Microscopics

Just a quick link for anyone in the UK looking for a Jupiter 6 replacement battery.
Farnell.com
It’s a good idea to replace it every ten years to keep your patch data safe.
It’s worth noting that you have to open an account with Farnell, otherwise there is a £20 minimum order and the battery only costs about [...]

If you happened to visit us over the past few days you may may have noticed the blog was offline.
We had a problem with malware infecting the server, so we removed the blog until we could confirm that all infected files had been cleaned as we didn’t want it to spread to anyone visiting. Luckily [...]

Woob (Paul Frankland) is offering his classic track: Fourteen Thirtythree (from Emit 2295) for free by signing up to the woob mailing list. You can sign up via his website or by downloading the free EP1 here.
If you have previously bought any track from woobsound (bandcamp) you have automatically signed up for the mailing list already, please [...]

Want Osmos on your iPhone/ iPod Touch?
UPDATE 1: Osmos for iPad has been released and is currently the App of the Week and No.1 paid App in the US, UK and nine other countries!
Osmos for the iPhone/ iPod Touch is due for release in a couple of weeks.
UPDATE 2: We have video of Osmos for iPhone, and Osmos [...]

Former Emit labelmate Woob has a great new single for download.
Woob – Unknown Quantity
This is how PAUL FRANKLAND describes it to us…

The ideas was to write something that was a continuation from where Woob1194 left off, conveying a strong narrative throughout the piece was also important. Its probably worth saying that if you see the track [...]

Osmos has been updated with full multitouch for Windows 7.
Out now on Games for Windows Live.
Osmos looks great on a large plasma screen and will look even better on a large multitouch table.

 Here’s an organic menu experiment from Hemisphere that didn’t quite make it into the game…
 
 

Those Epicycles are a tricky bunch.
Here’s how to beat them…
 
Make a cup of tea and watch in fullscreen.

David Ya from Entropy Records added a comment to our Woob Winners post, so we thought we’d add it here in case anyone missed it.

I’m really sorry to have missed the deadline for the Woob comment competition. It was my birthday 31th December so I was quite busy with family to send in time…  Finally, [...]

A wintery post of ephemeral images.
To celebrate the new year we’re going to revisit a couple of our posts from the past year or so, and as it’s snowing today at Microscopics HQ, we’re going to post this one first.
Snowflakes are made from up to 200 snowcrystals, which form around nucleation points (specs of dirt [...]

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