{"podcast":{"title":"This Week in Retro","slug":"this-week-in-retro-1052400","podcast_index_feed_id":1052400,"rss_url":"https://feed.podbean.com/TWIR/feed.xml","website_url":"https://TWIR.podbean.com","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/14670378/This_Week_In_Retro_Podcast_Logo9mtfm.png","author":"Chris from 005 AGIMA, Jason from The Retro Adventurers, Dave and Duncan Styles","episode_count":281,"summary":"Get up to speed with the hottest news in the world of retro gaming and computing. Submit your own stories and upvote your favourites at r/ThisWeekinRetro. Hosted by Chris from 005 AGIMA, Jason from The Retro Adventurers and Dave. Edited by Duncan Styles. A relaxed and light hearted chat on the subjects that YOU choose on our Reddit page. With the occasional special guest and a Community Question Of The Week where you get to have your say and share stories.","last_synced_at":"2026-08-02T08:20:56.062979+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-week-in-retro-1052400"},"episode":{"title":"Epic Adventures In 64K - This Week in Retro 258","slug":"epic-adventures-in-64k-this-week-in-retro-258","published_at":"2026-03-07T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-week-in-retro-1052400/epic-adventures-in-64k-this-week-in-retro-258","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-week-in-retro-1052400","url":"https://TWIR.podbean.com/e/epic-adventures-in-64k-this-week-in-retro-258/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/4vb7s46tqgdxeydv/TWIR-Episode258.mp3","summary":"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. Visit https://www.addict.media/ for your copy of Pixel Addict magazine. 00:00 - Show Opening 01:59 - Let’s Compare Our (Jet Set) WillysStory Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idDsa-fTNPU 19:22 - Retro Coding RoundupStory Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9hpGu1fKHMAdditional 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 🏆Your monthly support helps us keep the retro news flowing!https://www.patreon.com/thisweekinretro 🕸 TWiR Sub Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/thisweekinretro/ Follow your hosts!Bluesky:https://bsky.app/profile/davevelociraptor.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/jasoncompton.bsky.social Youtube:Chris - https://www.youtube.com/@005AGIMA…","meta_description":"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 ga…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3384,"processing_state":"processed","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/this-week-in-retro-1052400/episodes/epic-adventures-in-64k-this-week-in-retro-258/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-week-in-retro-1052400/epic-adventures-in-64k-this-week-in-retro-258.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}