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My name is Linus Åkesson, though some of you may know me as lft. I live in Lund, Sweden.
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Latest pages:
Withering Bytes
A short piece for human and machine. Read more.
- Linus Akesson - Withering Bytes.mp3 (MP3, 8.1 MB)
Posted Friday 6-Dec-2024 08:05, 0 comments.
Sommarfågel
A cover of the song Sommarfågel by Wintergatan, performed on a selection of my homemade 8-bit and 16-bit instruments. Read more.
Posted Friday 25-Oct-2024 08:51, 1 comment.
Interviewed at spillhistorie.no
I was featured in an article at the Norwegian retro-gaming site Spillhistorie. Read more.
Posted Friday 25-Oct-2024 07:32, 0 comments.
Making 8-bit Music From Scratch at the Commodore 64 BASIC Prompt
In this video, I make 8-bit SID music on a Commodore 64 without any software apart from the built-in BASIC interpreter. This involves poking numbers into memory and hardware registers and writing machine code in decimal. Read more.
Posted Friday 27-Sep-2024 08:28, 7 comments.
The Tenor Commodordion
The Tenor Commodordion is an ergonomically improved version of the Commodordion. Read more.
Posted Friday 16-Aug-2024 13:16, 1 comment.
An AVR Programmer for the C64
So there I was, tinkering away on a microcontroller project, when all of a sudden my AVR programmer stopped working. Read more.
- lft-avrprg64-1.0.prg (C64 executable, 381 bytes)
- lft-avrprg64-1.0.s (Source code, 2.5 kB)
Posted Friday 19-Jul-2024 06:35, 4 comments.
Padme
Padme is an Amiga-based lo-fi pad synth instrument based on intervals of Shepard tones. Read more.
Posted Friday 28-Jun-2024 07:41, 6 comments.