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The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)

196: Retro Handheld Consoles with Ashens and The Retro Future - The Retro Hour EP196

The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)

The Retro Hour

Technology, Leisure, Video Games

4.9558 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2019

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Ashens: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxt9Pvye-9x_AIcb1UtmF1Q
The Retro Future: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCefAbzsWZE4uXU-mqQMrr4Q

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Hidden c64 program in Christian rock album: https://bit.ly/2Wc3L86
Octavius Kitten Horacegate: https://bit.ly/34129AQ
Analogue Pocket: https://bit.ly/2pflFe6 
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Transcript

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0:00.0

I can't believe it.

0:03.6

Max has asked me to move in with him.

0:06.0

I mean, you practically live with each other already, but that's great.

0:09.9

Did you hear that, Joe?

0:11.5

Yes, thanks for letting us know.

0:14.3

I see you've updated your universal credit claim.

0:17.1

Now you're going to be living together.

0:21.3

If you're telling other people about a change in your circumstances,

0:25.4

tell us too to avoid a penalty.

0:27.8

Search Tell DWP.

0:30.0

Coming up on this week's show, a Commodore 64 program in a Christian rock album.

0:35.8

Here's the analogue pocket, the handheld we've been waiting for?

0:38.5

And we talk handhelds with Elliot from Retro Future and Stuart Ashen.

0:44.3

This week's show is brought to you by Harry's.

0:47.0

Get Started Shaving with Harry's today.

0:49.2

And The Economist, the Smart Guide to the Forces Changing Your World.

0:54.8

Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast, episode number 196, your weekly dose of retro

1:00.6

gaming and technology news with me, Dan Wood, me Ravi Abbott, and me Joe Fox.

1:04.7

And welcome to this week's show.

1:06.8

Now, we are not long back from Emiga Germany, our trip out there last weekend. At the beginning of last week's show, we did talk about the fact that we've probably just been there, but we did kind of fake it and record that in advance. Now we do actually feel hungover having been there for the weekend. Amazing event. There was thousands of people, and it was crazy to see it, had this kind of feel of the 90s, but we also went to an Octoberfest party afterwards. This was insane. Now, Joe wasn't there. He was working this way, and you're not really into the Amiga. No, unfortunately, I'm not massively into the Amiga, so I didn't pop along to this one, but it sounded like they had an absolutely amazing time. This was, and it was like stepping back in time, loads of Amiga fans got together. It was actually a really big museum it was held in, wasn't it like two stories? And it was growing. You know, we had a queue outside. God, I've never been to an Amiga event with a queue. And there was so much cool new hardware. We saw The Vampire standalone, like a new FPGA interpretation of the Amiga. We saw Accelerator Cards. We saw a guy who actually made a little device that can speed up your old Amiga 500 and give you a better graphics and internet by plugging a Raspberry Pi into it, which I thought was really cool. But really, for me, it was a socialising that I loved as well, because you've got a picture of this, all right? We're in this hotel in

2:17.9

Noyce near Dusseldorf in Germany and it's got a ski slope in the hotel. And it literally

2:23.7

the ski slope leads down to the window of the bar. Yeah. So all night long. Didn't let a drunk

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