476: The Commodore Amiga at 40: The Original Developers' Story - The Retro Hour EP476
The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)
The Retro Hour
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🗓️ 18 April 2025
⏱️ 116 minutes
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Summary
Thanks to Amiga Bill for recording the interview, and joining us for the news this week!
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Contents:
00:00 - The Week's Retro News Stories
45:00 - Amiga 40th Panel
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Show notes
New Sega Saturn homebrew racer: https://tinyurl.com/2sn87by7
Compute’s Gazette returns: https://tinyurl.com/yc7km7yn
Limited Run DOOM I & II collection: https://tinyurl.com/yyw46vhc
AmigaOS update released: https://tinyurl.com/4fzbs2d8
Mechanoids 2 – The Final Conflict: https://tinyurl.com/3mkh48rs
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this week's show, an incredible new Sega Saturn Racerlands. |
| 0:05.0 | A legendary computer magazine returns. |
| 0:07.8 | And we celebrate Amiga's 40th birthday with our incredible friends of bitmap books. |
| 0:31.6 | Now, of course, today we're going to be celebrating the Amiga. |
| 0:34.1 | Have you seen their amazing book, Commodore Amiga, a visual compendium? |
| 0:39.4 | Now, this covers all the benchmark Amiga titles, starting in the early days, Defender of the Crown, |
| 0:43.9 | Barbarian, going through all the classics that we remember, Rocket Ranger, Populous, Cannabot, |
| 0:48.4 | speedball, worms weighing in at more than 420 pages. |
| 0:52.4 | If you love the Amiga, you need to check this out and the rest |
| 0:54.7 | of their retro gaming collection at bitmapbooks.com. And with our friends at PCB way. Now, I'm sure |
| 1:02.1 | you know about PCB way. Big supporters of the retro community, they offer fully featured |
| 1:06.9 | custom PCB prototyping services with low-cost, fast turnaround quality boards, and if you're in the market for things like 3D printing and injection molding, they've got you covered. |
| 1:16.8 | And check out their shared project section on their website and get an instant quite right now at PCBway.com. |
| 1:24.5 | Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast, episode number 476, your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news with me, Dan Wood. |
| 1:33.5 | Me, Ravi Appet. |
| 1:35.1 | And me, Bill Winters, also known as Amiga Bill. |
| 1:38.3 | Amiga Bill joins a team. Welcome Amiga Bill. |
| 1:41.6 | Let's go, baby. |
| 1:42.7 | 40s anniversary. I'm so pumped. |
| 1:44.8 | Let's do this. |
| 1:46.0 | Well, the reason that we do have a special guest host on this week's podcast, not only did the time we work out very well because Joe's away sending himself this week. |
| 1:54.3 | But obviously, I did kind of touch on the last couple of weeks. |
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