This week's guest Jason Timmons has quietly built up @VCFMW (Vintage Computer Festival Midwest) into the world's largest annual retro computing event. He joins the crew to talk about the end the line for the revived Checkmate Amiga case, the surprising differences in teletext penetration in the United States vs. the United Kingdom, and a look at the "overrated?" Amiga 500 Batman Pack.
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00:00 - Show Opening
09:48 - Checkmate Check Out
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33:05 - Teletext Admiration Society
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54:18 - Housekeeping - News links found below
58:23 - Holy Clickbait Batman!
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01:17:38 - 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
Daytona USA Recomp: https://youtu.be
Family Computing 1998: https://youtu.be
Metal Slug Vodafone Live: https://www.timeextension.com
Red Dwarf Adventure pitch: https://www.timeextension.com
Older gamers: https://www.timeextension.com
Commodore 64 spellchecker: https://github.com
Stop Killing Games: https://www.bbc.co.uk
Episode Credits
"Amiga 1000 dialing in to a BBS (25938208305)" by Blake Patterson from Alexandria, VA, USA is licensed under CC BY 2.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org.
"Amiga500 system1" by Bill Bertram. CC BY-SA 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org
Checkmate A1500 images from "The Amiga 1500 Story | Commodore Vs Checkmate Digital" courtesy of The Retro Collective
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Part of "Inside the BBC Micro - Trash to Treasure (Pt2)" courtesy of The Retro Collective
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Part of "WFLD Channel 32 - Nite-Owl (Complete & Remastered, 8/25/1982)" courtesy of The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (www.FuzzyMemories.TV)
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Parts of "Does the Batman pack hold up? - Yesterzine" courtesy of Yesterzine - The Literal Magazine Show
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"Pages from Ceefax | 24 May 1984" courtesy of Transdiffusion https://www.transdiffusion.org
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