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Jason has his report and some footage from Vintage Computer Festival Midwest (VCFMW). Chris is looking at the evolution of Elite and Dave asks a confusing question about gaming legends that rose from nothing.

Plus other retro gaming/computing news in brief and your answers to the Community Question Of The Week.

Luke A. Winter Writing : https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61574579192577

00:00 - Show Opening

01:30 - The Rise Of The Nobody Story Link: https://youtu.be/H1jwoyBRYcU?si=IyQnlEIwJEXr9Uu6

17:37 - My Vintage Computer Festival Weekend!

36:24 - Housekeeping - News links found below

42:20 - The Evolution Of Elite Story Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NivmyB2JhKE

52:16 - Community Question of the Week

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News In Brief Links

Tariffs and The Hobby: https://www.404media.co/its-just-a-mess-23-people-explain-how-tariffs-have-suddenly-ruined-their-hobby/

C64 Indy: https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/2025/09/indiana-jones-and-the-last-crusade-adventure-prototype-recovered-for-the-commodore-64/

PETSCII Outrun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNfUGs6JbNo

Amiga Belfast: https://retro.directory/e777

PDP Gaming: https://obsolescence.dev/pdp1.html

Sega Dev Kit Raid: https://www.timeextension.com/news/2025/09/sega-dev-kit-raid-a-preservation-disaster-for-collectors-archivists-and-the-gaming-community

Our first guests for quite some time are Taylor and Amy from The Taylor and Amy show. They join us to talk about BASIC, a teeny tiny replacement for the Commodore Datasette and a chap called Christopher Drum who has recently started a blog about productivity software and has decided to start with a deep dive into Deluxe Paint on the Amiga. But that isn't all he has to offer.

Find more from Taylor and Amy thestopbits.bandcamp.com thestopbits.net https://www.youtube.com/@tayloramyshow

Learn all about Casio and their technology legacy in the latest issue of Pixel Addict magazine. Reviews of brand new Home-brew games and remembering Hewson Consultants, an interview with Rob and Andrew Hewson. Loads more besides. Head over to www.addict.media

00:00 - Show Opening

02:58 - Microsoft Open-Sources a Classic! Story Link: https://github.com/microsoft/BASIC-M6502 Article 1: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/04/microsoft_open_sources_6502_basic/ Article 2: https://www.pagetable.com/?p=46

17:13 - It’s A Commodore Datasette But Is It Far Away? No It’s Just Small! Story Link: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/remaking-a-commodore-64-datasette-from-1982-using-1993-microcassette-tech-techtuber-touts-1mb-per-tape-a-5x-improvement-over-the-original

29:06 - Housekeeping - News links found below

35:36 - Christopher Drum: Someone You Should Know Story Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/thisweekinretro/comments/1n9nncs/stone_tools_a_blog_about_retro_productivity/ Stone Tools Blog: https://stonetools.ghost.io/deluxepaint-amiga/

Channels Dave Mentioned: https://www.youtube.com/@TimberwolfK https://www.youtube.com/@Yesterzine https://www.youtube.com/@WhatHoSnorkers

50:07 - Community Question of the Week

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News In Brief Links

Clint At LGR: https://youtu.be/6Lmi_b0REW0?t=454

The Making Of Geoff Crammond’s F1 Grand Prix: https://www.timeextension.com/features/the-making-of-geoff-crammonds-formula-one-grand-prix-series

Xbox 360 Softmod: https://youtu.be/0gRHubim8DI?si=-JIOzun0uKktyySF

The Amstrad PCW8256 Turns 40: https://amstrad.com/product/pcw8256-pcw8512/

When Gaming Was Fun & Simple: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vxRXdcxv2U

Game Boy Colour Outrun: https://bsky.app/profile/egvroom.bsky.social/post/3lxqowb7dyc22

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First the floppy and now the optical, can disks survive? The Texas Instruments TI99, did it ever stand a chance? Can arcade Commando be improved with the Commodore 64 SID tune? All this and more in your weekly retro computing round up.

00:00 - Show Opening

01:47 - Are Disks Immortal? Story Link: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/new-jersey-prisoner-laments-reliance-on-floppy-disks-for-appeals-documents-which-limits-file-size-to-1-44-mb-prisoners-allowed-20-floppy-disks-in-cell-but-usb-flash-sticks-are-banned SD Floppy Disk Concept: https://www.techradar.com/pro/this-creative-concept-reinvents-the-1-44mb-floppy-disk-as-a-modern-storage-device-a-holder-for-todays-sd-cards-packing-terabytes-of-storage End Of LG Blu Ray:https://youtu.be/HTNCYrLEezA?si=tBAKAUAkLyfc8OSw

16:32 - The Rise and Fall of Texas Instruments’ TI/99 Story Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlLQ_YifDl8 Additional Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0Jtv8hvau4 Online TI99 Emulator: https://js99er.net/#/

36:22 - Housekeeping - News links found below

41:46 - Making The Arcade Port Better By Using SID Music Story Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewyzM-H286U

51:04 - Community Question of the Week

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News In Brief Links:

UK Loves Retro: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/25/straight_outta_1996_why_were/

Vic-20 ISA: https://hackaday.com/2025/08/26/vic-20-gets-isa-slot-networking/

IRC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UbKenFipjo

Evoids: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3140290/Evoids/

Amiga No CPU Challenge: https://github.com/askeksa/NoCpuChallenge

Byte Visual Archive: https://byte.tsundoku.io/