Over Promise, Under Deliver - This Week In Retro 139

Looks like Microsoft is saying goodbye to WordPad, the often overlooked little brother of Word. Do you miss the old days when you could only watch your favourite TV shows when they were scheduled to be on? One clever fellow has recreated the TV channels of his youth using modern tech.  Peter Molyneux, developer of many a fan favourite game is back after things went a bit wrong for him.

All this and our Community Question Of the Week.

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GrumpyOzRetro: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsSlLFwKYPJIBZDggg4i1ZuZ9C1e49v7K&si=Wsk4s3pZioQe4Y6S

Badger Badger 20th Anniversary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMxRFCKIqr0

Badger Badger Rave: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk2t3b1f7_A

00:00 - Show Opening

24:29 - TV Shows coming up later

Story Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luxFdsAkG80

Vintage UK Nostalgic & Memorable Adverts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3ZA24kg7FM 

37:32 - Peter Moly’s New Leaf

Bad Influence Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvXGxXxuiEk

People Make Games Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeNGLhNM5Kk

49:54 - DEL WordPad.exe

Story Link: https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-11/288088/rip-wordpad

Microsoft Link: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/whats-new/deprecated-features

1:00:31 - Community Question of the Week

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