Jason Compton
@jasoncompton.bsky.social
Writer, tech podcaster, actor, would-be heir to Richard Dawson.
madisonshakespeare.org
retroadventurers.com
thisweekinretro.com
madisonshakespeare.org
retroadventurers.com
thisweekinretro.com
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Sound Blaster is back, this time with magnets.
youtu.be/i8BrBLmCrVQ
Is a MOD tracker story an Amiga story? And the Commodore 16 and Plus/4 get a new look thanks to a brand-new version of Green Beret for the former. Plus your pack-in selections for THEA1200 and more on This Week in Retro episode 243!
youtu.be/i8BrBLmCrVQ
Is a MOD tracker story an Amiga story? And the Commodore 16 and Plus/4 get a new look thanks to a brand-new version of Green Beret for the former. Plus your pack-in selections for THEA1200 and more on This Week in Retro episode 243!
November 8, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Sound Blaster is back, this time with magnets.
youtu.be/i8BrBLmCrVQ
Is a MOD tracker story an Amiga story? And the Commodore 16 and Plus/4 get a new look thanks to a brand-new version of Green Beret for the former. Plus your pack-in selections for THEA1200 and more on This Week in Retro episode 243!
youtu.be/i8BrBLmCrVQ
Is a MOD tracker story an Amiga story? And the Commodore 16 and Plus/4 get a new look thanks to a brand-new version of Green Beret for the former. Plus your pack-in selections for THEA1200 and more on This Week in Retro episode 243!
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Latest review: "I'm going to Hell for enjoying this. And it's your fault."
See Women Beware Women, the wild, unsettling, tragic, touching, funny play.
Friday 7:30 PM
Saturday 5 PM.
bartelltheatre.org/2025/women-beware-women
See Women Beware Women, the wild, unsettling, tragic, touching, funny play.
Friday 7:30 PM
Saturday 5 PM.
bartelltheatre.org/2025/women-beware-women
November 7, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Latest review: "I'm going to Hell for enjoying this. And it's your fault."
See Women Beware Women, the wild, unsettling, tragic, touching, funny play.
Friday 7:30 PM
Saturday 5 PM.
bartelltheatre.org/2025/women-beware-women
See Women Beware Women, the wild, unsettling, tragic, touching, funny play.
Friday 7:30 PM
Saturday 5 PM.
bartelltheatre.org/2025/women-beware-women
Tonight on WORT FM Radio Literature, Chad Fifer of @strangestudies.bsky.social of Strange Stories is my guest for a discussion of all things creepy, podcasting, and creepy podcasting.
7:30 PM on 89.9 FM in Madison, streaming worldwide on wortfm.org .
7:30 PM on 89.9 FM in Madison, streaming worldwide on wortfm.org .
November 6, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Tonight on WORT FM Radio Literature, Chad Fifer of @strangestudies.bsky.social of Strange Stories is my guest for a discussion of all things creepy, podcasting, and creepy podcasting.
7:30 PM on 89.9 FM in Madison, streaming worldwide on wortfm.org .
7:30 PM on 89.9 FM in Madison, streaming worldwide on wortfm.org .
I'm looking to speak with some #Librivox participants for a terrestrial radio and companion podcast interview. Can anybody out there help me make some connections?
November 5, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I'm looking to speak with some #Librivox participants for a terrestrial radio and companion podcast interview. Can anybody out there help me make some connections?
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Paging @visitthecave.bsky.social! youtu.be/6rm-IXPll98
So many hot topics, This Week in Retro called in special guest Neil Thomas. Look ahead to THEA1200, back at ZSNES + climb inside the computer on screen and film. Plus, the best immersive experiences, and more, on This Week in Retro episode 242!
So many hot topics, This Week in Retro called in special guest Neil Thomas. Look ahead to THEA1200, back at ZSNES + climb inside the computer on screen and film. Plus, the best immersive experiences, and more, on This Week in Retro episode 242!
November 1, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Paging @visitthecave.bsky.social! youtu.be/6rm-IXPll98
So many hot topics, This Week in Retro called in special guest Neil Thomas. Look ahead to THEA1200, back at ZSNES + climb inside the computer on screen and film. Plus, the best immersive experiences, and more, on This Week in Retro episode 242!
