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You can now play DOS games on your Steam Deck, yay! The good old film camera seems to be making a bit of a comeback and as Half-Life hits its 25th anniversary it gets an official update. Three very different stories this week. 

All that and some other news in brief as well as the Community Question Of The Week.

00:00 - Show Opening

11:33 - Selfie On The Shelfie

28:43 - Dos Deck

42:29 - Dave's Housekeeping

47:29 - Half-Life Of Half-Life

01:02:05 - Community Question of the Week

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Doom and Doom II remade for the Atari Jaguar, a discussion about image scalers for retro gaming and do you know what Commodore's 2nd computer actually was? 

All that and the Atari 2600+, news in brief and the Community Question Of The week.

The Christmas edition of Pixel Addict is now available and it features stories about Christmas games and toys of old(ish). With interviews with various members of staff of the magazines we loved back in the day and there is even an insight into how the Argos catalogue was put together. Visit www.pixel.addict.media

00:00 - Show Opening

08:21 - Are The Jaguar & Spectrum Both Doomed?

23:00 - The Scale Of Retro

37:34 - Dave's Housekeeping

48:17 - Checkmate Commodore

59:00 - Community Question of the Week

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Episode Credits

Parts of "Commodore Cave CHESSmate" courtesy of Commodore Cave

Twitter post for mixed reality BBC Micro courtesy of Dominic Pajak

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The gang is all back together again and this week they chat about the huge reduction in prices of graded games, the open source Dungeon Keeper remake/expansion which has hit v1 and how an intrepid developer is implementing a BBC micro using a Quest 3 and AR or is that XR? We aren't quite sure.

All of this and the Community Question Of The Week. Plus a look, in brief, at some of the other stories you suggested we cover this week.

00:00 - Show Opening

06:13 - What Goes Up Must Come Down

24:37 - Dungeons Are Back For Keeps

35:15- Dave's Housekeeping

42:09 - XR AR BBC

57:05 - Community Question of the Week

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We return after a week away with a fantastic guest in Iain Lee, he has launched his own retro podcast called Random Access Memories which he tells us all about as well give his thoughts on this week's retro computing stories.

Those stories are the unveiling of a release roadmap by Retro Games which includes the much anticipated full size version of their The A500 (dubbed the Maxi while we wait for the official name). We also find out that the Pope is backing a scheme to encourage people to get coding! Finally, there is a report which suggests that current efforts towards game preservation are failing!

All this and more including the Community Question Of The Week.

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10:19 - Full Sized Minis

31:06 - Code With Pope

42:19 - Dave's Housekeeping

45:52 - Torching The Legacy

55:32 - Community Question of the Week

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The PiStorm is coming to the Atari ST, joining the Amiga with the high spec/low cost CPU accelerator. Special guest Mark Fixes Stuff joins us this week to talk about that and our other stories. They are, how did we survive before Google came along and can playing a game really cause you harm? Things get a little spooky in this (very loosely) Halloween edition of your favourite retro show. 

We also read out your answers to this week's Community Question and quickly look at a few other stories in Dave's Housekeeping.

We are sponsored by Pixel Addict magazine. Issue 15 is the latest available and in it you will find a history of Lemmings, an interview with Neo Byte Force (creators of Neo Geo games) and a look at the Commodore SX-64. Visit www.pixel.addict.media for more details.

You can see more of Mark Fixes Stuff on his channel: https://www.youtube.com/@MarkFixesStuff

00:00 - Show Opening

03:18 - How Did We Survive Before Google?

23:48 - A Storm Of Atari

39:52 - Dave's Housekeeping

47:37 - Can A Game Kill You?

01:05:19 - Community Question of the Week

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Rees joins us to find out if the Last Exterminator is able to hold a candle to Duke Nukem. We are used to restoring the plastics on our retro computers but what about the metal shielding? Would you touch an iMac G3? Some people did.

All that and our Community Question Of The Week and a look at some of the other stories you posted on our Reddit page.

00:00 - Show Opening

04:54 - Duchess Nukem 3D

16:09 - Nickel Plating

23:31 - Dave's Housekeeping

29:20 - iTouch a Mac

45:18 - Community Question of the Week

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We have a special guest this week as Tony from OzRetrocomp returns to chat about retro media bought about by an awesome basement video collection which has been designed to replicate video stores of the 1980/90s. We take a look at a recreation of a very old arcade game called Computer Space, a game you can play via emulation if you wish. Finally, was the original PlayStation the top of the class for playing CDs? Some claim its audio output is up there with tech costing much more.

All this and more with our Community Question Of The Week.

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We are sponsored by Pixel Addict magazine, the latest issue is now on sale. The feature article is all about pixel art with contributions from gaming industry artists.  Available in the UK in WHSmiths and world wide via the website www.pixel.addict.media 

05:39 - Basement Blockbuster Buster

28:41 - Computer Space Replica

50:03 - Sony PlayStation in Stereo

01:08:49 - Community Question of the Week

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Retro gaming is becoming more popular on YouTube, is this just because more people use it or is there an underlying trend there? Did you know that blank cassette tapes are still being made? Do you miss what was for many of us the first portable music format we used? We were dared to watch a terrible film which uses gaming as a method of brainwashing the masses, we did this so you don't have to!

All this and the Community Question Of The Week.

00:00 - Show Opening

09:47 - Retro Tube

24:56 - UR How Old Now?

50:18 - G7VFY Owes Me A Beer

1:07:45 - Community Question of the Week

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Which games came with your retro computer? We talk about some we remember. Dave has taken a look at what Septandy is. Finally, a clever individual has managed to improve the 3D visuals of the N64 by using a technique which wasn't used in its heyday.

All this plus our Community Question Of The Week.

We are sponsored by Pixel Addict! The 6 weekly digital culture magazine currently has issue 15 on sale (back issues are also available).

If you are an Amstrad CPC fan and even if you aren't you may like to check out the one off special Amstrad Addict magazine which contains an interview with Lord Alan Sugar himself.

Both Pixel Addict and Amstrad Addict is available from www.pixel.addict.media

00:00 - Show Opening

09:07 - Pack It In

26:20 - Septandy Is Septover

39:12 - Housekeeping and other stories

46:24 - Tried And MegaTextured

55:57 - Community Question of the Week

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We are back to take a look at how a Sky Skipper cab, apparently the rarest of the Nintendo arcade machines, has been recreated. One of the latest space based games has a knowing nod to the grand daddy of all space games, we mean Starfield and Elite. Finally there is a great show from the 1990s called Computer Chronicles which took a look at flight sims of the era. It is up on YouTube for all to see and is well worth a watch.

All this and our Community Question Of The Week!

00:00 - Show Opening

12:50 - Skipping Across The Sky

30:07 - Thou Lingering Star

41:18 - Chronicling Flight

59.55 - Community Question of the Week

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