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Neil's Alan sugar impression sounds exactly like Duncan, core blimey guv na!

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NEIL AND DAVE IS ALEX OK HES NOT DONE ANY VIDEOS FOR LONG TIME JUST WORRIED HOPE HES WELL I MISS HIS VIDEOS CHEERS LADS GREAT STUFF

@ThisWeekinRetro @Dave You're a massive Atari fan You claim to have an Amiga (an A1200 ?), and are in the process of upgrading it The rumour is that you don't actually own any Amiga's, at all. Show us your Amiga Dave Howay, don't be a Lamer Show us, ya Amiga We need to see you using your Amiga Dave..... ;)

Those Noctua fans are great, you can put them in the Dreamcast too for better heat loss and less noise

Will episode 200 reveal The Shane?

“u r the king of lamerz” - actual LOL :D

It does seem a shame that the major players in the e-ink book industry haven't released a device capable of reading IF books - I mean, i get why.. there isn't enough IF on the publisher side to make it something they can monetise, but it would be a fantastic feature, especially in getting kids reading, given Kobo has now brought in colour, and i have half heard Amazon is now biting their heels.

I finally downloaded and installed ExoDOS, I sense a huge tme sink looming beneath me 😂

Where can i download Dave Quest? 44:00

I've always much preferred Speedball to the sequel. They added all those daft things round the edge which meant you just ended up going for the stars or undoing the loop when the other person got it. Scoring goals became a more minor objective, which ruined it for me. I was shocked to hear Dave say he doesn't like the Amiga title tune on the Amiga! It's one of my favourite Amiga tunes. I tried the ST one and it's okay, but nowhere near as good as the Amiga one. I guess it's just what you are used to. When you grow up with a song on the radio that version if the one you like the best, even if it's a cover version.

Woz Whatnots? :-)

I wonder if LLM’s have been mucked around with for Text Adventures, interacting with NPC’s etc would be interesting

I feel called out - but somehow validated - by that opening!

The content is funneling through Neil quite nicely

WAIT Dave sings about the Atari ST

icecream .... icecream.... if my parents would have planed a other child back then, i would have opted for a Bitmapbrother 🎉

omg how much did i love playing Speedball 2 on my amiga toghether with friends it was definitely on of the best games at its time. if i ever decide to get a tatoo it might be Bitmapbrothers ...

Go Catio open window throw treat out window south south say man "Cat's escaped" Take Games Drop Ultima exit room Chortle

A brilliant documentary for text adventures is.....get lamp......well worth a lot. Infocom seem to get a lot of airplay, i feel but I loved the old games like scot Adams the Count or the Hulk, etc. It was my era, but I feel the early stuff doesn't get a mention. Excelsior, though.

Rebellion is a solid dev but don't always get things right. They made a sequel to Evil Genius recently and it didn't quite hit the mark apart from bringing back James Hannigan's music. Even the art style was too cartoony. I'd like to see Alien Vs Predator remade though.

suppriced no one mentioned sid meyer as potentional museum

EXO-miga... Chris edwards has pimiga for the pi but now also a standalone x86 version, boots straight into an amiga emulator under a full linux installation and has menus for all the games and demos Amiga game selector is another one that runs on a lot of different devices and has ?all? games on it. EAB-WHDLoad Pack Downloader is a little prog to download all whd (and jst) games and demos from ftp, separate .lha archives that you can use in any emulator or the real thing, doing a custom scan in retroarch is the easiest way to look through them.

I like the text adventure library idea, but perhaps you could use the barcode scanner system instead as you do in the shop. That way you could have a shelf of 'books', each with a barcode, and then the player could choose a book, scan the code, and then play it in the old fashioned way with a keyboard and old style monitor.

the best "newer" Speedball game was basically the old DeathBall mod for UT99/UT2003, that was pretty much 3d SpeedBall 2.

I laughed at the What We Do in the Shadows reference. 😆 "BAAATTT!"

anyone fancy ice cream?

The video pic is a bit risque.

Pro-nun-ciation, Neil. If you're going to worry about the pronunciation of things, the one word you have to get right is pronunciation! 😛

Aye.

As a Brit living in the US on election morning I have to rewatch you guys to calm my nerves …😢

Good for ArcElite to get a mention!

WAREZ LIVES!

Amstrad also sold CB radios - I had an Amstrad CB901.

DAVE'S BACK!!!!

Dune 2 was more than just another game, it was pretty revolutionary - paving the way for the monstrously successful Command & Conquer series and the ever popular StarCraft. I thought it was casually dismissed here and it deserves another look 👍

Amstrad's pc business was huge in Europe c. 1987so much so that Bill Gates got on a plane to visit Sugar to persuade him to include MSDOS as an optional OS - he was that important. His highly successful pc business was wrecked through defective HDD's supplied by Seagate. He sued Seagate and won but by this time no company was going to trust Amstrad PC's for serious use.

As Neil correctly pondered, Frontier on the Amiga did come with two disk but as Dave correctly pointed out the game is only on the first disk. I've played it for countless hours, worked my way up to elite a few times, tried a bit of mining (as broken as it is), completed any amount imperial, federation or "retirement" missions and I've still no idea what's on the second disk.

No Amstrad was known to be absolute junk and Alan Sugar has said as much himself. He would make stuff look flash and put the worst possible components inside. Designed to fool working class people who couldn’t afford much. I guess the designers must have sneaked a decent product past him with the CPC as he would have been pretty clueless about computers.

The idea of separates wasn’t to replace them but to choose your ideal component for tape deck, amplifier, records deck, etc. it would be unlikely and a bit pointless to buy them all from the same manufacturer.

dave you forgot to mention Mike Daily was at Terriblebytes... what a bell end! :D

Welcome back Dave, we missed you!

I remember doing the "total cost comparison" of the '464, the C64, the Spectrum etc. The spec was decent keyboard, colour display, cassette deck and decent BASIC - the only thing that worked out cheaper was the Oric Atmos but that's because the Oric was reduced to 90 quid.

Hi about pirated copying what about people with kindles that pay a monthly payment and get there books to downloads so I think it could be done with games

Do it, Alan! Hire Neil

Frontier: I remember flying out to look at an asteroid. Peanut shaped, or duck shaped - I can't remember. But it was interesting.

Naaa Dave, do you need a cuddle 🤗

Personally, I was never a fan of Worms. I found it a very unfair game. I wish it was Lemmings instead. A much better game.

Watching this episode on my Sky Glass TV designed in Brentwood, UK by the company that was Amstrad. Long live Amstrad.

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