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Retro Island Diskettes

Retro castaways choose eight music tracks of computer or video game origins through which to tell the story of their life in retro. From arcades to home micros, hackers to demo sceners, every guest ha... Read more

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12: Jim Bagley - A British 8bit Coding Machine | Retro Island Diskettes | Ep.12

12: Jim Bagley - A British 8bit Coding Machine | Retro Island Diskettes | Ep.12

Jim Bagley has worked on so many 8bit titles it's difficult not to have played a game touched by his genius.  He's a mas... Read more

8 Sep 2019

1hr 28mins

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11: Kevin Toms - Spreadsheets, Perms and Football Manager | Retro Island Diskettes | Ep.11

11: Kevin Toms - Spreadsheets, Perms and Football Manager | Retro Island Diskettes | Ep.11

Kevin Toms is perhaps best know for Kevin Toms Football Manager, one of the very first of its type this genre defining g... Read more

21 Aug 2019

1hr 13mins

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10: Text Adventures - Tim Gilberts | Retro Island Diskettes | Ep.10

10: Text Adventures - Tim Gilberts | Retro Island Diskettes | Ep.10

Tim Gilberts is perhaps best known as the author of The Quill as well as subsequent tools which allowed non-coders to wr... Read more

9 Aug 2019

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9: Sensible Software - Stoo Cambridge | Retro Island Diskettes | Ep.9

9: Sensible Software - Stoo Cambridge | Retro Island Diskettes | Ep.9

Stoo Cambridge is a video game artist who may be best known for his work at Sensible Software.  Today Stoo shares his hi... Read more

29 Jul 2019

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8: 4-Mat - Demo Scene & Video Game Composer | Retro Island Diskettes | Ep.8

8: 4-Mat - Demo Scene & Video Game Composer | Retro Island Diskettes | Ep.8

4-Mat AKA Matthew Simmonds is responsible for some of the greatest 16bit demo scene tunes ever written, many video game ... Read more

3 Aug 2018

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7: Steve Hammond - DMA Design | Retro Island Diskettes | Ep.7

7: Steve Hammond - DMA Design | Retro Island Diskettes | Ep.7

Steve Hammond of DMA Design shares his life in retro and eight tracks to guide us through everything from Hired Guns and... Read more

18 Jul 2018

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6: Anarchy Demo Group / Judge Drokk | Retro Island Diskettes | Ep.6

6: Anarchy Demo Group / Judge Drokk | Retro Island Diskettes | Ep.6

Judge Drokk, founder of the Anarchy demo group shares with us his story of the demo scene, copy and demo parties, Stolen... Read more

4 Jul 2018

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5: Matt Phillips - Tanglewood | Retro Island Diskettes | Ep.5

5: Matt Phillips - Tanglewood | Retro Island Diskettes | Ep.5

Matt Phillips is a seasoned game developer who decided to leave AAA studios and embark on a very special project with hi... Read more

15 Jun 2018

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4: Ravi Abbot - The Retro Hour | Retro Island Diskettes | Ep.4

4: Ravi Abbot - The Retro Hour | Retro Island Diskettes | Ep.4

Ravi Abbot, co-host of The Retro Hour joins us to share his life in retro, clinging on to Commodore Amiga's, pirate radi... Read more

5 Jun 2018

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3: DJ Slope - Daniel Ibbertson | Retro Island Diskettes | Ep.3

3: DJ Slope - Daniel Ibbertson | Retro Island Diskettes | Ep.3

Daniel Ibbertson from the YouTube channel Slopes Game Room joins us today to educate us on his life in retro and his fav... Read more

14 May 2018

1hr 14mins

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