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C64Audio / 8-Bit Symphony 🎶 @c64audio.bsky.social · 14d

You look tired. Have a disco boogie on us.

OutRun '77, by Brother Abbott

from the album Arcade Classics - Special Edition

c64audio.bandcamp.com

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C64Audio / 8-Bit Symphony 🎶 @c64audio.bsky.social · 18d

Just released on Bandcamp: a 24-track arcade covers album: Gradius and Ghouls 'n Ghosts with an 80 piece orchestra, Outrun in normal and disco form, some very quirky Road Runner, Paper Boy and 720 Degrees, and a load of other Sega Classics! #vgm #sega #arcade

Arcade Classics - Special Edition, by Chris Abbott

24 track album

c64audio.bandcamp.com

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C64Audio / 8-Bit Symphony 🎶 @c64audio.bsky.social · 19d

Nice! There is a link to their concerts in the Bandcamp pages… (album)

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C64Audio / 8-Bit Symphony 🎶 @c64audio.bsky.social · 19d

It takes people even longer to discover that it's a great thing to go to one of their concerts :)

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C64Audio / 8-Bit Symphony 🎶 @c64audio.bsky.social · 19d

Now on Bandcamp: an all-star cast including Matt Gray, Allister Brimble, Rockstar's Will Morton, Chris Huelsbeck, Matt Furniss and LMan combine SID, Jarre and Vangelis in various combinations. Check out Matt Gray's "Zoolookologie" and "Zoolook" covers! #jarre #vangelis #c64

A hidden gem!

Project Sidologie: Remixes, by Various

14 track album

c64audio.bandcamp.com

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C64Audio / 8-Bit Symphony 🎶 @c64audio.bsky.social · 19d

It’s all Jarre-esque zoolooky stuff yes :)

C64Audio / 8-Bit Symphony 🎶 @c64audio.bsky.social · 19d

#c64 #oldadvertsforsomereason

RoboCop (Ariston theme), by Marcel Donné

from the album Project Sidologie: Sidologie 12-26

c64audio.bandcamp.com

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C64Audio / 8-Bit Symphony 🎶 @c64audio.bsky.social · 19d

FastLoaders celebrate 10 years of #C64 homage with a new Bandcamp page hosting three of their biggest releases: Ninja Musicology (Last Ninja trilogy), Amiga Rocks (inc. SoTB), and C64 Rocks (55 tracks over three-albums)
fastloaders.bandcamp.com
Why not show this devoted band your appreciation?

FastLoaders

FastLoaders are the guys behind "Ninja Musicology", "Ninja Musicology: Live at the Dungeons", "Progressive 64", "Rock Hubbard", "Amiga Rocks", "C64 Rocks" and several "Back in Time" events. Their miss...

fastloaders.bandcamp.com

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C64Audio / 8-Bit Symphony 🎶 @c64audio.bsky.social · 22d

Clay? C64 Remixes? Millennial nostalgia? Food ammo? Yep! #PlatypusReclayed

Claymatic @claymatic.games · 22d

TOMORROW!? 🚀

Platypus Reclayed is out on PC, Mac and consoles September 18th ✨

#PlatypusReclayed #GameDev #Shmup

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LogrusUK @logrus.uk · Sep 5

This is his debut video - this is astonishingly interesting. Check it out #C64 fans! @wearecommodore.bsky.social
@c64audio.bsky.social @everythingc64.itch.io

CommodoreBlog🍂 @commodoreblog.uk · Sep 5

youtu.be/ewyzM-H286U?...

Can I port C64 Commando music to arcade hardware?

YouTube video by Luxocrates

youtu.be

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C64Audio / 8-Bit Symphony 🎶 @c64audio.bsky.social · Sep 10

8th November, 2025. Make a weekend of it in Leicester with Retro Computer Museum, National space Centre and an unforgettable spiritual C64 music experience in the evening! East Midlands Airport is Ryanair-friendly too!

FastLoaders - Commodore 64 Rocks - Live

FastLoaders bring a powerful, tight rock sound to videogame music Commodore 64 classics like Commando, Last Ninja & Monty on the Run!

