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Latest Main Channel Release (Atari 2600+ PAC-MAN Edition Review): https://youtu.be/Moyy2WeNm_w

In this episode I talk about Valve's new hardware - including their Steam Machine console and VR headset - the new Atari 8-bit port of Street Fighter II, 20 years of the Xbox 360, Microsoft's historic audio software piracy in the XP era, the new PicoIDE from Ian Scott of PicoGUS fame, a brand new 8-bit console for 2025, WipEout in the real world & more!

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Episode Links:

New Valve Hardware: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/hardware

Atari 8-Bit Street Fighter II: https://forums.atariage.com/topic/381129-street-fighter-2-for-atari-xexl

Video Of The Above: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peICJ1wHJmE

Major Nelson's Launch Xbox 360: https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/xbox/first-images-of-xbox-360-project-leaders-launch-console-shared-ahead-of-hd-gaming-pioneers-20th-anniversary-major-nelson-admits-he-has-never-powered-on-launch-team-05-console

Microsoft Audio Piracy: https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/my-new-new-favorite-deep-windows-lore-in-2004-microsoft-got-caught-shipping-windows-xp-with-audio-files-made-using-cracked-software

PicoIDE: https://picoide.com

GameTank 8-Bit Console: https://www.crowdsupply.com/clydeware/gametank

Physical WipEout: https://www.timeextension.com/news/2025/11/one-mans-life-long-dream-of-creating-a-physical-wipeout-race-track-is-complete

Catch Me Soon On The Retro Hour Podcast: https://theretrohour.com/

Video Of The Week 1 (polymatt LGR Laptop Restoration): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BilLgXkR_Kw

Video Of The Week 2 (Coca-Cola Christmas Ad): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy6fByUmPuE

Chapters:

00:00 New Valve Hardware

12:34 PCBWay

13:18 Street Fighter II Atari 8-Bit Port

18:57 Xbox 360 Is 20 Years Old

24:30 Microsoft Guilty Of Piracy!?

31:25 PicoIDE Is All I Ever Wanted

38:22 New GameTank Retro 8-Bit Console!

46:21 WipEout In The Real World

50:05 Videos Of The Week

Latest Main Channel Release (Atari 2600+ PAC-MAN Edition Review): https://youtu.be/Moyy2WeNm_w

In this episode I talk about the new Atari 2600+ PAC-MAN Edition, a cool new toy using shaders in Windows, an update on the Stop Killing Games movement, a new port of ELITE to the Atari 8-bits, a 68060 CPU upgrade for classic Macs, DOOM running on an actual orbiting satellite, Commodore suing... Commodore?, a Windows 10 EOL workaround & more!

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Episode Links:

ShaderGlass CRT Shaders: https://github.com/mausimus/ShaderGlass

Steam Page For The Above: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3613770/ShaderGlass

Stop Killing Games: https://www.stopkillinggames.com

Accursed Farms: https://www.youtube.com/@Accursed_Farms

Stop Killing Games MP Debate: https://www.the-independent.com/tech/stop-killing-games-ubisoft-the-crew-b2857787.html

ELITE On Atari 8-Bit: https://forums.atariage.com/topic/385615-elite-ported-from-the-bbc-micro-disk-version-to-the-atari-8-bit

Video Of The Above: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWNHR3Xp1x0

Macintosh Quadra 68060: https://github.com/ZigZagJoe/Macintosh-Q650-68060

Video Of The Above: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXSWiKu-ASA

DOOM On A Satellite: https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/doom-can-run-just-about-anywhere-including-space-hacker-recounts-tale-of-running-the-game-on-an-orbiting-satellite

Video Of The Above: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zthssUIFG6c

Commodore Sues Commodore: https://www.timeextension.com/news/2025/11/commodore-industries-is-trying-to-prevent-the-revived-commodore-international-from-using-the-iconic-name

Joy of Sticks Newsletter: https://thejoyofsticks.substack.com

YouTube Channel Of The Above: https://www.youtube.com/user/thejoyofsticks

Video Of The Week 1 (Michael MJD Windows 10 LTSC IoT): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1rPnCc9wbU

Video Of The Week 2 (ThatNukemGuy Doom II): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7i-vMDEBS0

Video Of The Week 3 (Screamer Reboot Dev Update): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XyNgNKX1jg

Chapters:

00:00 Atari 2600+ PAC-MAN Edition Released!

