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Unity Engine For PS1?! - This Week In Retro 264


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Bring big imaginations and big keyboards as we tackle the latest Retro eXo creation, a breakthrough in modern game development for the original Sony PlayStation, and breathe new life into those old digital video camcorders on the shelf. Chris shows off a holiday photo, there's a birthday... all this, and much more, in This Week in Retro episode 264!

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00:00 - Show Opening

03:03 - Undiscovered Text Adventures Abound

Story Link: https://www.retro-exo.com/if.html
Original TWiR coverage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUtxKUkJaXk

17:34 - New Life For PlayStation & Wii

Story Link: https://psxsplash.github.io/
Bandwidth appeal video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfZ-XHiDBow
MacOS X on Nintendo Wii: https://bryankeller.github.io/2026/04/08/porting-mac-os-x-nintendo-wii.html
Windows compatibility: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260407-00/?p=112213

31:38 - Housekeeping - News links found below

36:57 - Video Editing Like It’s 1999

Story Link: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/firewire-on-a-raspberry-pi/ 
Video demonstration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuKeW45OL-g

46:18 - 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 Chris from 005 AGIMA, Jason from The Retro Adventurers and Dave. Edited by Duncan Styles.

News In Brief Links

PicoGUS 4.0: https://github.com/polpo/picogus/releases/tag/v4.0.0

Oldversion returns: https://hackaday.com/2026/04/01/oldversion-is-back-and-better-than-ever/

RIP Yoshihisa Kishimoto: https://www.timeextension.com/news/2026/04/double-dragon-creator-yoshihisa-kishimoto-has-passed-away

New Amiga Double Dragon: https://www.indieretronews.com/2026/04/double-dragon-near-arcade-experience.html

Arcade photos: https://www.thescroller.net/83840/20-photos-what-arcades-used-to-look-like/

Arcade manuals: https://arcadeRTFM.com

Breakout for ZX81: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NheQgCtFgI

End of Linux support for i486: https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-7-1-finally-dropping-support-intels-37-year-old-486-processor/

Episode Credits: 

"PlayStation-SCPH-1000-with-Controller.jpg" image by Evan-Amos. Public domain.

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