And so, the radio show has ended. It was a good run, not accounting for the hiatus it's been almost 9 years. I just want to say thank you to everyone who has listened, both long time listeners and newer listeners alike. I'm happy that people have enjoyed the show over the years and have been supportive toward it.

Now, looking toward the future there are a few things to say. First off, I believe I said something about this in the last post but I might possibly try to put something new together, not a radio show but like I might put together a greatest hits type album to download, or maybe if at all possible something like vip.swf would be nice. I'm not going to promise that I will for sure do this, but I'll do it if I can.

Beyond this though, is something I just want to put out there; anyone can do a radio show. It doesn't take too much to do it, all you need is the following:

-A server to host it. Caster.FM, the service I've been using for the tail end of the radio show, is completely free to use.
-A collection of music to play, more on this later.
-Winamp, with proper plugins. Easy enough to get, both Winamp and the Shoutcast plugins are free and most sites like Caster.FM have easy tutorials for setting it up.
-A good internet connection, probably the biggest setback for some people.
-Lastly, and this is kind of the strange one, personal taste/desire to do it. I'm not really sure what to say about this, if you have the collection of music you're probably just fine.

So what I'm trying to say is that if anyone wants to do their own radio show in the future, do it. It's not hard to get started, and you might find that you like it. And for those who just like to listen in, you can tune in and support those who want to get started with it.

For collection of music, KHInsider is a good place for normal MP3s, but one thing I did during the show that helped me out was looking into...well special file types, I'm not sure how else to word it. For instance, .vgz and .gym are both file types for Sega Genesis music. You get the proper plugins in Winamp and you can play them just like it's an .mp3, and it all generally works the same on the radio. The benefit being that the filesize is so much smaller so it's easier to get a hold of them. Look into Project 2612 and Zophar's Domain for more details on this, they've got both plugins and entire libraries of music available there.

Anyway, that's about all from me for now. If anyone does want to start up their own show, feel free to post in the comments/discussions about it. I'll make another post in the future if I do end up doing anything else but otherwise, once again, thank you for listening to the show.

-Dongs