All posts by Francis Loch

New Music Track Released: Daisy

My submission for stage one of The Piano Cloud’s ‘A Bouquet of Flowers’ challenge. The tune is based on the tradition of plucking the daisy’s petals whilst saying “(s)he loves me, (s)he loves me not”.

Article Added: BBC Micro Screen Formats Part 2

The second of my articles originally published by The Crypt Mag on BBC Micro screen formats, this time looking at the differences between the British and American versions of the computer, Mode 8 and shadow screens.

Article Added: BBC Micro Screen Formats

I have added an article on BBC Micro screen formats which was previously published in The Crypt Mag.

New Music Track Released: Good Night Little Star

This track was made for the first of The Piano Cloud’s Wedding Challenges (Something Old) where artists were invited to submit a brand new version of a piece of music by a composer who is dead. I chose to do mine based on the children’s lullaby “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star”.

New Music Track Released: The Machine’s Judgement

I was not really sure where I was going for this track, but I felt that the final result had a sort of “Terminator 2: Judgement Day” feel to it (hence the title).

New version of Stereogram Viewer released

Stereogram Viewer 0.3a has been released. Changes in this version:

  • Memory handling routines tweaked to prevent some anti-virus programs falsely detecting this software as malware

Website is Back Online!

After a far too long period of time being down due to a corrupted database, my website is now back up and running. Yay! (^_^)

I have also taken the opportunity to revamp my website with a number of new features such as a new layout, contact form and on-the-fly language translation, but there are still a number of things missing. I will be gradually reintroducing them and also adding new things too.

Collaboration with MACRIMA

MACRIMA has done a lovely job of adding her vocals to one of my tracks.

https://soundcloud.com/macrima/macrima-dreamland-fantasy

New Music Track Released: Chinese Winter Sunrise

My new track, written for The Piano Cloud’s Winter Landscape Challenge. Enjoy!

Happy Chinese New Year!

恭喜發財!(^_^)