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This is it, our 200th Episode! Dean Swain and the rest of the current Retro Asylum team go in search of RA hosts of the past to celebrate 200 episodes of The UKs No.1 Retro Gaming Podcast.
Join us in our longest ever episode, as we look back at the show and discuss how the UK retro scene has evolved since we began Retro Asylum back in 2011.
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Here is a review of the Radpad for anyone interested:
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Well I think that's pretty much what mine displays. When I started this threadI thought that the title screen background should be green as it was what I had seen on YouTube. I never owned an Intellivision until recently.
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So after speaking to retromodding.de they seem to think that the UK Intellivision's did have a black title screen.
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Paul Davies & Dean Swain play one of the hottest consoles of the early 1980s that played host to a ton of quality arcade conversions, namely the CBS Colecovision A console that for its time had superb graphics & sound but fell victim of the American games crash of 1983. Plus, theres a round up of all of the latest retro gaming news and more answers revealed in the latest section of Ask RA.
Huge thanks and a name check as ever to our Patreon supporters:
Richard Pipes
Nick Lees
Edward Fitzpatrick
Chris Worthington
Alistair Downs
Nick Lees
Retromash
Duncan Bell
Garry Heather
Help support the Retro Asylum by becoming a patron: https://www.patreon.com/retroasylum
Retro Asylum on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/retroasylum/
Retro Asylum YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfCC9rIvCKoW3mdbuCsB7Ag
The Retro Asylum Forum: http://retroasylum.com/phpbb/index.php
Twitter: @theretroasylum
Download the episode: http://traffic.libsyn.com/retroasylum/167_Colecovision.mp3
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Mads Kristensen and Chris ORegan take a retrospective look at the Discworld games from the mid 1990s and discuss point & click adventures in general.
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After a short break following our Revival 2017 specials, Dean Swain & Chris ORegan return to take a fascinating look back at Ataris much maligned range of 16 bit computers.
The guys also discuss all of the latest news of the retro gaming scene including the reveal of Nintendos lost arcade game Sky Skipper and much much more!
Show Links:
For more information on the SkySkipper project, please visit: https://www.skyskipperproject.com/
For the latest news on the Atari Box, checkout https://www.ataribox.com/
For more information on the Retron 77 console, please visit: https://www.hyperkin.com/
For more information on the SNES30 control pad, please visit: http://www.8bitdo.com/
To order a Spectrum Next, please visit: http://www.specnext.com/
Huge thanks and a name check as ever to our Patreon supporters:
Nick Lees
Edward Fitzpatrick
Chris Worthington
Alistair Downs
Nick Lees
Retromash
Duncan Bell
Garry Heather
Help support the Retro Asylum by becoming a patron: https://www.patreon.com/retroasylum
Retro Asylum on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/retroasylum/
Retro Asylum YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfCC9rIvCKoW3mdbuCsB7Ag
Twitter: @theretroasylum
Download the episode: http://traffic.libsyn.com/retroasylum/165_SixteenThirtyTwo.mp3
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Mmm. I don't suppose that there is anyone in the Essex area of the UK who can repair these are there? I'm hopeless with a soldering iron.
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Ok,so I've opened up the console, no shielding...
I've not got a multimeter handy so I've had a play with the adjusters on the daughter board, I've managed to get the in game colours to what looks correct from what I can tell in Astrosmash and a couple of other games.
However the title pages are still red rather than green.
So I'm not sure if the colours were different on European systems or if there is actually something wrong with it? Edit, just seen some PAL footage. It should be green.
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Thanks for the info! I haven't had a chance to open it up yet (I work nights
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Cool, I'll get it opened up!
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Hi all, I've kindly been given an Intellivision by a friend. However, the colours do not appear to be displaying correctly.
Any ideas as to what could be causing this?
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Hi all, I've kindly been given an Intellivision by a friend. However, the colours do not appear to be displaying correctly.
Any ideas as to what could be causing this?
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After a short break following our Revival 2017 specials, Dean Swain & Chris ORegan return to take a fascinating look back at Ataris much maligned range of 16 bit computers.
The guys also discuss all of the latest news of the retro gaming scene including the reveal of Nintendos lost arcade game Sky Skipper and much much more!
Show Links:
For more information on the SkySkipper project, please visit: https://www.skyskipperproject.com/
For the latest news on the Atari Box, checkout https://www.ataribox.com/
For more information on the Retron 77 console, please visit: https://www.hyperkin.com/
For more information on the SNES30 control pad, please visit: http://www.8bitdo.com/
To order a Spectrum Next, please visit: http://www.specnext.com/
Huge thanks and a name check as ever to our Patreon supporters:
Nick Lees
Edward Fitzpatrick
Chris Worthington
Alistair Downs
Nick Lees
Retromash
Duncan Bell
Garry Heather
Help support the Retro Asylum by becoming a patron: https://www.patreon.com/retroasylum
Retro Asylum on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/retroasylum/
Retro Asylum YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfCC9rIvCKoW3mdbuCsB7Ag
Twitter: @theretroasylum
Download the episode: http://traffic.libsyn.com/retroasylum/165_SixteenThirtyTwo.mp3
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Mads Kristensen & Steve Erickson take a look at some of the early games by Activision on the Commodore 64 and where possible, compare them to their Atari 2600 counterparts.
