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@synamax

Video game historian, Music/SFX, self-taught programmer, artist. One half of Psychic Rink. Currently working on: "Nested Dreams" (1st original game) youtube.com/synamax psychicrink.itch.io patreon.com/synamax synamax.bandcamp.com

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Piranha NCiD Florida outpost Staff: Captain Hood, Catboncs, Visgoth, Smooth and Stonc thc crow. Rumming fullborc van. Intcrnct acccssablc. wau midi mod support ansi by scnsci of NCiD Productions. Wc all hauc our sccrcts.

Piranha NCiD Florida outpost Staff: Captain Hood, Catboncs, Visgoth, Smooth and Stonc thc crow. Rumming fullborc van. Intcrnct acccssablc. wau midi mod support ansi by scnsci of NCiD Productions. Wc all hauc our sccrcts.

SE-PIR1.ANS, 1996-10-01 from dark domain - the artpacks.acid.org collection (CD-ROM)

06.03.2026 18:45 ๐Ÿ‘ 7 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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SynaMax Been producing music since 2004. I work in several different genres, from progressive house to IDM, to retrowave and ambient. I wrote music for the 2021 animated film "The Sky Below", and I occasionally make parodies as well as video game music remixes.

Happy #BandcampFriday, all funds will go towards helping me pay for rent and food while I search for a new day job. Thanks for all the support so far, it really means a lot. ๐Ÿ™

06.03.2026 16:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Still looking for a new job but in the meantime, I'm open for commissions so if you would like music for your video game or animation, please let me know.

05.03.2026 17:47 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Congratulations on getting the video back!

04.03.2026 21:57 ๐Ÿ‘ 10 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Donate to Support SynaMax while searching for work, organized by Syna Max I lost my day job yesterday and I'm currently in the process of looking for another โ€ฆ Syna Max needs your support for Support SynaMax while searching for work

I hate to say this, but I lost my job yesterday and I need to come up with money for next month's rent. I have already seen an incredible amount of love and support during the past 12 hours. It has been helping me keep calm as my family and I navigate through this next chapter in my life.

27.02.2026 18:48 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

RIP Eliane Radigue. She's been a huge influence on my work. Her music also opened me up to a lot of other electronic experimental music from the 60s and 70s. Aside from obvious Silent Hill/John Carpenter influences, that era of music has been a huge part of my identify as Cicada Sirens.

24.02.2026 18:12 ๐Ÿ‘ 29 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Really cool album. Lots of cool sound design that makes it feel like the ost to some kind of PS3 sci-fi survival horror game

23.02.2026 02:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 21 ๐Ÿ” 7 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Everything went downhill since they changed "My Computer" to "This PC"

21.02.2026 19:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 75 ๐Ÿ” 8 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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a close up of a piano keyboard with a blurred image of a person playing it ALT: a close up of a piano keyboard with a blurred image of a person playing it
21.02.2026 05:02 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Effector

20.02.2026 15:07 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

My heart goes out to everyone who lost their jobs with the unnecessary closing of Bluepoint Games. The remaster for Shadow of the Colossus is such a perfect example of how to take an already beloved title and make it even better, which is something not many other remakes have done.

19.02.2026 22:39 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I just realized that today's the 24th Anniversary of Geogaddi by Boards of Canada. This album has been such a huge influence to me and how I approach music production.

19.02.2026 03:12 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'm currently working on the save menu for my game and I have to agree, it's a lot of fun.

10.02.2026 19:12 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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why we stop making computers look fresh

09.02.2026 08:47 ๐Ÿ‘ 2577 ๐Ÿ” 398 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 81 ๐Ÿ“Œ 42
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Castle Party at Uncle Vlad's, by SynaMax track by SynaMax

synamax.bandcamp.com/track/castle... Happy Bandcamp friday! This track features brand new percussive samples from my good friend, ZTime. Pay what you want or download for free; thanks for listening!

06.02.2026 17:19 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Really appreciate this, thank you.

03.02.2026 07:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Cabinet Production Well, its been a hot minute since Iโ€™ve updated the blog. Life decided that it had other plans for me over the past 18 months or so. The good news though, dear reader, is that we are back and โ€ฆ

It's so cool getting to see footage and photos from coin-op assembly lines.

03.02.2026 02:57 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Get more from SynaMax on Patreon creating electronic music and videos
02.02.2026 20:45 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is really exciting to hear, thanks for confirming!

30.01.2026 21:12 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Strong is honored to announce the acquisition of the Curt Vendel Atari Collection. Curt was a pioneer in video game preservation. The collection contains retail material, schematics, documentation, prototypes, and more.

www.museumofplay.org/press-releas...

27.01.2026 16:06 ๐Ÿ‘ 160 ๐Ÿ” 47 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 12 ๐Ÿ“Œ 6

I am very interested to see what's on that Jed tape.

30.01.2026 17:25 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The cover is giving me Kylie Minogue - Fever vibes.

26.01.2026 21:46 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Vinesauce - Twitch Hytale, Acrolyte

LIVE: Hytale, Acrolyte twitch.tv/vinesauce

20.01.2026 01:47 ๐Ÿ‘ 70 ๐Ÿ” 10 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Galaxian 3 at Fun World, NH is reportedly operational again, having had one of its LaserDisc players replaced. Go play it while it still works (I hear they're open over the long weekend.)

18.01.2026 15:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 127 ๐Ÿ” 51 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5 ๐Ÿ“Œ 5
David Lynch sitting in a naturally lit room and wearing sunglasses: โ€œIโ€™m wearing dark glasses today, because Iโ€™m seeing the future and the future is looking very bright.โ€

David Lynch sitting in a naturally lit room and wearing sunglasses: โ€œIโ€™m wearing dark glasses today, because Iโ€™m seeing the future and the future is looking very bright.โ€

David Lynch passed a year ago today. I hope we all can absorb just a little bit of the energy he put out in his lifetime.

16.01.2026 18:47 ๐Ÿ‘ 6319 ๐Ÿ” 1672 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4 ๐Ÿ“Œ 46

Fascinating read on how the infrastructure at Internet Archive works. Why can't more companies operate this efficiently?

13.01.2026 19:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Accelerator Complete Soundtrack (1986 Atari Games Prototype)
Accelerator Complete Soundtrack (1986 Atari Games Prototype) YouTube video by SynaMax

It's not often that you get to uncover 40 year old unreleased video game music. youtu.be/KTUhitUCjBg

13.01.2026 17:36 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I would love to contribute but I don't think I'll be able to make it in-person unfortunately.

13.01.2026 17:34 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Happy belated birthday, dude!

12.01.2026 20:47 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I heard baking tapes is something that works well. I know Wendy Carlos had to do that with her soundtrack masters for Tron back in 2002. Not sure if data tapes need to be treated differently or not though.

07.01.2026 21:47 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0