Toy Rocket

This little SID tune ended up on 3rd place in the Oldskool Music compo at Revision 2017. I composed it on a real C64 using my recently released tracker, Blackbird. Hope you like it! Read more.

• Toy Rocket (C64 executable file, 4.9 kB)
• Toy Rocket (SID tune, 5.6 kB)
• Linus Akesson - Toy Rocket (MP3, 3.6 MB)

Posted Tuesday 2-May-2017 22:37, 2 comments.

A Mind Is Born

Making a demo in just 256 bytes would be a formidable challenge regardless of platform. A Mind Is Born is my attempt to do it on the Commodore 64. In the absence of an actual 256-byte compo, it was submitted to the Oldskool 4K Intro compo at Revision 2017, where it ended up on 1st place. Read more.

• a_mind_is_born (C64 executable, 256 bytes)
• A_Mind_Is_Born (SID tune, 325 bytes)
• Linus Akesson - A Mind Is Born (MP3, 2.1 MB)

Posted Thursday 20-Apr-2017 08:13, 50 comments.

Live at Datastorm 2017

I got the opportunity to play my Pocket Operators live at the Datastorm demoparty in Gothenburg, in front of about 200 people. The performance mainly contains my own compositions reinterpreted for the POs, but I've thrown in a couple of covers of classic C64 tunes too for good measure. Enjoy! Read more.

Posted Friday 7-Apr-2017 06:48, 4 comments.

Blackbird

Blackbird is a modern music editor for the Commodore 64. It was released at Datastorm 2017 (outside of the compos). The software has been designed to work well both on real hardware and in emulators, and it comes with a comprehensive User's Guide. Read more.

• blackbird-1.1 (Zip archive, 403 kB)
• blackbird-1.0 (Zip archive, 402 kB)
• BlackbirdUsersGuide (User's Guide, 264 kB)

Posted Wednesday 15-Mar-2017 08:09, 1 comment.

Intertwined

I made a SID tune together with Dane of Booze Design. It ended up on 2nd place in the C64 Music compo at Datastorm 2017. Enjoy! Read more.

• Lft-Dane-Intertwined (C64 executable file, 13 kB)
• Lft & Dane - Intertwined (MP3, 1.8 MB)

Posted Wednesday 15-Mar-2017 08:08, 0 comments.

Massively Interleaved Sprite Crunch

This article describes the inner workings of Massively Interleaved Sprite Crunch (MISC), a new C64 demo effect introduced in my demo Lunatico. Read more.

Posted Monday 19-Dec-2016 22:22, 9 comments.

Live at X'2016

I reinterpreted some of my tunes live on Pocket Operators at X'2016. The concert went well, but it wasn't recorded. Instead, here's a video of one of my rehearsal sessions, with some audience-contributed footage from the concert edited in. Read more.

Posted Monday 7-Nov-2016 08:13, 0 comments.