This Week in Retro
This Week in Retro
Chris from 005 AGIMA, Jason from The Retro Adventurers, Dave and Duncan Styles
Apple Computer At 50 - This Week In Retro 263
55 minutes Posted Apr 11, 2026 at 9:00 am.
Show Opening
Fifty Years Of AppleStory Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgxdn9lyd2oApple prototypes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74qPQt_5DdM
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/
Housekeeping - News links found below
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
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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!
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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 Chris from 005 AGIMA, Jason from The Retro Adventurers and Dave. Edited by Duncan Styles.
News In Brief Links
Gaming Historian ends: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV_Aww8_6wQ
XBox 360 GTA4 Devkit: https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/xbox/xbox-360-devkit-bought-for-usd5-at-car-boot-sale-came-with-2007-beta-build-of-gta-iv-with-unreleased-assets-version-includes-cut-ferry-system-zombies-and-more
Manic Miner online: https://manicminer.online
Taito Crown 603 claw machine: https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/after-asking-the-japanese-public-to-help-it-find-its-first-ever-claw-machine-game-taito-instead-found-its-second/
CLK emulator: https://github.com/TomHarte/CLK
Doom "on a BBC Micro": https://youtu.be/32hJLwrk-gY
Capcom mini-arcade machine: https://www.hackster.io/news/lcl-li-s-tiny-capcom-arcade-cabinet-uses-a-period-appropriate-though-scaled-down-crt-display-68d78f2c6743
Episode Credits
"Apple Lisa (Little Apple Museum)" by Alvy is licensed under CC BY 2.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/?ref=openverse.
"Apple Vision Pro (M5, 2025) with Dual Knit Band on Display (cropped)" by AzureSaturn is marked with CC0 1.0.
"Apple Macintosh ー Computer History Museum (25364330319)" by Ik T from Kanagawa, Japan is licensed under CC BY 2.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/?
"Apple Newton MessagePad H1000 in NMAH" by National Museum of American History is marked with CC0 1.0. To view the terms, visit https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en/?ref=openverse.