Wed, 23 May 2007

A "Podcast" Before iPods

I used to operate, believe it or not, a weekly "internet radio show" back in 1998/1999. It was called "Amiga Radio News". Sadly, the entire show was lost to the ages, as the files lived on long lost hard drives and websites that no longer exist. I can't even remember how long the show ran for, but eventually I must have found a girlfriend or something and I stopped.

The deep, dark secret of this show is that I might have produced maybe one or two episodes on an actual Amiga computer. The rest was on the PC as it had much better audio editing software (Remember Cool Edit Pro?), a faster CPU for MP3 encoding, etc. Oh well -- nobody really knew.

By chance, i ran across a lonely GSM encoded file and its ADPCM counterpart. Quicktime actually played the GSM file. So maybe you will be able to listen to it too. Some really funky stuff happens when you play the ADPCM file in quicktime, so unless you got something weird that will play it, dont bother.

Amiga Radio News - March 16, 1999 (GSM 6.10) [Right Click and Save]
Amiga Radio News - March 16, 1999 (ADPCM!!) [Right Click and Save]

When I saved these files on my mac, it saved them as arn3161999.gsm.txt. Rename it to .gsm, and double click it. It should open.

Now, if someone has additional shows sitting around...please contact me.

I really doubt I could take credit for the first podcast, as i am sure there have been other weekly "radio" shows off downloadable offline content, but boy was it ahead of its time.

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