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PDF Gaming is Finally Here! This Week in Retro 38

British bedroom coders go Hollywood, Amiga OS 3.2 bounces onto the scene, Mega Man gets physical, and is this the first ever PDF game? All this and more on This Week in Retro!
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0:00 Show Open
0:35 British Bedroom Coders go to Hollywood
https://www.reddit.com/r/thisweekinretro/comments/ng6vae/8_minute_clip_of_the_button_bashers_retro/
11:21 AmigaOS3.2 Bounces onto the Scene
https://www.hyperion-entertainment.com/index.php/news/1-latest-news/290-amigaos-42-for-all-classic-amigas-released-and-available
18:04 TWIRSPRINGFUN to save 10% at Retrorewind.ca!
19:01 Mega Man Gets Physical
https://www.reddit.com/r/thisweekinretro/comments/nh4cup/this_mega_collection_is_set_to_be_officially/
25:48 The First PDF Game...Ever?
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Put an FPGA in your ISA slot! This Week in Retro 37

This week Neil and John discuss the recent resurrection of Castlequest, the Graphics Gremlin FPGA GPU project, using the PiePacker to bring back days of couch co-op virtually, and we ask the question "Is VR the future of Retro?"
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0:35 Castlequest Lost and Found
9:56 Amigaforever.com
10:35 PC Fans Get a Graphics Gremlin
18:30 Online Multiplayer Console Games with PiePacker
27:54 RetroRewind.ca use TWIRSPRINGFUN to save 10%
29:23 Is VR the future of Retro?
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Apogee is BACK! This Week in Retro 36

Pinball Dreams set the standard for pinball computer games for the rest of time. Where does it rank in the Dreams/Fantasies/Illusions trifecta?
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Let’s all drill holes in our retro and turn them into lamps! This Week in Retro 35

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0:34 Mine Bitcoin with your C64
8:32 Amiga Forever 9
9:19 Destroying Retro for Art
16:40 Sega Sells its Western Arcade Division
23:59 RetroRewind.ca
24:49 Whipping Up a Pi Storm
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How fast can YOU run Quake? This Week in Retro 34

The Quake Olympics, looking back on Amstrad's aquistion of Sinclair, a new way to access the internet on retro computers, and Atari Lynx comes to the MiSTer!
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0:35 486 Quake Race
https://www.reddit.com/r/thisweekinretro/comments/mnrdf2/the_race_for_the_fastest_486_running_quake/
8:42 Looking back at the Amstrad acquisition of Sinclair
https://twitter.com/Lord_Sugar/status/1379737918995099648
18:05 What's new from RetroRewind.ca
19:30 Frog Find Internet Search for Retro Computers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_v2_vTogS8
31:45 Amiga Forever 9
32:53 Atari Lynx on the MiSTer
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Nipples Kill Demo Parties - This Week in Retro 33

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Atari’s $3000 Virtual Sneakers | This Week in Retro 32

Atari's NFT Sneakers sell for $3000. Who's buying? Plus the Playstation finally gets a softmod 27 years in, retro greats judge a new code contest, and a rare Neo Geo game is found in a California field. All this and more on This Week in Retro!
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0:33 The 27 year Playstation hack
https://www.retrorgb.com/playstation-1-tonyhax-soft-mod-released.html
8:39 Another one of a kind game unearthed in a field
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021-03-16-never-before-seen-hyper-neo-geo-64-samurai-shodown-64-prototype-found-sitting-under-a-tree-in-a-californian-field
15:44 Amiga RGB to HDMI Drawing Extended!
17:11 Have your retro code judged by the greats
https://www.reddit.com/r/RetroPie/comments/mez182/retro_coding_competition_eugene_jarvis_jeff/
22:18 Atari NFT Sneakers
https://retrododo.com/atari-nft-sneakers/
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The Demo Scene is Legit! | This Week in Retro 31

The Demo Scene gets government recognition, Activision's original team returns to the 2600, it's Marchintosh, and the retro world mourns a Rockstar legend.
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http://demoscene-the-art-of-coding.net/2021/03/20/demoscene-accepted-as-unesco-cultural-heritage-in-germany/
3. Happy Marchintosh!
http://www.marchintosh.com/
4. The passing of a Rockstar
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Mass Effect as a LucasArts Demake? | This Week in Retro 30

Mass Effect is being demade as a point and click LucasArts-style adventure--what other modern games do you think deserve similar treatment? Max Reload and the Nether Blasters tries to break the curse of the video game movie, BlueRetro brings bluetooth to multiplayer retro games, and Intellivision is coming to the Evercade. All this and more on This Week in Retro!
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0:00 Show Open
0:38 Mass Effect, LucasArts Style!
9:57 BlueRetro Multiplayer Bluetooth on Classic Consoles
17:10 What's new from Retro Rewind?
18:38 The Curse of the Video Game Movie
24:15 Intellivision Comes to the Evercade
33:23 Community Question of the Week - Is Zelda an RPG?
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1. Mass Effect, Lucas Arts style!
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2. Multiplayer through Bluetooth on classic consoles
https://hackaday.io/project/170365-blueretro
3. The curse of the “Video Game Movie”
https://retrododo.com/max-reload-and-the-nether-blasters/
4. Intellivision comes to the Evercade
https://www.evercade.co.uk/intellivision-is-coming-to-evercade/
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The light at the end of lock down? | This Week in Retro 29

Are we seeing the light at the end of the lock down retro drought? Zelda is 35, but Nintendo don't care. Fry's Electronics closes its doors for good, and new SA1 chips for the SNES. Plus our community question of the week - Is Zelda an RPG? Weight in on our post on the TWiR Subreddit, and we'll read the top 3 most upvoted answers on next week's show! https://www.reddit.com/r/thisweekinretro/
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0:00 Show Open
2:10 Zelda Turns 35
11:27 The Retro Light at the End of Lockdown Glows Brighter
18:33 The Plimpbox from RetroRewind
20:14 Say Goodbye to Fry's
29:32 Driving the SNES Harder Than Ever
35:19 Community Question of the Week - Is Zelda an RPG?
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1. Zelda turns 35
https://venturebeat.com/2021/02/22/nintendo-is-holding-back-zeldas-35th-anniversary-because-its-marketing/
2. The retro light at the end of the lockdown tunnel grows brighter
https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/01/retro_museum/
3. Say goodbye to Fry’s
https://hackaday.com/2021/02/25/frys-electronics-has-fizzled-out-completely/
4. Driving the Super Nintendo harder than ever
https://amp.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/lp3sy8/race_drivin_snes_sa1_expansion_chip_conversion_by/