It's Checkmate For The Amiga - This Week In Retro 272

This week's guest Jason Timmons has quietly built up Vintage Computer Festival Midwest (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: youtube.com/watch?v=bOssyAw8LoQ

33:05 - Teletext Admiration Society

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

54:18 - Housekeeping - News links found below

58:23 - Holy Clickbait Batman!

Story Link: youtube.com/watch?v=5QY3Ud7zNQM

01:17:38 - Community Question of the Week

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News In Brief Links

Daytona USA Recomp: youtu.be/p0U5ltlUf30

Family Computing 1998: youtu.be/IpLew7igK-w

Metal Slug Vodafone Live: timeextension.com/news/2026/06/the-small-sprit…

Red Dwarf Adventure pitch: timeextension.com/news/2026/06/the-devs-behind…

Older gamers: timeextension.com/news/2026/06/i-think-they-ar…

Commodore 64 spellchecker: github.com/johnwbyrd/bloomer

Stop Killing Games: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8e8e7g0r82o