I am joined by Tony Warriner who is one of the founders of Revolution Software and Aaron Fothergill previously from Argonaut Games and now with Shifty Eye Games as we discuss more gaming, gadgets and technology both retro and modern.
Topics include:
- James’ visit to Tony’s retro computer and console collection
- Tony spending money to get his retro collection connected to a modern display – OSSC, RGB cables, power cables etc
- Mister FPGA costs versus retro hardware collections
- Aaron positive thoughts (and excellent excuses) on the cost of collecting retro hardware
- The Atari Falcon, the development kit for the Atari Jaguar
- Aaron’s first computer, which he still owns!
- Modifying old computers ROM chips and copyright risk
- My brand new retro hardware portable device for less than £1
- RGB cables everywhere!
- The Apple G4 Cube USB flaw
- Skiving to get into computer games
- The inspiration of the ZX81 and micro computers
- My fondness of the Atari 65XE 8-bit computer
- Bye bye ICQ
- Tony and Aaron invent Code Jenga
- Development is hard
- Manually typing code from old books and magazines – oh the typos!
- Code in books, to disks on magazines to digital DLC
- What happens to digital licensed content when you die?
- The importance of archiving DLC and game patches
- Licensing music for games
- The cost of patching a console game
- The beauty of Xbox Live Arcade and developing the first games
- Playing Xbox Live Arcade version of Golden Eye on an Xbox 360 debug unit
Featured Atari Falcon image By F-Andrey, CC BY 2.0, Link
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