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I am joined by Tony Warriner who is one of the founders of Revolution Software as we discuss more gaming, gadgets and technology both retro and modern.
Topics include:
- What technology did Santa bring us in 2022?
- Remembering dedicated sound cards
- The loss of the headphone port on phones and tablets
- The 486 CPU TURBO mode switch
- Swapping through multiple floppy disks in games
- Broken Sword 3 and the 3D engine
- James’ Christmas Eve process or bringing out retro tech before the new stuff comes along
- Tony still loves his ‘portable’ Steam Deck
- Missing a Sony portable gaming device
- Sony trying to rule the world with countless storage formats they created
- 3D televisions and cinema and its failure
- Modern VR and the Metaverse
- Mastodon and its recent success
- The hunt for alternative social media services
- Movie and TV subscriptions services, we lost the leave cable / satellite dream
- The joys of Plex