06:03 Shaders, Shaders, Everywhere!

14:14 Stop Killing Games Update

24:07 ELITE Ported To Atari 8-Bit

33:00 The First Ever 68060 Classic Mac?

37:56 DOOM On A Satellite

44:27 Commodore Sues Commodore

50:29 Videos Of The Week

57:01 AOB

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Latest Main Channel Release (Family Athlon 650): https://youtu.be/3ivGSh-PShc

In this episode I talk about the death of PC optical drives, an amazing port of Out Run to the Game Boy Color, Atari 50 on GOG, Monkey Island's 35th anniversary, a LEGO SEGA controller, Microsoft's 6502 BASIC & more!

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The official podcast of ctrl-alt-rees: ctrl-alt-rees: https://youtube.com/ctrlaltrees

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Episode Links:

PC Optical Drives No Longer Being Made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTNCYrLEezA

OutRun GBC: https://rocketshippark.itch.io/what-if-outrun

RetroDodo Vectrex Mini Interview: https://retrododo.com/vectrex-reveals-upcoming-limited-edition-mini-console

C64 Microcassette: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/remaking-a-commodore-64-datasette-from-1982-using-1993-microcassette-tech-techtuber-touts-1mb-per-tape-a-5x-improvement-over-the-original

Atari On GOG: https://www.gog.com/en/news/more_atari_titles_join_gog

Ron Gilbert Monkey 25: https://www.grumpygamer.com/monkey25/

LEGO SEGA Controller: https://www.lego.com/en-gb/product/sega-genesis-controller-40769

Microsoft 6502 BASIC: https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/09/03/microsoft-open-source-historic-6502-basic

Video Of The Week 1 (Ahoy Brat): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzq_4REOABk

Video Of The Week 2 (Veronica Explains The Stop Bits): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSVaZwDFVrg

The Stop Bits EP: https://thestopbits.bandcamp.com/album/return-from-interrupt

Chapters:

00:00 The Death Of Optical Media?

04:37 PCBWay

05:38 Out Run For The Game Boy Color

11:39 Vectrex Mini News! Pricing & New Limited Edition

17:31 YouTuber Makes Cassettes Even Tinier

25:08 Atari Comes To GOG.COM

29:39 35 Years Of Monkey Island

36:13 New Retrogaming LEGO! SEGA

41:43 Microsoft 6502 BASIC Open Sourced

46:51 Video Of The Week

Listen on your favourite podcast platform: https://anchor.fm/reesrambles The official podcast of ctrl-alt-rees: ctrl-alt-rees: https://youtube.com/ctrlaltrees Subscribe to Rees Rambles on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/reesrambles Episode Links: Women In Meat Awards: https://womeninmeatawards.com RoseTintedSpectrum: https://www.youtube.com/@UCGDTjXnyGM5flG6Xk6fiMAg Karl Jobst Completionist Open Hand Charity Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb0dMF1zHyA Fully Ramblomatic: Alan Wake 2 RetroTINK 4K: https://www.retrotink.com/product-page/retrotink-4k OSSC Pro: https://videogameperfection.com/products/ossc-pro 00:00 Preamble - Technical Issues, Women In Meat And TheAtari 2600+ 11:00 RoseTintedSpectrum GOSH Charity Stream Debrief 15:12 Karl Jobst & The Completionist Charity Scandal 23:32 The Escapist & The Return Of Fully Ramblomatic 28:58 RetroTINK 4K & OSSC Pro News 34:47 Outro & Whatnot

RoseTintedSpectrum: https://www.youtube.com/@RoseTintedSpectrum Listen on your favourite podcast platform: https://anchor.fm/reesrambles The official podcast of ctrl-alt-rees: ctrl-alt-rees: https://youtube.com/ctrlaltrees Subscribe to Rees Rambles on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/reesrambles Episode Links: Cupboard Ramble: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9k5QvrKDpC0 Book Announcement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdWKxhsG8nA Lewis Packwood Talk In The Cave: https://www.retrocollective.co.uk/view-event.php?id=332

Listen on your favourite podcast platform: https://anchor.fm/reesrambles The official podcast of ctrl-alt-rees: ctrl-alt-rees: https://youtube.com/ctrlaltrees Subscribe to Rees Rambles on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/reesrambles Episode Links: This Week in Retro: https://www.rmcretro.com/this-week-in-retro Atari 2600 Video: https://youtu.be/J-xdIdKCo3g Studio Build Update 2 Video: https://youtu.be/Gyf0tFgReLs Console Chronicles Book: https://www.timeextension.com/news/2023/09/were-teaming-up-with-lost-in-cult-to-create-the-console-chronicles 00:00 Intro 05:32 25K subscribers & A Huge Video For My 4th Anniversary 17:06 I Wrote A Chapter For Book! 29:22 I Have A Celebrity Fan!

