The Retro Counsellor Is In - This Week In Retro 271

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 Welcoming back guest Iain Lee (www.iainlee.com)  after too long away, we revisit Nintendo's all-too-brief commitment to low-cost crowd-pleasing mini consoles, explore the surprising history of videoconferencing and remote collaboration for Microsoft NetMeeting's 30th anniversary, and find out what made an octogenarian game developer sit down at the keys and settle unfinished business. 00:00 - Show Opening 05:54 - Why A Mini? Story Link: https://nintendoeverything.com/former-nintendo-exec-confirms-nes-and-snes-classics-were-made-to-sustain-the-companys-business/ 18:38 - See You Online Story Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhay6VryyvE Microsoft memo: https://sriramk.com/memos/CU-NET.pdf 40:25 - Housekeeping - News links found below 47:03 - Head Over Heels 2 Story Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SwQKv36bEU Game release: https://thalamusdigital.itch.io/return-to-blacktooth-amiga  55:12 - 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! Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/davevelociraptor.bsky.social https://bsky.app/profile/jasoncompton.bsky.social Youtube: Chris - https://www.youtube.com/@005AGIMA Jason - https://www.youtube.com/@TheRetroAdventurers Audio Podcast: https://retroadventurers.podbean.com/ 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 📻 Podbean: https://twir.podbean.com 📻 Deezer: https://www.deezer.com/en/show/5734337 📻 RSS: https://feed.podbean.com/TWIR/feed.xml 📻 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@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 Chris from 005 AGIMA, Jason from The Retro Adventurers and Dave. Edited by Duncan Styles. News In Brief Links Ultima Underworld Unity: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/after-10-years-of-work-modders-have-remade-classic-rpg-ultima-underworld-in-unity-with-3d-models-new-sound-effects-and-controller-support UU project: https://kweepa.itch.io/unity-underground Lenovo handheld: ​​https://www.t3.com/tech/gaming-consoles/lenovo-pulls-its-controversial-g02-retro-handheld-from-sale-starting-a-chain-reaction-that-could-decimate-the-retro-gaming-market Anbernic handheld spec: https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/handheld-gaming/gaming-handhelds-are-quietly-losing-ram-vendors-aggressively-trim-memory-specs-as-supply-dries-up War of the Worlds: https://michel-molenaar.itch.io/war-of-the-worlds-c64 PD-64 power supply: https://github.com/sideprojectslab/PD-64 Dan Wood on Commodore OS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_Lw-Zl7tCM Commodore OS homepage: https://commodoreos.net Amiag Unix 2.02 found: https://hackaday.com/2026/05/25/lost-version-of-amiga-unix-suddenly-reappears/ Amstrad PPC640 US edition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tt874nkplo Rob Smith PaulaNET video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhAg-fT83o8 PaulaNET project: https://github.com/caddy666/Nebula32 Episode Credits Parts of "Microsoft NetMeeting was WAY more important than you think" courtesy of The Serial Port. See the full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhay6VryyvE