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Apple Computer At 50 - This Week In Retro 263

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11th April 2026 55 min

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Indie game dev legend Jeff Vogel of @spiderwebsoftware1 joins us for a provocative hour of conversation about legendary Apple products, summer camp with Lord British, moonshots and other artifacts of the Space Race, and much more!

00:00 - Show Opening

08:20 - Fifty Years Of Apple

Story Link: https://www.bbc.com

Apple prototypes: https://www.youtube.com

23:17 - Moon - The Computer Art That Made Sure We Didn’t Miss

Story Link: https://hackaday.com

31:17 - Housekeeping - News links found below

37:15 - Omega Race Counts As Racing

Story Link: https://github.com

Dragon's Eye CRPG: https://www.youtube.com

Additional links: https://github.com

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49:29 - Community Question of the Week

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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

Gaming Historian ends: https://www.youtube.com

XBox 360 GTA4 Devkit: https://www.tomshardware.com

Manic Miner online: https://manicminer.online

Taito Crown 603 claw machine: https://www.videogameschronicle.com

CLK emulator: https://github.com

Doom "on a BBC Micro": https://youtu.be

Capcom mini-arcade machine: https://www.hackster.io

Episode Credits

"Apple Lisa (Little Apple Museum)" by Alvy is licensed under CC BY 2.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org.

"Apple Vision Pro (M5, 2025) with Dual Knit Band on Display (cropped)" by AzureSaturn is marked with CC0 1.0.

"Apple Macintosh ー Computer History Museum (25364330319)" by Ik T from Kanagawa, Japan is licensed under CC BY 2.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org

"Apple Newton MessagePad H1000 in NMAH" by National Museum of American History is marked with CC0 1.0. To view the terms, visit https://creativecommons.org.

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