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The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)

Early Internet Adventures with Michael Lawrie - The Retro Hour EP108

The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)

The Retro Hour

Technology, Leisure, Video Games

4.9558 Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2018

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

We go back to the earliest days of MUDs, university networks, and the Internet with Michael Lawrie. Plus, how one of the world's most legendary hackers spied on him for a year.

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Thanks to our amazing donators this week: Gary Hucker, Charles Astwood, Mathew Willetts, Andrew Holland

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Show notes:

C64 mini to be stocked in ARGOS & complete games list http://www.argos.co.uk/product/7606548 https://youtu.be/h8CRXR0d5NY
Amiga Future celebrates 20 years: http://www.amigafuture.de
PONG turned into a TV game show: http://bit.ly/2DQFYoE
Konami still releasing TurboGrafx-16 games on Wii U: http://bit.ly/2EbZuYF

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.

0:23.6

If you're telling other people about a change in your circumstances, tell us too to avoid a penalty. Search tell DWP. Hello and welcome to the

0:31.1

Retro Hour podcast episode number 108. Your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news with me

0:37.2

Dan Wood and me Ravi Abbott and hopefully

0:39.2

we'll be able to hear all of this week's episode unlike last week oh god yeah um that was a bit of a disaster

0:45.5

wasn't it i i'll tell you the story what happened so i edit the show a bit late last week in her hands

0:50.5

a bit of a busy week friday afternoon finally got to finish about 5pm, hit the upload button.

0:55.1

And we put it on several platforms, but on SoundCloud, when you see the player, it gives you like a little visual waveform, doesn't it? Yeah, and SoundCloud's kind of the main place that pumps out to everything. Yeah, yeah, all the RSS feeds and stuff come off there on our website and everything. and I looked at it and I thought maybe it's just because

1:10.6

it's a slightly different EQ or something

1:13.2

because it was a live interview that we did last week

1:14.9

that was. our website and everything. And I looked at it then and I thought maybe it's just because it's a slightly different EQ or something because it was a live interview that we did last week that we ran on the show. And it looked all right in Adobe audition. You know, the way for and it looked fine in there. Yeah, you sent me a copy. I'd listen to it. It sounded fine. So then I thought, you know, it got to about half past six. Show's done this week. You know, rub my hands alright okay I've got to meet the misses now for a couple of drinks and a bit of food in town I've done this 106 times before

1:31.3

it's got to about half-past six. Show's done this week. You know, rub my hands. All right, okay, I've got to meet the misses now

1:28.1

for a couple of drinks and a bit of food in town.

1:29.5

I've done this 106 times before, it's fine.

1:32.2

Yeah, I'm a pro at this now. Nothing can go wrong. So then I'm on my way into town to meet the misses. You know, we normally do on Friday, got the pub, bit of food and stuff, then I saw the messages start coming in. I can't hear this week's show.

1:44.5

It's just white noise. And I'm like, what? So I've got my phone coming in. I can't hear this week's show, it's just white noise.

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