Linus Åkesson

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Posted Friday 19-Jul-2024 06:35, 4 comments.

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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.

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Spin, Crazy World

The Slängpolska is a Swedish folk dance that involves a lot of spinning. Read more.

Posted Friday 24-May-2024 06:40, 0 comments.

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