New Perspective On Old Games - This Week In Retro 270

About this episode

The episode covers exclusive hardware news and explores retro games and operating systems.

Exclusive hardware development news caps a retro kit roundup this week which includes news of a MiSTer handheld from Heber along with updates on the PicoCPC, PicoIDE, and PicoGUS projects. In other news we take a closer look at reimagined Atic Atac and Wolfenstein 3D, and explore the many wild and wonderful corners of operating systems in the Virtual OS Museum. 00:00 - Show Opening 03:54 - Give Us A Hand Mister?Story Link: https://youtu.be/arSnNwDQS2kWide Boy: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YxGXvZRs4UI 20:22 - Run (Almost) Every Operating System!Story Link: http://virtualosmuseum.org 39:11 - Housekeeping - News links found below 44:33 - From 2D To 3D And BackStory Link: https://stephensmith.itch.io/atic-atac-3dAdditional link: https://www.moddb.com/mods/isowulf 57:34 - Community Question of the Week 🏆Your monthly support helps us keep the retro news flowing!https://www.patreon.com/thisweekinretro 🕸 TWiR Sub Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/thisweekinretro/ Follow your hosts!Bluesky:https://bsky.app/profile/davevelociraptor.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/jasoncompton.bsky.social Youtube:Chris - https://www.youtube.com/@005AGIMAJason…

People in this episode

Hosts: Chris, Jason, Dave, Duncan Styles

Topics covered

• retro gaming
• hardware development
• operating systems
• game reimaginings
• community engagement

Keywords

• MiSTer handheld
• PicoCPC
• Atic Atac
• Wolfenstein 3D
• Virtual OS Museum
• retro gaming
• hardware news

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Virtual OS Museum, Patreon, Reddit, Apple, Spotify, Podbean, Deezer

Products: MiSTer handheld, PicoCPC, PicoIDE, PicoGUS

Books & works: Atic Atac, Wolfenstein 3D

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