I probably should know this. Actually, I’m pretty sure it’s just one full-stop but I’ll leave that there because “that’ll learn me”) In this little [...]
Recently I’ve been getting into chiptunes the easy way. This involved getting a demo version of LSDJ and a Gameboy emulator and creating chiptunes. There are a couple of releases and blogs that have really helped me get an ear for the style and developed my enthusiasm for chiptune. little-scale (intentional lower case) is an [...]
Today The Mint Chicks posted an 8bit EP download called Mintunes. You can download it here and here. It is cool that they gave us a sneak preview of what a couple of unreleased songs are going to sound like. And it is cool that they chose the 8bit format in which to release these [...]