How fast can YOU run Quake? This Week in Retro 34

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The Quake Olympics, looking back on Amstrad's aquistion of Sinclair, a new way to access the internet on retro computers, and Atari Lynx comes to the MiSTer! 🏆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 0:00 Show Open 0:35 486 Quake Race https://www.reddit.com/r/thisweekinretro/comments/mnrdf2/the_race_for_the_fastest_486_running_quake/ 8:42 Looking back at the Amstrad acquisition of Sinclair https://twitter.com/Lord_Sugar/status/1379737918995099648 18:05 What's new from RetroRewind.ca 19:30 Frog Find Internet Search for Retro Computers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_v2_vTogS8 31:45 Amiga Forever 9 32:53 Atari Lynx on the MiSTer https://misterfpga.org/viewtopic.php?t=2096 🕸 TWiR Sub Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/thisweekinretro/ Story Links: Follow your hosts! Twitter: https://twitter.com/rmcretro https://twitter.com/amigosretro Youtube https://youtube.com/rmcretro https://www.youtube.com/amigosretrogaming Twitch https://www.twitch.tv/amigosretrogaming 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 📻 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 Visit http://retrorewind.ca/ for new hardware for your Amiga and C64! 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 John Shawler from Amigos Retro Gaming. #ThisWeekinRetro #486QuakeRace #Retrocomputing Credits: MiSTer FPGA: Lynx Core Status and Features video courtesy of FPGAzumSpass - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfPLHMGxmZI AMD X5-133 Overclocked @180MHz / RECORD FPS in Quake/ PCI Clock Checker Tool video courtesy of CPU Galaxy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPRSHI4JoWI "File:Working-Sinclair-QL cropped.jpg" by Working-Sinclair-QL.jpg: Telecarlos derivative work: Regi51 is licensed under CC BY 3.0 "Sinclair C5" by Annie Mole is licensed under CC BY 2.0 "File:Atari-Lynx-I-Handheld.jpg" by Evan-Amos is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0

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The Quake Olympics, looking back on Amstrad's aquistion of Sinclair, a new way to access the internet on retro computers, and Atari Lynx comes to the MiSTer! 🏆Your monthly support helps us keep the retro news...

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