After years of uncertainty, the vast and historically significant Atari archives held by the late Curt Vendel have a new home at The Strong National Museum of Play. We hear from Atari chroniclers Kay Savetz and Martin Goldberg about the significance of this new installation and share behind-the-scenes photos. Game design pioneer Mike Singleton gets another day in the sun as a Midwinter remake emerges, and the history of Counter-Strike and player-vs-player mayhem get fresh perspective with a new look at Dust2 map designer Dave Johnston.
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DESCRIPTION
00:00 - Show Opening
02:05 - Who Collects The Collections?
Story Link: https://www.museumofplay.org/press-release/the-strong-national-museum-of-play-acquires-atari-home-computer-and-console-division-collection/
Additional links: https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com
14:31 - Take On General ReMastered
Story Link: https://midwinter-remaster.titanium-helix.com/index.html
Additional links: http://mercenarysite.free.fr/mercframes_graphic.htm
Episode 124 of This Week in Retro, Mercenary remake: https://youtu.be/FaTiRBGMCfI?si=pCbuvWcWcV4gJCbC&t=2430
28:18 - Housekeeping - News links found below
33:16 - n00b or h4x0r?
Story Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWWhxfGq_yk
47:32 - Community Question of the Week
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News In Brief Links
Intel 486 motherboard: https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/the-m8sbc-486-is-an-open-source-intel-486-mobo-built-from-scratch-in-under-6-months-the-original-idea-was-to-achieve-linux-and-doom-compatibility-but-it-achieves-far-more-than-that
Speedball 2: https://youtu.be/Mujivih30bc
Native PC ports from PlayStation 2: https://www.timeextension.com/news/2026/01/native-pc-ports-of-ps2-games-could-be-on-the-way-thanks-to-new-recompilation-experiment
Arcade church: https://youtu.be/kPKJyJGucH4
Why Do We Say Sprites?: https://youtu.be/tTqfeJ2yJwE
Amiga 1200 Mini-ITX Alicia: https://youtu.be/NMKiRaLyuD8
The Visible Zorker: https://eblong.com/infocom/visi/