So many hot topics, This Week in Retro called in special guest Neil Thomas. Look ahead to THEA1200, back at ZSNES + climb inside the computer on screen and film. Plus, the best immersive experiences, and more, on This Week in Retro episode 242!
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Women Beware Women is what you'd get if you gave John Hughes and Quentin Tarantino the outline of Othello and told them to do whatever they wanted from there.
And it's at Madison's Bartell Theatre, for six performances only.
bartelltheatre.org/2025/women-beware-women
And it's at Madison's Bartell Theatre, for six performances only.
bartelltheatre.org/2025/women-beware-women
October 31, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Women Beware Women is what you'd get if you gave John Hughes and Quentin Tarantino the outline of Othello and told them to do whatever they wanted from there.
And it's at Madison's Bartell Theatre, for six performances only.
bartelltheatre.org/2025/women-beware-women
And it's at Madison's Bartell Theatre, for six performances only.
bartelltheatre.org/2025/women-beware-women
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Women Beware Women, the greatest dark comedy of Shakespeare's age, opens Friday at the Bartell Theatre.
bartelltheatre.org/2025/women-beware-women
bartelltheatre.org/2025/women-beware-women
October 30, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Women Beware Women, the greatest dark comedy of Shakespeare's age, opens Friday at the Bartell Theatre.
bartelltheatre.org/2025/women-beware-women
bartelltheatre.org/2025/women-beware-women
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This month on our Patreon: Chris, Dave, and Jason present renewed up-to-date news for out-of-date tech, because the existing once-up-to-date news about that out-of-date tech is now itself out-of-date.
260 Weeks Ago in Retro for October 2025 is now live for subscribers at patreon.com/thisweekinretro.
260 Weeks Ago in Retro for October 2025 is now live for subscribers at patreon.com/thisweekinretro.
October 29, 2025 at 1:34 PM
This month on our Patreon: Chris, Dave, and Jason present renewed up-to-date news for out-of-date tech, because the existing once-up-to-date news about that out-of-date tech is now itself out-of-date.
260 Weeks Ago in Retro for October 2025 is now live for subscribers at patreon.com/thisweekinretro.
260 Weeks Ago in Retro for October 2025 is now live for subscribers at patreon.com/thisweekinretro.
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A zombie console awakes! Strange experiments in life after death for this Halloween episode. youtu.be/hY6ARaYCPus
Atari reanimates Intellivision's corpse, and we test saying "Sega" repeatedly to cause oversized arcade cabinets to appear in a mirror. Plus your whiz kid memories on This Week in Retro!
Atari reanimates Intellivision's corpse, and we test saying "Sega" repeatedly to cause oversized arcade cabinets to appear in a mirror. Plus your whiz kid memories on This Week in Retro!
October 25, 2025 at 9:00 AM
A zombie console awakes! Strange experiments in life after death for this Halloween episode. youtu.be/hY6ARaYCPus
Atari reanimates Intellivision's corpse, and we test saying "Sega" repeatedly to cause oversized arcade cabinets to appear in a mirror. Plus your whiz kid memories on This Week in Retro!
Atari reanimates Intellivision's corpse, and we test saying "Sega" repeatedly to cause oversized arcade cabinets to appear in a mirror. Plus your whiz kid memories on This Week in Retro!
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Sega fans super-served: two hallmark concepts get the feature story treatment, along with the stealth candidate for best video game pitchman. Plus your iconic 1980s whiz kid memories and Amiga Format (!) news coming up in Episode 241 of This Week in Retro, Saturday on YouTube and podcast feeds.
October 23, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Sega fans super-served: two hallmark concepts get the feature story treatment, along with the stealth candidate for best video game pitchman. Plus your iconic 1980s whiz kid memories and Amiga Format (!) news coming up in Episode 241 of This Week in Retro, Saturday on YouTube and podcast feeds.
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Was Dave wrong about DOS gaming and has DOSBox Pure cured him?
youtu.be/VO_SZPhuCIU
Chris plans a fleet of computer museums, and Jason works hard to avoid the obvious chess reference in WarGames coverage. All this, and more, and your submissions for the best-ever free pack-ins on this week's show!
youtu.be/VO_SZPhuCIU
Chris plans a fleet of computer museums, and Jason works hard to avoid the obvious chess reference in WarGames coverage. All this, and more, and your submissions for the best-ever free pack-ins on this week's show!
