You Got DOOM In My Quake, Xbox Woes, Mystery Atari Hardware & More - Ramble 171

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In this episode I talk about my new studio and why I've been away, yet more Xbox restructuring as Rare and Halo move to Activision and Ninja Theory faces closure, the leak of Rare's unreleased SNES game Project Dream, DOOM on the Commodore 64, Duake, DOOM on FPGAs, a mysterious Atari 2600 controller from Malaysia, an update from PhilsComputerLab, IKEA's official Skyrim mod & more!

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Episode Links:

Xbox Restructuring: https://www.gamesindustry.biz/xbox-transfers-rare-and-halo-franchise-to-activision-proposes-closure-of-ninja-theory-and-confirms-another-268-roles-cut-amid-studio-restructure

Project Dream Leak: https://bsky.app/profile/factsaboutbk.bsky.social/post/3mv4dsl6plk2c

Archive.org Upload Of The Above: https://archive.org/details/project-dream-snes_202609

DOOM On C64: https://x.com/Kweepa/status/2093946858729287922

GitHub Of The Above: https://github.com/Kweepa/SquareDoom

Duake: https://www.moddb.com/mods/duake/images/colored-lightmaps#imagebox

Video Of The Above: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fc2dgVTmyM

DOOM On An FPGA: https://www.reddit.com/r/FPGA/comments/1wji690/can_it_run_doom_yes_on_an_fpga/?share_id=bXkLZ4RmthEdhWVDO1wVg

Microscopic DOOM On An FPGA: https://www.reddit.com/r/FPGA/comments/1wjlry9/microscopic_doom_yes_another_doom_for_today/?share_id=dcZf3Rb7SSMmRL6QyiPWs

Mystery Atari 2600 Controller: https://theatari.spot/blog/2026-08/malaysian-mystery-unidentified-atari-2600-d-pad-controller

PhilsComputerLab Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@philscomputerlab/videos

PhilsComputerLab Update: https://www.youtube.com/post/Ugkxrn1e-gbLUz6gskiPmEDZ7MzJd-S9iIO0

IKEA Skyrim Mod: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwdeKwvsTJQ

Video Of The Week 1 (CNCDan Space Cadet Pinball Part 4): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp7qtPu2hbU

Video Of The Week 2 (RobSmithDev Optical Amiga MOD Player): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zM032oazT1w

Video Of The Week 3 (Retro Collective MiSTer FPGA Handheld): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIoOehM2wYI

Video Of The Week 4 (EastMakes Custom HP Motherboard): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzW4rRsD8Uk

Video Of The Week 5 (f4mi Unlicensed Game Discs?): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qwPLZzl0ZI

Video Of The Week 6 (Wait, How Come? OG Xbox Tricks): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycAdOOItsMk

Video Of The Week 7 (GamerZakh SC2K Better Than Ever): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDJ-XRlgipg

GitHub Of The Above: https://github.com/sc2kfix/sc2kfix

Chapters:

00:00:00 Main Channel & New Studio Update

00:10:13 PCBWay

00:11:06 More Xbox Restructuring Madness

00:23:50 OK Doomer

00:33:25 Super Rare Atari Hardware Unearthed?

00:41:22 PhilsComputerLab Update

00:48:27 Videos Of The Week

01:03:43 ...And Finally