The Atari Jaguar Needs Good Games - This Week In Retro 171
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🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 When you need him most he will be there! He stands tall, gazing into the middle distance while holding a bowl of noodles and hoping that his makeshift table cloth cape will billow in the breeze! We needed help this week and so, like the hero he is, he stepped forward and saved the day! Once again Radio is going to be used to distribute computer code. Find out what and where. JagJam 2024 hopes to bring some top notch games to Atari's Jaguar console. Back in the 1980s there was a home automation system that didn't require the internet (it did require you to read a hefty manual though). Plus more retro computing news and the all important Community Question Of The Week! 00:00 - Show Opening 08:30 - Radio ReturnStory Link: https://www.racunalniski-muzej.si/en/40-years-later-a-game-for-the-zx-spectrum-will-be-once-again-broadcast-over-fm-radio/Play Kontrabant 2: https://archive.org/details/zx_Kontrabant_2_1984_Radio_Student_sr 17:08 - Good Jag Games At Last. Maybe?Story Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dij7aBXV91EJagFest 1999: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaZFCvxNwko 31:11 - Dave's Housekeeping Tetris Hack: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/05/hackers-discover-how-to-reprogram-nes-tetris-from-within-the-game/ Retro Magazines: https://www.theguardian.com/games/article/2024/may/10/the-15-ish-greatest-uk-video-game-magazines-of-all-time?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other Don't Stop Using Floppies: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240510-floppy-disks-why-some-people-are-still-in-love-with-this-obsolete-computer-storage-technology Gaming Addiction: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240510-floppy-disks-why-some-people-are-still-in-love-with-this-obsolete-computer-storage-technology Atari Carts Broken: https://www.timeextension.com/news/2024/05/atari-responds-to-reports-of-faulty-games-in-usd1000-50th-xp-collection Retro PDF Printing: https://magpi.raspberrypi.com/articles/retro-printer 38:17 - I’m Sorry Dave, I’m Afraid I Can’t Do ThatStory Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra9ov-ud_Q0 48:29 - Community Question of the Week 🏆Your monthly support helps us keep the retro news flowing!https://www.patreon.com/thisweekinretro ☕Or just buy us a coffee!https://ko-fi.com/thisweekinretro 🕸 TWiR Sub Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/thisweekinretro/ Follow your hosts!Twitter:https://twitter.com/rmcretro Youtube:https://youtube.com/rmcretro Twitch:https://www.twitch.tv/rmcretro Subscribe to the audio version of the show!📻 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-retro/id1526487568?uo=4📻 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2OPQ3cADaB92E9SpRdTe5y📻 Deezer: www.deezer.com📻 Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy8yZjQ5ODlmOC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw📻 RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2f4989f8/podcast/rss📻 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFMx-JitepTttWc-ABHhu8A/ 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.
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