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This Week in Retro @thisweekinretro.bsky.social · 2d

Was Dave wrong about DOS gaming and has DOSBox Pure cured him?
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Chris plans a fleet of computer museums, and Jason works hard to avoid the obvious chess reference in WarGames coverage. All this, and more, and your submissions for the best-ever free pack-ins on this week's show!

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This Week in Retro @thisweekinretro.bsky.social · 4d

It's a long way to Western Australia. What had to travel all the way from Canada to Perth, and why, and can Chris be trusted with it?! All this including the end of DOS gatekeeping and retro museum dreams coming up in Episode 240 this Saturday!
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This Week in Retro @thisweekinretro.bsky.social · 9d

This week it's the high cost of (inflation-adjusted) 1980s computing, a spirited defense of the Amstrad CPC, and a look at legendary artist Roger Dean's video game work! youtu.be/gxzEHAm_Nz0
Plus the wedgetop computer preferences submitted by you, the viewers, to the TWiR subreddit!

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This Week in Retro @thisweekinretro.bsky.social · 11d

Dave takes a break from Amstrad CPC defense to try out as a prog-pop vocalist. Also: the high cost of computing then-and-now and the celestial career of artist Roger Dean. All this, and your wedgetop picks, and more Saturday. Tell 90,125 of your closest friends: subscribe on YouTube or podcast now!

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Adrian's Digital Basement @adriansdigitalbasement.com · 13d

If anyone missed the YouTuber panel at VCFMW, it's been posted online.

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Vintage Tech YouTubers Discussion Panel | VCFMW 20 (2025)

YouTube video by VCF Midwest

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This Week in Retro @thisweekinretro.bsky.social · 16d

Is the Rasperry Pi 500+ bringing wedgetops back? Did Jordan Mechner clear up Prince of Persia history on our subreddit? Is there such a thing as too much Infocom?
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Plus your preferred control schemes on This Week in Retro 238, available now on YouTube and all podcast platforms!

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This Week in Retro @thisweekinretro.bsky.social · 18d

"I'll take Computer Graphics for 1200."

"The answer: This technique was used to create compelling, lifelike games featuring both karate experts and scratch golfers."

This Week in Retro 238 features wedges, princes, and grues, plus your preferred controller layouts. Coming Saturday!

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Rees @ctrl-alt-rees.com · 20d

Hey @davevelociraptor.bsky.social (of @thisweekinretro.bsky.social fame), here's your chance to finally get into console gaming!

Rosalie ✨🖤🎃 @littlerecordgirl.bsky.social · 22d

Forever thinking about the Irn Bru Dreamcast I saw at Retro Games at the Barras.

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This Week in Retro @thisweekinretro.bsky.social · 23d

Welcome Andy from Big Car / Little Car for flight control anxiety, Baldur's Gate 2 at 25 and D&D video game history, and a questionable 1969 BBC documentary on the death of cash.
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Plus your votes on the best places in video game worlds, now on YouTube and all podcast platforms!

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This Week in Retro @thisweekinretro.bsky.social · 25d

Chris, Jason, and special guest Andy (of Little Car and Big Car on YouTube) discuss: some game franchises don't catch fire until the third installment. Does this happen in other forms of media?

All this, and more, and your answers to the Community Question of the Week, coming this Saturday!

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This Week in Retro @thisweekinretro.bsky.social · Sep 20

What do Molyneux, Meier, Wright, and Carmack share with Barone, Persson, Fox, and Cherry? Is Elite the best of space gaming? Can we summarize the massive Vintage Computer Festival Midwest in 15 minutes?! Plus your retro trailblazing heroes in This Week in Retro 236, out now!
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This Week in Retro @thisweekinretro.bsky.social · Sep 18

Jason reports fresh off the weekend of Vintage Computer Festival Midwest 20, full of classic tech, This Week in Retro viewers, and distinctive hairstyles. All this and more including your nominations for the unsung heroes of retro, coming in episode 236 this Saturday!

