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The C64 Take-away Podcast Mentioned in PC Format ! ;)

Posted: 11/08/2005 - 13:14
by HeadingtonBard
Turn to Page 54 in the September 2005 - Issue 178 of PC Format and find the C64 Take-away listed at number 8 in the Sounds to go section ! ;)

Posted: 11/08/2005 - 15:45
by tas
go go jan :)

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Re: The C64 Take-away Podcast Mentioned in PC Format ! ;)

Posted: 11/08/2005 - 15:46
by Jan Lund Thomsen
HeadingtonBard wrote:Turn to Page 54 in the September 2005 - Issue 178 of PC Format and find the C64 Take-away listed at number 8 in the Sounds to go section ! ;)
Excellent news! :D

Their website doesn't mention the September issue yet, so I'm guessing subscribers get their copy early (same thing with loadsa mags here in .dk)

You wouldn't happen to own a scanner, would you ? :wink:

Re: The C64 Take-away Podcast Mentioned in PC Format ! ;)

Posted: 11/08/2005 - 17:00
by HeadingtonBard
Jan Lund Thomsen wrote:
HeadingtonBard wrote:Turn to Page 54 in the September 2005 - Issue 178 of PC Format and find the C64 Take-away listed at number 8 in the Sounds to go section ! ;)
Excellent news! :D

Their website doesn't mention the September issue yet, so I'm guessing subscribers get their copy early (same thing with loadsa mags here in .dk)

You wouldn't happen to own a scanner, would you ? :wink:
Here is a Link to the Scan I have just done for everyone :

http://www.btinternet.com/~alex.aris/pics/c64-ipod.gif

The Scan is about 700 KB !

Enjoy the read ! :)

Please let me know if there is a Broken Link !

Posted: 11/08/2005 - 17:15
by Chris Abbott
Well done indeed, that man!

Chris

Re: The C64 Take-away Podcast Mentioned in PC Format ! ;)

Posted: 11/08/2005 - 18:55
by Jan Lund Thomsen
HeadingtonBard wrote:Here is a Link to the Scan I have just done for everyone :

http://www.btinternet.com/~alex.aris/pics/c64-ipod.jpg
Thanks a bundle, dude.

Oh, if you resize the image to 1024 x 634 pixels and save it in GIF format it shrinks to 280Kb. Might save you a bit of bandwidth.

Posted: 11/08/2005 - 19:18
by Jan Lund Thomsen
For those of you that have trouble with the link the text reads:

"C64 Takeaway (http://podcastalley.com/podcast_details.php?pod_id=4994)
The C64 podcast is filled with music from legendary games and remixes of C64-inspired tunes"


Don't get me wrong, I'm well happy that the podcast gets some press (Andew, did Retro Gamer ever print the blurp Chris sent your way?) and hopefully gets more people into consuming remixes. But it's obvious that the guy found it through the Podcastalley directory and didn't folow the link to the show site and printed that URL instead.

Plus what's this about "remixes of C64-inspired tunes"?

Posted: 11/08/2005 - 20:06
by Chris Abbott
I sent my blurb directly to Martyn Carroll, editor. Who promptly ignored it.

Chris

Posted: 11/08/2005 - 20:06
by Chris Abbott
Jan Lund Thomsen wrote:For those of you that have trouble with the link the text reads:

"C64 Takeaway (http://podcastalley.com/podcast_details.php?pod_id=4994)
The C64 podcast is filled with music from legendary games and remixes of C64-inspired tunes"


Don't get me wrong, I'm well happy that the podcast gets some press (Andew, did Retro Gamer ever print the blurp Chris sent your way?) and hopefully gets more people into consuming remixes. But it's obvious that the guy found it through the Podcastalley directory and didn't folow the link to the show site and printed that URL instead.

Plus what's this about "remixes of C64-inspired tunes"?
Accuracy? From a computer journalist? Now you're just being unreasonable ;-)

Re: The C64 Take-away Podcast Mentioned in PC Format ! ;)

Posted: 11/08/2005 - 20:59
by HeadingtonBard
Jan Lund Thomsen wrote:
HeadingtonBard wrote:Here is a Link to the Scan I have just done for everyone :

http://www.btinternet.com/~alex.aris/pics/c64-ipod.gif
Thanks a bundle, dude.

Oh, if you resize the image to 1024 x 634 pixels and save it in GIF format it shrinks to 280Kb. Might save you a bit of bandwidth.
I've resized and coverted it to GIF now ! It's under 1 MB but should still ok on the Bandwith ! :)

Re: The C64 Take-away Podcast Mentioned in PC Format ! ;)

Posted: 11/08/2005 - 21:14
by whwan
HeadingtonBard wrote:
Jan Lund Thomsen wrote:
HeadingtonBard wrote:Here is a Link to the Scan I have just done for everyone :

http://www.btinternet.com/~alex.aris/pics/c64-ipod.gif
Thanks a bundle, dude.

Oh, if you resize the image to 1024 x 634 pixels and save it in GIF format it shrinks to 280Kb. Might save you a bit of bandwidth.
I've resized and coverted it to GIF now ! It's under 1 MB but should still ok on the Bandwith ! :)

Aww shucks! And I went to the trouble of keeping it at the same res (@300dpi) and dropped it from 4.24M to 823k using the same process for my RESTORED.whwan.com project for old 8-bit mags.

http://69.46.25.106/img.php?loc=loc166& ... _ipod_823k_[RESTORED.whwan.com].jpg

Of course, I coudl've done a better job if I had the uncompressed image ;)

Posted: 12/08/2005 - 8:19
by merman
Chris Abbott wrote:I sent my blurb directly to Martyn Carroll, editor. Who promptly ignored it.

Chris
Don't get me started on the current situation at RG. I've got a backlog of stuff here, and I wanted to do an update on the excellent article Adam Dawes did on the C64 music scene... Doesn't look like it will happen now.

Posted: 31/10/2005 - 19:08
by khisanth
nice one Jan !

May the word of c64 music spread even further !

:)

Posted: 31/10/2005 - 23:43
by merman
merman wrote:
Chris Abbott wrote:I sent my blurb directly to Martyn Carroll, editor. Who promptly ignored it.

Chris
Don't get me started on the current situation at RG. I've got a backlog of stuff here, and I wanted to do an update on the excellent article Adam Dawes did on the C64 music scene... Doesn't look like it will happen now.
Of course, you should never say never... Retro Gamer is coming back thanks to Imagine Publishing!

Posted: 31/10/2005 - 23:47
by Chris Abbott
merman wrote:
merman wrote:
Chris Abbott wrote:I sent my blurb directly to Martyn Carroll, editor. Who promptly ignored it.

Chris
Don't get me started on the current situation at RG. I've got a backlog of stuff here, and I wanted to do an update on the excellent article Adam Dawes did on the C64 music scene... Doesn't look like it will happen now.
Of course, you should never say never... Retro Gamer is coming back thanks to Imagine Publishing!
*jaded*