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Check this fanciful “old-school” retro tracker hardware and a cute groove
“Picked up this machine at a local garage sale. The owner said he picked up in the 90s and it was not working. Poking around and fixing the power board, it fired up and it turned out to be a tracker sampler. Looks very similar to a modern tracker?”
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Commodore CBM 4064 with insanely powerful MSSIAH cart and Look Mum No Computer
Look Mum No Computer is denying what is literally written in his artist name and going full compy, with none other than the massive Commodore PET 64 (aka CBM 4064). Best of all, this ’82 beast has a modern, new ensemble of tools for it you can use, too. Yeah, speaking of chip art and […]
Peter Kirn - October 11, 2021
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Freespin is a demo made for the Commodore 1541 – no, not the computer, just the floppy drive
Artists just did the unthinkable – make a complete audiovisual demo on just a 1982 floppy drive, without the computer. And it’s utterly beautiful.
Peter Kirn - July 6, 2021
DIY + Unusual Motion Music tech Tech
The Amiga just got a new, open 8-bit hardware sequencer cartridge you can build
Peter Kirn - August 10, 2020
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Strange Moog history: a telephone, a table hockey game, more
Peter Kirn - June 3, 2019
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Forget vinyl: here’s a DJ rig with two Amiga 1200 PCs
Peter Kirn - July 26, 2018
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