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Throwback media players and long-lost silicon schematics lead our coverage this week. There are a variety of ways to breathe new life into an Apple iPod, including flash drive upgrades and the Sprout replacement motherboard project. Or if you think the software is the problem, Rockbox runs on most iPods and dozens of other players from rival vendors. ZX Spectrum preservation got a big boost when an eBay haul turned up the detailed blueprint for the system's essential ULA chip, and Chris runs with a discussion started on our subreddit. We also note some significant passings and the latest wave of surprise game ports.

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00:00 - Show Opening

03:04 - iPod Rejuvenation Story Link: https://www.techspot.com/news/114210-new-mod-brings-apple-classic-ipods-2026-bluetooth.html Product Link: https://certainthings.studio/ Additional Link: rockbox.org

20:30 - ZX-pect The Unexpected Story Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiW3P1rJRMc

30:48 - Housekeeping - News links found below

36:13 - Do You Play Your Retro Games? Story Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/thisweekinretro/comments/1x51i0a/do_you_really_play_those_retro_games/ 

46:39 - Community Question of the Week

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News In Brief Links

Robert X. Cringely (Mark Stephens) obituary: https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/name/mark-stephens-obituary?id=62687488

Recent Cringely work: https://www.cringely.com/

Sensible Soccer C64: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoxrNuXKyyg

Original Donkey Kong art sale: https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/a-former-nintendo-employee-is-auctioning-a-wealth-of-classic-items-including-the-original-donkey-kong-art/

Super Mario 64 on Atari Jaguar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBJxz8FlSfE

Richard "Levelord" Gray obituary: https://bsky.app/profile/apogeeent.com/post/3mxrooxdr6k2v

Dizzy Collection announcement: https://youtu.be/4UXs9b3AnQ4

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A surprising collaboration between Retro Games Ltd. and Atari leads the news this week, with an equal-time look at Amiga AGA gaming just behind. The 1990s were the peak and decline of supercomputing and bulletin board system (BBS) operators, and both are the subjects of new deep-dive videos. Plus timely event promos, cross-platform throwbacks, and wistful looks at peak clamshell PDA performance.

00:00 - Show Opening

04:21 - It's An XL Remake Story Link: https://atari.com/pages/800xl Into the Vertical Blank: https://intotheverticalblank.com/2026/10/11/making-sense-of-the-800xl-by-retro-games-and-atari-atari-now/

21:12 - The Cry Of The Banshee Story Link: https://spillhistorie.no/2026/10/05/da-dansk-dynamitt-og-aga-magi-odela-underarmen/

32:35 - Housekeeping - News links found below

41:02 - The Supercomputer And The Sysop Story Links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSgnDD83m-U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROQSw6jqJO8

56:52 - Community Question of the Week

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News In Brief Links

Richard Garriott on copyright: https://youtu.be/m60SbCPdfQI?si=R-j9hA_ZHxUQ0lRz

Vector Doom: https://streamable.com/0u960a

Nintendo FujiNet: https://forums.atariage.com/topic/393355-fujinet-for-nes-bring-up-thread/

Ross Smith 3DFX interview: https://www.club386.com/3dfx-voodoo-history-ross-smith-interview/

Wing Commander 3 remaster: https://www.club386.com/3dfx-voodoo-history-ross-smith-interview/

Margaret Hamilton obituary: https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/10/08/margaret-hamilton-software-pioneer-who-helped-put-humans-on-the-moon-dies-at-90/5301988

Dungeon Master on SCUMMVM: https://www.scummvm.org/news/20261008/

Casio Cassiopeia: https://www.reddit.com/r/thisweekinretro/comments/1wycdlh/vintage_handhelds_for_productivity/

Psion 5 profile: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kht2c7DyhlQ

The rarest treasures lurk under piles of castoff keyboards, and there's a flood of cross-platform software ports heading your way. This week's top stories include a pack of ZX Spectrum updates and developments, the latest in surprise PC software, and the astounding thrift store find of an ultra-rare Humdinger home computer. Plus, catch up on news from the lands of Lemmings, Prodigy, CompuServe, and more.

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00:00 - Show Opening

03:51 - Any Port In A Storm? Story Link: https://www.dsogaming.com/news/rave-racer-arcade-perfect-pc-port-is-now-available-for-download/ https://www.dsogaming.com/news/time-crisis-arcade-perfect-pc-port-is-now-available-for-download/ https://www.dsogaming.com/news/the-legend-of-zelda-wind-waker-unofficial-pc-port-released/ https://www.timeextension.com/news/2026/09/this-super-mario-64-snes-port-is-looking-to-push-the-super-fx-chip-to-its-limits https://ixbt.games/en/news/2026/09/28/spustia-19-let-suter-the-darkness-perenesli-na-pk.html

18:56 - Behold: The Humdinger Computer! Story Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/thisweekinretro/comments/1wu16c4/found_this_old_humdinger_computer_at_goodwill/ GitHub: https://github.com/indigoprime/doppledinger

33:13 - Housekeeping - News links found below

38:53 - This Week In Spectrum Story Link: https://www.timeextension.com/news/2026/10/new-book-celebrating-45-years-of-the-zx-spectrum-smashes-its-kickstarter-goal-day-one  https://www.timeextension.com/news/2026/09/blazes-c64-and-zx-spectrum-handhelds-have-been-delayed-to-april-2027  https://www.timeextension.com/reviews/grant-sinclairs-gamercard-n-shares-some-of-sir-clives-dna-but-this-is-no-zx-spectrum-style-triumph 

52:05 - Community Question of the Week

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News In Brief Links

Physical media trends: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/oct/02/physical-media-fans-streaming-algorithms-cds-dvds-vinyl

CompuServe retrospective: https://dfarq.homeip.net/what-happened-to-compuserve/

Prodigy restoration: https://staging.prodigyreloaded.com/start/

Lemmings editor: https://github.com/timoheimonen/Amiga-Lemmings-Editor

Windows 2000 vs. Linux vs. Oracle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SliyHq54SxE

The Found Footage Festival: https://gizmodo.com/15000-vhs-tapes-and-counting-meet-the-guys-preserving-the-weirdest-parts-of-the-analog-era-2000816383

Dizzy developments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTSaPajJCcE

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With museum guide Gameboys and intense Linux overhauls for 486 laptops lined up,  Veronica stops by to make sure everything's crystal clear. King's Quest and other Sierra classics are finally available for Commodore 64 and Atari 8-bit computers, there's a Grand Theft Auto 2 overhaul in the works, and a window full of tiny emulators.

Keep up with Veronica at her main content hub of https://veronicaexplains.net , as well as the new joint podcast with Macintosh Librarian at https://kateandveronica.net

00:00 - Show Opening

04:15 - Serious Uses For Game Boy Story Link: https://www.gameboymuseum.com/single-post/gb-museum-on-cart InfoGenius: https://www.gameboymuseum.com/single-post/infogenius-game-boy-productivity Workboy prototype: https://www.inverse.com/input/gaming/meet-the-workboy-nintendos-long-lost-gameboy-productivity-device

18:00 - SHORK Attack! Story Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/retrobattlestations/comments/1wl2v0x/1996_ibm_thinkpad_365ed_x_2026_linux_kernel_73rc3/ Github: https://github.com/SharktasticA/SHORK-486 JagOS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atZwJqhJn-A

32:52 - Housekeeping - News links found below

38:23 - King’s Quest For Atari and C64! Story Link: https://meanhamster.com/games/agi-64

50:28 - Community Question of the Week

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News In Brief Links

Elite Atari 8-bit: https://forums.atariage.com/topic/393094-elite-for-the-atari-8-bit-firebird-version-has-been-completed-and-is-released/

Tiny Elite ships: https://www.reddit.com/r/thisweekinretro/comments/1wqsken/elite_small_enough_the_swallow/

GoldenEye SNES: https://www.timeextension.com/news/2026/09/it-trivialises-the-hobby-goldeneye-running-on-snes-triggers-more-debate-over-vibe-coded-retro-projects

Retronauts Assemble: https://retronaut.tech/retronauts-assemble-311026/ Retronauts video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0g9pOliSkg

Ace Combat 5 and Midnight Club: Los Angeles for PC: https://www.dsogaming.com/news/burnout-revenge-ace-combat-5-and-midnight-club-los-angeles-get-unofficial-pc-ports/

LGR's VCF Midwest retrospective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-XF5j6x0hs

GTA2 enhanced: https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/27-year-old-gta-2-gets-full-path-tracing-and-60-fps-frame-generation-via-rtx-remix-custom-direct3d-9-wrapper-modernizes-classic-with-custom-direct3d-9-bridge-unlocks-dynamic-lighting

English Maniac Mansion Famicom: https://rickyderocher.itch.io/maniac-mansion-famicom-english-hack

Star Wars Trilogy for Dreamcast: https://www.thedreamcastjunkyard.co.uk/2026/09/star-wars-trilogy-arcade-model-3-port.html

Grundy NewBrain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtCB9w8maAg

Amigos on Atari 600XL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0Ez7qWIC_Y

FujiGrid: https://www.savetz.com/fujigrid/

Dozens of potential trademark violations stand in the way of a retro racer's comeback! Naturally we lead with that news. After a quarter-century the secrets of the PlayStation 2's security chip are now open for inspection, and there's exciting news for enthusiasts of niche platforms including Sony's high-resolution SMC-70 CP/M machine, Amiga Unix, and the Spectravideo 318 in the latest episode of This Week in Retro!

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00:00 - Show Opening

02:23 - Trademarks Trash Tracks Story Link: https://www.timeextension.com/news/2026/09/microprose-turns-to-fans-to-rename-geoff-crammond-racing-4s-grid-following-steam-reissues-licensing-woes

17:20 - PlayStation 2 Finally Cracked Story Link: https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/playstation/26-year-old-sony-ps2-security-chip-broken-wide-open-after-four-years-of-effort-reverse-engineering-enthusiast-successfully-unlocks-cxp102064-mechacon-chip

32:37 - Housekeeping - News links found below

37:32 - Some Less-Loved Computers Story Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cT2-7KkPkBc Computer Forum magazine: https://spectravideo.org/viewtopic.php?t=38 Amiga UX: https://amigaux.org

55:12 - Community Question of the Week

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News In Brief Links

Eternal Darkness returns?: https://ixbt.games/en/news/2026/09/16/436122-nightdive-nameknula-na-vozvrashhenie-xorrora-eternal-darkness.html

Wi-Fi For Gameboy Advance: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/canocoder/canoflash-wi-fi-adapter-for-original-game-boy-advance-hard

ZX81 mega expansion: https://codeberg.org/NollKollTroll/OpenSpand

Atari 2600 tech demo: https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/2026/09/city-by-the-lake/

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How much retro tech fits into one hectare? We try to sum up the massive Vintage Computer Festival Midwest before taking on a hot new upgrade for classic DOS computers. And if you've ever envied that extensive collection of game boxes you see every week on the show, try printing your own! GOG's just made that a lot easier. All this, plus the latest on the Neo-Geo AES+, new MiSTer cores, and more!

00:00 - Show Opening

01:33 - 100,000 Square Feet Of Nerdery Story Link: https://www.vcfmw.org

22:45 - Your 286 Needs An Upgrade Story Link: https://bsky.app/profile/furan.bsky.social/post/3mut6kcjzxk2g

PCBWay Project Link: https://www.pcbway.com/project/shareproject/Graphics_Gremlin_HDMI_afb4ec21.html

Github: https://github.com/schlae/graphics-gremlin

40:17 - Housekeeping - News links found below

46:15 - GOG Gets Boxed Story Link: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/09/gog-brings-back-big-box-pc-games-one-printable-template-at-a-time/

GOG Press Release: https://www.gog.com/pressroom/gog-preservation-program-brings-the-big-box-nostalgia/

54:41 - Community Question of the Week

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News In Brief Links

Raider 64: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaxJ9WTrpjA 

The National Museum of Computing: https://retrogamecoders.com/tnmoc/

Sega FPGA core: https://www.timeextension.com/news/2026/09/new-fpga-model-1-emulator-core-runs-segas-virtua-racing-with-remarkable-precision

AES+ delay: https://presse.plaion.com/The-NEOGEO-AES-worldwide-release-date-moves-to-16-th-September-2027-as

Commodore shop in The Netherlands: https://www.omroepbrabant.nl/nieuws/6026257/bart-gokt-op-comeback-van-de-commodore-computer-en-opent-een-winkel 

Midwinter Remaster in Steam Early Access: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5056170/Midwinter_Fan_Remaster/

It's the big four-oh for the Amstrad PC1512, an aggressively cost-reduced PC clone for the UK market. There's also a fascinating time capsule of Atari user group newsletters from August 1987, and Nelumbo, a new engine for classic Lotus racing action, plus Tron references, Kickstarter updates for Spectrum Next and Vectrex Mini, a unique phone booth memorial, and more!

