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Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast, episode number 130,

your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news with me, Dan Wood.

And me, Ravi Abbott.

Now, this podcast, I think we're quite proud to say, covers quite a broad range of subjects

in terms of retro gaming and technology.

Yeah, we have musicians, programmers, artists for all kinds of systems on.

Hackers on last week's show with John Traper.

And we cover a broad range of systems as well. You know, be that consoles, be that computers. But I've got to say, at heart, Ravi and I are total fanboys of Commodore and the Amiga. Totally. That's how we met, which was just basically being fanboys of Amiga on YouTube. So we don't do that.

We don't make any pretence that we don't love Commodore and the Amiga. And occasionally we might dedicate a show to a bit more about that kind of subject than others. And I know there are people that love that too, which is why, if you are a fan of Commodore, you are going to love today's podcast. Oh, we've got some good news, haven't we? We've got two guests on this week. Now, first of all, this guy's been everywhere.

You may have seen him on Retro Mancaves channel, promoting this new product that he's got, but also a very interesting history. And this is Stephen Jones. Yeah, Stephen Jones. I remember going to Amiga shows, Wild of Amiga 99, and all of these old ones, Stephen would be on this stage, he'd be promoting stuff, he'd always be pushing stuff, even to the late periods, and he used to have a really cool company that were called Cluster UK later on, but first they did the Siamese system, do you remember that? A checkmate digital, I think, was his first company, wasn't it? Yeah, check, yeah. Yeah, so the Siamese, I remember that was a, essentially a tower case where you could have an Amiga motherboard in there and a PC running Windows. Yeah, and it would have a switch between. Or a keyboard shortcut, I think you could do as well. A KVM switch. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, so it literally switched between the Amiga and the PC. You could have the windows in the other one, but also he had one with a Mac in, which is like three machines in one, and that must have got very hot. Yeah, you need liquid cooling for that, I imagine. And also, I mean, the thing he's been talking about recently is the Amiga 1500, as he called it. Now this was a product that back then, I mean, you remember the Amiga 500. That was a machine that they sold in like Dixons and Curries. Yeah, they told it as a gaming machine, really. Yeah, the Batman Pack or that kind of thing. And it was cheap about $399.000 I bought mine for. Essentially, though, like I said, it was kids playing games in their bedroom.

And if you wanted the kind of more professional Amiga, with the slots and all that, the Amiga 2000 was way more expensive.

Yeah, they were kind of professional industrial machines used for, like, video editing and all of this.

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