August 02, 2023

Game & Gadget Podcast #29 – Atari ST Nostalgia, Pink Genies & More…

1 hour 6 minutes

I am joined by Aaron Fothergill previously from Argonaut Games and now with Shifty Eye Games, Steve Ince who is an artist, game designer and writer working on games from Revolution Software such as Broken Sword and also a new guest to our podcast Rees from YouTube channel ctrl-alt-rees as we discuss more gaming, gadgets and technology both retro and modern.

Topics include:

Steve Ince discusses his retirement from gaming work

What games Steve has been playing now he has a little more time

Steve releasing yet more books!

The pain of the developer crunch time

Life as ctrl-alt-rees and his fascination with Atari

Atari ST and the MIDI capabilities

Computers for homework *cough* games!

Homework on an Acorn Archimedes A3010 and dot matrix printers

Atari ST and 32 person strong multiplayer games with MIDI connections

The horror when you realise what you have thrown away, and then it becomes valuable

Steve’s computer journey

Taking a high quality scan, reducing to 128 colours for PC, reducing to 32 colours for Amiga

A changing colour pixel for a convincing ‘blink’

Broken Sword on the Nintendo Wii

Rise of the Triads and the music of Lee Jackson

The ever growing retro community

Robin Williams suing Disney and the risk of the colour blue

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Original post link: Game & Gadget Podcast #29 – Atari ST Nostalgia, Pink Genies & More…, created by James Woodcock.

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Original post link: Game & Gadget Podcast #29 – Atari ST Nostalgia, Pink Genies & More…, created by James Woodcock.

For even more content, visit Pixel Refresh - Retro Gaming & Modern Tech.

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