This week’s guest Jason Timmons has quietly built up @VCFMW (Vintage Computer Festival Midwest) into the world’s largest annual retro computing event. He joins the crew to talk about the end the line for the revived Checkmate Amiga case, the surprising differences in teletext penetration in the United States vs. the United Kingdom, and a look at the "overrated?" Amiga 500 Batman Pack.
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00:00 – Show Opening
09:48 – Checkmate Check Out
Story Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOssyAw8LoQ
33:05 – Teletext Admiration Society
Story Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCZEHoolBCg
54:18 – Housekeeping – News links found below
58:23 – Holy Clickbait Batman!
Story Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QY3Ud7zNQM
01:17:38 – Community Question of the Week
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News In Brief Links
Daytona USA Recomp: https://youtu.be/p0U5ltlUf30
Family Computing 1998: https://youtu.be/IpLew7igK-w
Metal Slug Vodafone Live: https://www.timeextension.com/news/2026/06/the-small-sprites-are-really-cute-a-long-forgotten-mobile-port-of-metal-slug-has-been-rescued-from-the-digital-abyss
Red Dwarf Adventure pitch: https://www.timeextension.com/news/2026/06/the-devs-behind-loco-motive-once-pitched-a-red-dwarf-adventure-game-and-it-looks-smeggin-brilliant
Older gamers: https://www.timeextension.com/news/2026/06/i-think-they-are-missing-a-trick-evercade-boss-says-the-games-industry-is-failing-older-players
Commodore 64 spellchecker: https://github.com/johnwbyrd/bloomer
Stop Killing Games: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8e8e7g0r82o
Episode Credits
"Amiga 1000 dialing in to a BBS (25938208305)" by Blake Patterson from Alexandria, VA, USA is licensed under CC BY 2.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/?ref=openverse.
"Amiga500 system1" by Bill Bertram. CC BY-SA 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=550559
Checkmate A1500 images from "The Amiga 1500 Story | Commodore Vs Checkmate Digital" courtesy of The Retro Collective
See the full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMxWvEmvti4
Part of "Inside the BBC Micro – Trash to Treasure (Pt2)" courtesy of The Retro Collective
See the full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQCgzIWZo0o
Part of "WFLD Channel 32 – Nite-Owl (Complete & Remastered, 8/25/1982)" courtesy of The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (www.FuzzyMemories.TV)
See the full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgs0kbxo68w
Parts of "Does the Batman pack hold up? – Yesterzine" courtesy of Yesterzine – The Literal Magazine Show
See the full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QY3Ud7zNQM
"Pages from Ceefax | 24 May 1984" courtesy of Transdiffusion https://www.transdiffusion.org/
See the full video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSA7AiRKync
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