The latest episode of the well known Hitman game series contains an easter egg featuring Press Play on Tape on the front page of a newspaper. The headline reads: "PPOT ROCKS! The Commodore 64 revival band gets major breakthru in the U.S.". It also shows a picture of the band live in concert.

PPOT keyboarder beyond veils himself in mystery regarding his having a finger in that pie... join the discussion!

ChrisNZ.com has launched a release site for original amiga music in mp3 format. From the site:

"Many people remember the amiga, so many homes in New Zealand in the late 1980’s had an a amiga. When I was about 9 we got an Amiga, good times… Hearing these tunes brings back the memories."

The tunes come as Lo-Fi clips and as 128Kbps Variable bitrate full downloads.

The highly promising Prophet 64 cartridge is shipping since 2nd June. The software suite is completely contained in the cartridge, which plugs into the c64 expansion port. This results in zero loading times. The suite contains a PC / Mac styled sequencer, a mono synth, and of course the 303 like bassline synth and the 909 style drum machine. Earlier Prophet64 versions had been available as software only.

MIDI control is possible through third party MIDI interfaces. An additional SID chip can be installed on the c64 with the SID2SID circuit board. The second SID chip is supported by the Prophet64 programs. Prophet 64 claims to be user friendly, and ties in neatly with modern studio gear.

The cartridge ships for 39,00 EUR, including shipping worldwide. It can be ordered directly from the Prophet 64 homepage (link below.)

DreamHack, the biggest LAN party in the world, will be held in Jönköping on the 17-20th of June this summer, and SLAY Radio will be playing remixes for all the participants of the event (some 5000-7000 people).
The schedule for SLAY Radio for this event has not yet been set, but will be discussed with both our regular listeners (see Discuss link below) and with the DJs and Staff.

Yup. You read it right. A gathering is happening again this summer. Not only once, but twice! First one, as you can read below, will be held in Stockholm.
The second one will be held in Gothenburg near SLAY HQ on August 4th and 5th. More information will come shortly!

Following the success of last summers SLAY Radio Gathering in Gothenburg, there will be one in Stockholm/Sweden on the weekend of July 8th this summer. It's gonna be a nice opportunity for the DJs and listeners of SLAY Radio to get together and have some fun.

Renoise have released a universal binary version of their tracker software of the same name. That way it can be installed on both PowerPC and the new Intel Macs. The current version is 1.5.2.

Per Håkan Sundell has released the final Version 3.0 of his famous c64 emulator CCS64. From the website:

"Advantages over previous versions: Multiplay over Internet, windowed mode, more screen resolutions, increased compatibility, more Windows friendly, integrated HardSID support."

CCS64 is shareware, and is currently priced $30 USD.