Month: April 2006

I AM 8-BIT: version 2.006

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Gallery Nineteen Eighty Eight will be host of the second annual I AM 8-BIT nicely dubbed, verison 2.006. I AM 8-BIT: version 2.006 is an art show that lets over hundred artists give their interpretation of 1980’s video games through different media. It varies from canvas to t-shirts to cloth and last year there was even a Pac-Man grenade. Now if you can imagine that then you will enjoy this pixel parade of people’s perception. The show begins April 18th and will run until May 19th, 2006. More information can be found at iam8bit.net and nineteeneightyeight.com and to wet your appetite as what is in store here is a wallpaper from iam8bit.net. Is that who I think that is?

I AM 8-BIT: Emroca Flores

Battle of the Beats 2 Update

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Battle of the Beats 2 will be landing at Project Blowed on April 20th, 2006 and will be one not to miss. The event will begin at 9:00 pm and will feature up and coming producers presenting their best tracks. Again my compadre, Detrimental Storm will be in attendance and giving people the chance to hear the beats that he has in his arsenal. It should be a great show and for more information check my previous Battle of the Beats 2 post or the official sight. If your lucky there may be an appearance by the Ecliptic one himself.

CS:S Quick Update 3

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Looks like Steam and Counter-Strike: Source are at it again with another round of updates. First up are two more player models one for the terrorist: Artic and one for the counter terrorist: GSG9. If your player models are not showing the new models open your config and add cl_minmodels 0 to show all the models. Next on the update list in HDR lighting on the de_dust map. The update that was greatly appreciated by me was the “improved lag compensation”. This made my game run smoother without using hacks or workarounds for my hyperthreading computer. If it happened to you then you know how big of an improvement this is. Here is a shot from de_dust HDR lighting with the new Artic Avenger model.

Artic and de_dust HDR

Free Legal Music 3

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Binary Star – Masters of the Universe (MOTU)
Binary Star – Waterworld
Two free full length albums for download from Subterraneous Records. It seems that Binary Star really got screwed over on these two albums. If you read the interesting facts you learn that they were no longer a group when the album MOTU was released. There is alot more and you can also hear samples from One Be Lo (OneManArmy) new material.

Credit: zewone on the CAG forums

Golden Axe Gone Away (GAGA)

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My title sounds like a song, “Golden Axe Gone Away…” You can finish the rest if you must but before I get off track. I recently put my Golden Axe arcade cabinet on Craigslist.org for sale. I was going to restore it myself but time (mostly more games) caught up to me. Anyways, two guys came by to pick it up and through conversation I found out they work for Rhythm and Hues (that is working on the next Superman: Rhythm and Hues). So they told me they were going to restore it for their company and turn it into a MAME machine. I thought it was a good idea and asked if they would keep me posted. Well they did and also made a sight for it called RhythmMAME. I think this post gives an insight into how much work will be involved and tons of photos. Have fun.

Old Golden Axe Arcade

Edit: It seems that the RhythmMAME is back and all links are updated, thanks tony.