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Jason from The Retro Adventurers joins us again today and tells us all about three new OS updates. Neil has a couple of demakes for 16-bit machines to talk about and Dave wonders is GTA really is the most influential game of all time.

All this and more retro news in brief plus your answers to our Question Of The Week.

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00:00 - Show Opening

03:22 - Three Operating System Upgrades, For Those Who Know How To Use ‘Em Story Link 1: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/10/amigaos_3_2_3/ Story Link 2: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/09/freedos_14/ Story Link 3: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/01/risc_os_open_moonshots/ RISC OS On Raspberry Pi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sneYGad3j5I The Deathbed Vigil: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaTjwo1ywcI

19:23 - 16-Bit Demakes Story Link 1 : https://www.timeextension.com/news/2025/04/no-youre-not-dreaming-farming-simulator-is-getting-an-official-sega-mega-drive-genesis-port Story Link 2 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqsaE7lEhQY

30:33 - Dave's Housekeeping - News links found below

38:23 - The Most Influential Game In The World Story Link: https://news.sky.com/story/how-chaotic-gang-of-british-geeks-launched-one-of-most-lucrative-gaming-franchises-of-all-time-13344263

49:55 - 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 Neil from RMC and Dave. Edited by Duncan Styles.

Dave's Briefs Links:

The Retro Museum: https://retrocomputermuseum.co.uk/

Compute!’s Gazette: https://www.computesgazette.com/iconic-computes-gazette-magazine-returns-after-35-years-expanding-focus-to-entire-retro-computing-community/

Dual SID Jump: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzvkWlDq2TM

1000 Classic PC Games: https://kotaku.com/gog-massive-sale-classic-games-deus-ex-sim-city-fallout-1851775895

VCF East: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BTxddKZbhA

Out Of Print Archive: https://www.outofprintarchive.com/index.html

A chiptunes documentary, a top ten list of influential games that seems a bit dodgy and ten seems to be the idea age to want to go back to. We are joined by Matt from TechMadeEasy.

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00:00 - Show Opening

05:42 - Shen Mooooooooooooo! Story Link: https://www.polygon.com/news/550231/shenmue-bafta-most-influential-game-all-time

23:46 - Ten Is The Magic Number Story Link: https://www.iflscience.com/retro-gamers-like-to-revisit-the-games-they-played-when-they-were-10-78700 Additional Link: https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/wt6yb_v1

34:36 - Dave's Housekeeping - News links found below

43:15 - Chiptune Heaven Story Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8U82IdByPUE

50:51 - 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 Neil from RMC and Dave. Edited by Duncan Styles. Dave's Briefs Links:

Doom Tune: https://youtu.be/PKebn_Ly9T8

Daddy Mulk Tune: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJwQP3MTpEQ

BG Ollie's Daddy Mulk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z2aEsID3zU

Nostalgia Nerd Before Google https://youtu.be/812YkCrmksk

New N-Gage Game: https://www.androidpolice.com/new-nokia-n-gage-boxed-game-available/

Salmon Survival: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/04/how-a-1980s-atari-creator-with-cystic-fibrosis-crafted-a-story-of-salmon-survival/

OpenLara On Amiga: https://amigaalive.blogspot.com/2025/04/lara-croft-literally-runs-on-amiga.html

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A bit of a thing broke out about the different way the US sees gaming history. There may be a new contender for Japan's first ever video game. Populous almost got a release on the NES, the code has been found and new footage is now available to watch.

All this and a handful of other stories and our Community Question Of The Week!

Ultima 7 Retrospective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NyaGRNH2zE

00:00 - Show Opening

08:42 - Let’s Go Bashing Americans! Story Link: https://www.timeextension.com/news/2025/03/poorly-analyzed-us-centric-garbage-why-do-americans-keep-ignoring-european-gaming-history

23:21 - Japanese Gaming History Unearthed Story Link: https://www.timeextension.com/news/2025/03/is-this-japans-first-ever-video-game Additional Link: https://pinktentacle.com/2009/10/computopia-old-visions-of-a-high-tech-future/

37:32 - Dave's Housekeeping - News links found below

44:31 - Not Popular Enough Story Link: https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/2025/03/populous/ Populous - a 33 year lost Nintendo Entertainment System conversion recovered by Games That Weren't!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=as6rpF-coCY

54:51 - Community Question of the Week

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Dave's Briefs Links:

ETO AmigaOS Book: https://www.edsa.uk/blog/classic-amigaos-programming-the-network

30 Years Of PlayStation On Tape: https://www.gamesradar.com/games/30-years-of-history-reside-in-our-tape-backups-playstations-building-a-game-preservation-mineshaft-vault-with-200-million-files-going-back-to-a-1994-build-of-ps1-jrpg-arc-the-lad/

Cyan Worlds Lay Off Staff: https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/the-37-year-old-studio-behind-myst-and-riven-laid-off-roughly-half-of-its-staff-our-sincere-hope-is-to-continue-to-be-around/

Dave Garage Windows Longhorn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpRZ8BQiiMo

Acorn Atom Trash To Treasure: https://youtu.be/3v4sFkmM0GY?si=I5ReyJP8Ml7IlTyz

Repairing Datasettes: https://www.retrotrade.dk/2025/03/21/datasette-repair-notes/