190: Bleem: How The PlayStation Was Emulated - The Retro Hour EP190
The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)
The Retro Hour
4.9 • 558 Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2019
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Point and click engine for the Amstrad CPC: https://bit.ly/2khUz3O
Doom 4 de-make: https://bit.ly/2kt1tmV
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Transcript
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| 0:01.0 | Potential. |
| 0:02.0 | Potential can sometimes feel daunting, scary. |
| 0:07.0 | But today's the day you decide to act on it with a higher technical qualification. |
| 0:13.0 | Designed with employers, it will give you the skills you need to land the job you want, |
| 0:18.0 | because today is your day. |
| 0:24.5 | When anything is possible, if you make it happen. |
| 0:26.6 | It all starts with skills. |
| 0:28.3 | See how you can get started. |
| 0:29.9 | Search skills for life. |
| 0:33.4 | Coming up on this week's show, the Sega Dreamcast turns 20, |
| 0:35.7 | but how did it influence modern consoles? |
| 0:38.7 | A stunning new beat-em- up is revealed for the Amiga. |
| 0:43.1 | And we talk to the man behind BLEM, the legendary PlayStation emulator. |
| 0:50.3 | Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast episode number 190. |
| 0:54.1 | Your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news with me Dan Wood. |
| 0:55.2 | And me, Ravi Abbott. |
| 1:13.4 | And all the Sega fanboys are like, where's Joe? He's not here for a second week. Thing is, he's that much of a Sega fan boy. He had to take a week off and celebrate the Dreamcast 20th anniversary. Oh, yes. And what a guest we have on the show for the Dreamcast 20th anniversary. We have Randy Lyndon. Now, Randy is a guy who achieves the impossible. |
| 1:16.0 | Basically, he's always looked at projects and kind of wanted to achieve the impossible. |
| 1:18.3 | He started off by doing Dragons Lair on the Amiga. |
| 1:21.3 | So it was the first kind of video streaming off floppy disk, |
| 1:24.9 | which, if you think about that, it's absolutely crazy. |
| 1:28.2 | But that was a laser disc game in the arcade. |
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