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Irish Video Game Orchestra 🎮♥️ RECRUITING! @ivgorchestra.com · Jun 27

A sneaky backstage video from our recent 10th anniversary concert!

Here's Alicia from @expedition33.bsky.social by Lorien Testard

#vgm #gaming #expedition33

youtube.com/shorts/0yskC...

Orchestra performing Alicia from #clairobscurexpedition33 #vgm #ivgo

YouTube video by Irish Video Game Orchestra

youtube.com

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C64Audio / 8-Bit Symphony 🎶 @c64audio.bsky.social · Jun 15

Is A4, my error!

C64Audio / 8-Bit Symphony 🎶 @c64audio.bsky.social · Jun 15

Amazing legacy of Oli's art - A5 memories - kickstarter coming to an end.

ZZAP! Legacy - celebrating the first 48 issues of ZZAP! 64

The legacy that is ZZAP! 64

www.kickstarter.com

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Tynemouth Software @tynemouthsoftware.co.uk · Jun 10

Finally.

Unmodified Tut-Tut for the ZX81 running on ZX81 BASIC for the Minstrel 4th running on a Jupiter Ace emulator running on a Windows 7 emulator running on a Linux PC.

I am sure I will write an excessively long blog post about it.

Thanks to @zx81keyboardadventure.com for helping sort this.

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C64Audio / 8-Bit Symphony 🎶 @c64audio.bsky.social · May 30

Just when you thought it was safe to go back to Bandcamp... a ghostly orchestral VGM album appears... headlined by Ghouls, Ghosts and Goblins.

#vgm #c64 #commodore64 #chipmusic

Knight Lyfe - an 8-Bit Symphony EP with sheet music, by Czech Studio Orchestra

7 track album

c64audio.bandcamp.com

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C64Audio / 8-Bit Symphony 🎶 @c64audio.bsky.social · May 30

#c64 #classical #vgm Just released on Bandcamp...

Not only is this a great orchestral soundtrack album with a professional 80-piece orchestra, but as a bonus, you get the conductor's score PDFs as well! All pieces were arranged and orchestrated by Rob. 8-Bit Symphony is his passion project.

The Best of Rob Hubbard - 8-Bit Symphony EP with Sheet Music, by Czech Studio Orchestra

7 track album

c64audio.bandcamp.com

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LogrusUK @logrus.uk · May 25

#LogShed I love spending time in the shed. 😆 SIDOLOGIE on the decks there - still available at @c64audio.bsky.social (I think!). And all that #C64 #AtariST #SNES and #Playstation goodness! Still have to dive into that pile! And clean up the SNES!

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🕹RetroGuyBry🎮 @retroguybry.bsky.social · May 24

Currently enjoying Project Hubbard from C64Audio.com

#C64 #Commodore64 #ChipTunes #RobHubbard #SIDTunes

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C64Audio / 8-Bit Symphony 🎶 @c64audio.bsky.social · May 24

It's like a 1980s menu of exciting possibilities

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Barking Dog Honker (Rob) @fishwithlasers.bsky.social · May 22

Went past too much effort for a shit joke ages ago, really.

A poster for The Thing On A Spring where our cuddly 8 bit mascot has been hideously transformed into the mutant noggin spider from John Carpenter’s The Thing.

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C64Audio / 8-Bit Symphony 🎶 @c64audio.bsky.social · May 22

When a Llama was a mark of gaming quality! The only hallucinations you got back then were from watching the visuals too hard, and wondering about that half-man, half-goat creature.

Documentary about Jeff Minter, a multi-year passion project by one of the best graphic artists on the C64.

THE HEART OF NEON BLU-RAY

Own the film about a life in video games: HEART OF NEON tells the story of how game developer Jeff Minter went from pioneer to legend.

www.kickstarter.com

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C64Audio / 8-Bit Symphony 🎶 @c64audio.bsky.social · May 21

If there was an envelope in the package, make sure you looked in it!

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C64Audio / 8-Bit Symphony 🎶 @c64audio.bsky.social · May 19

It’s on Matt’s bandcamp now… mattgray.bandcamp.com?

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C64Audio / 8-Bit Symphony 🎶 @c64audio.bsky.social · May 15

There were seven albums in that box set :)

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