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00:00 - Show Opening

04:00 - Cheap PCs, Cheaper PCs and Even Cheaper PCs Story Link: https://x.com/Lord_Sugar/status/2095098703992250874

18:38 - Exploring A 1987 Time Capsule Story Link: https://blog.archive.org/2026/08/27/a-computer-history-time-capsule/ Newsletters: https://archive.org/details/antc_Atari_newsletter_time_capsule_1987-08

38:20 - Housekeeping - News links found below

45:15 - Lotus Is Back Story Link: https://almost-there-games.itch.io/nelumbo  Launch Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYZk2k6AOA8

55:32 - Community Question of the Week

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News In Brief Links CEX Retro Shop: https://metro.co.uk/2026/08/31/cex-confirms-existence-first-retro-store-birmingham-29501398/

Vectrex Update: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1852390947/vectrex-mini/posts/4787697

Bletchley Park Redundancies: https://www.miltonkeynes.co.uk/heritage-and-retro/heritage/bletchley-park-in-milton-keynes-announces-redundancies-due-to-dwindling-visitor-numbers-8958108

Space Paranoids: https://landonjsmith.com/projects/spaceparanoids/

Defrag Simulator: https://defrag98.com/

PlayStation 2 Emulator: https://www.timeextension.com/news/2026/08/pcsx2-has-just-been-updated-bringing-serious-performance-gains-and-more-to-the-ps2-emulator

Nick Weerts Memorial Phone Booth: http://nickweertsmemorial.com

Mario On The Master System: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRrioabZZwM

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New, retro-themed game development and releases dominate the news this week. Chris called his contact at Commodore to get early access to the Alien Breed 35th Anniversary Collection and we take an early look at the new Commodore 77 variant. Michael Cranford is back in game development after a 34-year absence with Shadow Snare, a spiritual sibling to his original Bard's Tale. And Dave makes a cardboard tube into a Sword of Power as he celebrates a new He-Man and the Masters of the Universe game, part of that franchise's big revival.

00:00 - Show Opening

01:24 - I’m Not Saying It’s Aliens Story Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ck3vhJ6S_E Commodore 77: https://www.ign.com/articles/cyberpunk-2077-commodore-computer-reveal-gamescom-2026 Commodore is really back! Gamescom 2026: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emKMNXEncmw

20:36 - Bard’s Tale Reborn? Story Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3pitkK-OVA&t=8s Shadow Snare Footage: https://shadowsnare.com/assets/shadow-snare/video/shadow-snare-c64-gameplay-demonstration-title-bridge-v2.mp4

35:27 - Housekeeping - News links found below

44:18 - I Have the Power! Story Link: https://youtu.be/-HQfjANanu0?is=-wpXrfQ6jY1jpjde He Man Game Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNSf7uUlvKM

53:22 - Community Question of the Week

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News In Brief Links

Atari's reissue of Activision games on cartridge: https://www.ign.com/articles/atari-is-re-releasing-39-atari-2600-games-on-working-physical-cartridges

Scrap Men Amstrad PPC 640: https://www.reddit.com/r/thisweekinretro/comments/1vxfki8/a_surpise_gift/

Atari 2600/Vectrex Mashup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_1T-NoEtUU

PS3 Emulation: https://www.notebookcheck.net/RPCS3-reaches-major-milestone-en-route-to-perfectly-playing-all-PS3-first-party-games.1377811.0.html

RIP Peter Cullen: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c15844gwe0wo

Cliff Stoll and the First Cybersecurity Investigation?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=656058JxTM0

Is it time for retro tech trading to go mainstream? We'll soon find out, if the reports of CeX's expansion into retro and import game sales are accurate. We also talk about the end of an era for a retro tech podcast, the return of cassettes, Casio's surprising commitment to blending 1980s digital watch styling with 2026 convenience, the origins of Batman (the game of the movie) and much more.

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00:00 - Show Opening

01:51 - CeX is back on the menu Story Link: https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/uk-preowned-retailer-cex-is-reportedly-opening-two-stores-dedicated-to-retro-and-import-games/

18:03 - Digital Watches Story Link: https://www.techradar.com/health-fitness/smartwatches/a-watch-id-actually-buy-casios-latest-retro-take-on-a-smartwatch-is-the-f-b100w-with-step-counting-included

33:50 - Housekeeping - News links found below

44:51 - Tell All Your Friends About Me Story Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpIVkm4YZU4

53:52 - Community Question Of The Week

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News In Brief Links

Cruis'n USA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCzv7W9DKzg

The A1200 Is An Amiga: https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fjzlufkcmj4kh1.png

Maxell UD-60U: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/maxell-partners-with-disk-union-to-release-ud-60u-special-edition-cassettes-black-and-red-ud-tapes-could-be-ideal-for-use-in-your-c64-datassette

Ravi Abbott Leaves Retro Hour: https://www.timeextension.com/news/2026/08/its-been-a-huge-part-of-my-life-the-retro-hours-ravi-abbott-is-stepping-away-after-more-than-ten-years

James Pond Legacy: https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/1vti8ss/james_pond_legacy_devs_used_ai_to_remaster_their/

RIP Dr Timothy James King: https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/08/18/tim-king-amigados-royalty-dies-aged-71/5289101

What Happens Next: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MNNCiQ9gNM

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Neil stops by to check out Commodore's latest product, the TAC-2. A legendary joystick that has been reborn. An ABCNews story takes a look at our hobby of choice and The Need For Speed is coming to the Atari Jaguar, could this be the game that proves that the Jag could have been a contender? 

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00:00 - Show Opening

05:53 -  Sometimes Tactics Aren’t Enough Story Link: https://commodore.net/store/tac-2/

21:16 - Getting Serious About Preservation Story Link: https://abcnews.com/Technology/wireStory/ai-grips-world-thrill-collecting-vintage-computers-growing-135508246 ENIAC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUg-tXigVUI Fuze Museum: https://www.fuze.co.uk/museum.html National Museums Scotland:  https://my.nms.ac.uk/23690/23691

40:20 - Housekeeping - News links found below

50:26 - ATARI Jaguar Feels The Need For Speed Story Link: https://www.timeextension.com/news/2026/07/the-original-3do-programmers-deserve-serious-kudos-this-experiment-is-bringing-a-classic-ea-racer-to-the-atari-jaguar Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/@Budfolk

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News In Brief Links

Re-Falcon 030: https://bsky.app/profile/philsan.bsky.social/post/3msstgmem4a2t

ASCII City: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YtygAx_C6A

Zzap Amiga: https://www.gamesradar.com/hardware/retro/the-upcoming-amiga-a1200-remake-will-ship-with-a-special-edition-of-an-iconic-uk-gaming-magazine-but-only-if-youre-an-early-bird/

Rare IBM PC: https://hackaday.com/2026/08/13/rare-ibm-pc-brought-back-to-life/

Use C64 As Controller: https://blog.tindie.com/2026/07/give-c64-emulation-a-realistic-touch/

Outrun Sega 32x: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJO8AYSyTeQ

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Amiga CEO Mike Battilana is our guest this week, so we get right to the lead story: Amiga and Hyperion announced a settlement to long-standing disputes over AmigaOS. At the same time Amiga announced a licensing arrangement with Commodore. We sort through what it means and what might be coming next. In other news, there's a new rich archive of software for Atari ST users and a split-screen head-to-head innovation is coming to the original BBC Micro Elite thanks to the tireless tinkering of Mark Moxon. Plus 1970s computer music on vinyl, new chapters for Worms and Quake, and more.

00:00 - Show Opening

04:00 - What Is Amiga Corporation? Let’s ask the CEO! Story Link: https://amiga.com/news/20260804-amiga-update Amiga News: https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-08-00022-EN.html Hyperion Entertainment://www.hyperion-entertainment.com/index.php/news/38-corporate

28:57 - A Real Pirate’s Trove Story Link: https://atari.8bitchip.info/fromhd2.php#dlaciebie Sidecartridge: https://ataristpublicfloppydb.sidecartridge.com/

43:09 - Housekeeping - News links found below

50:50 - Screen Cheat Elite Story Link: https://bsky.app/profile/markmoxon.bsky.social/post/3msiwwtnnzk2y

58:54 - Community Question of the Week

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News In Brief Links

Bits and Bytes: https://youtu.be/WOGi5T_m__8 CCSP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1-vmlGCq4c

Atari System Emulator: https://youtu.be/Ozin3MMEKZE

Magenta Lenovo Trackpoints: https://www.techradar.com/pro/its-not-red-its-magenta-how-thinkpad-designers-gaslit-ibm-to-save-the-iconic-trackpoint

Worms Directors Cut DLC: https://worm.net/

New Quake Level: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/quake-gets-a-free-new-chapter-promising-ferocious-combat-labyrinthine-level-design-and-nightmarish-realms-to-celebrate-its-30th-birthday

WWW Turns 35: https://www.reddit.com/r/vintagecomputing/comments/1vhfya0/the_web_turns_35_this_august_6/

Episode Credits

Housekeeping Music: https://www.epidemicsound.com/music/tracks/fff6e291-5987-42fd-9a60-dc399816e4ee/

Explore one of cinema's most iconic get-rich-quick schemes courtesy of an Atari Portfolio handheld computer. Or celebrate the return of the Gremlin Graphics label and its collection of alliterative and rhyming characters. Or join the discussion: is "hardware specs don't matter" just tired Nintendo messaging, or is it the truth of the next generation of home entertainment? Then take the "pricey prop floppies" challenge: say it three times fast and see what happens. Plus news on Gotek enhancements, a retro memorial, a new interview with a Commodore engineering legend, and much more.

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00:00 - Show Opening

03:34 - Moles and Springs Story Link: https://www.timeextension.com/news/2026/07/we-didnt-want-to-simply-revisit-the-past-for-nostalgias-sake-gremlin-graphics-is-being-revived-as-a-heritage-label

22:12 - Easy Money Story Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDItCLecx3k

33:11 - Housekeeping - News links found below

39:01 - The Hardware Doesn’t Matter? Story Link: https://kotaku.com/shigeru-miyamoto-believes-gamers-have-grown-disinterested-in-hardware-specs-as-if-they-had-a-choice-2000719415

48:10 - Community Question of the Week

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News In Brief Links

DOOM prop floppy disk: https://www.argos.co.uk/product/8212065

Sayaka interviews Bil Herd: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3jbIH6wuWc

DJ Kavinsky passes: https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260729-french-dj-kavinsky-found-dead-in-paris-home

Commodore 64 DOOM: https://www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/proving-doom-can-actually-run-on-anything-one-programmer-has-made-a-working-build-for-commodore-64/

Physical game release caveats: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/07/the-disc-is-not-the-game-physical-releases-increasingly-require-extra-downloads/

Wireless Gotek screen: https://youtu.be/59ChkzRcMRw

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Stand, wait to be acknowledged, address all of your comments to the chair, and refer to the hosts in third person only for this proper parliamentary procedure edition of This Week in Retro. Original Xbox games come to Windows 11 (with major caveats)! We learn about the Bit 79: a souped-up Nintendo Famicom from Taiwan that launched an entire genre of 8-bit computers rarely discussed on English-language shows! And Chris dutifully delves into the world of pay-to-unlock content in an Artworx classic. Plus, everything old is new again as Atari once again partners with a film studio, a legendary tech columnist passes, and an infamous battery supplier reaches the end of its leaky road.

