Episodes
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Ep 22- Matt Lee
Matt Lee is an open source Guru and runs Libre.FM. He also made a movie with a monkey in it (far fetched) that we don't mention. But back in the day he had an Amstrad CPC and had his first online experience on it. He also bought software in the utterly bonkers Trago Mills. Join us for a half hour...
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Ep 21 - Wayne Sloman
Wayne Sloman grew up in Axminister, a town without a software shop. From the Mattel Aquarius to the Spectrum and later the Megadrive, we follow his computing journey in a world famous Devon town (it's where the carpets come from). Your Devon Tech Mate (Waynes business) -...
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Ep 20 - Tim Drew (Sanxion)
Tim Drew, often known as Sanxion, is a collector of computers and consoles and co-host of the Pixel Gaiden podcast. He was working at a computer shop before he left school and ended up not only in charge of ordering software from wholesalers but working for a distributor and running his own...
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Ep 19 - Tracey Binnie from Noisebox Radio
Tracey began playing video games on an Atari 2600 found in a hedge. Via that unlikely start she also owned a Master System, Megadrive and used a turtle connected to a BBC Micro at school. She tells us about her experiences of working in a games shop owned by her uncle and all about Noisebox…
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Ep 18 - Typhon, Developer Of Reginald And The She Vampires
Typhon (a.k.a Dave Moore) is a CPC coder who has decided to remake the terrible Amstrad CPC game, Mr Weems And The She Vampires. We talk to him about that and his computer journey that started in a small school in Northern Ireland. What does compel someone to remake a bad game? What was the...
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Ep 17 - Steve Anderson from Your Sinclair
Recorded in 2019, ChinnyVision speaks with Steve Anderson, who was a member of the Shed Crew in the final days of Your Sinclair. He talks about his memories of working on YS with J Nash, and also the creation of his Spectrum BASIC game, The Pathetic Pablo Brothers. You can find Steve at -...
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Ep 16 - Malc Seventyfour
Malc Seventyfour comes to us live via satellite from Canada. But he isn't Canadian, he grew up in Scotland with an Atari 2600 and still has his original Spectrum 48k (well actually his brothers). How did he get hold of 2600 games? How long did he stick with the Speccy as his gaming platform of...
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Ep 15 - Bloggos POW!
This episode I talk to Bloggos POW! who plays and talks about retrogames on Youtube. Occasionally sentimental, often unrehearsed and with a new video every week. We talk about East coast arcades, computer shops and C64 ownership among other things. Visit Bloggos Pow on Youtube -...
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Ep 14 - Carlos Of Byte High No Limit
Chinny speaks to Carlos of the Byte High No Limit Podcast about his relationship with computers, arcades, his local software shops growing up and more. Did he really sell his Spectrum to buy a C64? As ever its a half hour delve into the world of old computers and gaming. You can find The Byte…
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Ep 13 - Pete Prodge Of Reheated Pixels
Pete Prodge is a standup comedian who is also an expert on TISWAS, lots of other old TV and has been a Sinclair Spectrum owner since 1987. In this half hour podcast we talk about lots of things including Your Sinclair, how he obtained his computer games and much more. You can find Pete Prodge at...
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Ep 12 - Johnny Blanchard of Re-enthused
Johnny Blanchard of Re-Enthused talks to ChinnyVision about his hardware tinkering and how he manages to acquire so much retro Japanese computer hardware. We also talk about the man with a briefcase full of C90's going door to door. You can find out more at - https://re-enthused.com/ The...
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Ep 11 - Richard Shaw-Wright
Richard Shaw-Wright is a sports journalist and old computer fan. His journey started with a CPC 464 and has led, via holiday visits to the top floor of The Friary Shopping Centre, to a career covering all manner of sports on the radio. We have a chat about Spectrum's, CPC's, Amiga's and pressing...
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Ep 10 - Commodore Lad
Commodore Lad has probably the largest collection of C64's in the UK. He takes in unloved and broken machines and repairs them. He also has a vast retro hoard that also includes C16's, Vic 20's, Pets and even some Amstrad and Sinclair machines. ChinnyVision visits his headquarters in the old...
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Ep 9 - Dudley From Yesterzine
This episode I speak to Dudley from Yesterzine, a Youtube channel that takes an old gaming magazine and plays the games covered in it to see what they are like as well as what they teach us about gaming in the 80's and 90's. Dudley tells us about his Youtube channel, his Spectrum, PC and Amiga...
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Ep 8 - Gigerpunk from Rob’s RetroRambles
Gigerpunk has been running his Youtube channel, Rob's Retro Rambles for nearly 10 years. Join us to hear about his collection, his life long affinity for the C64 and his arcade cabinet restoration project: Rob's Retro Rambles : https://www.youtube.com/@GigerPunk/videos Rob on Twitter:...
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Ep 7 - John Rain from Smershpod
Movie conversions, Oric ownership and being killed by falling over a paving slab are just some of the topics up for discussion with my guest, John Rain from Smershpod. You might know him as Mr Ken Shabby, or more recently @itsjohnrain on Twitter. John is a Bond expert, internet wit, author and...
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Ep 6 - Mentski
See I said this would be irregular! However ChinnyVision is back with a new episode and is fighting off the covid to bring you a conversation with the curator of One Credit Champ, Mentski. If I sound ill it's because I am, but Mentski tells us all about his quest for arcade perfect home ports...
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Ep 5 - Matthew Scott
Today I'm Joined by Matthew Scott, aka @GeezerD205 from Twitter. Matt is a long term Spectrum and Amiga user with a large collection of machines. We have tales of Amigas in server cases, smashed Spectrum keyboards and we ponder if you should bother keeping the boxes your computers came in. Follow...
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Ep 4 - The Teletext Archaeologist, Jason Robertson
Todays guest is Jason Robertson aka the Teletext Archaeologist, recovering pages from the the old Teletext service by using VHS recordings and some very clever software. Jason has a varied computing history including the Commodore 64 and Amiga, as well as firm links with the Channel 4 Teletext...
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Ep 3 - The XboxVision (Ross Taylor)
Welcome to the ChinnyVision podcast, the occasional trip into the realms of the dusty computer shops of yesteryear. Todays guest is Ross Taylor, aka TheXboxVision. I first came across Ross's digital face nearly 20 years ago on a gaming forum run by an ex Amiga Power staffer, and back when I had a...
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Ep 1 - Andy Bowd
My first guest on the ChinnyVision podcast is Andy Bowd, otherwise known as @bowdie from Twitter. He talks to me about his first computing experiences, how he switched his Spectrum for a C64 and how he got a free holiday from Commodore for selling rather a lot of Amiga Cartoon Classics packs! He...
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ChinnyVision - The Podcast. Coming Soon!
Welcome to ChinnyVision The Podcast. Tune your Amstrad Podmatics into this channel for irregular podcasts featuring people you have probably never heard of but who will have interesting stories to tell. This is a spin-off of the ChinnyVision YouTube channel which reviews games on machines like…
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About this show
The audio spin off from the ChinnyVision Youtube channel where we talk about things like buying Mastertronic games from the newsagent in 1987 and keeping Amstrad CPC‘s running.
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