World-first reveal! Tony Smales (ex-Melbourne House) gives a tour of never-released pinball Arcade Wizzard for Commodore 64! Plus: definitive overview of the Sega Dreamcast, and home PC shopping in 1998.
youtu.be/ThWzhOzD8BI and be sure to check @gamesthatwerent.com for more on Tony's attic disks!
Jason Timmons of VCF Midwest and Chicago Classic Computing show-and-tell: a rare Quazon Quik-Link 300 home teletext terminal and last-minute product engineering. (Atari 400 catches a stray for good measure as well!)
Just a sample of Saturday's latest news for the oldest tech!
This week's guest quietly built Vintage Computer Festival Midwest into the world's largest annual retro computing event. It's the end for the revived Checkmate Amiga case, surprising differences in teletext around the world, and a look at the "overrated?" Amiga 500 Batman Pack. youtu.be/ZPsifCcF-H4
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Dave's on new hardware watch this week. (We told you he's fine.) Also, cat.
See you Saturday!
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Exclusive hardware news caps a retro kit roundup this week: news of a MiSTer handheld from Heber plus PicoCPC, PicoIDE, and PicoGUS updates. Then we look closer at reimagined Atic Atac and Wolfenstein 3D, and explore wonderful, novel operating systems in the Virtual OS Museum.
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Just what does returning guest @iainlee.com think we've done to deserve this? Enjoy our modern radio show which you can also watch like television with a real-life media professional when This Week in Retro 271 arrives Saturday!
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Tech hidden in plain sight! The brand-new Swap Arcade and the Minty Cyberdeck palmtop. Plus Australia's MicroBee, the retro-tech Eurovision entry of LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER, host milestones, 3D conversions of classic games, new POKEY hope for Atari and more!
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Welcoming back guest @iainlee.com after too long away, we revisit Nintendo's too-brief run of mini consoles, explore the surprises buried in Microsoft NetMeeting's 30th anniversary, and find out what made an octogenarian game dev settle unfinished business.
Episode 271 out now! youtu.be/GSRXr9LRq9Q
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Three huge Commodore 64 recoveries now live on GTW! After a 22 year search, Arcade Wizzard has finally been found + preserved. Joining it are a prototype of Aussie Games and unreleased full game of Void.
Huge thanks to Tony Smales + @thisweekinretro.bsky.social
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