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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:
Nine
Nine is a small, seemingly impossible C64 demo that I released at Fjälldata 2025. Read more.
- lft-nine.prg (C64 executable, 14.0 kB)
- Linus Akesson - Nine.mp3 (MP3, 4.9 MB)
Posted Sunday 2-Feb-2025 08:11, 23 comments.
The Family Bass
I connected a Family BASIC keyboard to an NES via a bespoke adapter in order to play its unique triangle waveform live. Read more.
- Linus Akesson - Platform Hopping (Family Bass).mp3 (MP3, 5.7 MB)
Posted Friday 17-Jan-2025 07:59, 5 comments.
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.