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The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)

Earthworm Jim, Aladdin and MDK with Nick Bruty - The Retro Hour EP58

The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)

The Retro Hour

Technology, Leisure, Video Games

4.9558 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2017

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

We get the inside story on the development of Earthworm Jim, the Aladdin video game and classic shooter MDK with Nick Bruty!

Thanks to our amazing donators: Gareth McKee, Michael Keith, Robinson Technologies, Simon Pilgrim, Scott Rowley

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

Show notes:

Zelda maps on paper: http://bit.ly/2kFD5IM
Raiden coming to Atari STE: http://bit.ly/2lq7Gya
MSX2CAS: http://bit.ly/2m2BL3O
Project ZX: http://bit.ly/2kR4LLu
Deep Thought can be built: http://bit.ly/2jZ1VUc

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 58,

0:34.5

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

0:38.2

And me, Ravi Abbott.

0:39.3

He's looking very relaxed, considering you spent most of today installing Linux.

0:42.7

Yeah, well, I was pulling my hair out at Windows 10 because I've got a really low-powered

0:46.6

laptop, like one of these kind of, you know, notebook things.

0:49.9

Yeah.

0:50.6

Chromebook rip-off from Asus.

0:52.6

And I just, Windows 10 was just crashing constantly, flickering, scream, everything. So I put Linux Mint on it, and it's nice and fresh, and it's running fast. I'm loving it. Well, I actually put it on my girlfriend's computer, because I don't know what she does on her machine when I'm out and about. But every time I come back, it's got, like, malware and pop-ups and all it. So I put, yeah, I'm the next minute on about a year ago for, no problem with it since. Yeah, no, it's perfect. And if you're just sitting there surfing and watching YouTube, it's good for that and typing a few essays. I'm not doing anything demanding. Well, you've been doing that this week. I've been snipping batteries out of my Acorn Archimedes.

1:29.4

Oh, okay. What is this to stop batteries leaking? Yeah, well, this is, I've always wanted an Acorn Archimedes. And I mentioned it a couple of weeks ago. I got one of the Acorn 30-10s, you know, it's a one with like the green function keys along the top. Yeah, yeah.

1:41.6

Got on a fee,

1:42.0

by 40 quid.

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