It's Checkmate For The Amiga - This Week In Retro 272
Notes de l’épisode
This week's guest Jason Timmons has quietly built up Vintage Computer Festival Midwest (https://vcfmw.org/) 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.
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00:00 - Show Opening
09:48 - Checkmate Check Out
Story Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOssyAw8LoQ
33:05 - Teletext Admiration Society
Story Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCZEHoolBCg
54:18 - Housekeeping - News links found below
58:23 - Holy Clickbait Batman!
Story Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QY3Ud7zNQM
01:17:38 - Community Question of the Week
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News In Brief Links
Daytona USA Recomp: https://youtu.be/p0U5ltlUf30
Family Computing 1998: https://youtu.be/IpLew7igK-w
Metal Slug Vodafone Live: https://www.timeextension.com/news/2026/06/the-small-sprites-are-really-cute-a-long-forgotten-mobile-port-of-metal-slug-has-been-rescued-from-the-digital-abyss
Red Dwarf Adventure pitch: https://www.timeextension.com/news/2026/06/the-devs-behind-loco-motive-once-pitched-a-red-dwarf-adventure-game-and-it-looks-smeggin-brilliant
Older gamers: https://www.timeextension.com/news/2026/06/i-think-they-are-missing-a-trick-evercade-boss-says-the-games-industry-is-failing-older-players
Commodore 64 spellchecker: https://github.com/johnwbyrd/bloomer
Stop Killing Games: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8e8e7g0r82o