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Commodore 64 iPhone App Approved! Removed

Update: After finally hitting the app store, the fully-licensed C64 emulator has been yanked after a user workaround made Apple realize that Manomio didn’t completely ditch the old-skool BASIC 2.0 interpreter it objected to. https://gizmodo.com/fully-licensed-commodore-64-emulator-rejected-by-apple-5298675 Tsk Tsk. Manomio has this to say: Unfortunately, Apple has pulled the C64 Application from their store as it was…

Tech News Danny Allen Sep 8

8-Bit Trip Might Just Be One of the Greatest Lego Music Videos Ever Created

What combines Lego, stop motion animation and a tribute to 8-bit video games all in one place? Sorry, the answer is this 8-Bit Trip music video, but to be fair I would have guessed paradise too. Updated. The video reportedly took about 1,500 hours to create, and I pretty much had an acid flashback-type experience…

Tech News Jack Loftus Aug 23

NESynth iPhone App Pumps Out Nintendo-Style Chiptunes

Like the 8Bitone synthesizer app, NESynth lets you create 80s-style music with 8-bit sounds. But the coolest part: You can control it all with an on-screen NES-style gamepad. Watch the rockin’ video after the jump to see what I mean. https://gizmodo.com/8bitone-chiptunes-synthesizer-app-lets-you-mix-it-like-5263943 Also fun is the $2 app’s use of the iPhone’s accelerometer to pitch-bend sounds,…

Tech News Danny Allen Aug 12

8Bitone Chiptunes Synthesizer App Lets You Mix It Like Mario

Everyone’s heard the stories about those guys who play entire concerts on their Game Boys, or who recompose symphonies onto NES cartridges. 8Bitone is kinda like that, except on your iPhone, and without the social suicide aspect. 8Bitone is a combination nonlinear audio editor and chiptunes synthesizer, chiptunes being music synthesized in real time on…

Tech News John Herrman May 21

Dreaming in Pixels

Or digital electric sheep. Both possible with this 8-bit slumber mask, $22 shipped from Thailand. [Studiobo via Unplggd]

Tech News John Mahoney Apr 16

Pixel Drink Coasters Can Have Any 8-Bit Shape You Want

These pixel drink coasters are made of paper and come in 50-unit packages for $8. Nothing special there until you notice that they have different shapes, which are not actually made at the factory: The coasters come in a single sheet, folded in 50 segments that you can cut in any way you want using…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Sep 5

Famicase Exhibition Fuses Yesterday’s Famicom Cartridges With Today’s Curious Artistic Minds

Rounding out our Nintendo news trifecta today is the annual Famicase art exhibition. It’s like many other art exhibitions from around the world, made infinitely cooler by the fact that the artwork is composed of imaginary games pasted to old 8-bit Famicom carts. More than 50 designers, illustrators and authors contributed to event this year,…

Tech News Jack Loftus Jul 20

Play Famicom Cartridges on Your DS With CYBER Familator Lite

The CYBER Familator Lite is an Akihabara-esque gizmo that snaps onto your DS Lite and lets you play old Famicom cartridges on your DS screen (If you can hunt down an adapter, you can play NES games as well). I think we should forget the Familator Lite is bigger than the DS, and that an…

Tech News Adrian Covert Nov 26

DIY 8-Bit Game Console

The Hydra 8-bit console kit has more juice than an NES, and you can write your own games for it. $200 gets you instructions on how to program for the Propeller processor, a keyboard, mouse, NES-ish joypad, and a 128KB rewritable cartridge to match its 128K EEPROM. Thinkgeek [via BoingBoing]

Tech News Brian Lam Jun 25

Logic3 GamesPower50

Who needs a PSP or a DS? This wee bugger contains 50 8-bit games and even has a TV-out for playing on the big screen. A 2.5″ TFT screen makes it portable and it runs on 3 AAA batteries. Priced at about $80, I could see rocking out to some 8-bit action on the train…

Tech News Johnb Feb 28

Commodore 64 iPhone App Approved! Removed

8-Bit Trip Might Just Be One of the Greatest Lego Music Videos Ever Created

NESynth iPhone App Pumps Out Nintendo-Style Chiptunes

8Bitone Chiptunes Synthesizer App Lets You Mix It Like Mario

Dreaming in Pixels

Pixel Drink Coasters Can Have Any 8-Bit Shape You Want

Famicase Exhibition Fuses Yesterday’s Famicom Cartridges With Today’s Curious Artistic Minds

Play Famicom Cartridges on Your DS With CYBER Familator Lite

DIY 8-Bit Game Console

Logic3 GamesPower50

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