Retro Upgrade Updates and Remembering Psygnosis - This Week In Retro 226

Hello and welcome to this week's look at retro computing and gaming goodness. eXoIF is a new release that contains almost 900 interactive fiction titles, Jason is pretty excited about it. Dave takes a look at a few pieces of hardware that are making big noises. Chris has been watching a new YouTube video all about everyone's favourite games publisher that used an awesome looking owl logo...wonder which one that could be.

All this as well as a bumper number of quick news items in brief!

Thanks to Pixel Addict magazine for supporting us for this episode. Issue 29 is now available where Richard C. Hewison takes you behind the scenes of his time as a games tester for Telecomsoft, the powerhouse behind legendary labels Firebird and Rainbird. Visit addict.media for all the details.

00:00 - Show Opening

03:28 - Would You Shell Out 16 Gigabytes To Match Wits With This?

Story Link: retro-exo.com/if.html

Captain Cutter’s Treasure: warrigal.itch.io/captain-cutters-treasure

31:14 - Upgrades Update

PCMidi: pcmidi.eu

SVI-328 PicoROM: github.com/fitch/SVI-328-PicoROM

PicoCPC: cpcwiki.eu/index.php/PicoCPC

PicoGUS: github.com/polpo/picogus

48:06 - Housekeeping - News links found below

55:21 - Twit Tawoo

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

Combat Air Patron: youtube.com/watch?v=D3uWijE-XGE

01:07:47 - Community Question of the Week

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News In Brief Links:

Seiko RC-1000: reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.red…

Head Over Heels Sequel: timeextension.com/news/2025/06/for-over-35-yea…

ISEVIC: github.com/Bloodmosher/ISEVIC?tab=readme-ov-file

Maplic Back Online: standard.co.uk/business/high-street-maplin-ele…

1980s High End Advert: reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.red…

Atari Falcon Chip Scan: mikrosk.github.io/decap/#what-is-this-about

DOS Intro Channel: youtube.com/channel/UCZW3meRiW7hp8uPYl5m91vw

Frogger 2 Source Code: youtube.com/watch?v=lvEO4IaEJlw

Apple Power Mac Team Photo: arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/06/after-27-years…

Fatboy Slim Atari ST: youtube.com/watch?v=qLjgXPDzeZo

Rob Smith Likes To Whack A Mole: pcgamer.com/hardware/this-whack-a-mole-with-fl…