484: The Man Who Tried To Save the Amiga: Petro Tyschtschenko - The Retro Hour EP484
The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)
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🗓️ 13 June 2025
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Contents:
00:00 - The Week's Retro News Stories
41:51 - Petro Tyschtschenko Interview
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this week's show is Commodore making another comeback. |
| 0:04.0 | Great news for Mortal Kombat fans. |
| 0:06.4 | And we chat with former Amiga Technologies Managing Director Petro Chischenko. |
| 0:19.8 | And the Retro Hour podcast is brought to you every Friday with our friends, our incredible sponsor, a bitmap books. |
| 0:25.7 | Now, of course, today we're going to be talking about the Amiga and a book of theirs. |
| 0:29.1 | I absolutely love Commodore Amiga, a visual compendium. |
| 0:33.4 | Now, new prints of this coming soon, and it details everything that we loved about the Amiga gaming scene. |
| 0:38.4 | From the early days of stuff like Defender of the Crown to Barbarian, |
| 0:41.8 | running through all those massive titles that we grew up playing, cannon fodder, speedball, worms, |
| 0:46.6 | and weighing in at more than 420 pages. |
| 0:49.8 | If you love Amiga gaming, this is an absolute love letter to it, you can check it out, |
| 0:53.5 | and the rest of their retro gaming collection at bitmapbooks.com. |
| 0:58.5 | Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast, episode number 484. |
| 1:03.1 | Your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news with me, Dan Wood. |
| 1:06.9 | Me Ravi Abbott. And me, Joe Foxx. |
| 1:09.2 | And a very warm welcome to the podcast to show that every single Friday celebrates all the wonderfulness about the incredible world of retro gaming and technology. |
| 1:17.2 | Brings you up to speed on what's been happening from over the last seven days and welcomes on more veterans of the industry to tell their story in an interview on the second half of the show. And while the rest of the gaming world has been there getting all excited over the Nintendo Switch 2 over the last week, we tend to go a little bit more old school. But now they will say, kind of got to have missed out on getting a Switch 2 on launch day. You guys know I've just been away in holiday for kind of a long weekend, away with my misses Flew out there on a Switch 2 launch day on Thursday. Had an idea that I might be able to pick one up at the airport. But yeah, that was a kind of wishful thinking. So you guys know anyone that's managed to get out of a Switch 2? Over than YouTubers, which I haven't actually watched any videos on. Nobody personally, to be honest. |
| 2:02.8 | I don't know if it's just because I'm getting on. |
| 2:05.2 | You know, I'm not as young as I used to be, and times have changed. |
| 2:08.3 | But I don't feel like there's been any sort of like excitement or buzz. |
| 2:13.1 | I totally forgot it was coming out. |
| 2:15.3 | I forgot until Dan mentioned it. |
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