Podcast Rewind: Summer Experiments, Game Recomps, and Tier Listing Euro Banknotes

Enjoy the latest episodes from MacStories’ family of podcasts:

AppStories

This week, Federico and John cover the app and agent experiments they’re both running.

On AppStories+, John explores the sort of rapid workflow iteration enabled by agents.

NPC: Next Portable Console

This week, handheld news and a nerdy look at the recomp and decomp scene that is rapidly expanding to new operating systems.

On NPC XL, the gang revisits GameNative and the extent to which it has improved.

Comfort Zone

Today’s episode is all about tier listing the contenders to be the new Euro banknotes. What will these Americans think of Europe’s next top currency?

This week’s Cozy Zone is a very fun “name that app” game as Matt trots out some of the really weird apps from his Mac’s Applications folder.

AppStories, Episode 496, ‘Summer Projects - Automation, Email, and Dictation’ Show Notes

This episode is sponsored by:

Inoreader – Build Your Own Newsfeed and Cut Through the Noise

Shipaton, from RevenueCat: The world’s biggest mobile hackathon for people who actually ship.

Summertime Projects

John’s Logic to Final Cut Automation

Logic Pro

Final Cut Pro

Riverside

Federico Switches Email Clients

Superhuman

Spark

ChatGPT Work

Codex

Federico Retests Dictation Apps

Wispr Flow

Monologue

Aqua Voice

Typeless

Superwhisper

T3 Code

T3 Code

T3 Code on GitHub

Nerd Snipe with Theo and Ben

John’s Research System

Parallel

Firecrawl

Defuddle

AppStories+ Post-Show

Advancing Voice Intelligence With New Models in the API (OpenAI)

Desert Ant Labs

Pokémon Red & Blue mod turns the classic RPG into a sick 3D voxel game

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NPC, Episode 91, ‘Recomps, Decomps, and Playable Dioramas’ Show Notes

The Latest Portable Gaming News

Retroid Announces Nova Shipping Dates

Qualcomm reportedly notifies hardware partners of impending chip price hikes

The Recomp and Decomp Scene

Pokemon Gen 1 Recompilation adds HD-2D to the original games.

A mod team has made a recompilation of Pokemon Red, Blue, and Yellow.

The Dramatic Shape Voxel Mod, which turns the game into a full 3D voxel-based experience.

Ocarina of Time decomp on iOS

Also Mario Kart 64 iOS decomp

Subscribe to NPC XL

NPC XL is a weekly members-only version of NPC with extra content, available exclusively through our new Patreon for $5/month. Each week on NPC XL, Federico, Brendon, and John record a special segment or deep dive about a particular topic that is released alongside the “regular” NPC episodes. You can subscribe here.

Comfort Zone, Episode 112, ‘Dollar Dollar Bills Y’all’ Show Notes

Things Discussed

Proposed new € banknotes

Cozy Zone

For even more from the Comfort Zone crew, you can subscribe to Cozy Zone. Cozy Zone is a weekly bonus episode of Comfort Zone where Matt, Niléane, and Chris invite listeners to join them in the Cozy Zone where they’ll cover extra topics, invent wilder challenges and games, and share all their great (and not so great) takes on tech. You can subscribe to Cozy Zone for $5 per month here or $50 per year here.

MacStories launched its first podcast in 2017 with AppStories. Since then, the lineup has expanded to include a family of weekly shows that also includes MacStories Unwind, Magic Rays of Light, Comfort Zone, NPC: Next Portable Console, and First, Last, Everything that collectively, cover a broad range of the modern media world from Apple’s streaming service and videogame hardware to apps for a growing audience that appreciates our thoughtful, in-depth approach to media.

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