00:00 - Show Opening

03:42 - Unbox Those Old Xbox Story Link: https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/xbox-brings-back-compat-to-windows-microsoft-pledges-4-games-on-pc

23:27 - Meet The Bit 79 Home Computer System! Story Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZH1rR7WogI Bit79 emulator: https://notin.tokyo/Bit79 Bit79 support materials: https://archive.org/details/bit-79-archive

35:16 - Housekeeping - News links found below

44:11 - Dial 1-800-STRIPPERS Story Link: https://www.dosgame.at/blog/wie-wir-ein-vergessenes-strip-poker-spiel-wieder-hergestellt-haben?lang=en 

52:33 - Community Question of the Week

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News In Brief Links SynaMax channel: www.youtube.com/@SynaMax Nested Dreams: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/synamax/nested-dreams

CPC Attack: https://youtu.be/r9jDnWGsKKU

Candidate advocates for SegaWorld, Shenmue 4: https://metro.co.uk/2026/07/21/count-binface-demands-sega-bring-back-london-arcade-make-shenmue-4-29190664/

John C. Dvorak memorials: https://mailchi.mp/nashownotes/rip-jcd-no-agenda-newsletter https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/07/23/famed-technology-journalist-john-c-dvorak-dies-aged-80

Dune II Commodore 64: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SILhafNKU8c

SNES SuperFX 3: https://www.timeextension.com/news/2026/07/randy-is-a-madman-snes-star-fox-gets-a-speed-boost-thanks-to-super-fx-3

Atari/Universal Pictures deal: https://deadline.com/2026/07/atari-universal-deal-10-game-ip-script-matt-reilly-carl-hampe-entertainment-360-1237001656/

Sega Rally port: https://www.timeextension.com/news/2026/07/this-might-be-the-closest-well-get-to-sega-rally-on-genesis

Varta insolvency: https://www.reuters.com/business/german-battery-maker-varta-files-insolvency-applications-2026-07-24/

We welcome retro productivity software blogger Christopher Drum of Stone Tools (stonetools.ghost.io) to ask the big questions: was the television game show just as important to culture as Doom? Is there a sensible way to acquire arcade cabinets without spending all one's time and/or money on them? And when did the web browser become more important for running software than exploring unconnected pages? 

00:00 - Show Opening

03:33 - Top American Cultural Creations (Besides DOOM) Story Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/interactive/2026/07/15/25-most-influential-works-american-culture/ Romero post: https://bsky.app/profile/johnromero.bsky.social/post/3mqp3vasns22u

21:51 - Insert More Coins Story Link: https://metro.co.uk/2026/07/19/become-a-golden-age-arcade-machine-collector-repairman-readers-feature-29166149/ Additional link: https://www.ukvac.com/forum/

31:26 - Housekeeping - News links found below

39:51 - Long Live Browser Emulation! Story Link: https://floooh.github.io/tiny8bit Additional links: https://www.timeextension.com/news/2026/07/psp-and-dreamcast-are-the-most-likely-to-land-next-afterplay-creator-on-pushing-the-limits-of-browser-based-emulation https://retrogamecoders.com/zxnext-js-emulator/

50:53 - Community Question of the Week

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News In Brief Links

UK Nintendo Nostalgia?: https://metro.co.uk/2026/07/15/nes-45-years-old-no-nostalgia-uk-29091381/

Steam cartridge system: https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/pc-gamer-turns-steam-games-into-cartridges-with-ingenious-2-5-inch-ssd-system-games-are-stored-on-128gb-drives-alongside-a-script-to-auto-start-the-title-once-plugged-in

Zilog Z80 CPU turns 50: https://goliath32.com/blog/z80.html

1.44 MB game contest: https://www.escapistmagazine.com/news-floppy-disk-1-44mb-game-development-contest/

GAME enters administration: https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/26291655.uk-retail-giant-collapsed-administration-owing-16m/ Related: https://www.gamespot.com/articles/physical-games-are-irrelevant-to-gamestops-business-says-ceo/

Day in the Life of a 1980s K-Mart Manager: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCrkaOyDHfw&t=3280s

Super Mario 64 on PS1 and 3DO: https://retrododo.com/super-mario-64-is-now-running-on-the-panasonic-3do-ps1/

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We're sharing gigawatts of retro tech news and discussion this week. Don your visor and get immersed in a virtual arcade courtesy of the Rave environment offering over 1,200 emulated titles. Learn the daily grind of an RBMK nuclear reactor operator through the extensive reproduction efforts of Chernobyl Family , and get the hosts' breakdown of Retro Games Ltd.'s unusual video FAQ for followers of THEA1200. Our newsbriefs are especially diverse, covering everything from the IBM System/360 to the Atari Jaguar and original PlayStation.

00:00 - Show Opening

02:16 - Headset-ting The High Score Story Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-97U6fvwLHg

15:40 - We Have Uranium-235 At Home Story Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JSP_gVXZTs Update: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiMzGRs8q2Q RBMK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RBMK

26:21 - Housekeeping - News links found below

34:23 - THEA1200 Q&A Story Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atZFmK9aOCI Disk sizes explained: https://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=79606 Disk sizes explained, again: https://www.amigaforever.com/kb/16-120

45:24 - Community Question of the Week

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News In Brief Links

Callback Accessibility: https://www.accessibility.org.au/opinion-commodore-callback-is-not-keeping-up-with-support-for-people-with-disability/

How Blind People Use An iPhone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtE2NfFZK2g

PS1 16Mb RAM Upgrade: https://www.generationamiga.com/2026/07/05/playstation-1-16mb-ram-upgrade-pushes-sonys-classic-console-beyond-its-original-limits/

RISCBoy Github: https://github.com/Wren6991/RISCBoy

Legacy Of The BBC Micro: https://www.nesta.org.uk/report/the-legacy-of-bbc-micro/

Atari Jaguar Run Linux: https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/dev-ports-linux-to-ataris-notorious-jaguar-console-from-1993-the-first-64-bit-console-features-2mb-of-ram-13-3-mhz-cpu-and-tom-and-jerry-co-processors-the-jag-was-notoriously-difficult-to-program-and-flopped

Vic-20 Sabre Wulf: https://www.sleepingelephant.com/ipw-web/bulletin/bb/viewtopic.php?t=11578

NEC CRT From Japan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk0Nk1KJuSc

IBM System/360 3D: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0FY3CDCw1o

You've seen all the other brands say they're following Sony's digital-only lead while chuckling into a sleeve. Now it's TWiR's turn to respond as the doomsday clock for physical media moves nearer midnight. In other news we revisit the life and career of Psion PLC founder and innovator David Potter, and explore the many hazards of the modern online auction scene, plus a look at a short-lived 3DO reboot, new uses for old RAM, and much more.

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00:00 - Show Opening

03:14 - No More Pizza Story Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/thisweekinretro/comments/1ulqtcr/the_digital_age_is_coming/ PlayStation Blog: https://blog.playstation.com/2026/07/01/physical-disc-production-ending-in-january-2028-for-new-games-releasing-on-playstation-consoles/

18:37 - Farewell To Psion’s David Potter Story Link: http://bsky.app/profile/anthonybarnett.bsky.social/post/3mpj6lshqn22s Remembering David Potter: https://www.opendemocracy.net/obituary-david-potter-psion-industrialist-physicist-philanthropist/ The amazing adventures of David Potter: https://www.managementtoday.co.uk/amazing-adventures-david-potter-positioned-intersection-phone-computer-technology-psion-preparing-launch-net-ready-mobiles-annointed-new-ftse-100/article/412010 Additional links: https://archivesit.org.uk/interviews/david-potter/ https://potterfoundation.com/who_we_are.html

31:17 - Housekeeping - News links found below

37:49 - Is eBay Fantasy? Story Link: https://www.gameshub.com/news/features/retro-tech-ebay-fantasy-pricing-2885838/

49:02 - Community Question of the Week

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News In Brief Links

e-ink ESP32 Based Game Boy: https://www.xda-developers.com/someone-made-an-e-ink-esp32-game-boy-and-it-runs-at-a-very-playable-60hz-refresh-rate/

AI FPGA Cores: https://www.timeextension.com/news/2026/07/extremely-disappointing-are-ai-generated-fpga-cores-the-future-or-the-death-of-accuracy

Windows 11 On DDR1: https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/ram-crisis-provokes-enthusiast-to-try-windows-11-on-ddr1-era-hardware-other-key-vintage-components-included-the-core-2-q6600-and-ati-radeon-hd-4650-agp

BBC Search For A Better Screen: https://youtu.be/fM7BpmJlRIs

3DO Revival Dead: https://www.engadget.com/2206578/3do-revival-empire-interactive/

Make Your Own RAM: https://youtu.be/IOtf85sHRlg

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Sega's mission to make its history more accessible, and give the world even more authentic Sonic cartridges, leads our coverage this week. We also look at the ultra-compact, resource-light KolibriOS (runs comfortably on a 30-year old Pentium!) and an Amiga 1200 that's been upgraded beyond belief. Plus your top picks for the best real-world locations to simulate in a game, more Commodore Callback discourse, and a very special 40th birthday!

00:00 - Show Opening

01:31 - Physical and Playable Story Link: https://www.thegamer.com/sega-producer-yosuke-okunari-all-4500-sega-games-playable/ Additional links: https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/sega-is-re-releasing-the-original-sonic-genesis-games-on-100-cartridges/ https://www.iam8bit.com/collections/sonic-35th

14:21 - Single Floppy Computing Story Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w2imHvPHBI Additional link: http://kolibrios.org Barebones Windows: http://github.com/byteospro/barebone-windows

29:06 - Housekeeping - News links found below

33:56 - Ultimate Amiga? Story Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LV2FffhXCYo Additional links: https://www.pimyretro.org/ultimate-amiga-1200-pistorm-cd32-mode-and-full-hardware-expansion  https://www.youtube.com/@jit06  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlnwWAIdXqQ 

42:19 - Community Question of the Week

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News In Brief Links

UK Amstrad meetup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQDlb33D6cQ

C= Callback: https://www.timeextension.com/news/2026/06/we-listened-commodore-reduces-the-price-of-its-forthcoming-callback-8020-dumbphone

Mainstream Commodore coverage: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/aHzR9zapK68

Lost NASA craft re-contacted: https://www.reddit.com/r/thisweekinretro/comments/1uf5sp4/a_lost_nasa_spacecraft_came_back_to_life_after_36/

Atari Lynx nostalgia: https://youtu.be/RcjbMCRErz4?is=rOg7aZMELYHfy5OB

CRT Treasure Trove: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpAFuVxTscM

Outrun at 40: https://youtu.be/Y2UkXj_rxgE

Has Richard Garriott (Lord British) truly maxed out his Intelligence and Wisdom scores so that he can undo a 1992 transaction and reclaim Ultima? Can Chris tell the difference between reality and a simulation, or does it all end in air sickness? And will new code development environments for the C64 Ultimate, and for the Atari ST, Amiga, Macintosh, and other 16-bit platforms uncork a tsunami of new applications and games? All these questions answered plus first takes on the Commodore phone and other topics of retro interest as June 2026 winds to a close!

00:00 - Show Opening

01:50 - Britannia Is Saved? Story Link: https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/the-creator-of-ultima-is-reportedly-reclaiming-the-series-rights-back-from-ea-and-it-could-happen-as-soon-as-next-year/ Additional Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_aVTHKzGbA

13:35 - New IDEs For Old Machines Story Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjqnU-YNF78 C64U Engine: c64portal.pl Additional Link: https://macumbaeditor.com/

24:21 - Housekeeping - News links found below

30:31 - Real Or Sim? Story Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/thisweekinretro/comments/1u7r9cc/comparison_of_geoff_crammonds_f1gp_with_real_track/ Revs Footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp6Z-Y1Z-cQ F1GP Footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mH476Zrp7UU Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/RaceSimCentral  How Were The Tracks Built: https://revs.bbcelite.com/deep_dives/building_a_3d_track_from_sections_and_segments.html

40:02 - Community Question of the Week

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News In Brief Links

Commodore Callback: https://commodore.net/callback/

Bobby Price Passes Away: https://www.legacy.com/legacy/robert-bobby-prince-lll

Nintendo DS Sega Rally Found: https://nintendoeverything.com/lost-sega-rally-nintendo-ds-prototype-discovered-after-20-years/

Computer Fair Discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/thisweekinretro/comments/1u7rv6r/computer_fairs/

Command and Conquer ST Port: https://indyjo.itch.io/commandconquer

Retro Malware: https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/threat-intel/2026/06/retro-gaming-fans-are-the-new-target-for-fake-github-malware

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An exclusive reveal this week as ex-Melbourne House/BEAM Software developer Tony Smales shares an in-depth tour of the never-released Arcade Wizzard pinball game for Commodore 64! We also look at the definitive overview of the rise and fall of the Sega Dreamcast and explore home computer shopping in 1998. 

