If you were lucky and had well-off parents in the early 1980s, your home computer had a sound chip on board and could make music. There were a variety of chips on the market that combined in some form ...

We've seen movies like Kill Bill and Blade Runner turned into 8-bit video games, but YouTube user and San Francisco State University student Phillip Raupach has decided to do something different ...

Clones of Shulgin's MIDI machine are available for $500, bling not included. View Slideshow When Russian musician Alexei Shulgin takes the stage, he does so with a computer keyboard strapped across ...

Please take a moment out of your busy day and enjoy this video of ‘The Matrix: Reloaded’ with old school 8 bit sound. YouTube user Phillip Raupach created this awesome mashup of fight scenes with the ...

In the basement of a Bowery Street bar in lower Manhattan a musician was working the crowd like a younger (and geekier) version of Keith Richards. Slung waist high was not a guitar, but a PC keyboard ...

Musical platformer Sound Shapes gets three new sound packs today, expanding the game's rich composing tools with acoustic sounds, drum kits and chippy 8-bit bleeps and bloops. In addition to those ...

Over on YouTube, [Ben Eater] pursues that classic 8-bit sound. In this video, [Ben] integrates the MOS Technology 6581 Sound Interface Device (SID) with his homegrown 6502. The 6581 SID was famously ...

Japanese artist and developer Riki Iwasaki last month released 8-Bit Music Power, a chiptune album that as of now can only be played on Nintendo's original home console. Adam Bolton is a contributor ...

At a time when many home computers included sophisticated hardware used to generate music and sound effects, IBM's first PC - designed primarily for small business use - only came equipped with a ...

Screenshot of "The Adventures of Benjamin Franklin," featuring 8-Bit Ben. The retro 8-bit video game is designed by the Franklin Institute to accompany its current exhibition, "Game Masters." ...