News From Kay To Zee - This Week In Retro 262

It's taken too long to get prominent retro podcaster and archivist  @KaySavetz  (ANTIC, Eaten By a Grue, Internet Archive, and more) on the show! On this bonus-sized episode Kay joins Dave and Jason as we take a deeper look at 1990s nostalgia and the loss of multi-format cover art giant Philip Castle, and chart the dramatic rise and hard fall of Iomega's Zip drives. And for the sake of equal time, Kay presents a news brief involving source code hidden away on SyQuest media.

All this, your picks for a gaming industry legend you'd like to spend an hour with, and more in This Week in Retro 262!

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00:00 - Show Opening

04:24 -  Elite Box Art Was Elite Story Link: https://x.com/DavidBraben/status/2035665737449107849

17:33 - Media Giants Of The Past Story Link: https://hackaday.com/2026/03/24/from-zip-to-nought-the-rise-and-fall-of-iomega/

32:42 - Housekeeping - News links found below

48:45 - I Wish It Was The 90s - Or Do I? Story Link: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/22/young-people-are-longing-for-the-low-tech-90s-and-so-would-i-if-i-could-only-remember-them Additional Link: https://www.theguardian.com/games/2026/mar/27/retro-rewind-video-rental-retail-sim

01:01:10 - Community Question of the Week

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News In Brief Links

PicoGX Cartridge: https://shop.flamelily.co.uk/picogx

History of Creative SoundBlaster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTPa6wRECw0

3dfx Voodoo on FPGA: https://hackaday.com/2026/03/22/the-3dfx-voodoo-lives-again-in-an-fpga/

Pico Z80: https://eaw.app/picoz80/

Windows 3.1 on AMD Ryzen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qP3Jy52RuQ

MS-DOS on Apple II: https://sethkush.com/post/2026/03/22/reboot-camp-83-ms-dos-on-the-apple-iie-is-ready/

Game stores final closure: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/major-uk-retailer-leave-high-085419192.html

Lemon20 community: https://lemon20.com

Nintendo64 Open World Engine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXxmIw9axWw

Kikstart documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sW6AdUeIFLs

Jetpac remake: https://www.timeextension.com/news/2026/03/the-zx-spectrum-classic-jetpac-has-been-unofficially-remade

Kerbal flight via ZX Spectrum: https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/enthusiast-lands-on-the-moon-using-hardware-from-the-1980s-zx-spectrum-home-computer-with-3-5-mhz-cpu-and-48kb-of-memory-power-kerbal-space-flight

AOL Macintosh source code: https://bitbang.social/@mac84tv/116313232502499502