00:00 - Show Opening

08:21 - Pinball Lost and Found Story Link: https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/2026/06/three-big-commodore-64-recoveries/

40:09 - Sega’s Nightmare Story Link: https://youtu.be/tcOtWuNlUF0?is=O4C-puLKHHWyGIV4

Rumoured handheld: https://www.notebookcheck.net/SEGA-rumor-new-2D-retro-handheld-with-physical-cartridges.1317101.0.html

53:12 - Housekeeping - News links found below

01:00:29 - 1998 Computer Shopping Story Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpLew7igK-w

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News In Brief Links

Atari 2600 chess (again): https://www.pcmag.com/news/chatgpt-gets-absolutely-wrecked-in-chess-match-with-1978-atari

GentleOS: https://github.com/luke8086/gentleos32

AGP on Windows 11: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs4bqCEnvUA

THEA1200 prototype video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy07UEd6rng

Spray-on Retrobrite: https://youtu.be/L5anoqGw-hc?is=pkPR7AtAbArCOUgX

Sealed NES Super Mario auction: https://www.theverge.com/games/949593/super-mario-bros-3-million-auction

LEGO Batman C64 Easter egg: https://bsky.app/profile/cabel.panic.com/post/3mnpxqsbwok2i

Episode Credits

"Sega-dreamcast-set" by Asim Saleem (Asim18) is licensed under CC BY 3.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/?ref=openverse.

By Evan-Amos - Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17385690

This week's guest Jason Timmons has quietly built up Vintage Computer Festival Midwest (https://vcfmw.org/) into the world's largest annual retro computing event. He joins the crew to talk about the end the line for the revived Checkmate Amiga case, the surprising differences in teletext penetration in the United States vs. the United Kingdom, and a look at the "overrated?" Amiga 500 Batman Pack.

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00:00 - Show Opening

09:48 - Checkmate Check Out Story Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOssyAw8LoQ

33:05 - Teletext Admiration Society Story Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCZEHoolBCg

54:18 - Housekeeping - News links found below

58:23 - Holy Clickbait Batman! Story Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QY3Ud7zNQM

01:17:38 - Community Question of the Week

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News In Brief Links

Daytona USA Recomp: https://youtu.be/p0U5ltlUf30

Family Computing 1998: https://youtu.be/IpLew7igK-w

Metal Slug Vodafone Live: https://www.timeextension.com/news/2026/06/the-small-sprites-are-really-cute-a-long-forgotten-mobile-port-of-metal-slug-has-been-rescued-from-the-digital-abyss

Red Dwarf Adventure pitch: https://www.timeextension.com/news/2026/06/the-devs-behind-loco-motive-once-pitched-a-red-dwarf-adventure-game-and-it-looks-smeggin-brilliant

Older gamers: https://www.timeextension.com/news/2026/06/i-think-they-are-missing-a-trick-evercade-boss-says-the-games-industry-is-failing-older-players

Commodore 64 spellchecker: https://github.com/johnwbyrd/bloomer

Stop Killing Games: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8e8e7g0r82o

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Welcoming back guest Iain Lee (www.iainlee.com)  after too long away, we revisit Nintendo's all-too-brief commitment to low-cost crowd-pleasing mini consoles, explore the surprising history of videoconferencing and remote collaboration for Microsoft NetMeeting's 30th anniversary, and find out what made an octogenarian game developer sit down at the keys and settle unfinished business.

00:00 - Show Opening

05:54 - Why A Mini? Story Link: https://nintendoeverything.com/former-nintendo-exec-confirms-nes-and-snes-classics-were-made-to-sustain-the-companys-business/

18:38 - See You Online Story Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhay6VryyvE Microsoft memo: https://sriramk.com/memos/CU-NET.pdf

40:25 - Housekeeping - News links found below

47:03 - Head Over Heels 2 Story Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SwQKv36bEU Game release: https://thalamusdigital.itch.io/return-to-blacktooth-amiga 

55:12 - Community Question of the Week

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News In Brief Links

Ultima Underworld Unity: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/after-10-years-of-work-modders-have-remade-classic-rpg-ultima-underworld-in-unity-with-3d-models-new-sound-effects-and-controller-support

UU project: https://kweepa.itch.io/unity-underground

Lenovo handheld: ​​https://www.t3.com/tech/gaming-consoles/lenovo-pulls-its-controversial-g02-retro-handheld-from-sale-starting-a-chain-reaction-that-could-decimate-the-retro-gaming-market

Anbernic handheld spec: https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/handheld-gaming/gaming-handhelds-are-quietly-losing-ram-vendors-aggressively-trim-memory-specs-as-supply-dries-up

War of the Worlds: https://michel-molenaar.itch.io/war-of-the-worlds-c64

PD-64 power supply: https://github.com/sideprojectslab/PD-64

Dan Wood on Commodore OS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_Lw-Zl7tCM

Commodore OS homepage: https://commodoreos.net

Amiag Unix 2.02 found: https://hackaday.com/2026/05/25/lost-version-of-amiga-unix-suddenly-reappears/

Amstrad PPC640 US edition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tt874nkplo

Rob Smith PaulaNET video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhAg-fT83o8

PaulaNET project: https://github.com/caddy666/Nebula32

Episode Credits

Parts of "Microsoft NetMeeting was WAY more important than you think" courtesy of The Serial Port. See the full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhay6VryyvE

Exclusive hardware development news caps a retro kit roundup this week which includes news of a MiSTer handheld from Heber along with updates on the PicoCPC, PicoIDE, and PicoGUS projects. In other news we take a closer look at reimagined Atic Atac and Wolfenstein 3D, and explore the many wild and wonderful corners of operating systems in the Virtual OS Museum.

00:00 - Show Opening

03:54 - Give Us A Hand Mister? Story Link: https://youtu.be/arSnNwDQS2k Wide Boy: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YxGXvZRs4UI

20:22 - Run (Almost) Every Operating System! Story Link: http://virtualosmuseum.org

39:11 - Housekeeping - News links found below

44:33 - From 2D To 3D And Back Story Link: https://stephensmith.itch.io/atic-atac-3d Additional link: https://www.moddb.com/mods/isowulf 

57:34 - Community Question of the Week

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News In Brief Links

Autodesk EAGLE end of support: https://www.autodesk.com/support/technical/article/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Autodesk-EAGLE-Announcement-Next-steps-and-FAQ.html

386 microcode: https://nand2mario.github.io/posts/2026/z386/

Amiga 500 receipt: https://i.redd.it/dhez6wdhoq2h1.jpeg 

Atari ST clone "Raven": https://hackaday.com/2026/05/24/meet-the-raven-an-atari-clone-computer-based-on-the-motorola-68060/

S3 BIOS Snake: https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/retro-enthusiast-injects-snake-game-into-vintage-s3-graphics-card-vbios-enjoy-some-serpentum-fun-while-your-old-pc-boots

Apple II clone laptop: https://8086cpu.com/Z80/6502/110.html

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If you've had a hard time getting arcade cabinet purchases past "The Accountant" (as Chris affectionately calls Nicky) a new transformable design from furniture to fun on Kickstarter may be the solution. In addition to the marital politics of arcade ownership, this unprecedented episode of This Week in Retro also takes on the international politics of song through LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER's retro tech-themed contribution to Eurovision and the Australian politics of microcomputer innovation, which culminated in "The Matilda." All this, a Minty Cyberdeck, a replacement for the Atari POKEY, and more!

ERRATA: Jason accidentally says "Atari 2600" at 19:22. He of course meant to say "Atari 600XL," the 16k microcomputer.

00:00 - Show Opening

01:47 - Small Solutions To Big Tech Problems Story Link: https://newatlas.com/games/swap-arcade-gaming-system-folds-into-cabinet/ https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/amat/swap-arcade-full-arcade-that-turns-into-a-furniture-cabinet/description  Swap Arcade Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/amat/swap-arcade-full-arcade-that-turns-into-a-furniture-cabinet Minty Cyberdeck: https://hackaday.io/project/205598-altoids-tin-mini-cyberdeck

14:34 - From Beetles to Bees Story Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idt-g_UQbqw Aussie JSW: https://jswcentral.org/jsw48-a-59_aussiecousin.html

23:06 - Housekeeping - News links found below

28:16 - Look Mum, One Point! Story Link: https://news.sky.com/story/who-is-look-mum-no-computer-the-electro-frankenstein-hoping-to-end-uks-eurovision-drought-13544400 Furby Organ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYLBjScgb7o

34:30 - Community Question of the Week

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News In Brief Links

Isometric Wolf3D: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S59w7Qeu9D4

Atic Atac 3D: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EofGuoLeSrQ

Vacuum tubes: https://hackaday.com/2026/05/11/the-vacuum-tubes-last-stands/

ThamesTV 1980s Computers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_IzLdfVK2k

Windows CE on Nintendo 64: https://hackaday.com/2026/05/17/running-windows-ce-on-the-nintendo-64/

Digital Press forums offline: https://www.timeextension.com/news/2026/05/thanks-for-destroying-your-own-legacy-quarter-century-of-online-gaming-history-vanishes-as-digital-press-forum-goes-dark

JUST_POKEY: https://lotharek.pl/productdetail.php?id=431

Infocom novels online: https://www.reddit.com/r/zork/comments/1tbv4cb/classic_zork_novels_now_in_ebook_format/

We take on a Sega myth, an Amiga delay, and debate the merits of the latest games enshrined in the Hall of Fame at The Strong Museum of Play. We're joined this week by Jo Cook of the UK Amstrad Group, holding its inaugural live user event next month. 

See https://www.ukag.org.uk/index.php/2026/01/08/more-info-on-the-june-uk-amstrad-group-meet for more information on the UKAG meet, and visit https://www.addict.media/ for your copy of Pixel Addict magazine.

00:00 - Show Opening

03:54 - Hall Of Fame Games Story Link: https://www.museumofplay.org/exhibits/world-video-game-hall-of-fame/inducted-games/ Board games: https://www.ukag.org.uk/index.php/2026/05/09/retro-games-leave-the-screen-play-pac-man-level-ten-and-8bit-box-at-ukag/

27:19 - Old Masters Never Give Up Story Link: https://www.xda-developers.com/the-sega-master-system-is-still-being-made-and-sold-in-brazil-37-years-later/

40:31 - Housekeeping - News links found below

44:44 - Merry Christmas Amigans Story Link: https://www.facebook.com/THEC64andMoreByRetroGamesLtd

57:56 - Community Question of the Week

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News In Brief Links

Wolfenstein docs: https://www.reddit.com/r/thisweekinretro/comments/1t5jzp6/as_a_german_this_is_very_funny_to_me/

Melbourne House archives: https://old.reddit.com/r/thisweekinretro/comments/1t7zg94/former_melbourne_house_developer_surfaces_with/

Sierra game upscaling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9Yp9S23ICo

AMD K5 support: https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/amds-legendary-k5-its-first-independently-designed-processor-is-being-removed-from-the-linux-kernel-4-3-million-transistor-chip-gets-the-axe-because-it-lacks-time-stamp-counter-tsc-support-making-it-a-coding-burden

Atari acquires Wizardry: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260506151146/en/Atari-Acquires-Rights-to-the-Legendary-Wizardry-RPGs

IcePi FPGA C64: https://www.reddit.com/r/thisweekinretro/comments/1t76ofv/icepizeroc64_tiny_and_fully_opensource_fpgabased/

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Sports sim pioneer Kevin Toms (Football Star* Manager) is in the guest chair as we talk about the incredible staying power of 1982's blockbuster computer launches, the Commodore 64 and Sinclair ZX Spectrum, soon to be released in handheld format. We also look at the incredible R&D legacy of Xerox PARC, the impact of the BBC Computer Literacy Project, the latest from Commodore and FujiNet, a surprising workstation on FPGA, and a great deal more!

