All the fun you can squeeze into 64k or less as we look at the international sensation that was Jet Set Willy and the explosion of open-world adventure gaming in 1984. There's even a fully-realised Quake-style FPS available for modern PCs that fits into just 64 kilobytes, or you can code up your own retro memory-resident marvels with the aid of the new Kwyll system or dozens of other open-source development environments.
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00:00 - Show Opening
01:59 - Let’s Compare Our (Jet Set) Willys
Story Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idDsa-fTNPU
19:22 - Retro Coding Roundup
Story Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9hpGu1fKHM
Additional links: https://indigobeetle.itch.io/santas-lost-and-found
Tprrt's Blog: https://tprrt.tupi.fr/retro-console-game-engines.html
36:06 - Housekeeping - News links found below
42:00 - QUOD Damage!
Story Link: https://hackaday.com/2026/02/23/quod-is-a-quake-like-in-only-64kb/
Additional links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qht68vFaa1M
QUOD Download: https://daivuk.itch.io/quod
Quake Brutalist Jam III: https://www.reddit.com/r/thisweekinretro/comments/1r7pz1p/quake_brutalist_jam_iii_released_jan_3rd/
Free Unreal: https://www.reddit.com/r/thisweekinretro/comments/1r44enm/unreal_tournament_2004_is_now_free/
Chris' Unreal Maps: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1oaBzMgV9oFHFpuTDnk4cytHOSdw0vII3?usp=sharing
51:22 - Community Question of the Week
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News In Brief Links
TIE Fighter Total Conversion: https://youtu.be/IZtHOoMsrWs?si=X3S9v4aEJXPDZ03D
FreeDOS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwLIgdRj5bI
MiSTer Floppy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kN8TCz7Z0n8
eXoDemoscene: https://www.retro-exo.com/demoscene.html
GenZ and iPods: https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/02/23/why-gen-z-and-young-adults-are-embracing-ipods-again
Rob Grant obituary: https://www.ganymede.tv/2026/02/rob-grant-rip/
Floating Lemming: https://youtu.be/h-2KyTnxr5E?si=dZFkM8nKew3dyF9I
