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Cleaning Dirty Floppy Disks - This Week In Retro 177

Cleaning Dirty Floppy Disks - This Week In Retro 177

Update: 2024-06-29
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Wouldn't it be great if there was a machine to clean your old and dirty floppy disks? Now there is! Footage from a cancelled Indiana Jones game has surfaced. Did you ever want to play that shark arcade game seen in the movie Jaws?


All this and more retro computing news along with the Community Question Of The Week.


00:00 - Show Opening


06:32 - Jonesing For Indiana Jones

Story Link: https://youtu.be/VGgshWvrH2g?si=ycTRmQVP2urBDcuy

Additional Link: https://mixnmojo.com/features/sitefeatures/Indiana-Jones-and-the-Iron-Phoenix-The-Lost-Sequel-to-Fate-of-Atlantis/1


26:36 - Du Du , Du Du , Du Du Du Du (Shark)

Story Link: https://www.remindmagazine.com/article/15694/jaws-arcade-video-game-killer-shark-atari-sega-electromechanical/


40:52 - Dave's Housekeeping

Links to stories mentioned found at the end of this text.


58:18 - Clean That Dirty Floppy!

Story Link: https://youtu.be/mqdionqLqqs?si=7DZ--gzpHuuiWIHM


01:07:33 - Community Question of the Week


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Episode Credits


"What is this Crazy Contraption!?" Courtesy of RobSmithDev

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


Dave's Briefs Links


Pete Davison Blog: https://angryjedi.wordpress.com/2024/06/23/oneaday-day-16-the-youth-of-yesterday/


Mark Fixes Stuff: https://youtu.be/6H4BY21mjxg?si=tbZvmrzu-RE2aT3n


Count Binface: https://youtu.be/F7LVGRQltFo?si=cXZa9ZG6GEu6kcbo


Psion: https://www.abortretry.fail/p/of-psion-and-symbian


Dune II Amiga Remaster: https://www.timeextension.com/news/2024/06/the-amiga-is-getting-a-dune-ii-remaster-from-one-of-the-original-developers


Bruce Gordon Passes Away: https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2F4g703tylb67d1.png


Pocket386: https://liliputing.com/pocket-386-is-a-mini-laptop-for-retro-computing-with-support-for-dos-and-windows-95/


Lunar Lander Bug: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/06/retired-engineer-discovers-55-year-old-bug-in-lunar-lander-computer-game-code/


Lynn Conway Passes Away: https://hackaday.com/2024/06/14/rip-lynn-conway-whose-work-gave-us-vlsi-and-much-more/


Archive.org: https://www.reddit.com/r/thisweekinretro/comments/1diaea8/archiveorgs_massive_collection_of_pirated/


Nintendo Sheet Music: https://en.softonic.com/articles/nintendo-against-sheet-music-their-war-against-piracy-has-reached-the-point-where-even-arrangements-of-their-songs-cannot-be-made?ex=RAMP-2046.2


The Captain Blood Story: https://www.eurogamer.net/the-story-of-captain-blood-the-atari-st-classic-in-which-you-track-down-and-murder-your-clones-five-times

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Cleaning Dirty Floppy Disks - This Week In Retro 177

Cleaning Dirty Floppy Disks - This Week In Retro 177

Neil from RMCretro - The Cave, Chris from 005 AGIMA and Dave