Listen on your favourite podcast platform: https://anchor.fm/reesrambles The official podcast of ctrl-alt-rees: ctrl-alt-rees: https://youtube.com/ctrlaltrees Subscribe to Rees Rambles on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/reesrambles Episode Links: My Duck Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xE6J4nb5qKc Quail Video (Turns Out It Wasn't Actually Max Fosh): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Wa_P-tDNlE AKASO Brave 7 Action Cam (Affiliate Link): https://amzn.to/46M0tw3 Channel Update Wherein I Talk About Sponsors & Such: https://youtu.be/dv5LSeTTYyc Buy An Air Fryer (Affiliate Link): https://amzn.to/3Sfh8DH 00:00 Intro & Ramble Preamble 07:22 Sam The Action Man With His Action Cam 12:01 Even More Thoughts On Sponsorships & Reviews 21:13 A Shark Tale - With Added Ninjas

BRA Club YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@BigRedArrowClub Listen on your favourite podcast platform: https://anchor.fm/reesrambles The official podcast of ctrl-alt-rees: ctrl-alt-rees: https://youtube.com/ctrlaltrees Subscribe to Rees Rambles on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/reesrambles Episode Links: Office Update Video 1: https://youtu.be/9Sylmp9BoYo Tintfit Window Film: https://www.tintfit.com Exxos Atari Forum: https://www.exxosforum.co.uk/forum/index.php AtariAge: https://atariage.com Atari-Forum: https://www.atari-forum.com Atari Panther Research: https://ctrl-alt-rees.com/atari-panther-cancelled-prototype-console-everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know RMC Video: TBC mouSTer Review: https://youtu.be/DwwULPDCpWE TWiR Episode: TBC 00:00 Intro 01:20 Office Update - Build A Computer Museum 15:55 Why Don’t I Engage More With The Atari Community? 28:52 Outro & Bye Byes

BRA Club YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@BigRedArrowClub

Listen on your favourite podcast platform: https://anchor.fm/reesrambles

The official podcast of ctrl-alt-rees: ctrl-alt-rees: https://youtube.com/ctrlaltrees

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Episode Links:

New Office Video: https://youtu.be/9Sylmp9BoYo

Chuck Hutchins: https://www.youtube.com/@HutchCA

Jeremy’s Retro Bar: https://www.youtu.be/vXQeQGuPGsM

OzRetroComp: https://www.youtube.com/c/ozretrocomp

Noel’s Retro Lab: https://youtu.be/XC9X8s1fH_I

Technology Connections: https://youtu.be/plbB42EUIUU

Retro Collective (Cave / Arcade Archive): https://www.retrocollective.co.uk

Listen on your favourite podcast platform: https://anchor.fm/reesrambles The official podcast of ctrl-alt-rees: ctrl-alt-rees: https://youtube.com/ctrlaltrees Subscribe to Rees Rambles on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/reesrambles Episode Links: New Studio Space Video: https://www.patreon.com/posts/big-things-for-90390993 Superfans Book: https://patflynn.com/book/superfans/ RMC Cave Tour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fldpeup1VdA RMC Cave Update: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_FskYuu8v4 Action Retro Face Reveal / Tour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu4HRGt6Al4 Crazy Ken / Computer Clan: https://www.youtube.com/@ComputerClan 8-Bit Guy Studio Build: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFP-fU0FsF0 Perifractic’s Retro Recipes: https://www.youtube.com/@RetroRecipes Adrian’s Digital Basement: https://www.youtube.com/@adriansdigitalbasement Amstrad Project: https://ctrl-alt-rees.com/2018-09-10-amstrad-pc1512-building-an-external-power-supply.html Famicom Composite Mod: https://ctrl-alt-rees.com/2019-01-26-nintendo-famicom-composite-video-output-mod.html Chapters: 00:00 Intro & Preamble 03:19 New Studio Space! 13:57 Channels I Could Use For Inspiration 36:52 Future Projects I Found During The Move 42:54 Outro