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The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)

Cinemaware and Amiga Art With Jim Sachs - The Retro Hour EP31

The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)

The Retro Hour

Technology, Leisure, Video Games

4.9558 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2016

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

We talk about the early Amiga days with legendary artist Jim Sachs, the man behind graphics for Defender of The Crown, Saucer Attack and the CDTV's user interface.

Jim's Website: http://www.fish-byte.com/AboutAuth.htm

Our website: http://theretrohour.com Our Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/theretrohour/ Our Twitter: http://twitter.com/retrohouruk

Show notes:

Left Lion interview with Dan & Ravi: https://t.co/mBq348jV9n New gaming TV show coming to Dave: http://bit.ly/2aAnacI Sega profits rise: http://bit.ly/2aGt5e7
Brutal Doom 64: http://bit.ly/2aGtygq
PS Vita cracked: http://bit.ly/2aAnGr9 Angry Birds ported to the Spectrum: http://bit.ly/2azkjOf
Scumm Mockup means Monkey Island 2 on C64: http://csdb.dk/release/?id=149728

Transcript

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0:00.0

I can't believe it.

0:03.5

Max has asked me to move in with him.

0:05.9

I mean, you practically live with each other already, but that's great.

0:09.8

Did you hear that, Joe?

0:11.5

Yes, thanks for letting us know.

0:14.3

I see you've updated your universal credit claim.

0:17.1

Now you're going to be living together.

0:21.3

If you're telling other people about a change in your circumstances,

0:25.4

tell us too to avoid a penalty.

0:27.8

Search Tell DWP.

0:30.0

Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast episode number 31,

0:33.9

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

0:37.9

And me, Robbie Abbott.

0:39.1

And me, Joe Fox. He's back. I'm back. Joe. Where have you been? I've been, I'm always busy. I'm too busy for this. No, I'm not. I'm not. Please have me on more often. You have been moving house, haven't you? I have moved house, I have, yes. So grown up, bought a house, moved house, getting married, all that jazz.

0:56.4

Have you got a game's room?

0:57.3

I've got a, bought a house, moved house, getting married, all that jazz.

0:56.4

Have you got a games room?

0:57.3

I have got a game's room.

0:58.9

I haven't been to a new place yet. No, you haven't been to my new place. Once it's all set up, I will share photos because it's coming along very nice. We have almost every main console from 8-bit onwards getting set up, LED lights and all that jazz.

1:12.3

I'm thinking of a retro hour podcast meter, but Joe's house. I'm actually feeling it. Definitely feeling it. But we're 3,000, 4,000 listeners a week, yeah? That'll be a big house, isn't it? It is a big house, actually. A bit as in the East Wing. Yeah, the East Wing. Nobody go to the West Wing. great to have you back on the show though, Joe. Great to be here every time. And obviously on the show every week, we talk about the big news stories for the first half an hour. And then in the second half of the show, we hand over to a special guest. Now, this is actually someone that we've wanted to get on the podcast. Since day one, I think it's fair to say. Totally. This is one of our hit list, one of the top Amiga people that we won on the podcast, and it's Jim Sacks. Now, to put it into perspective, Jim started on the Commodore 64. He did stuff like Sourser Attack. He did a lot of those cinemaware games. He did Defender of the Crown 1, 2, the CDTV

2:02.5

version of that as well. He also did stuff like the startup graphics and the UI for the CDTV,

2:07.4

some of the CD32 stuff. And later on, he did what I think must be the world's biggest selling

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