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

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We chat to legendary “phone phreaker” John Draper AKA Captain Crunch about hacking, the Homebrew Computer Club and how he helped Woz and Steve Jobs start Apple.

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

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Covering obscure video game facts, Easter eggs, secrets, glitches and history for gaming’s biggest names, we catch up with the crew behind Did You Know Gaming?

Michael Chiaramonte shows us more NES Programming.

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In this stream, I got the attribute loading working…er, mostly. It’s loading somewhat but there’s obviously something that’s not quite working out. After a decent amount of debugging and testing, I’m still not sure exactly what’s wrong but good progress was made and we needed to wrap it up. Monday we’ll finish up the attribute loading completely, I believe, and move on to the next topic: map collision.

Cube Forest is an ad-supported Android game by Voxel Cube Game. Stay on ground. Don’t hit tree. Collect as much coin as you can!

Michael Chiaramonte shows us more NES Programming.

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In this episode we re-visit the level loading code and handle the simplest case of up to 4 palettes and loading the initial attributes for the first fully-loaded screen. In Thursday’s stream, I’ll tackle loading the attributes in real-time as we update the nametable rows. Thanks for watching! See you Thursday.

Realms of Idle is a free but ad-supported strategy game for Android by ilMare Games.

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– a lot of bugfixes

The Retro League Podcast features discussion about the latest retro gaming news, re-releases, community developments and reviews of our favorite games.

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This week we are joined by a couple of special guests from Mega Visions magazine. They’re working to create a Sega-focused magazine that’s worth keeping, and they had some hands-on experience with some upcoming retro game consoles. There might be a toaster that will burn the image of a famous console mascot into your bread and our listeners left their consoles on for a long time in this episode of the Retro League.

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

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We talk to ex Gameboy developer Quang Nguyen about his Space Harrier inspired indie game MaoMao Castle, and tips on console collecting.

We do support freedom of speech, so here is something to read and think about Watermelon‘s upcoming Beat’em ‘Up game Paprium – A Fan Theory.

sverx is going to bring us a SMS Test Suite application. Your Master System is faulty? Find out what could be wrong!