This Week in Retro

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 Amigathon 2025 is today! Help our friends raise money by playing old games: https://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.participant&participantID=548758 For a brief time game some game installers felt like they were part of the game. Is it possible to port Outrun to the (not so) humble Amiga? The new MiSTer proj...

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 talk about how video game history can be different depending upon which angle you look at it. Then finally it's all about the CRT TV and would you want a monster of a set in your home? All this and more retro tech news in Dave's Briefs and we set a...

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 Episode 200 is a bumper show with the return of occasional host Chris and special guest Aaron from Amigos Retro Gaming. Some of this week's topics are FPGA or real hardware, the Supersega saga and a 68000 Amiga port of Carmageddon. Please check out everything Amigos Retro Gaming has to offer at: www.youtube.com/@AmigosRetroGaming...

A clever coder has created what is surely the fastest, smoothest and most impressive racer for the Atari STE. Indiana Jones has a new game out but lets not forget the old ones. Watching people play games is getting more popular but why and is it really a new thing? Issue 25 of Pixel Addict magazine is ready to order! Fantasy World Dizzy is arguably the most iconic game the Oliver Twins and Codemas...

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 What does your retro computing area look like? What is the best gaming computer of all time? How did the BBC of 1995 go about informing us of new tech? All this and more is discussed with special guest Iain Lee. You can find all of Iain's stuff here: https://www.iainlee.com/ https://www.youtube.com/iainlee https://www.twitch.tv/tl...

The beige PC is back! What started as a joke has become reality. A Windows developer has shared some secrets on how the Win 95 installer did things behind the scenes. An article about the fall of Game as a high street retailer leaves us wondering if games will ever be available as they once were. All this and more retro computing news plus the Community Question Of The Week. Issue 25 of Pixel Addi...

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 As Half Life 2 celebrates its 20th anniversary with a special edition we also talk about the remastered Warcraft 1,2 and 3 offering from Blizzard which leads to some RTS chat. An article about how Dragon's Lair financially crippled a player 40 years ago who has now beaten the game prompts us to think about games we just walked awa...

Just how do you keep track of all the new SEGA Mega Drive / Genesis games? Join us as we take a look at a website that aims to do just that. We are joined by Allan aka Happy Coding ZX who tells us all about Midnight Brew Games and the special ZX Spectrum game compilation. We also check out an article on Ireland's retro scene and there is an interesting documentary about game musician Chris Huelsbe...

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 Speedball is taking another shot at the goal, this time with Rebellion at the helm. Exo is going to bring together all PC demos. We talk about text adventures. 00:00 - Show Opening 04:48 - Bitmap Brothers Revisited Story Link: https://metro.co.uk/2024/10/29/a-classic-90s-amiga-video-game-getting-unexpected-reboot-steam-today-21886...

The Amstrad online museum is open for business! We took a quick look and it bought back some CPC memories. The US Copyright Office has hindered game preservation but will it make much of a difference in the long run? Finally a simple Elite 2 video seems to have struck a cord with lots of gamers. Pixel Addict magazine sponsors this episode. Visit www.pixel.addict.media to see the latest issue which...

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 Dave is a little under the weather this week so Chris steps up. We look back at Sega Rally, did it change driving games 30 years ago?  The C64 is getting a Street Fighter 2 conversion, its looking fast and playable but does it retain all the right components? Worms has been a hit since it first appeared  and the original developer...

We return to find that your PC will be able to emulate an Xbox, that a rare Microprose arcade cabinet has been restored ( and is quite excellent ) and we check out a report that asks why some games age better than others. We also have news of a special Atari focused magazine which may or may not have been officially announced when you read this...we don't know. If you like our podcast then it is q...

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 Strange show title this week but please stick with it! Neil is back full time! And who is this joining him and Dave? It's Chris! This week they look at Jaguar emulation on the iPhone, a list of 10 greatest gaming innovations ( and come up some more ) and ponder what will happen now that WinAmp's source code was posted to GitHub. A...

Elite is 40 and to celebrate some source code has been shared. Fancy a job at Sega looking after its history? A PS2 gets a stunning restoration. Neil drops by to chat to Dave and Rees about this week's retro computing stories. Once again thank you Rees for stepping up and helping us out while Neil was away. Rees has a lot of retro content, please visit https://ctrl-alt-rees.com/ for all the info....

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 We are joined by Ben from Plaion, the people who bought you the Atari 2600+ and the forthcoming 7800+. We talk about cartridge gaming, get some info on the new Atari consoles and wonder what could be next from Atari. Do you worry about being fooled by fake cartridge games on sale in stores which may not know how to spot a fake? Th...

This week we are joined by Richard from Heber Ltd. to talk about a video that shows life behind the scenes at id Software and the ITX Llama, a machine built for 90s gaming. We also discover the origin of the Dongle! The new issue of Pixel Addict has a big feature on the classic game Duck Tales. With info and interviews on how this hugely successful game came to be. Visit https://www.pixel.addict.m...

🛠 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 figures and discover that there a well timed YouTube video that talks about that very subject. Be sure to check out Jason's videos here: https://w...

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 answers. You read Pixel Addict on the move, right? The history of luggable and portable computers is fascinating. The cover story this month takes a lo...

🛠 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 popular, video on UK TV show Gamesmaster.  There is a new version of Doom on the way and an old word processing friend has returned. Please check out R...

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 break. There are more retro computing news nuggets in Dave's Briefs and the Community Question Of The Week.   Bob asks that you please visit htt...

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 SEGA helped NVIDIA become what it is today and wonder if a CRT running at crazy refresh rates is the best option for modern gaming. All this and many more snippets of news in brief a...

🛠 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 anniversary. All this and more retro computing topics plus your answers to our Community Question Of The Week. 00:00 - Show Opening 11:40 - Codemaste...

🛠 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. All this and the Community Question Of The Week where we ask you for your opinion.  00:00 - Show Opening 04:50 - eXoDOS Rocks Story Link: https...

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 Community Question Of The Week answers plus other retro computing and gaming news in brief. Visit http://pixel.addict.media/ for your copy of Pi...

🛠 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 even closer to the arcade original. How much money have you wasted on Steam games you have never played? All this and more retro gaming news plus t...