Doom and Doom II remade for the Atari Jaguar, a discussion about image scalers for retro gaming and do you know what Commodore's 2nd computer actually was?
All that and the Atari 2600+, news in brief and the Community Question Of The week.
The Christmas edition of Pixel Addict is now available and it features stories about Christmas games and toys of old(ish). With interviews with various members of staff of the magazines we loved back in the day and there is even an insight into how the Argos catalogue was put together. Visit www.pixel.addict.media
00:00 - Show Opening
08:21 - Are The Jaguar & Spectrum Both Doomed?
Story Link: https://www.timeextension.com/news/2023/10/atari-jaguar-is-getting-new-versions-of-doom-doom-ii-and-heretic
Additional Link: https://www.indieretronews.com/2023/10/doom-on-zx-spectrum-128k-by-digital.html
23:00 - The Scale Of Retro
Story Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdfFnR-hOK8
37:34 - Dave's Housekeeping
48:17 - Checkmate Commodore
Story Link: https://commodore.international/2022/03/26/the-history-of-the-commodore-chessmate/
Additional Link: https://youtu.be/1IvlOcaVtDc?si=VkzktI52TMW4Vg7W
59:00 - Community Question of the Week
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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 Neil from RMC, Chris from 005 AGIMA and Dave. Edited by Duncan Styles.
Episode Credits
Parts of "Commodore Cave CHESSmate" courtesy of Commodore Cave
Link to full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IvlOcaVtDc
Twitter post for mixed reality BBC Micro courtesy of Dominic Pajak
https://twitter.com/DominicPajak/status/1725293123239370932