New Perspective On Old Games - This Week In Retro 270

Exclusive hardware development news caps a retro kit roundup this week which includes news of a MiSTer handheld from Heber along with updates on the PicoCPC, PicoIDE, and PicoGUS projects. In other news we take a closer look at reimagined Atic Atac and Wolfenstein 3D, and explore the many wild and wonderful corners of operating systems in the Virtual OS Museum.

00:00 - Show Opening

03:54 - Give Us A Hand Mister? Story Link: https://youtu.be/arSnNwDQS2k Wide Boy: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YxGXvZRs4UI

20:22 - Run (Almost) Every Operating System! Story Link: http://virtualosmuseum.org

39:11 - Housekeeping - News links found below

44:33 - From 2D To 3D And Back Story Link: https://stephensmith.itch.io/atic-atac-3d Additional link: https://www.moddb.com/mods/isowulf

57:34 - Community Question of the Week

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News In Brief Links

Autodesk EAGLE end of support: https://www.autodesk.com/support/technical/article/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Autodesk-EAGLE-Announcement-Next-steps-and-FAQ.html

386 microcode: https://nand2mario.github.io/posts/2026/z386/

Amiga 500 receipt: https://i.redd.it/dhez6wdhoq2h1.jpeg

Atari ST clone "Raven": https://hackaday.com/2026/05/24/meet-the-raven-an-atari-clone-computer-based-on-the-motorola-68060/

S3 BIOS Snake: https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/retro-enthusiast-injects-snake-game-into-vintage-s3-graphics-card-vbios-enjoy-some-serpentum-fun-while-your-old-pc-boots

Apple II clone laptop: https://8086cpu.com/Z80/6502/110.html

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