October 18, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Was Dave wrong about DOS gaming and has DOSBox Pure cured him?
youtu.be/VO_SZPhuCIU
Chris plans a fleet of computer museums, and Jason works hard to avoid the obvious chess reference in WarGames coverage. All this, and more, and your submissions for the best-ever free pack-ins on this week's show!
youtu.be/VO_SZPhuCIU
Chris plans a fleet of computer museums, and Jason works hard to avoid the obvious chess reference in WarGames coverage. All this, and more, and your submissions for the best-ever free pack-ins on this week's show!
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It's a long way to Western Australia. What had to travel all the way from Canada to Perth, and why, and can Chris be trusted with it?! All this including the end of DOS gatekeeping and retro museum dreams coming up in Episode 240 this Saturday!
CPE 1704 TKS
CPE 1704 TKS
October 16, 2025 at 6:05 PM
It's a long way to Western Australia. What had to travel all the way from Canada to Perth, and why, and can Chris be trusted with it?! All this including the end of DOS gatekeeping and retro museum dreams coming up in Episode 240 this Saturday!
CPE 1704 TKS
CPE 1704 TKS
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Missed us on Radio Literature? Apart from a spirited discussion of the merits of speaking Italian, you missed this sneak preview of Act 3 Scene 1 of the play featuring Giovanna Iosso as Bianca and Willy Jewer as Leantio.
Listen, then grab your tickets now!
bartelltheatre.org/2025/women-beware-women
Listen, then grab your tickets now!
bartelltheatre.org/2025/women-beware-women
October 12, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Missed us on Radio Literature? Apart from a spirited discussion of the merits of speaking Italian, you missed this sneak preview of Act 3 Scene 1 of the play featuring Giovanna Iosso as Bianca and Willy Jewer as Leantio.
Listen, then grab your tickets now!
bartelltheatre.org/2025/women-beware-women
Listen, then grab your tickets now!
bartelltheatre.org/2025/women-beware-women
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This week it's the high cost of (inflation-adjusted) 1980s computing, a spirited defense of the Amstrad CPC, and a look at legendary artist Roger Dean's video game work! youtu.be/gxzEHAm_Nz0
Plus the wedgetop computer preferences submitted by you, the viewers, to the TWiR subreddit!
Plus the wedgetop computer preferences submitted by you, the viewers, to the TWiR subreddit!
October 11, 2025 at 9:00 AM
This week it's the high cost of (inflation-adjusted) 1980s computing, a spirited defense of the Amstrad CPC, and a look at legendary artist Roger Dean's video game work! youtu.be/gxzEHAm_Nz0
Plus the wedgetop computer preferences submitted by you, the viewers, to the TWiR subreddit!
Plus the wedgetop computer preferences submitted by you, the viewers, to the TWiR subreddit!
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Dave takes a break from Amstrad CPC defense to try out as a prog-pop vocalist. Also: the high cost of computing then-and-now and the celestial career of artist Roger Dean. All this, and your wedgetop picks, and more Saturday. Tell 90,125 of your closest friends: subscribe on YouTube or podcast now!
October 9, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Dave takes a break from Amstrad CPC defense to try out as a prog-pop vocalist. Also: the high cost of computing then-and-now and the celestial career of artist Roger Dean. All this, and your wedgetop picks, and more Saturday. Tell 90,125 of your closest friends: subscribe on YouTube or podcast now!
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Is the Rasperry Pi 500+ bringing wedgetops back? Did Jordan Mechner clear up Prince of Persia history on our subreddit? Is there such a thing as too much Infocom?
youtu.be/eOPYzQ0we9g
Plus your preferred control schemes on This Week in Retro 238, available now on YouTube and all podcast platforms!
youtu.be/eOPYzQ0we9g
Plus your preferred control schemes on This Week in Retro 238, available now on YouTube and all podcast platforms!
October 4, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Is the Rasperry Pi 500+ bringing wedgetops back? Did Jordan Mechner clear up Prince of Persia history on our subreddit? Is there such a thing as too much Infocom?
youtu.be/eOPYzQ0we9g
Plus your preferred control schemes on This Week in Retro 238, available now on YouTube and all podcast platforms!
youtu.be/eOPYzQ0we9g
Plus your preferred control schemes on This Week in Retro 238, available now on YouTube and all podcast platforms!
