June 29, 2024

Cleaning Dirty Floppy Disks - This Week In Retro 177

1 hour 18 minutes

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 computing news along with the Community Question Of The Week.

00:00 - Show Opening

06:32 - Jonesing For Indiana Jones

Story Link: https://youtu.be/VGgshWvrH2g?si=ycTRmQVP2urBDcuy

Additional Link: https://mixnmojo.com/features/sitefeatures/Indiana-Jones-and-the-Iron-Phoenix-The-Lost-Sequel-to-Fate-of-Atlantis/1

26:36 - Du Du , Du Du , Du Du Du Du (Shark)

Story Link: https://www.remindmagazine.com/article/15694/jaws-arcade-video-game-killer-shark-atari-sega-electromechanical/

40:52 - Dave's Housekeeping

Links to stories mentioned found at the end of this text.

58:18 - Clean That Dirty Floppy!

Story Link: https://youtu.be/mqdionqLqqs?si=7DZ--gzpHuuiWIHM

01:07:33 - Community Question of the Week

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Episode Credits

"What is this Crazy Contraption!?" Courtesy of RobSmithDev

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

Dave's Briefs Links

Pete Davison Blog: https://angryjedi.wordpress.com/2024/06/23/oneaday-day-16-the-youth-of-yesterday/

Mark Fixes Stuff: https://youtu.be/6H4BY21mjxg?si=tbZvmrzu-RE2aT3n

Count Binface: https://youtu.be/F7LVGRQltFo?si=cXZa9ZG6GEu6kcbo

Psion: https://www.abortretry.fail/p/of-psion-and-symbian

Dune II Amiga Remaster: https://www.timeextension.com/news/2024/06/the-amiga-is-getting-a-dune-ii-remaster-from-one-of-the-original-developers

Bruce Gordon Passes Away: https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2F4g703tylb67d1.png

Pocket386: https://liliputing.com/pocket-386-is-a-mini-laptop-for-retro-computing-with-support-for-dos-and-windows-95/

Lunar Lander Bug: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/06/retired-engineer-discovers-55-year-old-bug-in-lunar-lander-computer-game-code/

Lynn Conway Passes Away: https://hackaday.com/2024/06/14/rip-lynn-conway-whose-work-gave-us-vlsi-and-much-more/

Archive.org: https://www.reddit.com/r/thisweekinretro/comments/1diaea8/archiveorgs_massive_collection_of_pirated/

Nintendo Sheet Music: https://en.softonic.com/articles/nintendo-against-sheet-music-their-war-against-piracy-has-reached-the-point-where-even-arrangements-of-their-songs-cannot-be-made?ex=RAMP-2046.2

The Captain Blood Story: https://www.eurogamer.net/the-story-of-captain-blood-the-atari-st-classic-in-which-you-track-down-and-murder-your-clones-five-times

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

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