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What's Happening This Month

The Miscellaneum 004 – The Game Soundtrack Edition has dropped!

The Audit of a Superintelligence explores why AI outputs can look complete yet resist verification—and where human judgement must ultimately take control. Shadow of the Beast Soundtracks explores how restrained samples, stereo space, and Paula audio combine to create a lasting atmospheric experience. Why Your Digital Photos May Not Survive explains how phones, cloud accounts, and ageing technology can quietly put years of personal memories at risk. Discover how the Atari Empire Strikes Back arcade conversion kit let operators transform the original Star Wars machine into a new sequel experience without buying a whole new cabinet. The Driver That Eats Living Rooms explores one of the most outrageous loudspeaker designs ever conceived and the era when bigger cones meant bigger bass. Relive the sun-bleached highways and turbocharged thrills of Jeleco Big Run, and discover why this 1989 arcade racer still roars louder than modern emulation headaches.

Hifi & Audio

The Future is AI-Generated RPG Soundscapes

AI-Generated
RPG Soundscapes

Sound design as Emoptional Game Mechanics

Sound deign as
Game Mechanics

From Looping Tracks to Dynamic Score Game Soundtracks

From Looping Tracks
to Dynamic Scores

Sound Effects as Narrative Storytelling in Dungeons

Sound Effects
in Dungeon Stories

/r/ Random

Fixing AI outputs that are right but not useful

Fixing AI outputs
that are no useful

The Audit of a Superintelligence

The Audit of a
Superintelligence

Why Your Digital Photos May Not Survive

Your Digital Photos
May Not Survive

Isometric server stack with layered planes linked by glowing network lines

9 Emerging Funding
Frameworks

Retrogaming

Empire Strikes Back: Atari’s Star Wars Conversion Kit (1984)

Atari Star Wars
Arcade Conversion Kit

Reimagined desert rally scene inspired by Jaleco Big Run

Jaleco Big Run
4WD Challenge (1989)

Axolotl Wonders: 7 games that star Axolotls in the gameplay

7 games staring
Axolotls

Psygnosis Orbitus Amiga RPG Advertisement

Most Beautiful RPG
on the Amiga

Computing

Silhouetted archaeologist uncovering buried floppy disks

Lost Amiga Projects
Worth Revisiting

PCW 1985 Episode - Seiko Smartwatches

PCW 1985 episode 3
Seiko Smartwatches

Surreal synthwave scene of a glowing Commodore Amiga surrounded by orbiting floppy disks in a neon night sky.

Amiga Fred Fish
Software Ecosystem

Sega Zaxxon arcade game: isometric innovation in the arcades, featuring original flyer artefacts, television commercial, and gameplay footage.

Sega Zaxxon
Arcade Game

Newsletters

The Miscellaneum 004

The Miscellaneum
Edition 004

The Miscellaneum 003

The Miscellaneum
Edition 003

The Miscellaneum 002

The Miscellaneum
Edition 002

The Miscellaneum 001

The Miscellaneum
Edition 001

Journals

Commodore C64 Scratch Pad

Commodore C64
Journal

Commodore C64 Journal Authority

Commodore C64
Journal

Commodore Amiga Multimedia Computer

Commodore Amiga
Journal

AIWA Hifi Catalog 1976

AIWA Hifi
Catalog 1976


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