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The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)

342: Video Toaster with NewTek Founder Tim Jenison - The Retro Hour EP342

The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)

The Retro Hour

Technology, Leisure, Video Games

4.9558 Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2022

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

We're joined by a legend this week, NewTek founder and the 'father of desktop video', Tim Jenison, to hear the story of how the Commodore Amiga changed the movie and TV industry.

Tim's Vermeer: https://www.sonyclassics.com/timsvermeer/ 

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Show notes: 
Resident Evil cancelled after one season: https://bit.ly/3B8ngVx
Pac Man World Re-Pac: https://bit.ly/3Q9VIDk
Wireless controller mod for GameCube: https://bit.ly/3B4eZBR
Janet Jackson crashes your hard drive: https://bit.ly/3KFfhlH
Game publisher Sunsoft is back: https://bit.ly/3KCYHmJ

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.

0:09.8

Did you hear that joke?

0:11.5

Yes, thanks for letting us know.

0:14.2

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, how Janet Jackson could destroy your retro computer.

0:35.6

Bad news for Resident Evil fans.

0:37.3

And we chat to the father of desktop

0:39.6

video, Tim Jenison. And the Retro Hour podcast is brought to you every Friday with our amazing

0:53.3

friends at Bitmap Books.

0:54.9

Now, you may have seen that the Commodore 64 celebrated its 40th anniversary recently.

1:00.4

So what better way to celebrate that than with Commodore 64 a visual compendium?

1:05.5

Taking you on a journey through the C64's varied and colourful gaming library, starting in 1982 and then travelling forward through the decades.

1:13.6

There's going to be new copies of that available from next month, and you can pre-order right now, and check out the rest of their retro gaming books at bitmapbooks.com.

1:22.0

And with our friends at PCB Way.

1:24.3

Now, they offer a fully featured custom PCB prototype service with low-cost, fast turnaround

1:30.0

quality boards, and they offer services like 3D printing and injection molding. And you know,

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