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The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)

Sinclair Spectrum in 2016 and Amiga Vampire Updates - The Retro Hour EP34

The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)

The Retro Hour

Technology, Leisure, Video Games

4.9558 Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2016

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

We talk to the man who has coded more Spectrum games than anyone else, Jonathan Cauldwell. Plus some exciting updates on the Amiga's Vampire accelerator project with team-member Gunnar!

Jonathan Cauldwell's website: http://www.spanglefish.com/egghead/

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

Show notes:

World Wide Web 25 years old: http://cnet.co/2beu5KT
The Analogue Nt mini : http://bit.ly/2bUHu8F
Amiga Vampire project: http://apollo-accelerators.com/
Nintendo's office in the 90s video: https://youtu.be/V52Fto40syM

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, tell us too to avoid a

0:26.7

penalty. Search tell DWP.

0:30.0

Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast episode number 34, your weekly dose of retro gaming

0:35.5

and technology news with me, Demwood. And me, Ravi Abbott. Just before the August bank holiday weekend here in the UK, that means summer is almost over. Yeah, I know. It's starting to feel a bit cold. Definitely got that kind of autumn buzz in the air right now, haven't we? And I'm just thinking we've been doing the show now. 34 episodes. In four months, we'll have been doing this a year? Oh, God. Yeah be a great celebration then. What a year we've had in 2016 though and that listen, guys, we appreciate listening to the show every single week. We did mention last week that we've actually put a donations button on our website. You know, if you want to help support the show just towards the running costs and that kind of thing. And a massive thank you to Rupert Fuller, who made a very generous donation in the week as well. Now, we've got some amazing guests coming as well, guys. Like, Dan knows who is coming on. I want to give spoilers, but I can't. I'm just absolutely blown away. So, yeah, we're just going to be going into Galactic with this. It's going to be great. Honestly, I think the rest of 2016, we could even excel what we've done so far on this show. So definitely keep checking us out. Every single Friday, of course, available from all your favorite podcast clients, iTunes, Stitcher, SoundCloud. Unfortunately, not yet on Google Play. No, yeah, and we've got a reason for that. We can't do it in the UK.

1:44.9

Yeah, Google Play's not out here.

1:46.6

We keep getting people going, yeah, when are you going to be on Google Music Play Store?

1:49.0

And every time we log on, it's not available like outside the US at the moment. So as soon as it is, we'll be on there. Don't worry. Totally. And talking of guests, we have one for you specie users today.

2:00.4

Yeah, now today, this guy actually holds a bit of a record for having more spectrum games under his belt than any other author.

2:09.2

Yeah, and he's still making him.

2:11.0

He is.

2:11.6

He's been doing it since the late 80s.

2:13.5

And it said, Jonathan Caldwell.

2:15.0

Now, you may know him from Egghead, some of his famous games back then.

2:18.7

And he used to do cover tapes for like Crash and Sinclair user. Yeah, and he's a local guy. So he's just come into the studio. Yeah, which was nice to get him in, a bit of eye contact. That's it. So he's going to be on the retro hour in about half an hour from now. one for the spectrum fans today. It's going to be really, really interesting. So definitely worth

2:34.4

hanging around for that. And you're going to be doing some streaming on Facebook

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