🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 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.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-bannedSD 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-storageEnd Of LG Blu Ray:https://youtu.be/HTNCYrLEezA?si=tBAKAUAkLyfc8OSwStory Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlLQ_YifDl8Additional Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0Jtv8hvau4Online TI99 Emulator: https://js99er.net/#/Story Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewyzM-H286U🏆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.socialYoutube:Chris - https://www.youtube.com/@005AGIMAJason - https://www.youtube.com/@jpcomptonAudio Podcast:https://retroadventurers.podbean.com/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📻 Podbean: https://twir.podbean.com📻 Deezer: https://www.deezer.com/en/show/5734337📻 RSS: https://feed.podbean.com/TWIR/feed.xml📻 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ThisWeekinRetroThis 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 Chris from 005 AGIMA, Jason from The Retro Adventurers and Dave. Edited by Duncan Styles.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=6UbKenFipjoEvoids: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3140290/Evoids/Amiga No CPU Challenge: https://github.com/askeksa/NoCpuChallengeByte Visual Archive: https://byte.tsundoku.io/