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Christopher Drum @christopherdrum.bsky.social · Sep 16

What a delightful surprise. My new blog, @stonetoolsblog.bsky.social, seems to mark a tipping point, earning a lengthy discussion of my full body of retro-related works in the latest @thisweekinretro.bsky.social

I am, apparently, "Someone you should know"🙇
#retrocomputing.

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Commodore Datasette But Tiny - This Week In Retro 235

YouTube video by This Week in Retro

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This Week in Retro @thisweekinretro.bsky.social · Sep 14

Taylor and Amy, this week’s guests, plus a hydrating Jason!

Zodypop @zodypop.bsky.social · Sep 13

#vcfmidwest
Standing room only for the Vintage Tech YouTuber's Discussion Panel at VCF Midwest

A picture of the Vintage Tech YouTuber's Discussion Panel at VCF Midwest.

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This Week in Retro @thisweekinretro.bsky.social · Sep 13

It's The Taylor and Amy Show featuring a couple of bald guys for Microsoft's open-source BASIC, data on microcassette, and "software deconstructionist" Christopher Drum. youtu.be/UHYscl1Ayqg
Plus KIM-1, model rockets, your arcade theme songs, and a new Question of the Week!

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This Week in Retro @thisweekinretro.bsky.social · Sep 11

"Hey, Altair! Hey, IMSAI!"

It's The Taylor and Amy Show this week, Dave and Jason are just providing the backbeat of news and your Personal Theme Song views on Saturday's episode of This Week in Retro!
@tayloramyshow.bsky.social

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This Week in Retro @thisweekinretro.bsky.social · Sep 6

Spinning media on the ropes, a re-evaluation of the Texas-sized loss leader the TI-99/4A became, and a novel use of a SID chip in a Commando coin-op machine. youtu.be/5aCa6BFo4NM

Plus your Windows 95 release memories and the newest Community Question of the Week, in This Week in Retro episode 234!

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This Week in Retro @thisweekinretro.bsky.social · Sep 4

There are proper stories about the ends of eras in spinning media and a breakdown of Texas Instruments' costly 8-bit experiment, but there's also... this.

All this and more, of course, including your Windows 95 release day memories on This Week In Retro 234, available Saturday!

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This Week in Retro @thisweekinretro.bsky.social · Aug 30

Don't call it a Maxi! Clarity about THEA1200 plus a new mini-Vectrex, a look back at the 30th anniversary of Microsoft going mainstream with Windows 95, and the would-be IBM/Apple killer the Commodore 128. youtu.be/-GArvyKnb1o

Plus the tech inventions you're happiest without in Episode 233!

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This Week in Retro @thisweekinretro.bsky.social · Aug 28

Jason wants customized abuse. Dave wants him to lie. Will they ever see eye-to-eye?

All this and more, including your submissions of the tech inventions you're glad we no longer have to use, in Saturday's episode of This Week in Retro!

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This Week in Retro @thisweekinretro.bsky.social · Aug 23

Out now! We try to say nice things about so-called terrible inventions, explore the origins and future of the sports management sim, and talk new games for Amiga and ZX Spectrum! All this plus your retro destinations in Episode 232. youtu.be/ntZKGTdD7Ss

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This Week in Retro @thisweekinretro.bsky.social · Aug 22

It's Spectrum Next Kickstarter roll call and--Chris had one job!

All this and more including Settlers II on Amiga, classic sports sims, and your preferred retro destinations from the Community Question of the Week in This Week in Retro 232, coming Saturday!

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This Week in Retro @thisweekinretro.bsky.social · Aug 16

Come to grips with a world without America Online dialup. Remasters of Hexen and Heretic may help, or perhaps retail therapy at a local retro-minded shop. All this and more including your tabletop role-playing game preferences and an all-new Community Question of the Week! youtu.be/Tsq2IMAqKv0

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This Week in Retro @thisweekinretro.bsky.social · Aug 14

Next month, thousands of modems will scream out all at once and then be silenced. But which classic computer screamed loudest?

All this and more including your tabletop role-playing game inclinations, coming this Saturday in This Week in Retro 231!

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This Week in Retro @thisweekinretro.bsky.social · Aug 13

"We don't choose what is retro."
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