392: Mikro-Gen: The Rise and Fall of a British Software House with Chris Hinsley - The Retro Hour EP392

The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)

The Retro Hour

Technology, Leisure, Video Games

4.9 • 558 Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2023

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

We chat to the legendary Chris Hinsley, one of the lead programmers at Mikro-Gen, a pioneering software house in the 1980s that produced games such as Pyjamarama, Everyone’s a Wally, and Equinox. Chris shared his memories of Mikro-Gen and his time on the groundbreaking TaOS, which almost became the next operating system for the Amiga.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Coming up on this week's show, Atari surprise us all again.
0:04.6	The big retro gaming announcements from Gamescom so far.
0:07.9	And we go inside the world of microgen with Chris Hinsley.
0:16.3	And the Retro Hour podcast is brought to you every Friday with our wonderful friends at Bitmap Books.
0:24.5	Now, have you seen their latest book, The Art of the Box?
0:28.5	Now, this features 26 biographies of those artists who at some point in their career found themselves illustrating legendary game packaging.
0:37.1	Now, this is a real celebration of the boxes that we bought our games in back in the day.
0:41.7	We'll tell you more about that in just a bit.
0:43.2	And you can check that out on the rest of their retro gaming collection at bitmapbooks.com.
0:48.6	Hello, and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast, episode number 392, your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news
0:56.4	with me, Dan Wood.
0:57.3	Me Ravi Abbott.
0:58.4	And me, Joe Fox.
0:59.8	And very nice to be joining us for this, the podcast that every single Friday takes
1:04.3	you on a nostalgic trip back into the golden age of video games and technology.
1:08.8	Brings you up to speed on what's been happening in the world of retro gaming and tech from over the last week
1:12.7	and of course brings you a veteran
1:14.5	to share their story in
1:16.7	the second half of the podcast. Basically
1:18.8	if you remember this sound
1:20.9	then this is the podcast for you.
1:31.0	56K.
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