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8-Bits At The Movies!
The 10th One Man And His Mic retro music podcast is NOW ONLINE and is devoted to 8-Bit movie tie-in games! It features lots of great themes from classic 80s movies performed on the Commodore 64, Spectrum 128 and Amstrad CPC computers. The show includes tracks by Martin Galway, David Whittaker, Jonathan Dunn, Matthew Cannon, Charles Deenen + more heroes from the world of 8-bit music.This show also contains the first ever One Man & His Mic competition! All you have to do is listen to the montage of 40 C64 movie themes in the show and try to name as many of them as you can. The winner will receive a £40.00 gift voucher to spend in the Binary Zone Retro Store!
Submitted by kenz
One Man & His MicCommodore bankrupcy rewound
From http://www.commodorecorp.com/:
April 29 2008, Baarn, Commodore International Corp.
(CIC) (OTC:CDRL) announced today that the court in ‘s-Hertogenbosch,
The Netherlands, has decided to rewind the bankruptcy of Commodore
International BV, a subsidiary of Commodore International Corporation.
On
April 15, 2008 the court declared bankruptcy of Commodore International
BV based on procedural mistakes as earlier announced on April 21 2008.
More details about this case were announced during the Special
Shareholders Meeting held in Amsterdam on April 25, 2008.
As a result of today's court decision this case has been concluded successfully.
Discussion...
SceneSat Radio LIVE premiere, 2nd May 2008
SceneSat Radio is a new web radio station broadcasting live shows and a rotational playlist with a fine selection of music from the Commodore scene as well as from other scenes. It was founded by Hazel and Ziphoid.SceneSat Radio will be broadcasting a LIVE show from the Birdie LAN Party in Sweden on Friday, 2nd May at 20:00 CEST, so don't miss it!
Read more about it at the forum.
Submitted by LMan
Yuzo Koshiro to attend Symphonic Shades
Veteran video game music composer Yuzo Koshiro will attend both "Symphonic Shades" concerts in Germany.
Recently it has been announced that Yuzo Koshiro will arrange music for "Symphonic Shades": the classic "Jim Power in Mutant Planet". Thanks to 4Players and Merregnon Studios, the Japanese composer was invited to come to Cologne. He will join both concerts, performed by the WDR Radio Orchestra on August 23, 2008.
Submitted by paralax
THERMOSTATIC - New album 'Humanizer' out in May 2008!
Swedish Bit-Pop heroes THERMOSTATIC have announced their new album HUMANIZER has now been mastered and will be released in May 2008! The band has once again used the SID-Station to give each track that distinctive SID-chip sound! A video clip featuring a preview of the album can now be seen on the THERMOSTATIC website and you can also hear THREE complete tracks from the new album in the latest One Man & His Mic retro game music podcast from Kenz!
Submitted by kenz
Commodore once more close to bankrupcy
Apparently, several creditors have filed bankrupcy for the Dutch company that owns the brand.Read more at: Channel Register
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BITLive 2007 DVD: Rebuild is Complete
Finally, after weeks of PC crashing and data being lost, the DVD that Subzero originally wanted to make is complete. It has been completely revamped. New features are:- The footage quality is improved
- The sound quality is improved
- The menus have a more C64 feel to them
- There's MORE content than before!
- It all fits onto a single standard 4.7gb DVD-R (The original was a dual layer which not everyone can burn)
For more information on how to obtain the DVD please keep an eye on the topic in the message board (link below).
Contact: Subzero
SIDPLAY/Mac 4.0 released
After 5 months of intense development, a completely new version of SIDPLAY for Mac OS X Leopard was born. Rewritten from scratch to take advantage of the latest technologies, incorporating filter distortion effects and a completely new user interface in the style of iTunes.
Submitted by mrsid
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