May 25, 2024

Automatic Nintendo For The People - This Week In Retro 172

1 hour 6 minutes

You think that Doom killed the Amiga right? Maybe not. What if you could recompile any N64 game to run on any system? The Ghostbusters finally get to bust ghosts on the BBC.

All this and more in your weekly retro computing show.

We are sponsored by Pixel Addict magazine and the latest issue is now available from https://www.pixel.addict.media/ It's main feature is about classic games that used current events (at the time) as inspiration.

00:00 - Show Opening

07:08 - The Amiga Is Dead

Story Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsADJa-23Sg

24:57 - Executing The N64

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

36:32 - Dave's Housekeeping

Vox Orion's Message: https://www.reddit.com/r/thisweekinretro/comments/1cvn0oj/what_does_this_week_in_retro_mean_to_you/

CEX AMA: https://www.timeextension.com/news/2024/05/random-former-cex-staffer-holds-reddit-ama-and-the-first-question-is-a-doozy

Apple Lifts Emulation Ban: https://www.techradar.com/phones/a-new-retro-gaming-app-has-landed-on-ios-and-it-can-emulate-38-different-consoles

FPGA Discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/thisweekinretro/comments/1crnbkq/about_daves_distinction_between_fpga_and_sofware/

Pac Man Birthday: https://www.internationaldays.co/event-kids/pac-man-birthday/r/recr4y9ulVQ4uY3o4

Spectrum Pac Man RX: https://happycodingzx.itch.io/pacman-rx

Lemmings Dance Track: https://youtu.be/4n4pk9uWfiU?si=q6vBr0Lcw11Ppv7A

OutRun AGA: https://youtu.be/CLaedlbr4wg?si=oX6VPXX1vmOSZv0z

Goodbye 4:3: https://youtu.be/Z7Ngusj_3w8?si=Z6opZY4qHyWZnVAn

Atari Music Video: https://www.timeextension.com/features/most-of-my-engineers-were-stoned-nolan-bushnell-on-the-failure-of-atari-video-music

Rob Smith DiskFlashBack: https://youtu.be/zFYf9jhp3bs?si=19e34Cvr78RcEQVH

First Type-In Program: https://www.reddit.com/r/thisweekinretro/comments/1csm5ze/the_first_computer_game_typein_is_49_today/

50:24 - Who Ya Gonna Call? The BBC!

Story Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/thisweekinretro/comments/1ctazcw/fanmade_port_of_ghostbusters_to_the_bbc_micro/

56:26 - Community Question of the Week

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This Week in Retro is a weekly roundup of the hottest stories from the world of retro gaming and computing, voted on by you, the listener! Hosted by Neil from RMC and Dave. Edited by Duncan Styles.

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By Chris from 005 AGIMA, Jason from The Retro Adventurers, Dave and Duncan Styles

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