The Real Winamp Player - This Week In Retro 175

It's criminal that we have companies, businesses and government telling us to help save the environment and recycle but we are not allowed to take electronics from the tip to recycle and rescue (at our own risk).

Aah, good old WinAmp, it really kicked the llama´s a** 😂😂

My son is Autistic and loves his music. He find's spotify etc overwhelming . He loves buying CD's and playing them on a portable CD player . So when he walks to work he has a bag with a selection of CD's, his portable CD Player as well as a handful of AA batteries. Makes me happy.

Back in the '90s I used to go to the library and take out 10 CDs for £1 and rip the hell out of them, take them back and get 10 more the next day. The library staff must have thought I was insane haha. I backed-up all the mp3s to hundreds of CDrs which I promptly filed away neatly in folders, to barely ever be used again haha, and have no doubt all got disc rot now any way!. I still use Winamp now, with the classic skin, it's still my favourite way to quckly right-click play a folder of compressed music, and the huge number of plug-ins that still work for it make it just as useful to me now as 25 years ago!

Glad I was able to shout out CMR and RBR in the community question of the week. 😄

Haha LOVED the reference to the Vauxhall Nova SR! 😂 That's what I had in mine... Minus the donuts! Perfect retro!

I loved it. I remember that sinking feeling they got bought out, then they got bought. Which player? Think of kicking llama's posteriors... 😉

Where please can I buy the FTL Dungeon Master T that Dave is wearing? :-)

Love Winamp. Was introduced to it along with ICQ and Photoshop 5.5. Still use PS and Winamp. Currently building a version for my Sony Xperia 10II phone for SailfishOS. The visualizer Milk Drop is the best plugin I've ever seen. I've called mine WimpAMP as it won't have all the features of the real Winamp.

I believe Nvidia wanted 3DFX and Glide gone and also wanted the SLI patent.

Hmm, Neil mentions a CD tower sat next the computer, and how the CD towers are now on the tip. Viewer glances guiltily at the CD tower STILL next to his PC. Anachronisms are us!

It was actually a big green hea—

Today's Dave Housekeeping really channelled the style of LCD Soundsystem (in particular the track "Losing My Edge"), which is especially appropriate for an episode featuring a literal LCD soundsystem :)

I know I'm old because people are nostalgic for 90s PCs, but I was in my 30s, at the time.

Nice to hear the voodoo 2 cards are expensive now. I still have my 2 diamond 12mb voodoo 2 cards all boxed up in my spare room lol

I dont think the PCI slots on the AmigaPCI are primary for running quake on an Amiga - that sounds like you misunderstood the project. But even if you only play games (HD installed) having a high res RTG workbench is kinda nice to have to administrate files and so on. Can totally understand that is something totally unrelatetable and considered non-retro or as that guy on your show said in an episode last year "whats the point of retro if you add a pi to it", this way of thinking makes perfect sense if you are only used to A500 and playing games from floppy drives (and if that is all you want to do). But RTG is kind of retro too for some people, belive it or not. And having modern access to RTG (and faster CPUs either real or emulated on a Pi) either through Zorro, PCI or RPI is great, we can finally build our top end Amiga system of our dreams however we want to. This project is one of the most exciting Amiga projects right now IMHO and you got more excited about a physical Winamp box instead, what a time to be alive LOL

lol i still have -a late 90s sony hifi separates; cd, radio, minidisc, amp and tapedeck.. -one of those cd racks neil was on about and I use winamp on a daily basis i don't do apple music, spotify or any streaming stuff. proper old school.

Not only is it great that the new Amiga project talks PCI, but it is also the first Amiga system (AFAIK) that doesn't have a 68030-bus protocol that the 040+ needs to emulate.

The death knell for 3Dfx was when they became their own fab and couldn't manage it instead of staying with third party board providers.

I lived in Ross-on-Wye for a few years as a child 😊