It's taken too long to get prominent retro podcaster and archivist @KaySavetz (ANTIC, Eaten By a Grue, Internet Archive, and more) on the show! On this bonus-sized episode Kay joins Dave and Jason as we take a deeper look at 1990s nostalgia and the loss of multi-format cover art giant Philip Castle, and chart the dramatic rise and hard fall of Iomega's Zip drives. And for the sake of equal time, Kay presents a news brief involving source code hidden away on SyQuest media.
All this, your picks for a gaming industry legend you'd like to spend an hour with, and more in This Week in Retro 262!
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00:00 - Show Opening
04:24 - Elite Box Art Was Elite
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17:33 - Media Giants Of The Past
Story Link: https://hackaday.com
32:42 - Housekeeping - News links found below
48:45 - I Wish It Was The 90s - Or Do I?
Story Link: https://www.theguardian.com
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01:01:10 - 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
PicoGX Cartridge: https://shop.flamelily.co.uk
History of Creative SoundBlaster: https://www.youtube.com
3dfx Voodoo on FPGA: https://hackaday.com
Pico Z80: https://eaw.app
Windows 3.1 on AMD Ryzen: https://www.youtube.com
MS-DOS on Apple II: https://sethkush.com
Game stores final closure: https://uk.news.yahoo.com
Lemon20 community: https://lemon20.com
Nintendo64 Open World Engine: https://www.youtube.com
Kikstart documentary: https://www.youtube.com
Jetpac remake: https://www.timeextension.com
Kerbal flight via ZX Spectrum: https://www.tomshardware.com
AOL Macintosh source code: https://bitbang.social
Episode Credits
Parts of "Make Hard Disk Drives LOUD again! - The HDD Synth Prototype | Show & Tell" courtesy of The Retro Collective. Link: youtube.com/@theretrocollective
"Iomega Zip 100 drive with a disk" by Yuri Litvinenko / 30pin is licensed under CC BY 2.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org.
