Retro Upgrade Updates and Remembering Psygnosis - This Week In Retro 226

Hello and welcome to this week's look at retro computing and gaming goodness. eXoIF is a new release that contains almost 900 interactive fiction titles, Jason is pretty excited about it. Dave takes a look at a few pieces of hardware that are making big noises. Chris has been watching a new YouTube video all about everyone's favourite games publisher that used an awesome looking owl logo...wonder which one that could be. All this as well as a bumper number of quick news items in brief! Thanks to Pixel Addict magazine for supporting us for this episode. Issue 29 is now available where Richard C. Hewison takes you behind the scenes of his time as a games tester for Telecomsoft, the powerhouse behind legendary labels Firebird and Rainbird. Visit addict.media for all the details. 00:00 - Show Opening 03:28 - Would You Shell Out 16 Gigabytes To Match Wits With This? Story Link: https://www.retro-exo.com/if.html Captain Cutter’s Treasure: https://warrigal.itch.io/captain-cutt... 31:14 - Upgrades Update PCMidi: https://pcmidi.eu/ SVI-328 PicoROM: https://github.com/fitch/SVI-328-PicoROM PicoCPC: https://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/PicoCPC PicoGUS: https://github.com/polpo/picogus 48:06 - Housekeeping - News links found below 55:21 - Twit Tawoo Story Link:    • How an Owl ruled the world : The Story of ...   Combat Air Patron:    • Combat Air Patrol - Amiga   01:07:47 - Community Question of the Week 🏆Your monthly support helps us keep the retro news flowing!   / thisweekinretro   🕸 TWiR Sub Reddit:   / thisweekinretro   Follow your hosts! Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/davevelocira... https://bsky.app/profile/jasoncompton... Youtube: Chris -    / @005agima   Jason -    / @jpcompton   Audio Podcast: https://retroadventurers.podbean.com/ Subscribe to the audio version of the show! 📻 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... 📻 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2OPQ3cA... 📻 Podbean: https://twir.podbean.com 📻 Deezer: https://www.deezer.com/en/show/5734337 📻 RSS: https://feed.podbean.com/TWIR/feed.xml 📻 YouTube:    / @thisweekinretro   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 Chris from 005 AGIMA, Jason from The Retro Adventurers and Dave. Edited by Duncan Styles. News In Brief Links: Seiko RC-1000: https://www.reddit.com/media?url=http... Head Over Heels Sequel: https://www.timeextension.com/news/20... ISEVIC: https://github.com/Bloodmosher/ISEVIC... Maplic Back Online: https://www.standard.co.uk/business/h... 1980s High End Advert: https://www.reddit.com/media?url=http... Atari Falcon Chip Scan: https://mikrosk.github.io/decap/#what... DOS Intro Channel:    / @dosgameintros   Frogger 2 Source Code:    • How Frogger 2’s source code was recovered ...   Apple Power Mac Team Photo: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/... Fatboy Slim Atari ST:    • Fatboy Slim - The Rockafeller Skank | Het ...   Rob Smith Likes To Whack A Mole: https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/this... Episode Credits Parts of "How an Owl ruled the world : The Story of Psygnosis" courtesy of Modern Vintage Gamer See the full video:    • How an Owl ruled the world : The Story of ...   Parts of "Amigos User Plays - Nitro for Amiga by Psygnosis" courtesy of Amigos Retro Gaming See the full video:    • Amigos User Plays - Nitro for Amiga by Psy...