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00:00 - Show Opening

06:40 - 1982 In The Palm Of Your Hand Story Link: https://www.timeextension.com/news/2026/04/the-c64-and-zx-spectrum-are-being-reimagined-as-nintendo-style-clamshell-handhelds C64C Ultimate: https://commodore.net/c-you-soon-commodore-64-ultimate-line-up-expands-with-c64c-edition-later-this-year/

33:27 - Zero For Xerox Story Link: https://dfarq.homeip.net/how-xerox-invented-the-gui-and-lost-it/ Dramatization: https://youtu.be/VpY2fBitQcw

43:16 - Housekeeping - News links found below

48:58 - The Trojan Mouse Story Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZjNHnYFqOA

01:05:39 - Community Question of the Week

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News In Brief Links

Open source PC-DOS 1.0: https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-open-sources-dos-1-0-much-more-than-the-code/

The end of Ask: https://mashable.com/article/ask-jeeves-shut-down

FujiNet firmware update:  https://fujinews.substack.com/p/major-firmware-update-from-the-fujinet

The 7th Guest remake trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwA5q-oDT3k

Windows 9x Subsystem For Linux: https://codeberg.org/hails/wsl9x

Apple Lisa on FPGA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jNQDcpHc68

Lego Sega Genesis: https://segabits.com/blog/2026/05/01/lego-sega-releasing-sega-genesis-console-on-june-1/

Galaxian3 emulator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sH3uyB_WhEo

Episode Credits

"Commodore 16" by Marcin Wichary is licensed under CC BY 2.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/?ref=openverse.

If you find joy in making or fixing, you're already a kindred spirit with our return guest Lee of the More Fun Making It and More Fun Fixing It YouTube channels. Lee shares tales of his latest retro event visits and upcoming charity effort (a custom throwback game console could be yours!) before we take on the top stories. The team takes on the state of the traditional arcade, the revival of an early 1990s horror classic, and a new-old multiplayer racing game. Plus news from Commodore, Sega, and much more.

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Be sure to stop by https://www.morefunmakingit.co.uk/ to see everything Lee has going on. Lee's Commodore 64GS charity project: https://morefunfixingit.co.uk/charity

00:00 - Show Opening

09:31 - Oh I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside Story Link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdrm4lndnv6o

24:19 - It's Not That Terrible Story Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzi_xK2Jifw Additional link: https://gamingbolt.com/a-comprehensive-history-of-horror-gaming

44:37 - Housekeeping - News links found below

49:57 - Null Modem Not Required Story Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/multistuntcar-156155783 Gameplay link: https://retro-foundry.github.io/multistuntcar/

01:02:00 - Community Question of the Week

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News In Brief Links

EU Parliament game advocacy: https://youtu.be/oXcogLmxnJw?si=3mYRqOpooCgf5raO

Updated Commodore FPGA policy: https://commodore.net/why-we-re-protecting-your-commodore-64-ultimate-fpga/

SEGA's 2026 lineup: https://www.eurogamer.net/sega-universe-retro-anniveraries-2026

Retro search engine: https://wiby.me/

BBC interview with Peter Molyneux: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4glw5nyrggo

ZSNES update: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5twUkvYFpA

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Welcome Andrew Borman, Director of Digital Preservation at The Strong ( https://www.museumofplay.org/ ) for an in-depth look at the future of the iconic Neo-Geo game console, with brand-new hardware just around the corner. If Metal Slug and Super Baseball aren't your thing, we also cover Channel 9 Australia's endorsement of retro gaming, the revival of a 50-year old electromechanical arcade machine from Nintendo, The Krypton Factor, and a potential block on alternative cores for the Commodore 64 Ultimate. If you think that's a CRT on the horizon it might just be a discarded kitchen appliance, but don't let that stop you from enjoying This Week in Retro episode 265!

00:00 - Show Opening

07:12 - Neo Geo Story Link: https://plaionreplai.com/

34:48 - Two Tales Of The Wild West Story Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOfqnomGPkM Story Link 2: https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/commodore-fans-split-over-c64-ultimate-fpga-firmware-lockdown-firm-says-it-wants-to-protect-its-hardware-and-reduce-support-fallout

56:18 - Housekeeping - News links found below

01:02:46 - TV Gets Retro Gaming Story Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4QuYuPn2Mc Story Link 2: https://hackaday.io/project/205522-prime-time-game-show-lasers-and-an-amiga

01:13:39 - Community Question of the Week

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News In Brief Links

CBS coverage of former New York City pinball ban: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuHhh3CLjbk

PC Gamer demo discs: https://www.pcgamer.com/games/the-internet-archive-has-preserved-758-old-pc-gamer-demo-discs-you-can-download-and-play/

FAT32 beyond 32GB: https://www.techspot.com/news/112058-microsoft-removing-32gb-size-limit-fat32-volumes-time.html

Sun Microsystems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems

Nigel Alderton interview: https://metro.co.uk/2026/04/16/nigel-alderton-interview-man-behind-zx-spectrum-classic-chuckie-egg-27984015/

Moonchild retrospective: https://kotaku.com/developers-of-moon-child-resurface-to-bask-in-all-the-shitposts-amiga-prototype-2000688827

DOOM chainsaw: https://www.gamesradar.com/games/fps/doom-co-designer-still-has-the-real-chainsaw-that-inspired-the-og-fpss-iconic-weapon-even-though-it-leaks-oil-and-was-kept-in-a-bowl-at-the-id-offices/

Bring big imaginations and big keyboards as we tackle the latest Retro eXo creation, a breakthrough in modern game development for the original Sony PlayStation, and breathe new life into those old digital video camcorders on the shelf. Chris shows off a holiday photo, there's a birthday... all this, and much more, in This Week in Retro episode 264!

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00:00 - Show Opening

03:03 - Undiscovered Text Adventures Abound Story Link: https://www.retro-exo.com/if.html Original TWiR coverage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUtxKUkJaXk

17:34 - New Life For PlayStation & Wii Story Link: https://psxsplash.github.io/ Bandwidth appeal video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfZ-XHiDBow MacOS X on Nintendo Wii: https://bryankeller.github.io/2026/04/08/porting-mac-os-x-nintendo-wii.html Windows compatibility: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260407-00/?p=112213

31:38 - Housekeeping - News links found below

36:57 - Video Editing Like It’s 1999 Story Link: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/firewire-on-a-raspberry-pi/  Video demonstration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuKeW45OL-g

46:18 - Community Question of the Week

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News In Brief Links

PicoGUS 4.0: https://github.com/polpo/picogus/releases/tag/v4.0.0

Oldversion returns: https://hackaday.com/2026/04/01/oldversion-is-back-and-better-than-ever/

RIP Yoshihisa Kishimoto: https://www.timeextension.com/news/2026/04/double-dragon-creator-yoshihisa-kishimoto-has-passed-away

New Amiga Double Dragon: https://www.indieretronews.com/2026/04/double-dragon-near-arcade-experience.html

Arcade photos: https://www.thescroller.net/83840/20-photos-what-arcades-used-to-look-like/

Arcade manuals: https://arcadeRTFM.com

Breakout for ZX81: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NheQgCtFgI

End of Linux support for i486: https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-7-1-finally-dropping-support-intels-37-year-old-486-processor/

Episode Credits: 

"PlayStation-SCPH-1000-with-Controller.jpg" image by Evan-Amos. Public domain.

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Indie game dev legend Jeff Vogel of spiderwebsoftware.com joins us for a provocative hour of conversation about legendary Apple products, summer camp with Lord British, moonshots and other artifacts of the Space Race, and much more!

00:00 - Show Opening

08:20 - Fifty Years Of Apple Story Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgxdn9lyd2o Apple prototypes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74qPQt_5DdM

23:17 - Moon - The Computer Art That Made Sure We Didn’t Miss Story Link: https://hackaday.com/2026/03/30/see-the-computers-that-powered-the-voyager-space-program/

31:17 - Housekeeping - News links found below

37:15 - Omega Race Counts As Racing Story Link: https://github.com/albank1/Commodore-64-More-Disassembled-Games Dragon's Eye CRPG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJfGN4Zeb7M Additional links: https://github.com/cyneprepou4uk/NES-Games-Disassembly https://www.retroreversing.com/source-code/decompiled-retail-console-games

49:29 - Community Question of the Week

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News In Brief Links

Gaming Historian ends: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV_Aww8_6wQ

XBox 360 GTA4 Devkit: https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/xbox/xbox-360-devkit-bought-for-usd5-at-car-boot-sale-came-with-2007-beta-build-of-gta-iv-with-unreleased-assets-version-includes-cut-ferry-system-zombies-and-more

Manic Miner online: https://manicminer.online

Taito Crown 603 claw machine: https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/after-asking-the-japanese-public-to-help-it-find-its-first-ever-claw-machine-game-taito-instead-found-its-second/

CLK emulator: https://github.com/TomHarte/CLK

Doom "on a BBC Micro": https://youtu.be/32hJLwrk-gY

Capcom mini-arcade machine: https://www.hackster.io/news/lcl-li-s-tiny-capcom-arcade-cabinet-uses-a-period-appropriate-though-scaled-down-crt-display-68d78f2c6743

Episode Credits

"Apple Lisa (Little Apple Museum)" by Alvy is licensed under CC BY 2.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/?ref=openverse.

"Apple Vision Pro (M5, 2025) with Dual Knit Band on Display (cropped)" by AzureSaturn is marked with CC0 1.0.

"Apple Macintosh ー Computer History Museum (25364330319)" by Ik T from Kanagawa, Japan is licensed under CC BY 2.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/?

"Apple Newton MessagePad H1000 in NMAH" by National Museum of American History is marked with CC0 1.0. To view the terms, visit https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en/?ref=openverse.

It's taken too long to get prominent retro podcaster and archivist  @KaySavetz  (ANTIC, Eaten By a Grue, Internet Archive, and more) on the show! On this bonus-sized episode Kay joins Dave and Jason as we take a deeper look at 1990s nostalgia and the loss of multi-format cover art giant Philip Castle, and chart the dramatic rise and hard fall of Iomega's Zip drives. And for the sake of equal time, Kay presents a news brief involving source code hidden away on SyQuest media.

All this, your picks for a gaming industry legend you'd like to spend an hour with, and more in This Week in Retro 262!

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00:00 - Show Opening

04:24 -  Elite Box Art Was Elite Story Link: https://x.com/DavidBraben/status/2035665737449107849

17:33 - Media Giants Of The Past Story Link: https://hackaday.com/2026/03/24/from-zip-to-nought-the-rise-and-fall-of-iomega/

32:42 - Housekeeping - News links found below

48:45 - I Wish It Was The 90s - Or Do I? Story Link: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/22/young-people-are-longing-for-the-low-tech-90s-and-so-would-i-if-i-could-only-remember-them Additional Link: https://www.theguardian.com/games/2026/mar/27/retro-rewind-video-rental-retail-sim

01:01:10 - Community Question of the Week

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News In Brief Links

PicoGX Cartridge: https://shop.flamelily.co.uk/picogx

History of Creative SoundBlaster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTPa6wRECw0

3dfx Voodoo on FPGA: https://hackaday.com/2026/03/22/the-3dfx-voodoo-lives-again-in-an-fpga/

Pico Z80: https://eaw.app/picoz80/

Windows 3.1 on AMD Ryzen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qP3Jy52RuQ

MS-DOS on Apple II: https://sethkush.com/post/2026/03/22/reboot-camp-83-ms-dos-on-the-apple-iie-is-ready/

Game stores final closure: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/major-uk-retailer-leave-high-085419192.html

Lemon20 community: https://lemon20.com

Nintendo64 Open World Engine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXxmIw9axWw

Kikstart documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sW6AdUeIFLs

Jetpac remake: https://www.timeextension.com/news/2026/03/the-zx-spectrum-classic-jetpac-has-been-unofficially-remade

Kerbal flight via ZX Spectrum: https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/enthusiast-lands-on-the-moon-using-hardware-from-the-1980s-zx-spectrum-home-computer-with-3-5-mhz-cpu-and-48kb-of-memory-power-kerbal-space-flight

AOL Macintosh source code: https://bitbang.social/@mac84tv/116313232502499502

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How did we allow this to happen?! Not the guest appearance by  @adriansdigitalbasement , but rather the proliferation of competing controller standards which has finally been solved (possibly) by a new multi-interface project for USB, Raspberry Pi, and MiSTeR devices. Plus the latest developments at the new Commodore International Corporation, a treasure trove of audio recordings from Game Developer Conference 1989, the mostly-respectful observance of an important anniversary for the Nintendo Game Boy Advance, and the first "Chris' Corner" segment to keep the transportation news flowing while Chris takes a brief holiday!

