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Podcast Episode #44 - Rob Hubbard!

Rob Hubbard is one of the best known composers of video game music, and has been producing music on the C64 as well as many other machines for decades. AJ and Joerg talk to him about the recently completed PROJECT HUBBARD, his career, and the future of game music.

Links related to this episode:

• Rob Hubbard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Hubbard
• C64Audio: https://c64audio.com
• Project Hubbard: https://c64audio.com/collections/project-hubbard

Other stuff we talked about:

• FPGASID: http://www.fpgasid.de
• Ultimate SwinSID: https://www.facebook.com/swinsidultimate/
• ZX Vega+ Refund Story: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/31/crowdfunding_court_case_refund_retro_computers_zx_vega_plus/
• George Cropper’s YouTube (FunkySpectrum): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoNYMYNTTsxgKKrYJRc0Gkg
• BumFun Software: https://bumfungaming.com
• Twin Galaxies: http://www.twingalaxies.com
• Todd Rogers Story: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2018/01/29/a-man-accused-of-cheating-at-video-games-may-lose-his-decades-old-guinness-world-record/
• Billy Mitchell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Mitchell_(video_game_player)
• Explanation of how Billy Mitchell Cheated: http://www.twingalaxies.com/showthread.php/176004-Dispute-Jeremy-Young-Arcade-Donkey-Kong-Points-Hammer-Allowed-Player-Billy-L-Mitchell-Score-1-062-800?s=1b636c5f4af03d7b042dbc6ea35b7ac0&p=946633&viewfull=1#post946633
• Happy Go Blocky: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-LUZk369qI

AJ and Joerg:

• AJ in real life: http://justwestofhell.com
• AJ on Twitter: http://twitter.com/derision64
• Joerg’s blog: http://nafcom.eu
• Joerg on Twitter: http://twitter.com/nafcom

Fundraising? Glad you asked!

• Joerg on Extra Life: https://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.participant&participantID=254973
• Joerg on AbleGamers: http://ablegamers.donordrive.com/participant/nafcom
• AJ on Extra Life: http://extra-life.org/participant/derision
• AJ on AbleGamers: http://ablegamers.donordrive.com/participant/ajh

… and join our Scene World team on Extra Life: http://extra-life.org/team/sceneworld

Intro promo by David Lowe: http://uncleartmusic.com
Music by Richard Bayliss: http://tnd64.unikat.sk

 

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