This Week in Retro
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This Week in Retro
A weekly roundup of the hottest stories from the world of retro gaming and computing, voted on by you, the listener! Hosted by Chris from 005 AGIMA, Jason from The Retro Adventurers and Dave. Edited by Duncan Styles.
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The High Cost Of Computing - This Week In Retro 239
A hour or so of retro computing chat including: How dare you diss the Amstrad CPC! Roger Dean talks about his work with Psygnosis. Do you really think...
The Pi500+ Looks Yummy - This Week In Retro 238
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The Raspberry Pi 500 returns upgraded! Jordan Mechner posts about the many P...
Which Way Is Up? - This Week In Retro 237
We are joined by Andy from the Big Car and Little Car YouTube channels today to talk about Dungeons and Dragons, inverted flight controls and how the...
Massive Vintage Computer Festival - This Week In Retro 236
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Jason has his report and some footage from Vintage Computer Festival Midwest...
Commodore Datasette But Tiny - This Week In Retro 235
Our first guests for quite some time are Taylor and Amy from The Taylor and Amy show. They join us to talk about BASIC, a teeny tiny replacement for t...
SID Tunes Better Than Arcade? - This Week In Retro 234
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First the floppy and now the optical, can disks survive? The Texas I...
Setting TheA1200 Record Straight & Win 95 Is 30 - This Week In Retro 233
The Vectrex mini and TheA1200 are two new pieces of gaming hardware that are on their way. We talk about the Commodore 128, did it make it onto your r...
The Best of Tech’s Worst & New Retro Games - This Week In Retro 232
The Settlers II is finally coming to the Amiga but you'll need a beefy setup to get it running. The Spectrum has a fantastic looking platformer called...
AOL Hangs Up - This Week In Retro 231
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America Online is hanging up on its dial-up service. Hexen and Heretic are r...
Three-Commodore Salute! - This Week In Retro 230
Yes, its another show with Commodore in the title but things are happening! The original D&D megadungeon has returned...again! Do you remember the cre...
The Commodore Amiga Turns 40 - This Week In Retro 229
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Put on your party hats and prepare the party poppers for it is time to celeb...
The Next Spectrum Next - This Week In Retro 228
Issue Three of the Spectrum Next computer smashed its Kickstarter goal in mere hours, and brings some important upgrades!Just how naughty are pre-load...
Keeping Up With A Commodore! - This Week In Retro 227
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Find out which one of us has ordered the new Commodore 64 Ultimate! How did...
Retro Upgrade Updates and Remembering Psygnosis - This Week In Retro 226
Hello and welcome to this week's look at retro computing and gaming goodness. eXoIF is a new release that contains almost 900 interactive fiction titl...
Who Owns Commodore & Outrunning The Stig - This Week In Retro 225
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Back with a longer than usual show this week but we have three great topics...
Check and Mate! - This Week In Retro 224
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ChatGPT makes excuses as to why an Atari 2600 beat it at chess. Wing Command...
Happy Birthday ATARI ST - This Week In Retro 223
Join us as we talk about the Atari ST as it turns 40 years old! The Dolphin emulator gets an update and GOG puts its cards on the table regarding game...
Star Wars: X-Wing Gets An Upgrade - This Week In Retro 222
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Delve into the making of Myst and its sequels. Check out the amazing work on...
Hot Tubs & Car Phones - This Week In Retro 221
Back to the 80s where everyone had a Filofax and wore power suits! Remember how some coders wanted to be rock-stars? How can you spot a fake coding bo...
Half A Century Of Type-Ins - This Week In Retro 220
We are joined by James (WhatHoSnorkers) to discuss a new video that shows how DMA Design reinvented the puzzle game, to remember the computerised Rale...
Video Games Aren’t Real, They Can’t Hurt You! - This Week In Retro 219
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Have you ever played an online game and found no other users? Have you ever...
Was 2000 The Best Year For Gaming? - This Week In Retro 218
Thank you for joining us once again for another look at some up to date news for out of date tech. Jason joins us and has selected a story about distr...
Outrun On The Big Telly - This Week In Retro 217
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Outrun is getting a movie, an Australian arcade is closing its doors and can...
Super Fast Win 98 Install - This Week In Retro 216
Bill Gates predicted the online future way back in 1993, how much did he get right? Was the first 3D game made in 1992? And what if you could install...
16-Bit Demakes & OS Updates - This Week In Retro 215
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Jason from The Retro Adventurers joins us again today and tells us all about...
Chiptune Heaven - This Week In Retro 214
A chiptunes documentary, a top ten list of influential games that seems a bit dodgy and ten seems to be the idea age to want to go back to. We are joi...
Atari Shock - This Week In Retro 213
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A bit of a thing broke out about the different way the US sees gaming histor...
4 Tales Of Retro Woe - This Week In Retro 212
This week we are joined by Jason Compton from The Retro Adventurers to talk about four retro projects that may have hit hard times, how the loss of on...
Retro Tech Up In Smoke - This Week In Retro 211
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Is your Super Nintendo (SNES) speeding up? (yes, it is.) Windows 3 can now u...
The Next Episode - This Week In Retro 210
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Did you miss out on the Spectrum Next? You might get another chance! Want to...
He's Back! - This Week In Retro 209
We are joined by Lee from More Fun Making It! Retro gaming and computing chat about such things as how some publishers have got things a bit wrong rec...
Y2K With A Vengeance - This Week In Retro 208
Neil and Dave love a bit of Ultima and there are two news stories related to that very series in this week's show. Can AI really be trusted to faithfu...
Romantic Robots - This Week In Retro 207
The hidden tale of the Game Wizard for the SNES leads us to reminisce about Romantic Robot's Multiface devices. More youngsters are looking to disconn...
Top Gear’s Top Retro Racers - This Week In Retro 206
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Top Gear have published their list of 50 top racers, do we agree? 40 years a...
The Beatles Had a Text Adventure Game!? - This Week In Retro 205
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Did you know that the songs of the Beatles inspired a text adventure game? L...
Forget About Doom - This Week In Retro 204
We are joined by MeanMachineDean this week! Putting Doom aside what are the best FPS games of the 1990s? It's bye bye Blu Ray (sort of). The launch of...
Hard Core MiSTer - This Week In Retro 203
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The 3DO is coming to MiSTer. Could this be the last big system before we nee...
New FPGA Consoles - This Week In Retro 202
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Amigathon 2025 is today! Help our friends raise money by playing old games:...
How Big Is Too Big? (CRT TVs) - This Week In Retro 201
For the first episode of 2025 we take a look at some of the BBC's Tomorrows World predictions from 30 years ago. What did they get right and wrong. We...
The Super Sega Saga - This Week In Retro 200
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Episode 200 is a bumper show with the return of occasional host Chris and sp...