While the C64 Take-away is primarily about our passion for the music, I’ve always felt that it’s equally important to spread the good word about the music and the people behind it. Now that the podcast has switched to a two host format, there’s obviously more talking going on. But hopefully it’ll make our passion shine through even more, while adding value for most listeners. Not just the ones who like their C64 tunes with a cupful of banter.

–Jan;

P.S.: Can’t wait for the Walkabout to get back into proper action – hardcore music episode or not. If you need ideas for an episode focusing on a single game, I’d *love* to hear one on Laser Squad. Hint, hint, nudge, nudge.

I can’t focus on non-music podcasts (or radio) at work either. So I save those for my daily commute, and listen to music during working hours. Actually, the vast choice of different content is what got me hooked on podcasts in the first place, so if you like to rock out to BitJam while working – by all means listen to that. Also, be sure to check out Blibb Blobb and 8 Bit Mayhem for more chiptune goodies.

And if you’re near a computer (and your corporate firewall allows it) you can tune into the SLAY Radio or SceneSat streams. Of course you could also just load the RKO collection on to your MP3 player and hit the shuffle button.

if you prefer the C64 Take-away over all these alternatives, we love you for it. But I’m afraid it’s not going to change anything, format-wise. =)

–Jan;

@fan – I usually do mostly talkie episodes as my site is focused on enjoying old C64 games via emulation, but I’d like to do a hard core SID/Remix episode at least once – and I will try it with minimal talking. I think that will be my next podcast at the C64 Walkabout. (But it will still be game focused)

Also there are old podcasts from SubZero and One Man and His Mic out there you can download that are heavily music focused, as well as full episodes of DJ hosted music on Slay Radio (look at “past episodes” or similar).

I like Jan’s podcast because it’s a blend of what I like to hear about (C64 related news and discussion) and music.

thx in anticipation.
a fan

By the way the Golden axe mix is tradition you have done it twice in four years that is way more often then we have a white christmas (Denmark). If you do the christmas show you also have a good excuse for meeting over a couple of “Blålys”

You want to know why?

I want more!

Awesome show guys! Always a pleasure to hear c64 remixes, c64 news and you two to glue the pieces together!

Thank you guys! Just made my Thursday at work soooo much better!

That being said, Makke and I do have have a tentative and not-to-distant date set for recording episode #46. More news when it happens.

Dont you use your myspace site anymore, I try to get you into my “friends” list for the second time, but Its already been half a year since you last visited myspace.

greets and all the best, Adam

Oh wait!!

http://benheck.com/04-05-2009/commodore-64-original-hardware-laptop

Gotta love the commodore 64

Admittedly, I’m a very big open source software fan so Android has appealed to me more than the iPhone (far too closed for my liking, just look how my Apple push for everyone with an iPod/iPhone to use (and only use) iTunes).

Still… I’ll keep you posted about the Android version of the c64 emulator once I get my hands on a handset

-John

P.S. Since I first emailed you, I’ve gotten up to Episode 28! I’ve been listening at work while I work

If you want one less thing to check up on now and then you could always keep up with us using the RSS feed or e-mail announcements.

Always enjoy the music and banter, cheers to the hosts.

Getting off my soapbox, it just dawned on me that upcoming HTC Hero is also powered by Android. Only comes in white as well, but at least it’s not as ugly as the Magic.

From what I understand, you get the programs via your Android powered handset that has the Android Marketplace installed on it.

I’m getting a HTC Magic over here soon (my birthday soon, yayyy for me ) so guess which program I’ll be installing first

-John

BTW: Jan and Makke, I hope things are going great for the both of you.
catch’ya

I tried to check the Android Marketplace for emulators, but I just can’t find my way around it. They claim you can browse the available apps but all I see is top free/paid apps and no search function. You’d think Google could do better than that.

Do you have a direct link for the C64 emulator?

While there might not be a c64 iPhone app… Android phones will be! woo!

Here’s a link to the news article:
http://www.pcauthority.com.au/News/148243,retro-on-your-phone-android-users-get-c64-emulator-while-similar-app-gets-banned-on-iphone.aspx

Awesome news!

Thanks for the episode guys, keep up the great work!

-John (from Adelaide, South Australia, and yes, i did listen to this ep in the car!)

Unfortunately both Makke and I have busy schedules for next couple of months, so you might have to wait a bit for the 46th installment.

I will however say that I have got a new ringtone on my phone. I couldn’t help my self but to cut your jingle out of the podcast, and download it to my phone. Who said geek?

Very frustrated with the iTunes app store C64 emulator problems. How many decades must pass before people realize that the C64 hardware, not to mention the decaying floppy disks and tapes are going to be dead without methods of enjoyment like this? Perhaps it will just be a minor speedbump in the scheme of things.

I also noticed to my disappointment that the “easy to use” Ubuntu Linux comes with a crippled version of VICE that is missing essential files and would not be easy for a casual user to find. Thanks be to .rpm files for Redhat and SUSE…

http://technologizer.com/2009/06/21/commodore-vs-iphone/

-Seth
ps- Jan, I got an xbox 360 for the VERY same reason! ahaha! Long live Wasteland!!

