What Was Your First GUI? - This Week In Retro 183

This Week in Retro

Bob from RetroRGB joins us this week to talk SEGA Mega Drive/Genesis games, our memories of early GUIs and a Game Boy with a CRT screen which is still portable but VERY battery hungry. Once again Ctrl-Alt-Rees steps in to cover for Neil while he is on his break.

There are more retro computing news nuggets in Dave's Briefs and the Community Question Of The Week.

Bob asks that you please visit https://www.retrorgb.com/
Rees has lots of good retro stuff over at https://ctrl-alt-rees.com/

This week's show is bought to you by the letters P and A and the number 22. These stand for Pixel Addict issue 22 which is a magazine full of news and stories about our fave older computer and gaming systems. Take a look at https://www.pixel.addict.media/

00:00 - Show Opening

04:15 - The Mega Of Mega Drive
Story Link: https://www.gamesradar.com/best-sega-genesis-games-all-time/

23:02 - 1986 Battle Of The GUIs - Will Windows Win, Or Will It Be GEM’s Time To Shine?
Story Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2PNLsvDxqw
How Apple Ruined GEM: https://youtu.be/aAAU5S1irP0?si=2vB9wmjCprVwefOb

36:48 - Dave's Housekeeping - News links found below

47:44 - The World’s First Proper Game Boy
Story Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irHI_2WdQXc

53:17 - Community Question of the Week

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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.

Dave's Brief's Links

Codemasters Video On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/dW7hyrpcJPdbiYf1/?mibextid=WC7FNe

Orpheus II: https://pcmidi.eu/orpheus2.html

Cleared Hot: https://youtu.be/D8CX75ozs7Y?si=RBkJGHp7wa0COfUf

Xenia Manager: https://github.com/xenia-manager/xenia-manager

PS3 Super Computer: https://www.xda-developers.com/1760-playstation-3-supercomputer-2010/

WinAMP Skin Investigation: https://www.techspot.com/news/104024-corrupt-winamp-skin-investigation-leads-treasure-trove-hidden.html

Tank Stand: https://rmcretro.store/products/the-tank-stand-retro-computer-monitor-stand

50 Years Of CPM: https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/02/cpm_50th_anniversary/

Commodore Omnia Book: https://commodore.inc/prodotto/omnia-book-gen9/

ROM Site Shuts Down: https://gizmodo.com/a-20-year-old-rom-site-is-shutting-down-and-moving-to-the-internet-archive-2000482650