426: Amstrad CPC with Roland Perry Pt 2: The Sinclair Takeover, Expanding the Range - The Retro Hour EP426

The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)

The Retro Hour

Technology, Leisure, Video Games

4.9 • 558 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2024

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

We continue our celebrations of 40 years of the Amstrad CPC with part 2 of our chat with Roland Perry. This episode dives into the Sinclair acquisition, the transformation of Amstrad after incorporating the Spectrum, the expansion of the CPC line into high-end models, and a peek at some intriguing unreleased prototypes.

Contents:

00:00 - The Week's Retro News Stories
42:36 - Roland Perry Interview

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Show notes:

Infogrames revival announced: https://tinyurl.com/mtvjj6ar
Game Boy as FM Radio with new cart: https://tinyurl.com/y7xauz4t
Switch Arcade Racing Dock revealed: https://tinyurl.com/3j9hcnrt
Doom 64 coming to the Dreamcast: https://tinyurl.com/59zwawsf
Phoenix launches on Amiga: https://tinyurl.com/mk635zy3

Transcript

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0:00.0	Coming up on this week's show, a legendary name from the past is returning.
0:05.1	Turn your Game Boy into a portable radio.
0:07.6	And we continue our Amstrat celebrations with Roland Perry.
0:18.9	And the Retro Hour podcast is brought to you each and every Friday with our incredible friends at Bitmap Books.
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1:13.9	Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast, episode number 426, your weekly dose of
1:19.5	retro gaming and technology news with me, Dan Wood, me Ravi Abbott's, and me Joe Foxx.
1:24.8	And a very warm welcome to the show.
1:27.3	Of course, a podcast every single Friday celebrates all things about retro gaming and technology
1:32.4	and brings you veterans of the industry onto the podcast to hear their story in the second
1:39.3	half of the show.
1:40.7	And I can't believe that this is our final podcast of April. Looking at my window now recording this at nearly 8pm. It's still daylight outside. Richard, I don't know about you. That definitely puts me in a better mood than when it's dark at like 3 o'clock in the afternoon. I get up early for work. So I'm walking out about, you know, 6.30 in the morning. and it's sunny now, so I don't feel as much as
2:01.7	of an alien, you know, getting up in the dark, kind of going in like that. So, yeah, I'm enjoying it. Yeah. And still freezing, though. Yeah, yeah. I mean, there's just, anything above like two degrees, it'd be quite nice, I think. You know, a bit of warm weather would be welcome. But of course, that does mean
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