Must Watch! Return to Monkey Island & More on The Retro Reboot Show October 3rd 2022 Ep. 03
Channel: Al's Geek Lab
Date: 02/10/2022

This episode of the Retro Reboot Show is absolutely busting at the seems! What an absolute banger of a show there is so much goodness you do not want to miss it, including the following news:

* I asked you all "What the coolest little retro machine you ever had/have" was, and I got lots of great responses,
 * A new book has been released called "Shareware Heroes", I'll talk about that.
* Deep Dives are now available for BBC micro games including Elite (source code inc)
* I was curiously scrolling through Instagram and saw Dave Just Dave show off a thing called a "Turboswitch". I want to know more about this thing, it's a very curious retro device
* Origins stories on The Intel 4004 Microprocessor
* I have a link to pretty much every DOS game ever made for you. It comes with a crazy awesome menu system which has the meta information for every game and will download the games on demand so you don't have to download every game upfront.
In "Retro Reboots":
* The biggest news is that Return to Monkey island is finally out!
* The game Ashes 2063 is out (using doom 2 modded engine) 
* Two Guys from Andromeda finally released their new Space Quest game called Space Venture 
* I'm also talking about a new Applesoft BASIC Editor and the Merlin Assembler written in WebAssembly
* I cover a modern port of Turbo Vision 2.0, the classical framework for text-based user interfaces. Now cross-platform and with Unicode support.
* Amiga branded USB keyboard Kickstarter looks like they might be shipping
* A new Desktop widgets thingy for Apple 2

Here are the links from the show:
Shareware Heroes by Richard Moss https://tantobieinternettattler.blogspot.com/2022/09/shareware-heroes-by-richard-moss-book.html  https://www.amazon.co.uk/Shareware-Heroes-Renegades-Redefined-Internet/dp/1800181744 Deep Dives on BBC games including Elite (source code inc) https://retrocomputingforum.com/t/deep-dives-on-1980s-game-code-elite-revs-aviator/2831 

Random share from retrobattlestations: Libretto 50CT https://www.reddit.com/r/retrobattlestations/comments/wxhhpw/look_how_cute_this_little_laptop_is_toshiba/ turboswitch, anyone? (IG: davejustdave_retro)  https://www.instagram.com/p/CiOImqivPCf/ 

The Story of the 4004 Microprocessor  https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/noyce-and-the-microprocessor 

The first microcomputer: The forgotten Q1  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB3V_Q9wQ-M 

Applesoft BASIC Editor written in WebAssembly.  https://paleotronic.com/applesoft/ 
Merlin Editor in WebAssembly  https://paleotronic.com/merlin/# 

Ashes 2063 game (using doom 2 modded engine)  https://youtu.be/B793Asi6IZ4 

Return to Monkey island is finally out!  https://returntomonkeyisland.com 

Space Venture is finally out!   https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/spaceventure/two-guys-spaceventure-by-the-creators-of-space-que/posts/3610230 

Amiga branded USB keyboard Kickstarter   https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/simulant/retro-computer-inspired-usb-pc-keyboards-and-mice-by-simulant/posts/3620522 

C64OS release  https://c64os.com/ 
C64OS Perifractic review (YouTube)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVeW2ZlV2WU 

Desktop widgets for Apple 2  https://github.com/a2stuff/a2d 

ExoDOS 5 https://www.retro-exo.com/exodos_M.html  exodos game listing   https://the-eye.eu/public/Games/eXo/eXoDOS_v5/eXo/eXoDOS/  

Turbo Vision 2.0 turbo ide modern day for Linux and DOS   https://github.com/magiblot/tvision 

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TOC
0:00 Introduction
4:44 Shareware Heroes
7:36 Deep Dives on '80s BBC Games
9:58 Your fave little retro computers
25:03 The AT TurboSwitch
29:58 The Intel 4004 History
31:36 World's First Microcomputer?
34:15 AppleSoft Web Basic Editor
37:19 Ashes 2063
39:12 Return to Monkey Island
43:47 SpaceVenture
48:34 Amiga USB Keyboards
50:47 C64 OS
54:27 Desktop GUI for Apple ][
56:16 ExoDOS 5
1:00:00 Turbo Vision
1:02:02 You rock

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