Welcome to Plus/4 World! |  A Micro Oniric 2025: "Microsonix 001" | | Posted by Luca on 2025-01-03 |
 Getting the maximum profit with the minimum expenditure of resources: the Retroscene is actually based on this sacrosanct principle, and our long-time friend Mermaid, leading artist and historic member of Genesis Project, seems to have learned this lesson very well!
Her Microsonix 001 music box is the perfect example: eight SID chip codes that use it as a sound envelope machine, to produce dreamlike and convincing soundscapes in a handful of bytes. This work brings together technical knowledge, artistic taste, cultural references – ranging from musique concrete to modern field recording – and, inevitably, a lot of love for our machines.
Mermaid also added the source codes – both in Turbo Assembler format (e.g.: Turbo Assembler 6) and as text files for use with 64TASS – in order to encourage the usage of those SID tunes into further productions. |
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| | Dune Arcade Game Announced | | Posted by Luca on 2025-01-02 |
 A delightful new year's eve surprise! A forthcoming game, a great comeback, a famous saga. All this, has been announced with the release of the game's intro which has been modified to act as advert.
Point by point? Why not!
A great comeback. The mind behind all this is Phoenix. No bells are ringing into your head? Well, the mythical firebird rises up from the ashes of who was better known as Charles, leader of that Delta System group which has largely signed the second part of the Scene's golden era. Early '90s, mates!
A famous saga. Phoenix has refurbished the Dune franchise straight on our Plus/4! Classic Sci-Fi aficionados, consider all of you as warned, this Dune Intro is decisely winking to that specific crowd!
A forthcoming game. After a two-years work around it, Phoenix has done the working core of his Dune Arcade, and now it's time to have care of the aspect of his prod. The music has already been assigned to Narcisound and will be a SIDcard affair; soon, Unreal should be in the team too. If you too feel some interest into this project, leave a comment in order to he heard, and you might be part of the forthcoming Phoenix Design group.
Dune Intro is a juicy prelude to what to expect from Dune Arcade. Additional screenshots of the game itself are in the first comment, take a look! |
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|  VICE has been updated to 3.9, and this time there's some Plus/4 specific changes: the sound emulation has been improved. Be sure to update to the latest version! |
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| Hohoho! Our X24 greetings are flying to everyone on the Plus4 scene! |
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