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🎧 The one in which @jasoncompton.bsky.social talks us through the history of D&D and Infinity Engine games.
I wish I still had my boxed editions, but more stuff lost in a great 🏡 decluttering of 2016 🫤
TWiR also put Andy “on the spot”! 😆
🎮 #VideoGames 🕹️ #RetroGaming #RetroComputing ⌨️ #Podcasts 📻
I wish I still had my boxed editions, but more stuff lost in a great 🏡 decluttering of 2016 🫤
TWiR also put Andy “on the spot”! 😆
🎮 #VideoGames 🕹️ #RetroGaming #RetroComputing ⌨️ #Podcasts 📻
Welcome Andy from Big Car / Little Car for flight control anxiety, Baldur's Gate 2 at 25 and D&D video game history, and a questionable 1969 BBC documentary on the death of cash.
youtu.be/DEXYuq_hZeE
Plus your votes on the best places in video game worlds, now on YouTube and all podcast platforms!
youtu.be/DEXYuq_hZeE
Plus your votes on the best places in video game worlds, now on YouTube and all podcast platforms!
October 2, 2025 at 9:56 AM
🎧 The one in which @jasoncompton.bsky.social talks us through the history of D&D and Infinity Engine games.
I wish I still had my boxed editions, but more stuff lost in a great 🏡 decluttering of 2016 🫤
TWiR also put Andy “on the spot”! 😆
🎮 #VideoGames 🕹️ #RetroGaming #RetroComputing ⌨️ #Podcasts 📻
I wish I still had my boxed editions, but more stuff lost in a great 🏡 decluttering of 2016 🫤
TWiR also put Andy “on the spot”! 😆
🎮 #VideoGames 🕹️ #RetroGaming #RetroComputing ⌨️ #Podcasts 📻
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Welcome Andy from Big Car / Little Car for flight control anxiety, Baldur's Gate 2 at 25 and D&D video game history, and a questionable 1969 BBC documentary on the death of cash.
youtu.be/DEXYuq_hZeE
Plus your votes on the best places in video game worlds, now on YouTube and all podcast platforms!
youtu.be/DEXYuq_hZeE
Plus your votes on the best places in video game worlds, now on YouTube and all podcast platforms!
September 27, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Welcome Andy from Big Car / Little Car for flight control anxiety, Baldur's Gate 2 at 25 and D&D video game history, and a questionable 1969 BBC documentary on the death of cash.
youtu.be/DEXYuq_hZeE
Plus your votes on the best places in video game worlds, now on YouTube and all podcast platforms!
youtu.be/DEXYuq_hZeE
Plus your votes on the best places in video game worlds, now on YouTube and all podcast platforms!
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Chris, Jason, and special guest Andy (of Little Car and Big Car on YouTube) discuss: some game franchises don't catch fire until the third installment. Does this happen in other forms of media?
All this, and more, and your answers to the Community Question of the Week, coming this Saturday!
All this, and more, and your answers to the Community Question of the Week, coming this Saturday!
September 25, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Chris, Jason, and special guest Andy (of Little Car and Big Car on YouTube) discuss: some game franchises don't catch fire until the third installment. Does this happen in other forms of media?
All this, and more, and your answers to the Community Question of the Week, coming this Saturday!
All this, and more, and your answers to the Community Question of the Week, coming this Saturday!
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What do Molyneux, Meier, Wright, and Carmack share with Barone, Persson, Fox, and Cherry? Is Elite the best of space gaming? Can we summarize the massive Vintage Computer Festival Midwest in 15 minutes?! Plus your retro trailblazing heroes in This Week in Retro 236, out now!
youtu.be/T8DPa5_j9Cg
youtu.be/T8DPa5_j9Cg
September 20, 2025 at 9:00 AM
What do Molyneux, Meier, Wright, and Carmack share with Barone, Persson, Fox, and Cherry? Is Elite the best of space gaming? Can we summarize the massive Vintage Computer Festival Midwest in 15 minutes?! Plus your retro trailblazing heroes in This Week in Retro 236, out now!
youtu.be/T8DPa5_j9Cg
youtu.be/T8DPa5_j9Cg
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Jason reports fresh off the weekend of Vintage Computer Festival Midwest 20, full of classic tech, This Week in Retro viewers, and distinctive hairstyles. All this and more including your nominations for the unsung heroes of retro, coming in episode 236 this Saturday!
