The Video Game Newsroom Time Machine is a weekly retro gaming podcast in which we travel back in time to see what was making headlines 40, 30, and 20 years ago in the arcade, video game, and computer gaming business and interview industry veterans.
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Aug 31, 2026
Juan 'Juanete' Jose Muglia
As microcomputers opened up a world of programming, digital art
and games to kids in North America, Europe and Japan, the
developing world was left out of the plans of most software
developers. Crackers and software pirates filled this void
creating future generations of talented coders and artists, to say
nothing of legions of computer game fans.
Juan 'Juanete' Jose Muglia was one of those that entered this brave
new world, cofounded the legendary Buenos Aires computer store
Megasoft and is still active in the demo and cracker scene for the
C64 and Amiga to this day.
We dive deep into his roots in computing, what the business of
piracy was like in the 80s, how it evolved with the arrival of
publishers and how the demo scene continues to push old hardware to
new limits.
Youtube version with English CC: https://youtu.be/OlpuDehH-0g
Recorded: April 2026
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https://binaryinsecurity.epizy.com/intermegadlx/?i=1
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