IKEA's sentient Kallax shelf joins Skyrim (voiced by Matt Berry!), a repairable Framework laptop out-lasts a MacBook Pro, and the GTA devs' lost Kirby game is finally playable. Plus: an operating system for the Atari Jaguar, a $100 space particle detector, Valheim 1.0, Canadian kids coding for the ISS, 8BitDo's Tomb Raider controllers, and an NES classic remade by the couple who made it in 1988. We also guess the price of graded Pokémon Game Boy games and share a Commodore phone and some antique show finds.

CHAPTERS

0:00 Intro

0:26 IKEA's talking Kallax shelf joins Skyrim

8:53 Framework Laptop 13 Pro beats MacBook Pro on battery

13:27 The GTA devs' lost Kirby game is playable

16:51 How was your week?

20:30 Tech garage sale recap

22:11 JagOS: the Atari computer that never was

26:30 Build a $100 space particle detector

28:36 Canadian kids can run code on the ISS

31:20 Valheim hits 1.0

34:48 8BitDo Tomb Raider 30th anniversary controllers

38:28 LAN party stories

42:15 Battle of Olympus remade by its original creators

44:36 Solar cells set another efficiency record

45:07 Guess the Price: graded Pokémon Game Boy games

52:41 Show and Tell: Commodore phone

56:23 Show and Tell: antique show finds

1:01:49 Outro

SOURCES

IKEA x Skyrim: TheSixthAxis, PCWorld

Framework Laptop 13 Pro: Notebookcheck (citing PCMag)

Kid Kirby: Time Extension, Notebookcheck

JagOS: Time Extension

CosmicWatch: ScienceDaily, via Archyde

Astro Pi Challenge: Raspberry Pi Foundation (sign up at astro-pi.org)

Valheim 1.0: ComicBook.com

8BitDo Tomb Raider controllers: Notebookcheck, 8BitDo

The Battle of Olympus remake: PC Gamer

Longi solar cell record: pv magazine

Full source links are in the YouTube description.

Thanks for listening! Follow the show and leave us a rating.

Support the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/canadiancomputercollector

Dan's out this week, so Marc Lagace (formerly of the Wrecked by Tech podcast and Android Central) pulls up a chair in the Happy Tech studio for his first visit. We cover Framework refunding laptop buyers without anyone asking, CDs outgrowing vinyl in the RIAA's mid-year numbers, a medical AI tool going global, a 108-year-old WWI cipher finally cracked, and Xiaomi's SkyNomad SUV with swivelling seats, a built-in fridge and a pop-up second storey. Plus a graphics card that doubles as an air freshener, a real ocarina you can play to control the Switch 2 Ocarina of Time remake, a live ocarina performance in Show and Tell, and Guess the Price: AI subscription edition.

CHAPTERS

0:00 Cold open

0:31 Welcome, Marc Lagace fills in for Dan

1:04 Framework refunds laptop buyers without being asked

8:34 CDs are cool again

22:22 How was your week?

27:26 Anthropic and OpenEvidence take medical AI worldwide

32:20 GPT-6 Astra cracks a 1918 WWI cipher

33:41 Xiaomi's SkyNomad SUV is a living room on wheels

42:58 The RTX 5070 that's also an air freshener

44:38 Play a real ocarina in the Switch 2 Ocarina of Time remake

46:46 Show and Tell

49:28 Guess the Price: AI subscriptions

55:45 Wrap-up

SUPPORT THE SHOW

Join us on Patreon for just $1 a month (higher tiers are coming soon): https://www.patreon.com/canadiancomputercollector

Thank you to all of our supporters and listeners! Want to see the ocarina and Marc's Show and Tell art? Catch the full video on YouTube at Canadian Computer Collector, where we're back to regular videos after taking the summer off.

BlizzCon is back, PS3 emulation got physical, and a UK tinkerer built a working 8-bit computer from 460 Soviet-era vacuum tubes. In Episode 10, Stacy and Dan cover everything Blizzard announced (WoW: Forever, Diablo 5, an open-world StarCraft shooter and more), RPCS3 playing PS3 games straight off the disc, a rapid-fire round of retro wins, Guess the Price with rare original Xbox special editions, and Show and Tell. Plus: we're having a tech garage sale!

HAPPY TECH GARAGE SALE

Saturday, [DATE] at our studio (the former Mike's General Store location), Winnipeg. Cables, keyboards (so many keyboards), routers, cases, monitors and more, all cheap.

CHAPTERS

0:00 Cold open

0:35 Welcome to the Happy Tech Podcast

1:16 BlizzCon 2026 is back

2:32 World of Warcraft: Forever

6:49 Diablo 5 goes dark

13:49 StarCraft returns as an open-world shooter

16:16 New Warcraft III campaign + remastering the classics

19:02 Heroes of the Storm and Overwatch updates

21:14 Diablo animated series on Netflix

22:37 RPCS3 now plays PS3 games straight from the disc

26:34 Should you grab a PS5 before GTA 6?

28:28 A working computer built from 460 vacuum tubes

30:37 Announcement: Happy Tech garage sale

32:36 How was your week?

35:34 Rapid fire: Nintendo's back-to-back Directs

40:49 Commodore and Amiga are (sort of) back together

41:44 Lenovo fixes bricked Legion Gos for free

43:13 Sierra adventures come to the Commodore 64

45:33 Doom running inside MS Paint

46:06 A full 386 PC on a cheap dev board

47:10 Minecraft rebuilt in C++ on the PS2

49:20 A 16-bit CPU built out of relays

50:36 Guess the Price: original Xbox special editions

57:19 Show and Tell: a signed StarCraft pro-scene case panel

1:01:00 Show and Tell: a vintage Apple poster

1:03:37 Garage sale reminder + outro

SOURCES

BlizzCon: Blizzard News, GamesRadar, Game Informer. RPCS3: TechSpot, Tom's Hardware. Tube computer: Hackaday. Nintendo Directs: Nintendo Life. Commodore/Amiga: GamesRadar, Hackaday. Legion Go: PC Gamer. AGI-64: Mean Hamster Software. DoomPaint, Minecraft on PS2: Tom's Hardware. tiny386, relay computer: Hackaday. Full links are in the YouTube description.

Join our patrons for $1/month: https://www.patreon.com/canadiancomputercollector