If there wasn’t reason enough to love the Parallax Propeller, now you can listen to chiptunes with your own pocket SID audio player. This chiptune audio player uses the very unusual and very ...

Chiptune music itself is based on early video game music and is all about capturing the classic tones found in games consoles ...

The Music Tech Master Stroke software is instead designed for Nintendo’s popular follow-up, the DS ... Free DS Chiptune Software Available from Pixelh8. screen capture images by Pixelh8 ...

This is no ordinary electric organ, my friend. Swedish software engineer Linus Åkesson loves chiptune so much (don't we all?) that he felt the urge to convert this old-school instrument into an 8 ...

Back in the day (the 1990s) the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis consoles included a full on FM synth to produce their musical sounds. In a fortuitous turn of events software developers Inphonik decided to ...

A popular tool in chiptune software like LSDJ allows the user to draw a waveform and use it as the basis for a wavetable synth. It’s fun and it can produce some great bleeps and bloops. [Kevin ...

For aspiring programmers, cTrix also threw together a short tutorial video showcasing his Atari 2600 ASM translator, and how his custom software compiles the audio files.. The “gAtari” was my ...

Although it can be composed through high-end software and synthesizers, much of chiptune music is still made on old consoles like the NES, Commodore 64 and the Game Boy.

Source your software. Chiptunes are written using trackers -- spreadsheet-like apps where notes are edited line by line. "FamiTracker and MilkyTracker are good ones to start on," Davis suggests ...

Japanese artist and developer Riki Iwasaki last month released 8-Bit Music Power, a chiptune album that as of now can only be played on Nintendo's original home console.

In late October, a Swedish software engineer named Linus Åkesson unveiled a playable accordion—called "The Commodordion"—he crafted out of two vintage Commodore 64 computers connected with a ...