Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Boston-based chiptune band Battlemode has come a long way since the group’s early days when some of their first crowds were less ...

Church organs may be mechanically complicated and super old-school, but they share something in common with the earliest computer sound chips. In theory, and largely in practice, they produce very ...

Diode Milliampere holds an ancient Toshiba laptop up to the camera of a more modern laptop, so that the window of our Skype conversation fills with a flickering, constantly refreshing grid of numbers ...

Last week, I was in Boston to give a book reading, and after the event, I went to South Station to get a midnight bus back to New York. In the bus station, I heard an older woman, probably seventy, ...

In the case of “Wake Up!”, it only needs 16 bytes to produce a Matrix-inspired visualization with an accompanying soundtrack. The program is what’s called an “intro”—a short, size-restricted program ...

Chiptunes are the fantastic, bleeping musical renditions of the soundchips of retro consoles past. Performers of the art overwhelmingly favour the various flavours of Game Boy, though there are those ...

Walking into Chris Mylrea's studio in Port Melbourne is like walking into a video game console museum. His desk is crowded with Sega Mega Drives, Commodore 64s and Nintendos of all flavours — and they ...

Nintendo Game Boys and Commodore 64s are the types of aged devices one might find in a childhood closet or stuffy attic. But imaginative musicians in a gamer-centric subculture have been using this ...

Long after their ‘80s heyday, the kind of chirpy sounds that helped make Mario and his contemporaries famous have been adopted by electronic musicians across the board, and the influence of ‘chip’ ...

Do you remember the 1980s or 1990s? Were you even born then? Well, if you were, then you likely fondly remember things like the Nintendo Entertainment System or Game Boy and those other fabulous ...

Chip music band Starscream employs aged video game and computer equipment to create their unique sound Nintendo Game Boys and Commodore 64s are the types of aged devices one might find in a childhood ...