It's This Week In Retro, your weekly round up of news for old ( and sometimes not so old ) computers, consoles and games. This week we look back at some of the stand out loading screens from the Atari ST, find out how SAGA helped NVIDIA become what it is today and wonder if a CRT running at crazy refresh rates is the best option for modern gaming.
All this and many more snippets of news in brief and your answers to our Community Question Of The Week!
Neil is off for a few weeks and we needed somebody to step up and ctrl-alt-rees put his hand into the air, bounced around with excitement and demanded we pick him, so we did. Thank you Rees for keeping Dave company this week. Please visit his website https://ctrl-alt-rees.com
Please take a moment from your busy day to visit https://www.pixel.addict.media and take a look at the all new issue of Pixel Addict magazine. Do you remember before laptops were really a thing and various manufacturers tried to squeeze fully functioning computers into something that became known as a luggable computer? It doesn't matter, either way you should nab a copy and check out the lead feature. Thanks!
00:00 - Show Opening
04:08 - All Hail Our New Atari ST Overlords!
Story Link: https://retroarcadia.blog
26:49 - NVIDIA And SAGA
Story Link: https://www.tomshardware.com
34:29 - Dave's Housekeeping - News links found below
39:55 - CRTs Are The Best Modern Gaming Monitors?
Story Link: https://www.pcgamer.com
49:58 - Community Question of the Week
🏆Your monthly support helps us keep the retro news flowing!
🕸 TWiR Sub Reddit: https://www.reddit.com
Follow your hosts!
Twitter:
Youtube:
Twitch:
Subscribe to the audio version of the show!
📻 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com
📻 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com
📻 Deezer: www.deezer.com
📻 Google: https://podcasts.google.com
📻 RSS: https://anchor.fm
📻 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com
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 Dave. Edited by Duncan Styles.
Dave's Briefs Links:
CPC Summer Games: https://i.redd.it
Turbo Outrun Reimagined Preview: https://www.youtube.com
Play it here: https://sk1ds.itch.io
CD Sales Are Growing: https://www.theguardian.com
Clamshell G3 Mac: https://www.theregister.com
Are Physical Games Dead: https://kotaku.com
Super Mario 64: https://www.gamesradar.com
PSA: It has been very warm in the UK this week and my Cadbury Buttons melted when I left them in my car by mistake. Do not make this error. You get a bag of choccy soup for a while and then once it cools you have a single chunk in a shape almost too awkward to eat.....almost, I persevered.
Credits:
"Sega-dreamcast-set" by Asim Saleem (Asim18) is licensed under CC BY 3.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org.
