Epic Adventures In 64K - This Week in Retro 258

All the fun you can squeeze into 64k or less as we look at the international sensation that was Jet Set Willy and the explosion of open-world adventure gaming in 1984. There's even a fully-realised Quake-style FPS available for modern PCs that fits into just 64 kilobytes, or you can code up your own retro memory-resident marvels with the aid of the new Kwyll system or dozens of other open-source development environments.

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00:00 - Show Opening

01:59 - Let’s Compare Our (Jet Set) Willys

Story Link: youtube.com/watch?v=idDsa-fTNPU

19:22 - Retro Coding Roundup

Story Link: youtube.com/watch?v=V9hpGu1fKHM

Additional links: indigobeetle.itch.io/santas-lost-and-found

Tprrt's Blog: tprrt.tupi.fr/retro-console-game-engines.html

36:06 - Housekeeping - News links found below

42:00 - QUOD Damage!

Story Link: hackaday.com/2026/02/23/quod-is-a-quake-like-i…

Additional links: youtube.com/watch?v=qht68vFaa1M

QUOD Download: daivuk.itch.io/quod

Quake Brutalist Jam III: reddit.com/r/thisweekinretro/comments/1r7pz1p/…

Free Unreal: reddit.com/r/thisweekinretro/comments/1r44enm/…

Chris' Unreal Maps: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1oaBzMgV9oFHFpu…

51:22 - Community Question of the Week

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News In Brief Links

TIE Fighter Total Conversion: youtu.be/IZtHOoMsrWs?si=X3S9v4aEJXPDZ03D

FreeDOS: youtube.com/watch?v=mwLIgdRj5bI

MiSTer Floppy: youtube.com/watch?v=kN8TCz7Z0n8

eXoDemoscene: retro-exo.com/demoscene.html

GenZ and iPods: appleinsider.com/articles/26/02/23/why-gen-z-a…

Rob Grant obituary: ganymede.tv/2026/02/rob-grant-rip

Floating Lemming: youtu.be/h-2KyTnxr5E?si=dZFkM8nKew3dyF9I