We are joined by Allan (aka Happy Coding ZX) to talk about joysticks, haunted tech and does retrobrighting damage your beloved computers and consoles?

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00:00 - Show Opening

05:33 - Joy Of A Decent Stick

Story Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4QQDqkVCng

23:19 - Tales Of The Unexplained

Story Link: https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2025/01/the-invalid-68030-instruction-that-accidentally-allowed-the-mac-classic-ii-to-successfully-boot-up/

The 1988 Mystery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRHpN53hb34

The Games Machine Issue 09: https://archive.org/details/TheGamesMachineIssue09Aug88/page/n97/mode/2up

The Dodleston Messages: https://history.howstuffworks.com/history-vs-myth/dodleston-messages.htm

40:53 - Housekeeping - News links found below

47:28 - Not Too Bright

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

Macho Nacho Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXhxTtK42A8

59:59 - Community Question of the Week

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News In Brief Links

Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy In Browser: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1g84m0sXpnNCv84GpN2PLZG/the-game-30th-anniversary-edition

Perforated Tape Reader: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/retro-computing-enthusiast-creates-perforated-tape-reader-designed-from-scratch-reads-data-at-about-50-bytes-per-second