2024 Is The Year Of Retro Computing - This Week In Retro 153

from This Week in Retro · host Neil from RMCretro - The Cave, Chris from 005 AGIMA and Dave

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 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! Story Link: https://github.com/Interkarma/daggerfall-unity/releases/tag/v1.0.0 Ultima Revisited: https://www.u7revisited.com/ 35:37 - Winging It On The Amiga Story Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/thisweekinretro/comments/18s9i5u/xwing_for_amiga_port/ 55:50 - Dave's Housekeeping 01:06:53 - Kid Kills Tetris Story Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuJ5UuknsHU Rude Sky presenter link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-67885320 01:26:03 - Community Question of the Week 🏆Your monthly support helps us keep the retro news flowing! https://www.patreon.com/thisweekinretro ☕Or just buy us a coffee! https://ko-fi.com/thisweekinretro 🕸 TWiR Sub Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/thisweekinretro/ Follow your hosts! Twitter: https://twitter.com/rmcretro Youtube: https://youtube.com/rmcretro https://www.youtube.com/005agima Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/rmcretro Subscribe to the audio version of the show! 📻 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-retro/id1526487568?uo=4 📻 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2OPQ3cADaB92E9SpRdTe5y 📻 Deezer: www.deezer.com 📻 Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy8yZjQ5ODlmOC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw 📻 RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2f4989f8/podcast/rss 📻 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFMx-JitepTttWc-ABHhu8A/ 📻 All other services: https://anchor.fm/thisweekinretro 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 Neil from RMC, Chris from 005 AGIMA and Dave. Edited by Duncan Styles. #PlayMoreIn24

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🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 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!Story Link: https://github.com/Interkarma/daggerfall-unity/releases/tag/v1.0.0Ultima Revisited: https://www.u7revisited.com/ 35:37 - Winging It On The AmigaStory Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/thisweekinretro/comments/18s9i5u/xwing_for_amiga_port/ 55:50 - Dave's Housekeeping 01:06:53 - Kid Kills TetrisStory Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuJ5UuknsHURude Sky presenter link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-67885320 01:26:03 - Community Question of the Week 🏆Your monthly support helps us keep the retro news flowing!https://www.patreon.com/thisweekinretro ☕Or just buy us a coffee!https://ko-fi.com/thisweekinretro 🕸 TWiR Sub Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/thisweekinretro/ Follow your hosts!Twitter:https://twitter.com/rmcretro Youtube:https://youtube.com/rmcretrohttps://www.youtube.com/005agima Twitch:https://www.twitch.tv/rmcretro Subscribe to the audio version of the show!📻 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-retro/id1526487568?uo=4📻 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2OPQ3cADaB92E9SpRdTe5y📻 Deezer: www.deezer.com📻 Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy8yZjQ5ODlmOC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw📻 RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2f4989f8/podcast/rss📻 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFMx-JitepTttWc-ABHhu8A/📻 All other services: https://anchor.fm/thisweekinretro 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 Neil from RMC, Chris from 005 AGIMA and Dave. Edited by Duncan Styles. #PlayMoreIn24

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