Chris from 005 AGIMA, Jason from The Retro Adventurers, Dave and Duncan Styles
251 episodes
1 week ago
Get up to speed with the hottest news in the world of retro gaming and computing. Submit your own stories and upvote your favourites at r/ThisWeekinRetro. Hosted by Chris from 005 AGIMA, Jason from The Retro Adventurers and Dave. Edited by Duncan Styles.
A relaxed and light hearted chat on the subjects that YOU choose on our Reddit page. With the occasional special guest and a Community Question Of The Week where you get to have your say and share stories.
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Get up to speed with the hottest news in the world of retro gaming and computing. Submit your own stories and upvote your favourites at r/ThisWeekinRetro. Hosted by Chris from 005 AGIMA, Jason from The Retro Adventurers and Dave. Edited by Duncan Styles.
A relaxed and light hearted chat on the subjects that YOU choose on our Reddit page. With the occasional special guest and a Community Question Of The Week where you get to have your say and share stories.
Let’s Talk About Joysticks - This Week In Retro 247
This Week in Retro
1 hour 5 minutes
1 month ago
Let’s Talk About Joysticks - This Week In Retro 247
We are joined by Allan (aka Happy Coding ZX) to talk about joysticks, haunted tech and does retrobrighting damage your beloved computers and consoles?
Visit FVResearch.com for all things FujiNet! Emulate devices such as disk drives, printers and modems plus provide a wireless network interface to a wide range of retro computers.
Please visit https://ko-fi.com/midnightbrew/shop to support Allan and the Movember charity. Changing the face of men's health.
00:00 - Show Opening
05:33 - Joy Of A Decent StickStory Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4QQDqkVCng
23:19 - Tales Of The UnexplainedStory Link: https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2025/01/the-invalid-68030-instruction-that-accidentally-allowed-the-mac-classic-ii-to-successfully-boot-up/The 1988 Mystery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRHpN53hb34The Games Machine Issue 09: https://archive.org/details/TheGamesMachineIssue09Aug88/page/n97/mode/2upThe Dodleston Messages: https://history.howstuffworks.com/history-vs-myth/dodleston-messages.htm
40:53 - Housekeeping - News links found below
47:28 - Not Too BrightStory Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n_WpjseCXAMacho Nacho Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXhxTtK42A8
59:59 - 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
Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy In Browser: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1g84m0sXpnNCv84GpN2PLZG/the-game-30th-anniversary-edition
Perforated Tape Reader: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/retro-computing-enthusiast-creates-perforated-tape-reader-designed-from-scratch-reads-data-at-about-50-bytes-per-second
This Week in Retro
Get up to speed with the hottest news in the world of retro gaming and computing. Submit your own stories and upvote your favourites at r/ThisWeekinRetro. Hosted by Chris from 005 AGIMA, Jason from The Retro Adventurers and Dave. Edited by Duncan Styles.
A relaxed and light hearted chat on the subjects that YOU choose on our Reddit page. With the occasional special guest and a Community Question Of The Week where you get to have your say and share stories.