@Andrew: The timing of my Xbox purchase turned out to be impeccable, as the Live Arcade version of Portal was released a couple of days after I got the console (I never really cared for HL2/TF2 so I couldn’t be bothered to purchase The Orange Box just for Portal).

As for a Max Headroom special, it would be a short show: there’s only 6 remixes of it according to http://remix.kwed.org/?search=max+headroom. Plus the one by Marcel Donné that I played on episode 022, of course.

Jan here’s an idea for a show…how about all the best Max Headroom remixes?

Great show, I must say! I like the mix of remixes, news, discussions and SIDs a lot and it’s always nice to hear new songs that I haven’t found yet!

You mentioned that SIDplayer was released to iPhone/iPod Touch – why I of course had to search for it! SIDplayer comes both in a “lite” version and a regular version, where the “lite” version only enables a few selected SIDs. The regular costs 22SEK, which feels like an affordable price – then you can download the entire HVSC and update it when new stuff comes up.
It works nicely so I really recommend it. It’s easy to search but it lacks a “playlist” function, but I guess a later release will remedy that!

Keep up the good work! I hope to hear a new show before christmas!

I’ve always felt that the C64 Take-away should be about more than ‘just’ the music. Especially seing as I (like a lot of other people) will listen to every remix out there at least once anyway.

Also, fantasy RPGs just don’t have the same appeal as something that will let you empty a full clip on three approaching pistoleros, reducing them into a thin red paste.

After all, if all I want is the tunes I can just download and play stuff from Remix.Kwed.Org, etc.

So you were a Wasteland fan? Amazing I have yet to try/review that game. I need to put it on my short list. Mass Effect ate up a lot of personal time, so I’m sure Fallout 3 would do the same to me, but I’m a PC gamer, not a console gamer (I still consider the C64 a type of PC, never did like the Nintendo type stuff). Just something about using a keyboard that appeals to me.

Hope the next episode doesn’t take too long to come out!

_RM

@Fac: Glad you liked it. I look forward to you mocking my release schedule again next year.

I downloaded a listed. A great great episode. You have always been creating great episodes and hope the next will be more more interesting.

I’ve got some sound related news here if you’re interested:

They just came out with a sound related api for JS (oh, and P.S. it wraps the flash engine of course)..

http://www.schillmania.com/projects/soundmanager2/

http://noname.c64.org/csdb/scener/?id=8090

That being said, I didn’t really care much for the actual music in the Vicious SID demo. Mind you, now that the technology is in place, its just a matter of time before someone will use it to create some truly breathtaking tunes with it.

Here is the demo:
http://noname.c64.org/csdb/release/?id=72678
And here is dhe mp3:
http://www.scs-trc.net/x08/music/vicious_sid_mp3.zip

Remember, this sound actually comes from a C64, stunning eh?

Have a nice 2009 and congratulations on getting married!
- Merijn

As usual, a great selection of tunes that I otherwise might have missed from random RKO downloads. I also tend to skip tracks that don’t initially interest me in the first 10 seconds, but with your podcast I give them a full listen and am usually pleasantly surprised.

Have a Merry Christmas, and dust off that old C64 (or an emulator) for a game or two while you’re kicking back to some Yule-tide tunes!

Cheers,
-R.M.
C64 Walkabout

Based on my experience you should always suggest speaking over parts of the track when asking for permission to play something from a commercially available remix CD. Most of the time the artist will have no problem with you playing the track in its entirety, but others will ask you to either talk over parts of it or play only an except.

Personally I’m not a huge fan of DJs yelling obscenities over tracks to encourage people to buy them. As a listener I’d much rather prefer to have a voice-over on the intro/outro.

In the end it boils down to “ask first”.

Now, I don’t recall you ever doing this on your show, but I do recall hearing a few live shows on Slay Radio with “Boz” and I have a question about the ‘boz-clips’ that are play over the music to “ruin them” so that people will buy the commercial CDs. For instance you can’t very well play a song that has Boz yelling @#@!$!@ in the middle of the song when your mother or boss is in the room.

So with that being said, seeing as you are a member of the c64 remix community, and I figured you’d know, is this part of the “Gentleman’s agreement” that they have listed on Slay Radio? Or do you have to contact the people who make the remixes and they give you permission to play the song on your show provided that the song is “ruined” by one of the “Boz Clips”?

I just wondered how that worked because I’ve been looking into doing something similar myself. (Not a c64 podcast, more of a video podcast and doing the same thing with movies only riffing them instead (I’m a big MST3K/RiffTrax fan)…

Thank you,
Andrew J. Leer
http://leeand00.tiddlyspot.com/

Suggestion : give the time the tune plays with the tunes names.

Keep up your excellent work!

Hope hearing more and amaze my wife with the sounds.

Here’s a weird but possibly interesting story for next time:

http://www.pagetable.com/?p=48

Using Commodore Basic as a scripting language on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.

Also, congratulations on getting married chief!

Keep up the good work sir, oh, and congratulations on getting married too Jan!

Until next time…

- ben near San Francisco, California

And finally, I can listen to this at work!

