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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!

00:00 - Show Opening

08:20 - Fifty Years Of Apple Story Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgxdn9lyd2o Apple prototypes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74qPQt_5DdM

23:17 - Moon - The Computer Art That Made Sure We Didn’t Miss Story 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 Racing Story Link: https://github.com/albank1/Commodore-64-More-Disassembled-Games Dragon's Eye CRPG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJfGN4Zeb7M Additional links: https://github.com/cyneprepou4uk/NES-Games-Disassembly https://www.retroreversing.com/source-code/decompiled-retail-console-games

49:29 - Community Question of the Week

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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.

It's taken too long to get prominent retro podcaster and archivist @KaySavetz (ANTIC, Eaten By a Grue, Internet Archive, and more) on the show! On this bonus-sized episode Kay joins Dave and Jason as we take a deeper look at 1990s nostalgia and the loss of multi-format cover art giant Philip Castle, and chart the dramatic rise and hard fall of Iomega's Zip drives. And for the sake of equal time, Kay presents a news brief involving source code hidden away on SyQuest media.

All this, your picks for a gaming industry legend you'd like to spend an hour with, and more in This Week in Retro 262!

You can check out the ANTIC podcast here: https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/

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00:00 - Show Opening

04:24 - Elite Box Art Was Elite Story Link: https://x.com/DavidBraben/status/2035665737449107849

17:33 - Media Giants Of The Past Story Link: https://hackaday.com/2026/03/24/from-zip-to-nought-the-rise-and-fall-of-iomega/

32:42 - Housekeeping - News links found below

48:45 - I Wish It Was The 90s - Or Do I? Story Link: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/22/young-people-are-longing-for-the-low-tech-90s-and-so-would-i-if-i-could-only-remember-them Additional Link: https://www.theguardian.com/games/2026/mar/27/retro-rewind-video-rental-retail-sim

01:01:10 - Community Question of the Week

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News In Brief Links

PicoGX Cartridge: https://shop.flamelily.co.uk/picogx

History of Creative SoundBlaster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTPa6wRECw0

3dfx Voodoo on FPGA: https://hackaday.com/2026/03/22/the-3dfx-voodoo-lives-again-in-an-fpga/

Pico Z80: https://eaw.app/picoz80/

Windows 3.1 on AMD Ryzen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qP3Jy52RuQ

MS-DOS on Apple II: https://sethkush.com/post/2026/03/22/reboot-camp-83-ms-dos-on-the-apple-iie-is-ready/

Game stores final closure: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/major-uk-retailer-leave-high-085419192.html

Lemon20 community: https://lemon20.com

Nintendo64 Open World Engine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXxmIw9axWw

Kikstart documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sW6AdUeIFLs

Jetpac remake: https://www.timeextension.com/news/2026/03/the-zx-spectrum-classic-jetpac-has-been-unofficially-remade

Kerbal flight via ZX Spectrum: https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/enthusiast-lands-on-the-moon-using-hardware-from-the-1980s-zx-spectrum-home-computer-with-3-5-mhz-cpu-and-48kb-of-memory-power-kerbal-space-flight

AOL Macintosh source code: https://bitbang.social/@mac84tv/116313232502499502

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How did we allow this to happen?! Not the guest appearance by @adriansdigitalbasement , but rather the proliferation of competing controller standards which has finally been solved (possibly) by a new multi-interface project for USB, Raspberry Pi, and MiSTeR devices. Plus the latest developments at the new Commodore International Corporation, a treasure trove of audio recordings from Game Developer Conference 1989, the mostly-respectful observance of an important anniversary for the Nintendo Game Boy Advance, and the first "Chris' Corner" segment to keep the transportation news flowing while Chris takes a brief holiday!

00:00 - Show Opening

02:25 - Every Joyport, Everywhere, All At Once Story Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/MiSTerFPGA/comments/1rx12q4/multi_controller_adapter_retro_controllers_on/

20:50 - Commodore Is Growing Story Link: https://www.ign.com/articles/former-xbox-front-man-major-nelson-just-joined-the-company-behind-the-commodore-64-retro-revival

39:04 - Housekeeping - News links found below

47:21 - Meeting Legendary Minds Story Link: https://gamehistory.org/cgdc-1989-tapes/

Additional link: https://www.timeextension.com/news/2026/03/the-nes-is-not-gonna-go-on-forever-forget-gdc-2026-take-a-trip-back-in-time-with-recordings-from-the-1989-event

01:00:44 - Community Question of the Week

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News In Brief Links

Young People Yearn For 1990s Tech: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/22/young-people-are-longing-for-the-low-tech-90s-and-so-would-i-if-i-could-only-remember-them

GBA At 25: https://www.eurogamer.net/the-best-gba-games-you-can-play-on-switch-and-five-we-hope-show-up-soon

Gunship Origins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni4AbrlROz4

Chuck Norris Obituary: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/mar/20/chuck-norris-was-the-rip-roaring-king-of-80s-friday-night-vhs-fests

Rosetintedspectrum: https://youtu.be/NJ-QxbVUg6o

Indy Classic Expo: https://indyclassic.org

OpenTTD News: https://www.pcgamer.com/games/sim/openttd-asks-people-to-please-stop-being-mad-at-atari-for-forcing-the-game-off-steam-openttd-as-a-project-retains-its-full-independence-and-you-can-still-get-it-for-free/