New Perspective On Old Games - This Week In Retro 270

Exclusive hardware development news caps a retro kit roundup this week which includes news of a MiSTer handheld from Heber along with updates on the PicoCPC, PicoIDE, and PicoGUS projects. In other news we take a closer look at reimagined Atic Atac and Wolfenstein 3D, and explore the many wild and wonderful corners of operating systems in the Virtual OS Museum.

00:00 - Show Opening

03:54 - Give Us A Hand Mister?

Story Link: youtu.be/arSnNwDQS2k

Wide Boy: youtube.com/shorts/YxGXvZRs4UI

20:22 - Run (Almost) Every Operating System!

Story Link: virtualosmuseum.org

39:11 - Housekeeping - News links found below

44:33 - From 2D To 3D And Back

Story Link: stephensmith.itch.io/atic-atac-3d

Additional link: moddb.com/mods/isowulf

57:34 - Community Question of the Week

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News In Brief Links

Autodesk EAGLE end of support: autodesk.com/support/technical/article/caas/sf…

386 microcode: nand2mario.github.io/posts/2026/z386

Amiga 500 receipt: i.redd.it/dhez6wdhoq2h1.jpeg

Atari ST clone "Raven": hackaday.com/2026/05/24/meet-the-raven-an-atar…

S3 BIOS Snake: tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/retro-e…

Apple II clone laptop: 8086cpu.com/Z80/6502/110.html