About this episode

The episode features a discussion with indie game dev legend Jeff Vogel about Apple products and their impact over the last 50 years.

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 Indie game dev legend Jeff Vogel of spiderwebsoftware.com joins us for a provocative hour of conversation about legendary Apple products, summer camp with Lord British, moonshots and other artifacts of the Space Race, and much more! 00:00 - Show Opening 08:20 - Fifty Years Of AppleStory Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgxdn9lyd2oApple prototypes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74qPQt_5DdM 23:17 - Moon - The Computer Art That Made Sure We Didn’t MissStory Link: https://hackaday.com/2026/03/30/see-the-computers-that-powered-the-voyager-space-program/ 31:17 - Housekeeping - News links found below 37:15 - Omega Race Counts As RacingStory Link: https://github.com/albank1/Commodore-64-More-Disassembled-GamesDragon's Eye CRPG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJfGN4Zeb7MAdditional links: https://github.com/cyneprepou4uk/NES-Games-Disassemblyhttps://www.retroreversing.com/source-code/decompiled-retail-console-games 49:29 - Community Question of the Week 🏆Your monthly support helps us keep the retro news flowing!https://www.patreon.com/thisweekinretro 🕸 TWiR Sub Reddit…

People in this episode

Hosts: Chris, Jason, Dave, Duncan Styles

Guest: Jeff Vogel

Topics covered

• Apple history
• technology
• indie game development
• space race
• community engagement

Keywords

• Apple Computer
• Jeff Vogel
• indie game development
• space race
• technology history
• community questions
• retro gaming

Sponsors

PCBWay

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Apple, spiderwebsoftware.com, BBC, Hackaday, GitHub, YouTube, Patreon

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