The Commodore 64 Scene in 2017 - The Retro Hour EP82
The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)
The Retro Hour
4.9 • 558 Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2017
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
We talk about the Commodore 64 in 2017 with Joerg "Nafcom" Droege, the creator of long running C64 diskmag Scene World.
Scene World: https://sceneworld.org/
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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 82, your weekly dose of retro gaming |
| 0:36.0 | and technology news with me Dan Wood. And me Ravi Abbott. On our first show of August. Can you believe it? And guess what I did today, Dan? I had this great beard that I was growing. And I was going to use the clippers. Just went in. Wrong setting. Completely ruined it. So, yes, I'm beardless and my chin is very cold today. |
| 0:56.3 | I'm not listening. Oh, God, yeah, that's like some five-year fluff, or something. |
| 1:01.5 | Four days worth a stubble, mate. We should have a beard-grown contest. That's it, a beard off, yeah. |
| 1:06.8 | I love the fact as well that we're recording this like just after nine at night and it's dark already. |
| 1:10.3 | Yeah, God, wow. We'll be making our Christmas list soon. Well, this is episode number 82 and actually quite coincidental because, you know what, machine came out in 1982? Maybe the C-64? I think it may have done it. Oh. And this week, a bit of a Commodore 64 special because the guy that we've got as our our special guest this week, now obviously, you know, we like to swap guests up a little bit. You know, we've had people around some of the biggest companies in the world. We've had YouTubers on. We've had game developers. Often we just like to get people on as well who've got some really good stories to tell and kind of share our passion for retro gaming and technology. Now this week we're going to be |
| 1:44.4 | talking to Yerg Druga, it might not be a name you're instantly familiar with, but if you've got any |
| 1:49.4 | interest in the Commodore 64 or Retro Gaming, if you love our show, I think he'll enjoy the content |
| 1:54.6 | that he works on. Because he's doing the world's biggest and probably most regular, Commodore 64 Discmag. |
| 2:02.3 | Disc mag, this is crazy. |
| 2:03.9 | It's a magazine that was distributed on disc, |
| 2:06.7 | floppy disk, and it's still going in 2017. |
| 2:09.8 | It's mad, and, you know, he's embracing new technology, |
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