00:00 - Show Opening

02:25 - Every Joyport, Everywhere, All At Once Story Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/MiSTerFPGA/comments/1rx12q4/multi_controller_adapter_retro_controllers_on/

20:50 - Commodore Is Growing Story Link: https://www.ign.com/articles/former-xbox-front-man-major-nelson-just-joined-the-company-behind-the-commodore-64-retro-revival

39:04 - Housekeeping - News links found below

47:21 - Meeting Legendary Minds Story Link: https://gamehistory.org/cgdc-1989-tapes/

Additional link: https://www.timeextension.com/news/2026/03/the-nes-is-not-gonna-go-on-forever-forget-gdc-2026-take-a-trip-back-in-time-with-recordings-from-the-1989-event

01:00:44 - Community Question of the Week

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News In Brief Links

Young People Yearn For 1990s Tech: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/22/young-people-are-longing-for-the-low-tech-90s-and-so-would-i-if-i-could-only-remember-them

GBA At 25: https://www.eurogamer.net/the-best-gba-games-you-can-play-on-switch-and-five-we-hope-show-up-soon

Gunship Origins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni4AbrlROz4

Chuck Norris Obituary: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/mar/20/chuck-norris-was-the-rip-roaring-king-of-80s-friday-night-vhs-fests

Rosetintedspectrum: https://youtu.be/NJ-QxbVUg6o

Indy Classic Expo: https://indyclassic.org

OpenTTD News: https://www.pcgamer.com/games/sim/openttd-asks-people-to-please-stop-being-mad-at-atari-for-forcing-the-game-off-steam-openttd-as-a-project-retains-its-full-independence-and-you-can-still-get-it-for-free/

Our most popular guest returns as  @ReesRambles  joins us to discuss the latest news surrounding the Myrient mega-archive, the legacy of operating system pioneer Digital Research, and some long-overdue game ports including one from the Sinclair QL of all things. Is reviving Cinemaware titles the retro equivalent of jury duty? Are there enough good Atari Jaguar games to count on two hands? Find out as we bid Chris a temporary farewell in episode 260 of This Week in Retro!

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00:00 - Show Opening

02:16 - Preservation On The High Seas Saved Story Link: https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/385tb-video-game-archive-saved-by-fans-myrient-has-been-100-percent-backed-up-and-validated-torrents-being-generated Additional link: https://www.timeextension.com/news/2026/03/video-game-preservation-archive-myrient-has-been-100percent-backed-up-by-the-community

15:54 - DR DOS Is Back?! Story Link: https://www.dr-dos.com/index.html Additional links: https://github.com/osfree-project/WIN16 https://www.goto10retro.com/p/mac-os-x-25th-anniversary-the-os

35:54 - Housekeeping - News links found below

41:41 - New Old Games Story Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dupt1BE8_b4 Additional link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSUOVXVedrA

54:37 - Community Question of the Week

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News In Brief Links

Compute's Gazette Coverage: https://www.reddit.com/r/thisweekinretro/comments/1rp826s/twir_covered_in_the_march_2026_computes_gazette/

Sonic On The Amiga: https://youtu.be/JDBHzZS2wNQ

Laserdisc Under The Microscope: https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/10/laserdisc_microscope/ TWiR 116 with Shelby: https://youtu.be/S8EJQXRwouI

Hedley Davis Obituary: https://www.daniels-hutchison.com/obituaries/Hedley-Combs-Davis?obId=47519295

Star Wars Apple Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afNsXyAnUTY

Saturn Accelerator: https://retrorgb.com/former-sega-engineer-confirms-saturn-accelerator-was-in-development.html TWiR 183 with Bob and Rees: https://youtu.be/Up7rSvb9F7o

Cookie's Bustle: https://gamehistory.org/cookies-bustle/

Commodore PET Restoration: https://retrohax.net/marchindore-commodore-cbm-3032/

Episode Credits

"Atari Jaguar console" by Easterbilby is licensed under CC BY 2.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/?ref=openverse.

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The legacy of Lucasfilm Games looms large this week. We take on the controversial conclusions surrounding the global "Adventure Game Aptitude Test," which challenged gamers to complete the classic Maniac Mansion in four hours with no context, no documentation, and no hints. In other news we look at the improved access to Lucasarts classics thanks to a DREAMM emulator upgrade, and live vicariously through an outrageous hack to the infamous Sinclair C5. Plus your top picks in tiny software and an all-new Community Question of the Week.

00:00 - Show Opening

02:00 - You’re Not A Failure Story Link: https://www.pcgamer.com/games/adventure/the-worlds-first-standardized-gaming-test-will-see-if-you-can-beat-an-80s-adventure-game-without-a-walkthrough-and-itll-even-monitor-you-over-a-webcam-to-make-sure-you-dont-cheat/

Additional links: https://www.polygon.com/agat-adventure-aptitude-test-pc-adventure-maniac-mansion-guide/ https://theagat.co/ https://www.twitch.tv/new2dinosourxl/video/2710199492

18:03 - Dreaming Of A Galaxy Far Far Away Story Link: https://www.timeextension.com/news/2026/03/lucasarts-emulator-dreamm-adds-support-for-a-bunch-of-old-star-wars-in-major-update

26:18 - Housekeeping - News links found below

34:14 - Sinclair C6… Speed Story Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQsPRrgfnPs 

44:19 - Community Question of the Week

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News In Brief Links

The Crew Unlimited: https://thecrewunlimited.com

PS2 with DVD-RW: https://www.reddit.com/r/thisweekinretro/comments/1rlfdxi/just_wanted_to_share_something/

Development Machine Controversy: https://www.sonicstadium.org/articles/sega/sega-stole-my-consoles-collector-raided-after-buying-stock-from-office-clearout-r3301/

Matthew Lillard On Games: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhvMRw3OPjY

ZX Spectrum Street Fighter 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_HJvjzojZs

Ultima VIII Retrospective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4h1GIw32UU

IBM Training Film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNC0mLsaqz4

All the fun you can squeeze into 64k or less as we look at the international sensation that was Jet Set Willy and the explosion of open-world adventure gaming in 1984. There's even a fully-realised Quake-style FPS available for modern PCs that fits into just 64 kilobytes, or you can code up your own retro memory-resident marvels with the aid of the new Kwyll system or dozens of other open-source development environments. 

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00:00 - Show Opening

01:59 - Let’s Compare Our (Jet Set) Willys Story Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idDsa-fTNPU

19:22 - Retro Coding Roundup Story Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9hpGu1fKHM Additional links: https://indigobeetle.itch.io/santas-lost-and-found

Tprrt's Blog: https://tprrt.tupi.fr/retro-console-game-engines.html

36:06 - Housekeeping - News links found below

42:00 - QUOD Damage! Story Link: https://hackaday.com/2026/02/23/quod-is-a-quake-like-in-only-64kb/ Additional links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qht68vFaa1M

QUOD Download: https://daivuk.itch.io/quod

Quake Brutalist Jam III: https://www.reddit.com/r/thisweekinretro/comments/1r7pz1p/quake_brutalist_jam_iii_released_jan_3rd/

Free Unreal: https://www.reddit.com/r/thisweekinretro/comments/1r44enm/unreal_tournament_2004_is_now_free/

Chris' Unreal Maps: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1oaBzMgV9oFHFpuTDnk4cytHOSdw0vII3?usp=sharing

51:22 - Community Question of the Week

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News In Brief Links

TIE Fighter Total Conversion: https://youtu.be/IZtHOoMsrWs?si=X3S9v4aEJXPDZ03D

FreeDOS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwLIgdRj5bI

MiSTer Floppy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kN8TCz7Z0n8

eXoDemoscene: https://www.retro-exo.com/demoscene.html

GenZ and iPods: https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/02/23/why-gen-z-and-young-adults-are-embracing-ipods-again

Rob Grant obituary: https://www.ganymede.tv/2026/02/rob-grant-rip/

Floating Lemming: https://youtu.be/h-2KyTnxr5E?si=dZFkM8nKew3dyF9I

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"Keep a copy of what's important to you." "Punish your children one day."

With these bullet points (provided by special guest  @RonsCompVids ) in mind, we take a critical look at a Philips CD-i retrospective, discuss a substantial update to the Stop Killing Games movement, and dig into the fundamental right of physical media ownership. We share your top tips to avoid doomscrolling and introduce a new Community Question of the Week: what retro technology would you resuscitate with a one BILLION dollar budget?

00:00 - Show Opening

05:18 - Was The CD-i Doomed From The Start? Story Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNDm13SbX_Q

30:54 - Ross Has Saved Your Game Story Link: https://www.pcgamer.com/games/stop-killing-games-is-launching-ngos-in-the-european-union-and-the-us-were-not-just-going-away-on-this/

48:53 - Housekeeping - News links found below

58:51 - Streaming Is So Last Year Story Link: https://www.whathifi.com/streaming-entertainment/why-ill-never-give-up-my-dvd-collection

01:15:02 - Community Question of the Week

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News In Brief Links

SDF Public Access UNIX: https://connect.sdf.org/

Commercial Availability Of Pre-2010 Games: https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Frflir4u3odkg1.jpeg

THEA1200 Preorder: https://retrogames.biz/products/thea1200/

Dolphin Emulator: https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2026/02/16/rise-of-the-triforce/

Lemmings 35th Anniversary: https://youtu.be/Ulx0WE8KnA4

ATABoy: https://youtu.be/XUmxxTCaCM4

Echo Aviation Controller: https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/pc-gaming/honeycomb-echo-aviation-controller-review 

Games You Missed: https://www.reddit.com/r/thisweekinretro/comments/1rbp5d2/new_column_from_itsmethyroid_games_you_missed/

Giant Macintosh: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/case-mods/computer-history-museum-unveils-comically-large-scale-rendition-of-the-1986-apple-macintosh-plus-towering-all-in-ones-keyboard-looks-disproportionately-huge-today

DJ Slope of  @slopesgameroom  is our guest for this week's dive into the history of shoot 'em up games of all shapes and sizes. In other departments we examine the claim that 1996 changed computing history forever and explore whether handheld retro tech can defeat the modern scourge of doomscrolling. Plus news in classic tech ranging from the Nabu to the CIDCO Mailstation, on Episode 256 of This Week in Retro.

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00:00 - Show Opening

02:23 - Shmups Away Story

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9GFX6lIbeE

20:59 - 1996 Really Was A Big Deal Story

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BM1gXDZsMO0

Additional link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OHkrQYSmtE

38:01 - Housekeeping - News links found below

44:07 - Doomscrolling Defeated

Story Link: https://www.theguardian.com/games/2026/feb/09/how-a-decades-old-video-game-has-helped-me-defeat-the-doomscroll

56:42 - Community Question of the Week

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News In Brief Links

Original GTA Working On PC: https://www.pcgamer.com/games/grand-theft-auto/a-gta-modder-has-got-the-1997-original-working-perfectly-on-modern-pcs-and-steam-deck-and-its-a-joy-to-behold-i-wanted-pick-up-and-play-gta-on-windows-with-the-best-possible-compatibility-without-classic-installation/

BBC WAP: https://youtu.be/CYW0LngZ7v8?si=YP7ne10BFTEEWMyJ

Unreal Tournament: https://www.oldunreal.com/downloads/ut2004/full-game-installers/

Barn Find Nabu: https://glassalmanac.com/2200-vintage-computers-sat-in-a-barn-for-23-years-sold-on-ebay-for-under-e100-each/

Outrun On Apple Watch: https://youtu.be/fAXkovTMOvY?si=JAL8F0wD8y6wrseS

The Last Z80 Mass Market Machine: https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/11/last_z80_machine/

Episode Credits

"File:Amstrad CPC464.jpg" by Bill Bertram is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.5

Parts of "How the Shoot ’Em Up Genre Was Born" courtesy of Pixel Playback

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Parts of "This rare BeBox still works!" courtesy of PCWorld and The Retro Roadshow

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We're gonna need a bigger byte to hold future episodes of This Week in Retro, but the end of the 8-bit era leads off with an exploration of the innovative SCUMM adventure game engine. Originally created by Lucasarts Games for Maniac Mansion, the system went on to be used in major franchises including Sam and Max and Indiana Jones, and is the topic of an upcoming crowdfunded documentary. We also report on some major achievements for retro users of PowerPC Macs and ancient accounting packages, and sift through the 30 year legacy of Duke Nukem 3D and the origins of John Romero's Catacombs 3D.

