Cleaning Dirty Floppy Disks - This Week In Retro 177

Wouldn't it be great if there was a machine to clean your old and dirty floppy disks? Now there is! Footage from a cancelled Indiana Jones game has surfaced. Did you ever want to play that shark arcade game seen in the movie Jaws? All this and more retro computing news along with the Community Question Of The Week. 00:00 - Show Opening 06:32 - Jonesing For Indiana Jones Story Link: https://youtu.be/VGgshWvrH2g?si=ycTRmQVP2urBDcuy Additional Link: https://mixnmojo.com/features/sitefeatures/Indiana-Jones-and-the-Iron-Phoenix-The-Lost-Sequel-to-Fate-of-Atlantis/1 26:36 - Du Du , Du Du , Du Du Du Du (Shark) Story Link: https://www.remindmagazine.com/article/15694/jaws-arcade-video-game-killer-shark-atari-sega-electromechanical/ 40:52 - Dave's Housekeeping Links to stories mentioned found at the end of this text. 58:18 - Clean That Dirty Floppy! Story Link: https://youtu.be/mqdionqLqqs?si=7DZ--gzpHuuiWIHM 01:07:33 - Community Question of the Week 🏆Your monthly support helps us keep the retro news flowing! https://www.patreon.com/thisweekinretro 🕸 TWiR Sub Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/thisweekinretro/ Follow your hosts! Twitter: https://twitter.com/rmcretro Youtube: https://youtube.com/rmcretro 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/ 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 and Dave. Edited by Duncan Styles. Episode Credits "What is this Crazy Contraption!?" Courtesy of RobSmithDev Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqdionqLqqs Dave's Briefs Links Pete Davison Blog: https://angryjedi.wordpress.com/2024/06/23/oneaday-day-16-the-youth-of-yesterday/ Mark Fixes Stuff: https://youtu.be/6H4BY21mjxg?si=tbZvmrzu-RE2aT3n Count Binface: https://youtu.be/F7LVGRQltFo?si=cXZa9ZG6GEu6kcbo Psion: https://www.abortretry.fail/p/of-psion-and-symbian Dune II Amiga Remaster: https://www.timeextension.com/news/2024/06/the-amiga-is-getting-a-dune-ii-remaster-from-one-of-the-original-developers Bruce Gordon Passes Away: https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2F4g703tylb67d1.png Pocket386: https://liliputing.com/pocket-386-is-a-mini-laptop-for-retro-computing-with-support-for-dos-and-windows-95/ Lunar Lander Bug: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/06/retired-engineer-discovers-55-year-old-bug-in-lunar-lander-computer-game-code/ Lynn Conway Passes Away: https://hackaday.com/2024/06/14/rip-lynn-conway-whose-work-gave-us-vlsi-and-much-more/ Archive.org: https://www.reddit.com/r/thisweekinretro/comments/1diaea8/archiveorgs_massive_collection_of_pirated/ Nintendo Sheet Music: https://en.softonic.com/articles/nintendo-against-sheet-music-their-war-against-piracy-has-reached-the-point-where-even-arrangements-of-their-songs-cannot-be-made?ex=RAMP-2046.2 The Captain Blood Story: https://www.eurogamer.net/the-story-of-captain-blood-the-atari-st-classic-in-which-you-track-down-and-murder-your-clones-five-times