RISC OS & The Acorn Archimedes - This Week In Retro 110

After a recent article about RISC OS & The Acorn Archimedes we take some time to talk about what we thought of the Archimedes. Was it really in the same league as the Amiga? Arcade1up are re-releasing their Star Wars arcade cabinet. Are you tempted? Finally, we find that it is possible to run Wolfenstein on the 8088 CPU thanks to a new port that runs just fine using CGA graphics.

All this and our Community Question Of The Week.

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00:00 - Show Opening

08:34 - RISC Free Computing

Story Link: https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/17/retro_tech_week_rool/

List of Archimedes games: http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/cgi/archive.pl?type=Games&platform=Acorn%20Archimedes 

24:11 Arcade1up Is No Yoke

Story Link: https://www.piratesandprincesses.net/re-released-star-wars-arcade-game-instantly-sells-out/

43:26 - Wolf 8088

Story Link: https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/133584-the-developer-adapted-wolfenstein-3d-for-the-intel-8088-processor-released-in-1979/

Wolf 8088 download link: https://github.com/jhhoward/WolfensteinCGA 

Wolf 8088 running on period correct hardware: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5f3_TN4j54

51:53 - Community Question of the Week

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This Week in Retro is a weekly roundup of the hottest stories from the world of retro gaming and computing, voted on by you, the listener! Hosted by Neil from RMC, Chris from 005 AGIMA and Dave. Edited by Duncan Styles.