00:00 - Show Opening

02:15 - Passport To Adventure Story Link: https://adventuregamehotspot.com/announcement/5936/sign-up-available-for-passport-to-adventure-the-scumm-story

DevsQuest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq-am862uRg

15:11 - Herculean Efforts In Retro Story Link: https://lowendmac.com/2026/finally-a-properly-modern-browser-for-powerpc-macs/

Additional Links:  https://dmitrybrant.com/2026/02/01/defeating-a-40-year-old-copy-protection-dongle https://github.com/HarryR/z80ai https://www.pcbway.com/project/shareproject/ATARI_ST_MV16_Sound_Audio_Card_Cartridge_BAT_e1c2ad3a.html

34:03 - Housekeeping - News links found below

42:24 - Hail To The Catacombs Baby Story Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70mZq8bUStw

Catacombs 3D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcUqwMf01pI

52:42 - Community Question of the Week

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News In Brief Links

https://www.timeextension.com/news/2026/02/taitos-1987-outrun-clone-top-speed-makes-its-debut-on-modern-consoles-later-this-week

https://www.bcs.org/articles-opinion-and-research/sir-clive-sinclair-views-on-ai-and-super-intelligence/

https://www.gog.com/redeem/WELCOMEGIFT

https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/you-can-now-view-the-computer-history-museums-collection-from-the-comfort-of-your-own-home-and-its-full-of-retro-blasts-from-the-past/

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/beige-is-back-remembering-the-bbc-micro-with-raspberry-pi-500-plus/

https://www.ukag.org.uk/index.php/2026/01/08/more-info-on-the-june-uk-amstrad-group-meet/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxuvEtgfbPU

After years of uncertainty, the vast and historically significant Atari archives held by the late Curt Vendel have a new home at The Strong National Museum of Play. We hear from Atari chroniclers Kay Savetz and Martin Goldberg about the significance of this new installation and share behind-the-scenes photos. Game design pioneer Mike Singleton gets another day in the sun as a Midwinter remake emerges, and the history of Counter-Strike and player-vs-player mayhem get fresh perspective with a new look at Dust2 map designer Dave Johnston.

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00:00 - Show Opening

02:05 - Who Collects The Collections? Story Link: https://www.museumofplay.org/press-release/the-strong-national-museum-of-play-acquires-atari-home-computer-and-console-division-collection/

Additional links: https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com

14:31 - Take On General ReMastered Story Link: https://midwinter-remaster.titanium-helix.com/index.html

Additional links: http://mercenarysite.free.fr/mercframes_graphic.htm Episode 124 of This Week in Retro, Mercenary remake: https://youtu.be/FaTiRBGMCfI?si=pCbuvWcWcV4gJCbC&t=2430

28:18 - Housekeeping - News links found below

33:16 - n00b or h4x0r? Story Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWWhxfGq_yk

47:32 - Community Question of the Week

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News In Brief Links

Intel 486 motherboard: https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/the-m8sbc-486-is-an-open-source-intel-486-mobo-built-from-scratch-in-under-6-months-the-original-idea-was-to-achieve-linux-and-doom-compatibility-but-it-achieves-far-more-than-that

Speedball 2: https://youtu.be/Mujivih30bc

Native PC ports from PlayStation 2: https://www.timeextension.com/news/2026/01/native-pc-ports-of-ps2-games-could-be-on-the-way-thanks-to-new-recompilation-experiment

Arcade church: https://youtu.be/kPKJyJGucH4

Why Do We Say Sprites?: https://youtu.be/tTqfeJ2yJwE

Amiga 1200 Mini-ITX Alicia: https://youtu.be/NMKiRaLyuD8

The Visible Zorker: https://eblong.com/infocom/visi/

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We celebrate the launch of PicoIDE, the all-in-one replacement for ATAPI CD-ROM and IDE hard drives by welcoming creator Ian Scott (polpo) to the show! Ian personally guides us through the underpinnings of PicoIDE, available for crowdfunding order now. Then we transition to tricky challenges in software preservation through the lens of Little Computer People and Alternate Reality: The City, and wrap up with a discussion on the charms of VHS videotape and CRT display, including the design of the all-in-one TV/VCR combo. We then share your top picks for new tech documentaries before sharing our latest Community Question of the Week!

00:00 - Show Opening

02:52 - High Quality CD Emulation Is Here! The PicoIDE Story Link: https://picoide.com/ Additional link: https://www.crowdsupply.com/polpotronics/picoide

23:35 - Software Preservation Tough Truths Story Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/thisweekinretro/comments/1qhx9z1/is_this_the_only_game_you_cant_really_emulate/ Additional links: https://archive.org/details/apple_ii_library_4am https://www.hvsc.c64.org

46:21 - Housekeeping - News links found below

54:02 - Story Redacted Story Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/thisweekinretro/comments/1qiso5v/a_new_vhs_combo_tv_thats_perfect_for_retro_gaming/ Additional link: https://www.reddit.com/r/thisweekinretro/comments/1qesxv3/retrobox_are_bringing_back_the_vhs_combo_crt_with/

01:05:23 - Community Question of the Week

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News In Brief Links

Amigathon 2026: amigathon.com

EB Aussie Stores News: https://press-start.com.au/news/2026/01/22/a-small-number-of-aussie-eb-games-stores-are-closing-but-theres-no-reason-to-worry/

EB Games Shovels Money Overseas: https://www.channelnews.com.au/real-concerns-as-eb-games-shovels-millions-offshore-as-losses-mount-and-stores-close/

The Retro Hour Interviews Norman Cool (Fatboy Slim): https://youtu.be/1-UOBjJjGuM

Atari ST Mini: https://preview.redd.it/pmh955lbypeg1.png?width=1363&format=png&auto=webp&s=42a33326774858870fe81b32bb06127339c42adc

More Atari ST Mini: https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/atari-st-enthusiast-announces-the-minist-with-fpga-misterynano-core-and-black-tkl-case-priced-at-around-usd400-each-but-the-initial-run-is-a-mere-five-units

New TWIR Viewer Posts Message: https://www.reddit.com/r/thisweekinretro/comments/1qk8xlo/greetings_from_an_avid_watcher_and_twir_fan/

IBM Mwave: https://youtu.be/v1RmAd9iwwA?si=hNymBS4IFxpJJK-g

Australia's rich history of technological innovation gets the spotlight this week as Chris explores The State of Electronics, a channel dedicated to computing Down Under. Jason looks through the history of Leader Board golf and a comprehensive analysis of the "sunset-and-grids" aesthetic which has come to symbolise the 1980s, poking fun at international interpretation of the iconic Trapper Keeper along the way. And a treasure trove of Amiga Format magazines shared on the This Week in Retro subreddit sparks a discussion led by Dave of the golden age of tech publications. We conclude with listener submissions for the best era of Sega and wrap up with a brand new Community Question of the Week.

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00:00 - Show Opening

01:57 - Australian Computer History Docos Story Link: https://www.youtube.com/@StateofElectronics/videos

14:50 - Golf & Grids Story Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_bBkKo8b74

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31:46 - Housekeeping - News links found below

39:25 - Amiga Doormat Story Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/thisweekinretro/comments/1qdulaa/an_unexpected_find_during_my_evening_run_in/

50:02 - Community Question of the Week

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News In Brief Links

Diego 500: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv5Qtoq5rqs

Win 98 NVME Driver: https://youtu.be/YUoJS2xXRmQ

GOG & Linux: https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/its-such-poor-quality-software-gog-owner-criticises-windows-says-it-will-support-linux-better-in-the-future/

Floppy Drive Remote: https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/12/danish_dev_floppy_drive_remote/

Nintendo Virtual Boy: https://youtube.com/watch?v=jW7M8H99x7Y&si=9G2boXwsEB5j17DG

BBC Explains Digital TV: https://youtu.be/pWTvplkBeNM?si=JAd5xzU5C0D8xiK8

Acorn Electron Plus 1 Mini : https://www.tindie.com/products/ramtopretro/plus-1-mini-expansion-for-acorn-electron/

EB Stores in New Zealand To Close: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/584037/all-eb-games-stores-in-nz-to-close-at-end-of-month

It's a bonanza of stand-up arcade feature stories this week. Will Basic Fun! give Arcade1Up a powerful next stage? We also remember the life and career of Sega legend David Rosen and look at the latest in miniature cabinets from My Arcade including Sonic the Hedgehog, Galaga, Pac-Man, and Atari hits. In other news a Sega racer achieves a rare trifecta on the show, the origins of PCMCIA are discussed, and we follow up on Stunt Car (Track) Racer and Freescape from last week's show.

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00:00 - Show Opening

02:15 - Arcade2Up Story Link: https://insider-gaming.com/arcade1up-reportedly-closing-operations-very-soon/

18:18 - Sad Duties To Inform Story Link: https://www.theguardian.com/games/2026/jan/05/sega-co-founder-david-rosen-dies

Additional links: https://bsky.app/profile/playhistory.bsky.social/post/3mbwx2gijrc27 https://memoritree.com/memorial/david-m-rosen https://www.gamedeveloper.com/console/obituary-sega-co-founder-david-rosen-has-passed-away-at-age-95 https://www.replaymag.com/segas-dave-rosen-passes-on-christmas-day-in-l-a/ https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/05/hpux_end_of_life/ https://www.osnews.com/story/144094/hp-ux-hits-end-of-life-today-and-im-sad/

29:46 - Housekeeping - News links found below

39:03 - Is Bigger Better? Story Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0tjYCw4yjM

50:35 - Community Question of the Week

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PicoPCMCIA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-04EoGlayY

GX4000 One Good Game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlfarIWjfGQ

1972 Computer Giveaway: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRc5BXn_SsE

Amiga Mouse Pointers: https://heckmeck.de/pointers/ 

1999 Retro Consoles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3p76ryEb_c

Amiga Sprite Trick: https://www.techeblog.com/amiga-sprite-mechanics-snes-hardware/

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In this milestone 250th episode of This Week in Retro, we celebrate that the more things change, the more they stay the same. A revival of Geoff Crammond's Stunt Car Racer is our top story. That's just the tip of the iceberg in what was a very big week for fans of his game design work. In other news the set-top boxes of the 1990s and early 2000s get another look: the lost treasures of The Sega Channel have been preserved for modern-day Mega Drive/Genesis players, and recent developments have helped WebTV users but hurt those who get their websites from the Sega Dreamcast's PlanetWeb browser. And we remember Stewart Cheifet, the long-time producer and host of The Computer Chronicles.

00:00 - Show Opening

03:07 - Hump Back Is Back Story Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rFJUb7GQyM - Stunt Car Racer Remake on The New Retro Show

16:17 - New Life For Old Browsers Story Link: https://hackaday.com/2025/12/30/microsofts-webtv-is-being-revived-by-fans/

30:37 - Housekeeping - News links found below

38:16 - Cable TV Relics Restored Story Link: https://gamehistory.org/segachannel/

49:38 - Community Question of the Week

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News In Brief Links

Stewart Cheifet obituary: https://computerchronicles.blog/post/stewart-cheifet-1938-2025

Commodore 64 Ultimate experiences: https://www.reddit.com/r/thisweekinretro/comments/1ppdwec/c64u_is_here/

Ben Versteeg passage notice: https://www.reddit.com/r/zxspectrum/comments/1pqubkw/sad_news_good_bye_ben/

Amiga Desktops Worth Seeing: https://www.datagubbe.se/wbshots/

Geoff Crammond F1GP news: https://www.gamespress.com/MicroProse-and-Geoff-Crammond-Reunite-to-Revive-a-Racing-Legend

Mark Moxon's disassembly of Geoff Crammond's The Sentinel: https://github.com/markmoxon/the-sentinel-source-code-bbc-micro

As per tradition, here are some of the unseen bits and out-takes from This Week In Retro in 2025. Audio only listeners, you might get more from this by heading over to the video version on YouTube!

Thanks for watching, your support continues to humble and amaze us. 

We will be back with episode 250 soon. 

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In the last regular show of the year we are joined by Neil and Aaron for a bumper episode. The latest goings-on at Commodore including Commodore 64 Ultimates under the tree and reciprocal trademark challenges, a collection of things to do over the holidays and a look back at how catalogue shopping was a fun way to find your next tech obsession.