Games discussed in this episode:
Park Patrol
H.E.R.O
Ghostbusters
Pitfall
Pitfall II
Little Computer People
Huge thanks and a name check to our Patreon supporters:
Edward Fitzpatrick
Chris Worthington
Alistair Downs
Nick Lees
Retromash
Gary Heather
Help support the Retro Asylum by becoming a patron: https://www.patreon.com/retroasylum
Download the episode:
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GMA Award nominated The Sausage Factory host Chris ORegan joins the Retro Asylum team for the ultimate 8 bit wars showdown as we add the Atari 8 bit computer range into the mix.
The games covered this time around are: Head over Heels, The Eidolon, Boulderdash, Bruce Lee, Star wars, Spy vs spy, Trailblazer & Summer Games.
Which system has the best versions of these games?
Find out as our hosts battle it out once again!
http://castaway.media/retroasylum/2017/04/01/episode-156-8-bit-wars-iii/
http://traffic.libsyn.com/retroasylum/RA_-_8_Bit_Wars_III.mp3
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Paul Davies, Steve Erickson & Dean Swain return for a 3 hour long episode of the UKs No.1 Retro Gaming Podcast. This time around, the guys take a look at nine original budget titles that were released on the 8 bit micros in the UK.
The team also discuss the ZX Spectrum Vega+ and the ZX Spectrum Next projects at length and also answer listener questions in the Ask RA section of the show.
http://castaway.media/retroasylum/2017/03/13/episode-155-budget-games-bonanza/
http://traffic.libsyn.com/retroasylum/RA_Budget_Games_Ep_155.mp3
https://itunes.apple.com/ie/podcast/retro-asylum-podcast/id474414834?mt=2
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Its time to gather around the Christmas fire as the Retro Asylum team reveal all in our festive Q & A special. We also discuss the games that give us a nostalgic Christmas feel and as an added Xmas bonus this episode also includes Gaming Nostalgia a documentary by Sean Allsop.
http://castaway.media/retroasylum/2016/12/23/episode-151-2016-christmas-specal-questions/
http://traffic.libsyn.com/retroasylum/RA_151_-_Christmas_Spesh.mp3
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It's been a while since I've updated a this thread so there's a few episodes missing, however our latest episode is now live:
Paul, Mads and Steve take a walk on the brutal side of retro gaming, playing five of the toughest games to ever grace floppies and cartridges. Will they succeed? More importantly can the guys still be friends after subjecting each other to these ultimate tests of gaming dexterity?
http://castaway.media/retroasylum/2016/10/07/episode-149-brutal-games/
Interview with Megaman developer Akira A.K Kitamura: http://shmuplations.com/megaman/
Simon Phipps website featuring Rick Dangerous: http://simonphipps.com/
Retro Asylum on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/retroasylum/
Retro Asylum YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfCC9rIvCKoW3mdbuCsB7Ag
Twitter: @retroasylum1
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Hi guys, sorry to bump an old thread but it seemed silly starting a new one.
I've recently picked up 500STFM which I was hoping to upgrade the ram on. However I didn't realise how many different revisions there were.
This is mine:
I'm guessing that this revision is the harder version to add ram to?
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In this episode of the UKs award winning retro gaming podcast, Matt Wilsher & Mad Kristensen are joined by Mark Hardisty (author of A Gremlin In The Works) to dig deep into Gremlin Graphics past to tell the story of how Ian Stewart and Kevin Norburn formed a premier software house from recruiting customers of their retail store Just Micro.
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Cool cheers guys. I thought that was the case with the Canadian model, what threw me was that my Sony Trinitron can obviously display an NTSC signal but I'm guessing only when it's receiving an RGB signal.
A friend of mine is going to check the PAL model over.
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Guys, I recently bought two Colecovision's. One is a Canadian model that has been modded with the A/V mod. This works fine on my newer flatscreen TV's but will not display a colour picture on my Sony Trinitron CRT. I'm guessing this is because it's NTSC. It's a bit strange as my other consoles allow my to run games at 60hz RGB on the same TV but there you go.
The second model is a PAL model that has not been modified, however this only displays a black & white picture no matter what TV I try it on. Any suggestions?
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Hi guys,
I recently picked up a couple of ColecoVisions on eBay, one is a Canadian model and the other is a CBS PAL model which is only displaying a black and white picture. It's doing this on my Sony Trinitron CRT and on a Samsung LCD display.
Any suggestions on how to get a colour display? Cheers!
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RA Podcast 218: The Vectrex
in Vectrex
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Thought that you guys might enjoy this:
Dean Swain is joined by Alex Crowley to discuss why the Vectrex is now a must own console. Plus, the ZX Spectrum Next prepares to ship to backers!
http://traffic.libsyn.com/retroasylum/RA_218_The_Vectrex_v1.2.mp3