It's gotten easier and easier to make chiptune music (or at least, music that sounds like chiptune music), but for the most part, you'll still need to have some sort of digital audio workstation ...

Chiptune music itself is based on early video game music and is all about capturing the classic tones found in games consoles such as the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), Nintendo Game Boy and ...

Chiptune music is one the many phenomena that '80s era gaming nostalgia spawned -- but to get into it you need to mod a working 30-year-old NES into an instrument. Now, a company called Assorted ...

Everybody’s linking me to Duty Cycle Generator, the web page of musician Neil Baldwin, where he’s cataloguing his complete works of 8-bit chiptune music. Baldwin generally isn’t the first ...

The Smiths, led by king of moping Morrissey, weren’t exactly known for their peppy, upbeat tunes. They made sad, somber music about not getting what you want and not having a stitch to wear, all ...

Most people who make music with Mario Paint’s limitations don’t actually use the SNES title’s original music maker.(As it turns out, trying to make any sort of complex music is difficult on ...

The performance on a recent Friday was part of Blip Festival, a four-day celebration of music made with obsolete computers and electronics. IE 11 is not supported.

For a taste of classic 1980s chiptune game music it’s worth checking out the catalogue of Rob Hubbard. Spread across a bunch of compilation volumes, the Commodore 64 SID Anthology is a ...