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Episode 36: The Age of Aquarius
Episode 27
Monday, 16 December, 2019
It's the age of Aquarius! Episode 36 flies into town with the team chatting to Sean Harrington about the Mattel Aquarius, that curious little Z80-based computer from the house of Barbie. We talk creating new mods for the computer, a bit about it, as well as take a look into Sean's history with the system, Star Wars & more! This episode's news: SMB on the ZX Speccy - https://events.retroscene.org/cafe2019/gamecompo/2217 Sonic GX - Sonic for the Amstrad CPC+/GX4000 - http://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/news-events/announcing-sonic-gx-a-new-episode-of-sonic-the-hedgehog-for-amstrad-gx-4000/ Fastloaders "Amiga Rocks" album funded - can pre-order though https://c64audio.com/products/amiga-rocks-fastloaders-a-triple-cd-of-amiga-game-remixes-pre-order Sean's Mattel Aquarius Composite mod board on eBay - https://www.ebay.com/itm/Aquarius-Computer-Composite-Video-Out-Adapter-Board-/223672642110 Some of the games mentioned: Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night Choplifter (on many, many platforms) Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (Aquarius) Utopia (Aquarius) Astrosmash (Aquarius, but also Tony's "Let's make a retro game" series on YouTube) The two Aquarius Emulators referred to are "Virtual Aquarius" and "AqEmu", both of which can be found here - https://www.zophar.net/aquarius.html You can say hi to Sean on Twitter @1stage or visit the Aquarius Community on Facebook! Tony's webpage for his programming & games is www.electricadventures.net, along with his YouTube channel of the same name
