Classic Sega arcade games have been ranked, do we agree? The next mini console will be the Atari 400 (not technically a console) and a PlayStation console is brutally forced into a SNES case....its awesome fun.

All this plus a look at other retro gaming news and our Community Question Of The Week.

We are sponsored by Pixel Addict magazine. The latest issue features an in depth look at the Connection Machine, an incredible learning computer. It's a really stunner too. Take a look at https://www.pixel.addict.media/ for all the details.

00:00 - Show Opening

06:21 - Sega Ranked

26:49 - Finally - The First Mini Of 2024 (Atari 400)

43:55 - Dave's Housekeeping and News In Brief

52:48 - An Australian Does What Ninten-dont

59:50 - Community Question of the Week

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Retro Computing in 2024 is set to be great. We take a look at just a few of the projects coming this year. Did you ever wonder why X-Wing never got an Amiga Port? We now know why. And after Tetris is finally beaten we ask ourselves if we ever managed something similar. Oh and we have some sad news too. It's a bumper episode this week so grab a coffee.

All this as well as the Community Question Of The Week where we ask you a retro gaming or retro tech question.

00:00 - Show Opening

07:28 - 2024 Is The Best Year In Retro Ever!

35:37 - Winging It On The Amiga

55:50 - Dave's Housekeeping

01:06:53 - Kid Kills Tetris

01:26:03 - Community Question of the Week

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An IT shop in Canterbury might fool you into thinking you are shopping in the 1990s. Can arcade games ported to home systems actually be better than the originals? We chat about some of our favourite retro gaming activities at this time of year.

We are once again joined by Aaron from Amigos Retro Gaming. See all their retro gaming goodies at https://www.youtube.com/@UCtsK4QYe2tRdIxoZxwkX3Ww 

We also have the Community Question Of The Week and a look in brief at some other stories.

We are sponsored by Pixel Addict magazine. The Christmas issue is out now and it contains a look at the season offerings our beloved computers and consoles had for us. Head on over to http://pixel.addict.media/ to order your copy.

00:00 - Show Opening

08:09 - Christmas Shopping Like It’s 1999

27:30 - Better In The Arcade?

44:19 - Dave's Housekeeping

50:06 - Retro Christmas Chit Chat

01:00:05 - Community Question of the Week

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The SEGA Neptune, the could have been Mega Drive/Genesis with X32 hardware built in has been created, and it looks awesome. Can AI be used to help with COBOL programming? How did we get our game hints and maps before the internet made it oh so easy to cheat?

All of the above plus a look a few other retro computing/gaming/tech stories and your answers to the Community Question Of The Week!

Here is footage from the recent Perth Amiga User Group (PAUG) meet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPw88IMiJ_Q

00:00 - Show Opening

09:38 - COBOL Locks Horns With AI

24:53 - Pokey Maps

40:11 - Dave's Housekeeping

46:22 - The Doomed Sega Neptune Rises

01:03:40 - Community Question of the Week

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Parts of "SEGA CANCELED this console in 1995, so I made one in 2023 | SEGA Neptune" courtesy of Macho Nacho Productions.

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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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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.

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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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