DOOM On BBC Micro, PC Games On Cartridge, Xbox Mass Layoffs & More - Ramble 165

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In this episode I talk about the mass layoffs at Xbox, Eben Upton's BBC Micro port of DOOM (that he didn't actually code himself), fake Half-Life screenshots doing the rounds again, a port of Yume Nikki to the PS1 and Dreamcast, Chuckie Egg's return, the GF1 Neptune, PC games on SSD cartridges, Linux on the Atari Jaguar & more!

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Episode Links: Xbox Mass Layoffs BTS: https://www.gamedeveloper.com/production/-good-work-is-not-going-to-save-your-job-at-this-company-laid-off-xbox-devs-condemn-microsoft Eben Upton DOOM BBC Micro Port: https://github.com/ebenupton/doom Video Of The Above: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uImpZfoGjMs Fake Half-Life 3 Screenshot: https://egw.news/gaming/news/35971/half-life-3s-first-screenshot-reportedly-leaked-bu-oLaPXRHGu Reddit Post Of The Above: https://www.reddit.com/r/HalfLife3/comments/1uoo2xb/potential_hl3_leak_weird_screenshots_posted_and Elias Daler (Yume Nikki): https://bsky.app/profile/eliasdaler.bsky.social Cartridges For PC Games: https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/pc-gamer-turns-steam-games-into-cartridges-with-ingenious-2-5-inch-ssd-system-games-are-stored-on-128gb-drives-alongside-a-script-to-auto-start-the-title-once-plugged-in GF1 Neptune Running Golden Axe 32X: https://x.com/GamesCareBRA/status/2070633177039655055 Chuckie Egg Is Back: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cevl40j4vv3o EndBASIC: https://www.endbasic.dev/2026/07/endbasic-0.14.html Mega CD Tempest Port: https://github.com/pleft/mega-tempest Linux On Atari Jaguar: https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/dev-ports-linux-to-ataris-notorious-jaguar-console-from-1993-the-first-64-bit-console-features-2mb-of-ram-13-3-mhz-cpu-and-tom-and-jerry-co-processors-the-jag-was-notoriously-difficult-to-program-and-flopped Hannah Montana Linux: https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/hannah-montana-linux-gets-modern-remaster-after-nearly-two-decades-sweet-niblets-new-v26-is-built-on-debian-with-a-re-skin-of-kde-plasma PS5 Emulation: https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/playstation/ps5-emulation-ramps-up-in-wake-of-sonys-end-to-physical-media-ps5-titles-now-booting-across-different-emulators-with-rapid-community-development-for-both-2d-and-3d-games DRAM Shortages: https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/memory/researchers-predict-a-memory-demand-shortfall-so-large-that-half-of-this-years-actual-global-dram-capacity-wouldnt-cover-the-extra-needed Open source Comic Chat: https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2026/07/16/microsoft-comic-chat-is-now-open-source

Video Of The Week 1 (HM Royal Marines Play Halo): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQ8FZDm8pso Video Of The Week 2 (Saberman Amiga 1200 Zepton Port): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oegnkn9DSsk Video Of The Week 3 (Casio Loopy DOOM): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDe06uY5C40 Video Of The Week 4 (Digital Foundry Evercade): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1ad-WRGDts Video Of The Week 5 (ThatNukemGuy Ray Traced Duke Nukem): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzWFpMeK1UQ Video Of The Week 6 (Slidebean Black Bars): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYg0rBfAz6U Video Of The Week 7 (MVG Neo Geo DOOM): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJwffCeo4jU

Chapters: 0:00 Xbox Is Dead? 10:24 DOOM On The BBC Micro 17:26 Half-Life 3 Leak? 23:10 Weird RPG Yume Nikki Comes To PS1 & Dreamcast 28:49 PC Games On Cartridge 34:42 Bits n' Bobs 45:46 Videos Of The Week 59:13 One More Thing...