Ugly Computers - This Week In Retro 169

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! You can find the Commodore PC10 III PCB Reproduction board we mention in the show here https://www.pcbway.com/project/shareproject/Commodore_PC10_III_PCB_Reproduction_312628_REV_5_7A_1089b872.html 🛠 Dominik Diamond said the Amiga A1000 is ugly. Do you agree? Which is the ugliest of retro computers? We also chat about MS-DOS becoming open sourced and how the release has gone a bit wrong, and the effort Microsoft went to in getting DOS games running in Windows 95. All this and other retro computing topics in brief along with your answers to last show's Community Question Of The Week. 00:00 - Show Opening 08:21 - Come On In The DOS Are OpenStory Link: https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/opensource/2024/04/25/open-sourcing-ms-dos-4-0/ 17:21 - Wing Dings CommanderStory Link: https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/19/wing_commander_windows_95/ 33:17 - Dave's Housekeeping Game Boy at 35: https://www.theguardian.com/games/2024/apr/21/the-game-boy-at-35-a-portal-to-other-magical-worldsAdditional Game Boy article: https://www.theguardian.com/games/2024/apr/24/pushing-buttons-game-boy-35-years-old-readers-memories-nintendo American Visits British Computer Museums: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sz4L_h_6I4 Google Demolishes Atari: https://www.timeextension.com/news/2024/04/how-googles-rampant-sunnyvale-expansion-is-erasing-ataris-history Infrogrames To Return: https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/atari-relaunches-infogrames-immediately-buys-totally-reliable-delivery-service Short Pong Film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPVa2gIVWIQ 9th INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER CLUB: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_efz3edJt4Q Stop Killing Games: https://www.stopkillinggames.com/ 44:43 - The Amiga is Ugly. Yuck!Story Link: https://www.theguardian.com/games/2024/apr/26/my-undying-love-for-the-painfully-uncool-amiga?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2NWTnWGzSrUJZyLvrcrQjHW76tIPm1ZN1GEp-QZERuOFc_P7Mlgo25-hI_aem_Afey1P6fPnf1zOKSlBwWVNKz3hSgj-fkWz0zCxwvDb2pE54wQU2ZA6ah95FaR-H6aJlkv-QB-UWqNZH1HUP5e8WA 52:23 - Community Question of the Week 🏆Your monthly support helps us keep the retro news flowing!https://www.patreon.com/thisweekinretro ☕Or just buy us a coffee!https://ko-fi.com/thisweekinretro 🕸 TWiR Sub Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/thisweekinretro/ Follow your hosts!Twitter:https://twitter.com/rmcretro Youtube:https://youtube.com/rmcretro Twitch:https://www.twitch.tv/rmcretro Subscribe to the audio version of the show!📻 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-retro/id1526487568?uo=4📻 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2OPQ3cADaB92E9SpRdTe5y📻 Deezer: www.deezer.com📻 Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy8yZjQ5ODlmOC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw📻 RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2f4989f8/podcast/rss📻 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFMx-JitepTttWc-ABHhu8A/ 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 Neil from RMC and Dave. Edited by Duncan Styles.