It's Checkmate For The Amiga - This Week In Retro 272

This week's guest Jason Timmons has quietly built up @VCFMW (Vintage Computer Festival Midwest) into the world's largest annual retro computing event. He joins the crew to talk about the end the line for the revived Checkmate Amiga case, the surprising differences in teletext penetration in the United States vs. the United Kingdom, and a look at the "overrated?" Amiga 500 Batman Pack. Visit https://www.addict.media/ for your copy of Pixel Addict magazine. 00:00 - Show Opening 09:48 - Checkmate Check Out Story Link:    • End of Checkmate Plus cases   33:05 - Teletext Admiration Society Story Link:    • 1978: How Ceefax Changes Everything | Ceef...   54:18 - Housekeeping - News links found below 58:23 - Holy Clickbait Batman! Story Link:    • Does the Batman pack hold up? - Yesterzine   01:17:38 - 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 -    / @theretroadventurers   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 Daytona USA Recomp:    • Daytona USA Gets a Recomp You Can Play Now!   Family Computing 1998:    • 1998: Buying Your First Family Computer | ...   Metal Slug Vodafone Live: https://www.timeextension.com/news/20... Red Dwarf Adventure pitch: https://www.timeextension.com/news/20... Older gamers: https://www.timeextension.com/news/20... Commodore 64 spellchecker: https://github.com/johnwbyrd/bloomer Stop Killing Games: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c... Episode Credits "Amiga 1000 dialing in to a BBS (25938208305)" by Blake Patterson from Alexandria, VA, USA is licensed under CC BY 2.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/.... "Amiga500 system1" by Bill Bertram. CC BY-SA 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... Checkmate A1500 images from "The Amiga 1500 Story | Commodore Vs Checkmate Digital" courtesy of The Retro Collective See the full video:    • The Amiga 1500 Story | Commodore Vs Checkm...   Part of "Inside the BBC Micro - Trash to Treasure (Pt2)" courtesy of The Retro Collective See the full video:    • Inside the BBC Micro - Trash to Treasure (...   Part of "WFLD Channel 32 - Nite-Owl (Complete & Remastered, 8/25/1982)" courtesy of The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (www.FuzzyMemories.TV) See the full video:    • WFLD Channel 32 - Nite-Owl (Complete & Rem...   Parts of "Does the Batman pack hold up? - Yesterzine" courtesy of Yesterzine - The Literal Magazine Show See the full video:    • Does the Batman pack hold up? - Yesterzine   "Pages from Ceefax | 24 May 1984" courtesy of Transdiffusion https://www.transdiffusion.org/ See the full video here:    • Pages from Ceefax | 24 May 1984