@Brian: Glad you like the show. Stick around for more – I’m not quite dead yet.

Thought you might enjoy my little “interview” with remixer Chronberg. Of course we give ample recognition to Remix.Kwed.Org!

http://c64walkabout.com/2008/10/02/exclusive-interview-with-c64-remixer-chronberg.aspx

Cheers,
-R.M.

As for “I love my C64″ and “Great Gurianos CyberJungle remix”, you can grab both of them from http://Remix.Kwed.Org.

http://remix.kwed.org/?search_id=3747
http://remix.kwed.org/?search_id=3738

Is there a chance I can get the intro tune and the “Cyber Jungle” remix as MP3s somewhere?

René

-R.M.

I’ve had bouts of extreme obsession with things in the past only to find my interest wane over time. But I usually come back to these obsessions of mine in due time.

Maybe a little injection of retro C64 gaming at my blog will revive the spirit of a weary (or overworked in “real life”) previously prolific podcaster?

Cheers,
-R.M.

(And in case you’re one of those foreign types who couldn’t understand any of the above – Steen asked me to keep up the podcast, and I replied that I’d certainly try my best to keep up the irregular schedule.)

Jeg var simpelthen nødt til at komme forbi her, og sige mange tak for de pæne ord – jeg blev (næsten) helt rørt!

Tak for det Jan, og bliv ved med din podcast

Steen

There’s also a number of Kraftwerk references in C64 remixing. The booklet for Press Play On Tape’s “Run/Stop Restore” album includes an alternative cover, done in the style of Kraftwerks 1978 album “Man-Machine”. Also, PPOT have performed live dressed in red shirts and black ties.

Also, Makke did a Crazy Comets cover named “Komet Non-Stop” – after Kraftwerks “Musique Non-Stop”.

Look at this!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHEoMpMvz7A&feature=related

I’ve only heard of them just today, but they seem to be the oldest eletronic band I’ve come across other than The Who. I really like their sound Jan!

The manual is a bit sparse, but DSOrganise seems to built as a generic tool that just happens to support SID playback. But since this application has proven the DS’ ability to play SIDs so I wouldn’t rule out the possibility of someone developing a ‘proper’ SID-player for the console sometime in the future.

In fact, if anyone reading this knows anyone in the DS homebrew community, start pestering them to make it happen.

Do the SIDs play one after another, or do you need to manually move it forward (one thing I hate about many SID players is the lack of a “playlist” feature that takes multiple tracks into account, or songs in multi-track SIDs that are cut short).

Cheers,
-R.M.

Oh, and there is a way to play SIDs on your Nintendo DS! It’s a homebrew program called DSOrganise (http://www.dragonminded.com/?loc=ndsdev/DSOrganize). I’m not sure if the author ported SIDPlay or made his own SID player, but it’s a way of playing SIDs on the go using your DS. I can’t vouch for the quality of sound compared to a real C64, since I haven’t owned or seen one myself

Keep up the good work!
-Charlie

Also, nice site you’ve created there – I’m quite flattered to be cited as the inspiration for it. Listened to your podcast on Ultimate Wizard and I’ll have to give it a spin on the emulator one of these days to see how it compares to Jumpman. Mind you, Lode Runner was always my platformer of choice.

First, the audio feedback/message site comes up with an “Page Not Found Oops! Looks like you followed a bad link.”

Second, I thought I’d tell you about the site I’m running now which was inspired by your site. Though the themes are completely different, and music is not the focus, I’d been wanting to do a sort of “gateway” to the Commodore 64 for newbies and old fans alike, a way to rediscover all of those old cool games, in addition to everything C64 related, new and old.

May seem a bit ambitious, but a primary theme will be to keep the focus on people who are new to the C64 or new to emulating a C64, and happenings in the C64 scene (like music) that might interest people who are (re)discovering the Commodore 64.

Anyway, your podcast inspired me to do a “blogcast” (although I’ve only posted one podcast on the old game Ultimate Wizard, and my regular blog posts outnumber it several times over).

Anyway, I figured I’d try to “spread the Commodore love” in my own way, and since teaching used to be a big part of my life, I figured, why not teach people how to enjoy C64 gaming once again?

The site is: c64.gotom.us (just using an old domain I’d bought some time back and have for many more years – haha)

Meanwhile, I continue to listen to your old podcasts, and find something new to enjoy every time!

I’m hooked on Chronberg’s remixes right now, and a little Hazel.

Cheers,
-Robinson Mason

- leeand00

Another super show!

I’ve missed the C64 Takeaway since the last show, but I’m glad to say that it’s good to have you back. I enjoyed the show while gardening (made it a little easier pulling weeds!)

Keep up the great work!

There’s a couple of writeups on it here:

http://remix64.com/board/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4777
http://www.bigmech.com/misc/c64mods/noisereduction.html

(Mind you, I can’t be held responsible if you end up frying your computer)

The last Green Beret tune went from Wendy Carlos to more of a Klaus Doldinger / Giorgio Moroder. Good stuff! Looking forward to the next podcast…(still have more to catch up on!)