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Amiga/C64 Retro Radio Station

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the blast-from-the-past dept.

Hot Trout writes "24/7 Streaming Retro Radio bringing to you all those classic game and demo tunes from the 80's and 90's. Mainly C64 and Amiga but also games. This allows DSL users to enjoy their old school fav's in 128 kbps, 44Khz, STEREO. Very very cool ... Check it out at The old Computer @ Retro Radio." I've been reading High Score lately, so retro gaming is great to run through again.

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  1. C64 audio by wfmcwalter · · Score: 3, Interesting

    For anyone who's still interesting in those classic C64 tunes, Chris Abbott (and some other folks, I think) has remade a bunch of C64 tunes with modern equipment - I can strongly recommend his site

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  2. Anyone remember Rick Dangerous? by Komrade+S. · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The faux Indiana Jones themesong from the Amiga 500 classic still haunts me late at night...

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  3. 128kbps 44KHz stereo by Zakabog · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Why? With a 128kbps stream, 3 seconds of audio is larger than most of the games on the C64 and amiga. There's no vocals, complicated guitar riffs, anything else that would need high bitrates, alot of beeps and different pitches, why would you need 128kbps 44KHz stereo?

    1. Re:128kbps 44KHz stereo by hrm · · Score: 5, Interesting

      If you're not emulating the C64 SID chip, you'll need a fairly high-bit (just as high as for "normal" music) mp3 stream to properly reproduce the audio.

      The SID chip didn't just beep at different pitches, it was a digital/analog synthesizer on a single chip.

      When BYTE magazine compiled a list of the 20 most memorable microchips ever, the SID chip was in there. At the time, it was way ahead of every other sound producing silicon found in home computers. Some considered the Commodore Amiga's fully digital synthesizer chips a step back.

  4. Nectarine by Jugalator · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm personally a big fan of the Nectarine. Broadcasting music from the demo scene of the 80's and 90's. Timeless Amiga and C64 music such as Second Reality, Nine Fingers, Deadlock, Desert Dreams, and much more. You need this site if ever having owned an Amiga/C64, especially if you had lots of MODs that were lost when switching to PC or was into demos. Check out the Top 50 requested music yourself and let Winamp enjoy playing some excellent retro MOD/S3M music!

    I hope that site never dies, and likely it won't since the material they play is either copyright free or played with the author's permission. So it's a free station playing free music.

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  5. C64 music played live by RasmusW · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Well there actually is a danish band playing C64 music on real instruments:

    www.pressplayontape.com

    I just love their version of Warhawk =)

    -Raz