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In this episode I talk about a fellow retro nerd on The Great British Bake Off, a whole host of new Sonic ports for the Amiga, SNES and Atari STe, an operating system that turns the Atari Jaguar into Atari's cancelled "Painter" computer, a vibe-coded Knuckles' Chaotix recompilation that hasn't exactly impressed fans, a secret hidden on the Xevious 3D/G+ disc uncovered by our very own mnemo, DOOM on Picotron, Cyriak tinkering with Doom Builder, DOOM drawn by a pen plotter, the untimely passing of Project Gotham Racing developer David "Bone" Gill & more!
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Episode Links: Danni On The Great British Bake Off: https://thegreatbritishbakeoff.co.uk/bakers/series-17-danni/ Sonic On The Amiga (Aonic): https://reassembler68k.itch.io/aonic Video Of The Above: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3htbBw-zlg Making Sonic Sound Like Sonic On The Amiga: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz2C3d2orvQ SuperSonic SNES Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfJKVQOcAdk Sonic 1 On The Atari STe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbaR_7wfPik Atari Painter Prototype Info: https://atari-explorer.ctrl-alt-rees.com/protos/protos-painter.html JagOS 'Spot' For The Atari Jaguar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atZwJqhJn-A Vibe-Coded Knuckles' Chaotix Recomp: https://www.timeextension.com/news/2026/09/this-is-what-happens-when-you-rely-on-ai-slop-fans-arent-impressed-with-vibe-coded-knuckles-chaotix-recomp mnemo's Xevious 3D/G+ Secret: https://www.mnemotron.de/xev/ TCRF Page For The Above: https://tcrf.net/Xevious_3D/G%2B The Making Of Xevious: https://shmuplations.com/makingofxevious/ Picotron: https://www.lexaloffle.com/picotron.php DOOM On Picotron: https://bsky.app/profile/fsouchu.bsky.social/post/3mwglutzfl22i Cyriak's Doom Builder Experiments: https://bsky.app/profile/cyriak.bsky.social/post/3mwlil6oiks2v DOOM E1M1 Plotter Art: https://www.reddit.com/r/PlotterArt/comments/1wvchcf/doom_e1m1/ David "Bone" Gill Tribute: https://www.timeextension.com/news/2026/09/one-of-the-finest-coders-id-worked-with-tributes-pour-in-for-star-citizen-wetrix-and-project-gotham-racing-dev-david-bone-gill
Video Of The Week 1 (Emmet Custom CD Console Build): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW5HGrhBync Video Of The Week 2 (Loyal Moses They're Banning Your Home Servers): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KOau7CLCCU Video Of The Week 3 (Atari Legend Alien Breed Clones On The Atari ST): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di90BUS_fUc Video Of The Week 4 (Tech Tangents Origins Of The 3.5" Floppy): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djsyVgTGaRk
Chapters: 00:00:00 Bake-Off Preamble 00:08:24 PCBWay 00:09:16 Interesting New Sonic Ports! 00:21:41 Atari "Painter" Cancelled Project OS 00:32:40 Sloppy Knuckles 00:41:26 mnemo's Xevious Secret 00:53:08 OK Doomer 01:03:05 Videos Of The Week 01:12:59 Tribute To David "Bone" Gill
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