The Retro Hour is your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news, views and interviews from the UK.

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We catch up with C64 legend Jeroen Tel of Maniacs of Noise about his classic game, demo and cracktro soundtracks.

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Progress for Tanglewood by Big Evil Corporation doesn’t stop!

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One major piece of feedback from our testers was that they didn’t understand the checkpoint system, mostly because the checkpoints are invisible and scripted based on game events. We’ve changed how it works, and added these totem pole checkpoints which light up when you reach one

Owen still works heavily on Newo Fox for Nintendo’s Wii.

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As long as I keep it below 100% the game will stay at 60fps. Debug text “Split”. It fluctuates between 41 and 70 because I dont update the spatial grid every frame and some frames are busy because of bullets, explosions etc.

Chris Covell teaches us PC-Engine coding!

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If you’re already familiar with the new instructions of the 65c02 and HuC6280 CPUs, you could skip this video. I just give a quick overview of what the new and unusual opcodes do.

Retro Asylum #180 is here!

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Dean Swain & Chris O’Regan are back with all of the latest retro gaming related news, answering your #askRA questions and discussing joysticks, control pads and all manner of input devices.

Michael Chiaramonte shows us once again how to do some NES Programming.

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We actually got something exporting from the tool! After showing how that works, I add functionality for detecting file system changes and start writing out the sprite data structure. Next stream, we’ll handle drawing bounding boxes and exporting the entire set of data in the project.

Tech in a Minute: The PlayStation, by It’s a Pixel THING.

Chris Covell teaches us PC-Engine coding!

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In Episode 03, I go through the necessary steps of d/ling emulators & an assembler (plus support libraries) and go over image editing tools, all in preparation for making our first PCE code.

Tech in a Minute: The TurboGrafx 16 & PC Engine, by It’s a Pixel THING.

10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10 is a concise and elegant single line of code written in BASIC for the Commodore 64 sometime in the early 1980s. When run, it produces a maze-like pattern on the screen in an endless loop. Sven Dahlstrand rewrote this one-liner for the original Game Boy, written in assembly language using the RGBDS toolchain. ROM, source, and documentation are freely available.

Thanks to Sven Dahlstrand for the hint!