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Aaron is part of the team at Amigos Retro Gaming: https://www.youtube.com/@AmigosRetroGaming

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GLYPHIS_IO BBS: The Proxy Tapes 1989: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4179570/GLYPHIS_IO_BBS_The_Proxy_Tapes_1989/

00:00 - Show Opening

06:53 - We’re Still Keeping Up With The Commodore Story Link: https://www.commodore.net/post/press-release C64 Laptop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5QQ0ECfwyE Amiga 40th: https://youtu.be/udrnSDVbbhw

31:40 - Snow Day Diversions Story Link: http://superchartisland.com The Eagle Obsession: http://eagledocumentary.com ReStory Chill Electronic Repairs: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3812600/ReStory_Chill_Electronic_Repairs/

52:16 - Housekeeping - News links found below

58:53 - All I Want For Christmas Story Link: https://christmas.musetechnical.com/ShowCatalogPage/1985%20Sears%20Christmas%20Book/608 Full Catalogue: https://christmas.musetechnical.com/ShowCatalogPage/1985%20Sears%20Christmas%20Book/ Argos Autumn / Winter 1989/1990: https://archive.org/details/argos-autumn-winter-1989-1990/page/n283/mode/2up  1991/92 has some consoles in the toy section on page 338:  https://archive.org/details/argos-autumn-winter-1991-1992/page/n337/mode/2up  Argos Christmas Gifts 1993 - Consoles and games from page 10:  https://archive.org/details/argos-christmas-gifts-1993  Nostalgia Nerd Christmas Catalogues flick through videos:  https://www.youtube.com/@Nostalgianerd/search?query=Argos%20Christmas  Christmas and other vintage TV Adverts at: https://www.youtube.com/@RetroSteveUK  RetroSpectives, he’s just dropped a video called “The 1984 Dixons Catalog - what’s inside?”:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AP4RgB73IGg  My own Christmas Pamphlet Catalog Video (Fresh from last Friday):  https://youtu.be/Ck-RqHRV34M 

01:18:06 - Community Question of the Week

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The Quickshot Joystick: https://retrogames.biz/products/thequickshot-ii/

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An 80s film and game icon has a statue at long last, RAM prices are sky high and not for the first time and the BBC took a look at how CGI was used in the film Tron. 

00:00 - Show Opening

01:53 - Your Move, Statue Creep Story Link: https://www.metrotimes.com/arts/detroit-finally-has-a-robocop-statue/

14:19 - All Of This Has Happened Before, And It Will All Happen Again Story Link: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/12/after-nearly-30-years-crucial-will-stop-selling-ram-to-consumers/ Frontline Scotland: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQDWytFwpYI

26:38 - Housekeeping - News links found below

30:34 - Back To The Grid Story Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zr1QuMnoLvQ Tron Behind The Scenes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tm4i6D3XXBQ Long Tron Doco: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbgHMrLPQrE Hold and Modify: https://www.youtube.com/c/holdandmodify

42:46 - Community Question of the Week

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News In Brief Links

Nick Thorpe Passes: https://bsky.app/profile/retrogamerdaz.bsky.social/post/3m6zkrs5yws2o

UT2004 Revived: https://www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/fan-community-announces-it-will-revive-unreal-tournament-2004-with-epics-blessing-were-doing-this-for-free-because-were-fans-of-the-game-and-we-like-a-challenge/

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa Passes: https://deadline.com/2025/12/cary-hiroyuki-tagawa-dead-mortal-kombat-actor-1236636368/

MD Engine: https://www.reddit.com/r/thisweekinretro/comments/1pd3i1f/md_engine_create_your_own_mega_drive_games/

New Carmageddon Game: https://www.polygon.com/carmageddon-rogue-shift-reveal-trailer-release-date-2026/

Sega Dreamcast Mini: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYF87gt6hAQ

We are joined by Allan (aka Happy Coding ZX) to talk about joysticks, haunted tech and does retrobrighting damage your beloved computers and consoles?

Visit FVResearch.com for all things FujiNet!  Emulate devices such as disk drives, printers and modems plus provide a wireless network interface to a wide range of retro computers.

Please visit https://ko-fi.com/midnightbrew/shop to support Allan and the Movember charity. Changing the face of men's health.

00:00 - Show Opening

05:33 - Joy Of A Decent Stick Story Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4QQDqkVCng

23:19 - Tales Of The Unexplained Story Link: https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2025/01/the-invalid-68030-instruction-that-accidentally-allowed-the-mac-classic-ii-to-successfully-boot-up/ The 1988 Mystery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRHpN53hb34 The Games Machine Issue 09: https://archive.org/details/TheGamesMachineIssue09Aug88/page/n97/mode/2up The Dodleston Messages: https://history.howstuffworks.com/history-vs-myth/dodleston-messages.htm

40:53 - Housekeeping - News links found below

47:28 - Not Too Bright Story Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n_WpjseCXA Macho Nacho Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXhxTtK42A8

59:59 - Community Question of the Week

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News In Brief Links

Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy In Browser: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1g84m0sXpnNCv84GpN2PLZG/the-game-30th-anniversary-edition

Perforated Tape Reader: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/retro-computing-enthusiast-creates-perforated-tape-reader-designed-from-scratch-reads-data-at-about-50-bytes-per-second

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The SEGA Master System ( and Windows ) have reached 40 years old. Microsoft has made Zork open source. We remember the work of Rebecca Heineman.

00:00 - Show Opening

01:37 - Time Waits For No Man - Or Console For That Matter Story Link: https://www.theguardian.com/games/2025/nov/18/sega-master-system-nintendo-entertainment-system  Xbox 360 At 20: https://www.eurogamer.net/xbox360at20

20:30 - 1979 In The Spotlight: Zork Is Now Open Source Story Link: https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11/20/preserving-code-that-shaped-generations-zork-i-ii-and-iii-go-open-source Additional Link: https://blog.zarfhome.com/2025/11/zork-is-open-source BBC Link: https://youtu.be/2df88qJYYnM

38:00 - Housekeeping - News links found below

43:09 - Burger Time - Celebrating The Life Of A True Legend Story Link: https://youtu.be/x8PbLVCMLsw?si=w808z5iiEc2x7fs5&t=1772 Retro Collective Link: https://youtu.be/lPTLPXNtb2I?si=gQH6806ZzSHNCd1w

51:23 - Community Question of the Week

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News In Brief Links

C64 Raycasting FPS:  https://c64universe.com/2025/11/19/grey-commodore-64-fps-game-showcase/

Windows Hits 40: https://www.pcworld.com/article/2979524/microsoft-windows-hits-40-years-old-a-visual-walk-down-memory-lane.html

The Analogue 3D Is Out : https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/11/the-analogue-3d-is-the-modern-n64-fans-have-been-waiting-for/

More On Windows At 40: https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/windows-operating-systems/windows-is-40-today-heres-the-20-best-and-worst-moments-in-windows-history

MET Office Super Computer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7hvHslfS5A

Crash Live 2025 Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSfZwnPiq9HBpQ_0mTwdCp54g4VKgfOa7

We are very pleased to be joined by eXo this week, creator of eXoDOS and more. He is here to talk about the launch of eXoWin9x which is a growing collection of Win 9x games that have been cleverly packaged to run on modern systems.

You can find out all about eXoWin9x here: https://www.retro-exo.com/

We also look back to when nobody was sure about the future of OS/2 and PowerPC. Plus are you sick and tired of racing games only featuring exotic motors? Fancy tearing around the track in your Nan's runaround? Now you can!

Pixel Addict magazine issue 31 is celebrating the Atari ST 40th anniversary with musician John Sohn. Learn about John's defining moments in the pioneering computer's story. Head over to www.addict.media

00:00 - Show Opening

02:25 - eXo Wins Again Story Link: https://www.retro-exo.com/

21:28 - OS/2 And PowerPC Story Link: https://www.tomshardware.com/software/the-worst-selling-microsoft-product-of-all-time-sold-just-11-times-and-eight-people-returned-it-why-youve-never-heard-of-os-2-for-the-mach-20 Why the Original Apple Silicon Failed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tld91M_bcEI OS/2 Museum: https://www.os2museum.com/wp/os2-history/os2-timeline/

36:48 - Housekeeping - News links found below

45:03 - Gran Turismo School Run Story Link: https://www.gamesradar.com/games/gran-turismo/after-26-years-modders-give-ps1-racing-game-classic-gran-turismo-2-the-overhaul-it-deserves-replacing-all-the-race-cars-with-minivans-and-used-car-dealerships/

53:14 - Community Question of the Week

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News In Brief Links

The Spectrum White Edition: https://retrogames.biz/products/thespectrum-collectors-edition/

Codemasters Archive: https://thecodemastersarchive.co.uk/playonline/

Unix Gaming At Retro Computer Festival 2025: https://i.redd.it/9xshlv0nte1g1.jpeg

Steve Furber ARM At 40: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeQn_AJqX54

New Steam Hardware: https://youtu.be/odAibuffNnA?si=eicgBH_cfcW0zW3T

SDK For C64 Development In C# and .NET: https://retroc64.github.io/

OpenFLops: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KomxgozMiY

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Dave is very excited because there have been a number of new games for the Amstrad CPC recently. Jason has been watching a very large and heavy hard drive spinning up. Chris has spent the past week in a galaxy far far away with some old space based games.

00:00 - Show Opening

02:44 - New Amstrad Games Story Link: https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=105245 Sonic GX - https://norecess464.weebly.com/news/sonic-gx-is-now-available-for-download Bugs Quest 2 - https://yb-software.itch.io/bugs-quest-2 Amstrad Eterno X - https://capasoft.itch.io/amstrad-eterno-x Speed Racer - https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=19817 Svellas - https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=19816 Dia De Los Muertos - https://vitop69.itch.io/la-dias-dos-muertos Hexapucchu - https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=19300 Secret of Anubis - https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=19174

21:29 - Macrocomputing Monsters! Story Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpC_9EmStAE Bendix G-15: https://www.reddit.com/r/thisweekinretro/comments/1opwtve/bendix_g15_the_oldest_working_computer_in_north/ Can This Be Fixed (Chaplet Halikan LA-30A): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BilLgXkR_Kw&t=1s

37:42 - Housekeeping - News links found below

44:03 - One Small Step, One Giant Video Story Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z46EJUAIdTM

56:57 - Community Question of the Week

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News In Brief Links

Vectrex Mini: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1852390947/vectrex-mini

UK Gov Debates Games: https://www.eurogamer.net/concords-sudden-shutdown-is-such-a-big-deal-its-been-brought-up-during-uk-government-debates-on-video-game-consumer-laws

Unix V4 9 Track Tape: https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/07/unix_fourth_edition_tape_rediscovered/

C128 Stuntcar Racer: https://youtu.be/C7kgYlKhTgo?si=UpFFu0LBkihvv4VZ

Outrun Amiga Sprite Scaling: https://youtu.be/O_QP2qQJuXc?si=MgbF7lchxESx7UsW

Family Computing Interviews Jack Tramiel: https://computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/family-computing-interviews-jack

The Sound Blaster name is back with something a bit different, does it sound like a good idea? The Commodore C16 gets a new version of Green Beret and did you enjoy MODtober?

Pixel Addict. I never can get enough. Pixel Addict. Never can give it up, oh oh, no oh. https://www.addict.media/

00:00 - Show Opening

02:17 - A Blast From The Past Story Link: https://www.techspot.com/news/110078-creative-revives-iconic-sound-blaster-brand-modular-audio.html

24:35 - Fight On, TED! Story Link: https://arlagames.itch.io/green-beret-c16

40:18 - Housekeeping - News links found below

46:20 - MODtober Story Link: https://sonicstate.com/news/2025/04/29/why-old-computers-your-thoughts/ H0ffman Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFL-EKU6hI3rqzQ0cQwzM2FhZWgt7-9f- Exploring Turbosynth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4La4VL8Jvv0

59:20 - Community Question of the Week

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News In Brief Links

FujiNet: https://fujinet.online/

Day Of The Tenticle Intro Remake: https://youtu.be/2LYPfMBie9Y?si=6py4l7hCcFIwjJ1R

Pacman Halloween Google Doodle: https://doodles.google/doodle/pac-man-halloween-2025-edition/

DIY DECD Mini: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLdEn2B49mk

James Pond Collection: https://www.timeextension.com/news/2025/10/james-pond-is-getting-his-own-collection-on-pc-ps5-xbox-and-switch-2

ZX80 Documentary: https://youtu.be/_9v5jecL1S0?si=RB8Hs_E7y6sxTHym