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New Consoles For Everyone - This Week In Retro 186
Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! Jason from Mr Lurch's Things joins us for a bumper edition to talk about a bunch of new old consoles that are coming our way shortly. We wonder just how accurate are the Commodore sales f
Commodores Are Burning Hot! - This Week In Retro 185
Fan favourite Chris is back to bring his views on a new book all about classic arcade games, to find out just how cool the C64 really is and how good old MS Paint has seen off its intended successor.All this and the Community Question Of The Week answer
Golden Joysticks Ahoy! - This Week In Retro 184
Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! This is This Week In Retro (TWIR), your weekly show about retro (vintage) computing.Dave and Rees are joined by David from RoseTintedSpectrum this week to talk about his own, very popula
What Was Your First GUI? - This Week In Retro 183
Bob from RetroRGB joins us this week to talk SEGA Mega Drive/Genesis games, our memories of early GUIs and a Game Boy with a CRT screen which is still portable but VERY battery hungry. Once again Ctrl-Alt-Rees steps in to cover for Neil while he is on his
NVIDIA Bailed Out By SEGA!? - This Week In Retro 182
It's This Week In Retro, your weekly round up of news for old ( and sometimes not so old ) computers, consoles and games. This week we look back at some of the stand out loading screens from the Atari ST, find out how SAGA helped NVIDIA become what it is
The Codemasters Archive Returns - This Week In Retro 181
Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! Think you know all of the Codemasters games? Why not use the Codemasters Archive to find out? Japan is preserving video games. The MIDI music of Tie Fighter is celebrated on its 30th anni
Retro Game Dev Reborn - This Week In Retro 180
Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! This week we learn about eXoDOS, discover that an old name from gaming history has been reborn and ponder why teens are so addicted to gaming in a way that older players may not have been
Microsoft Calls Time On Xbox 360 - This Week In Retro 179
The BBC went to visit DMA in Dundee. Microsoft is shutting the Xbox 360 store, has it had its time? With the recent video detailing the making of Syndicate by Bullfrog we wonder if that was the first game where you played as the bad guy? All this and your
The Amiga's Final Fight? - This Week In Retro 178
Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! Clint has been LGRing for 15 years, how many more until he is considered retro? The Amiga is getting another new version of Final Fight, this time using clever copper techniques to get ev
Cleaning Dirty Floppy Disks - This Week In Retro 177
Wouldn't it be great if there was a machine to clean your old and dirty floppy disks? Now there is! Footage from a cancelled Indiana Jones game has surfaced. Did you ever want to play that shark arcade game seen in the movie Jaws? All this and more retro