September 18, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Jason reports fresh off the weekend of Vintage Computer Festival Midwest 20, full of classic tech, This Week in Retro viewers, and distinctive hairstyles. All this and more including your nominations for the unsung heroes of retro, coming in episode 236 this Saturday!
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🎧 The one in which @jasoncompton.bsky.social does things one at a time 🤭🤣 I laughed along 😁
And also Stunt Car Racer! Racing games, Ultima and retro text adventures - I am clearly in the right space 😁
Oh, I remember the biorhythms fad! 😅
🎮 #VideoGames 🕹️ #RetroGaming #RetroComputing ⌨️ #Podcasts 📻
And also Stunt Car Racer! Racing games, Ultima and retro text adventures - I am clearly in the right space 😁
Oh, I remember the biorhythms fad! 😅
🎮 #VideoGames 🕹️ #RetroGaming #RetroComputing ⌨️ #Podcasts 📻
It's The Taylor and Amy Show featuring a couple of bald guys for Microsoft's open-source BASIC, data on microcassette, and "software deconstructionist" Christopher Drum. youtu.be/UHYscl1Ayqg
Plus KIM-1, model rockets, your arcade theme songs, and a new Question of the Week!
Plus KIM-1, model rockets, your arcade theme songs, and a new Question of the Week!
September 16, 2025 at 6:09 PM
🎧 The one in which @jasoncompton.bsky.social does things one at a time 🤭🤣 I laughed along 😁
And also Stunt Car Racer! Racing games, Ultima and retro text adventures - I am clearly in the right space 😁
Oh, I remember the biorhythms fad! 😅
🎮 #VideoGames 🕹️ #RetroGaming #RetroComputing ⌨️ #Podcasts 📻
And also Stunt Car Racer! Racing games, Ultima and retro text adventures - I am clearly in the right space 😁
Oh, I remember the biorhythms fad! 😅
🎮 #VideoGames 🕹️ #RetroGaming #RetroComputing ⌨️ #Podcasts 📻
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What a delightful surprise. My new blog, @stonetoolsblog.bsky.social, seems to mark a tipping point, earning a lengthy discussion of my full body of retro-related works in the latest @thisweekinretro.bsky.social
I am, apparently, "Someone you should know"🙇
#retrocomputing.
youtu.be/UHYscl1Ayqg?...
I am, apparently, "Someone you should know"🙇
#retrocomputing.
youtu.be/UHYscl1Ayqg?...
Commodore Datasette But Tiny - This Week In Retro 235
YouTube video by This Week in Retro
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September 16, 2025 at 8:23 AM
What a delightful surprise. My new blog, @stonetoolsblog.bsky.social, seems to mark a tipping point, earning a lengthy discussion of my full body of retro-related works in the latest @thisweekinretro.bsky.social
I am, apparently, "Someone you should know"🙇
#retrocomputing.
youtu.be/UHYscl1Ayqg?...
I am, apparently, "Someone you should know"🙇
#retrocomputing.
youtu.be/UHYscl1Ayqg?...
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Taylor and Amy, this week’s guests, plus a hydrating Jason!
#vcfmidwest
Standing room only for the Vintage Tech YouTuber's Discussion Panel at VCF Midwest
Standing room only for the Vintage Tech YouTuber's Discussion Panel at VCF Midwest
September 14, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Taylor and Amy, this week’s guests, plus a hydrating Jason!
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It's The Taylor and Amy Show featuring a couple of bald guys for Microsoft's open-source BASIC, data on microcassette, and "software deconstructionist" Christopher Drum. youtu.be/UHYscl1Ayqg
Plus KIM-1, model rockets, your arcade theme songs, and a new Question of the Week!
Plus KIM-1, model rockets, your arcade theme songs, and a new Question of the Week!
September 13, 2025 at 9:00 AM
It's The Taylor and Amy Show featuring a couple of bald guys for Microsoft's open-source BASIC, data on microcassette, and "software deconstructionist" Christopher Drum. youtu.be/UHYscl1Ayqg
Plus KIM-1, model rockets, your arcade theme songs, and a new Question of the Week!
Plus KIM-1, model rockets, your arcade theme songs, and a new Question of the Week!