Tag: 8-bit
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Mad World – Goodbye 2011, Hello 2012
This seems a quite appropriate footnote for 2012, with the Mad World 8-bit cover and game deaths. It’s one of the best Boing Boing posts of 2011 and I missed it (this has been rectified – I’ve now worked out a way to integrate my LJ inc friends/group posts with Google Reader/RSS readers with LJProxy…
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ZX Vader
INKEY$ = “I WANT RESULTS NOT EXCUSES” POKE MOON OF ENDOR; PEEK 14564, PRINCESS. GOTO ALDERAN.
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1P Insert Coin to begin! Amazing coin animation
Love the 3D and the how-to at the end…painstaking yet ingenious…and harks back to the days when it was 10p silver coins to play Battlezone and Donkey Kong and the like! Loads of arcade history references here, from Pacman to Doom-type games. (via Boing Boing)
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The Miles Davis Octet – Jazz goes 8-bit
8-bit jazz? Sounds like a bad idea? Well give it a go, I think you might be suprised from 0:30 in. It’s all a part of a crazy idea of doing Kind of Blue on 8-bit chips/synths called rather obviously Kind of Bloop. (via boingboing who has moar 8bit that you can shake a squarewave…