Open Apple

This month in Open Apple, Mike and Ken keep the KansasFest vibe going with first-time attendee David Schmenk, getting his perspective on the greatest products, sessions, and experiences of last month’s Apple II convention, from the CFFA3000 to Sweet16 and more. Ewen Wannop’s publication of an online magazine archive leads to a brief discussion on the creation and consumption of PDF scans, after which we get Tony Diaz on the line to clarify a hardware matter. On eBay, we like pins, buttons, and games, before getting ready for a special guest at this month’s Denver Apple Pi user group meeting. Congratulations to Antony Mauget, who named the game as Hard Hat Mack! He won a complete collection of 300 Baud magazine. Next month’s winner of the easiest Name the Game contest ever gets a $20 gift certificate to the Juiced.GS store. Click past the jump for links mentioned in this episode. Introduction (0:00 – 7:57) * KansasFest * Tony Diaz’s A2 Drivecast * Has Open Apple gotten too long? * The "new" Commodore 64 * The original C64 on eBay User Login (7:58 – 17:16) * David Schmenk’s homepage * COBOL for the Apple III * John Carmack * Xorg * Wolfenstein 3D for the Apple IIGS * Apple II turns 30 (in 2007) *

In this episode of Open Megahertz, KansasFest attendees Mike Maginnis, Ken Gagne, and Carrington Vanston join forces to reflect on the world's greatest Apple II convention, as well as review a classic edutainment title. Links Felicia Day's guide to surviving cons Vince Briel's A2MP3 card Rich Dreher's CFFA3000 card Robert MacNaughton Guest voiceovers by Melissa Barron.

In this episode of Open Megahertz, KansasFest attendees Mike Maginnis, Ken Gagne, and Carrington Vanston join forces to reflect on the world’s greatest Apple II convention, as well as review a classic edutainment title. Links * Felicia Day’s guide to surviving cons * Vince Briel’s A2MP3 card * Rich Dreher’s CFFA3000 card * Robert MacNaughton Guest voiceovers by Melissa Barron.

This month in Open Apple, Mike and Ken share the studio for a one-on-one recording session. We look at user groups, museums, and academic classes that celebrate the Apple II, as well as the growing collection of the Internet Archive, courtesy Jason Scott. While looking forward to next week's KansasFest convention, memories of previous KFests are unearthed and examined. Unusual Apple II and Apple III machines are hot on eBay, as are the competitors in recent and upcoming arcade tournaments. And let's not overlook the gauntlet that Richard Garriott has thrown down over the future of the Ultima franchise. Congratulations to Alex Lee, who named the game as DuelTris! He won a $20 credit to the RetroFloppy store, courtesy David Schmidt. Next month's winner gets a three-issue hardcopy collection of 300 Baud magazine. Click past the jump for links mentioned in this episode. Introduction (0:00 – 12:58) Thomas Compter's homepage NAUG's AppleWorks Forum scans Andy Molloy's homepage Denver Apple Pi Gamebits, Ken's defunct gaming column Done the Impossible II News (12:59 – 54:24) Seattle Retro-Computing Society Commodore Computer Club's trip to the SRCS Photos from the Living Computer Museum Computer History Museum on Facebook This Day in History CS 185C: History of Computing San José State University class audit form Computist on the Internet Archive Why Jason Scott put Computist on Archive.org The GET LAMP Interview Archives BBS Documentaries "Yes." 6502 vs. 8088 Machine Project's Aple II concert Video of the Apple II concert Bill Fickas' Guitarple for ALF Products, Inc. LoadingReadyRun's CheckPoint Square Enix to release a chiptune album Symphony for Dot Matrix Printers (video demo) "A Simple Text File" by Man or Astro-man? Music Construction Set YouTube playlist (hat tip: Reddit) Matthew Pearce's stock footage under Creative Commons CNBC Titans: Steve Jobs Mini-Appler reflects on Beautiful Boot Beautiful Boot source code Apple's 10 worst products ever (hat tip: 8Bit Aficionado) Smartport Virtual Hard Drive Rich Dreher's CFFA3000 ReactiveMicro & UltimateApple2 on hiatus Commodore 64 Replica Byte relaunches Retroviews (54:25 – 1:09:01) Ken's report from his first KansasFest Silvern Castle Maxster v0.79.5, a Napster client designed for HackFest Apple Pickings (1:09:02 – 1:22:56) AppleWorks 4 29 Forgotten Realms novels Apple II Europlus Lisa X/ProFile Hard Drive Emulator Focus IDE HD Controller SCSI terminator James Littlejohn's 18.75 MHz Applied Engineering Transwarp GS Transwarp II Apple III Name the Game (1:22:57 – 1:43:24) Classic Apple II game deaths The American Classic Arcade Museum at Funspot Gamers gather for retro glory in New Hampshire World's largest arcade introduces interactive Wall of Fame Pinball tournament at The 1-Up Free PC version of Ultima IV (requires DOSBox) Does a free Ultima IV herald a new Ultima game? Richard Garriott: "Only my team can create the true heir to my previous work." Eamon PC to Inform 6 conversion scripts Leigh Alexander's memories of Colossal Cave MCC-216 S-video Alex Freed's Carte Blanche

This month in Open Apple, Mike and Ken share the studio for a one-on-one recording session. We look at user groups, museums, and academic classes that celebrate the Apple II, as well as the growing collection of the Internet Archive, courtesy Jason Scott. While looking forward to next week’s KansasFest convention, memories of previous KFests are unearthed and examined. Unusual Apple II and Apple III machines are hot on eBay, as are the competitors in recent and upcoming arcade tournaments. And let’s not overlook the gauntlet that Richard Garriott has thrown down over the future of the Ultima franchise. Congratulations to Alex Lee, who named the game as DuelTris! He won a $20 credit to the RetroFloppy store, courtesy David Schmidt. Next month’s winner gets a three-issue hardcopy collection of 300 Baud magazine. Click past the jump for links mentioned in this episode. Introduction (0:00 – 12:58) * Thomas Compter’s homepage * NAUG’s AppleWorks Forum scans * Andy Molloy’s homepage * Denver Apple Pi * Gamebits, Ken’s defunct gaming column * Done the Impossible II News (12:59 – 54:24) * Seattle Retro-Computing Society * Commodore Computer Club’s trip to the SRCS * Photos from the Living Computer Museum * Computer History Museum on Facebook * This Day in History *

This month in Open Apple, Mike and Ken are joined by Brian Wiser, an unsung hero of the Apple II archivist movement, as well as a director and producer of films related to Joss Whedon's Firefly television show and Serenity movie. Ken reports on his trip to the Vintage Computer Festival East 7.0, Mike notes the changing of the guard at Syndicomm, and Brian brags about the Apple employees he's met and the museums he's visited, after which Mike and Brian chat about their favorite Apple II publications. We all lusted after the Ultima trilogy on eBay but were dismayed by two other auctions that were not what they seemed. Classics that need to be remade, those that are being remade, and those that were and failed are our gaming topics of the month. Congratulations to Brian Sturk, who named the game as Lode Runner! He won a 20% or $50 discount off one ReactiveMicro.com order. Next month's winner gets a $20 credit at the RetroFloppy store, courtesy David Schmidt. Click past the jump for links mentioned in this episode. Introduction (0:00 – 10:18) Applied Engineering Repository Beagle Bros Software Repository Nibble Magazine and Books The Computist Archive What is the Apple IIGS? The Book Brian Wiser on Twitter Done the Impossible Browncoats: Redemption II News (10:19 – 46:51) VCF East 7.0 InfoAge Museum Apple II visual matrix NadaNet AppleCrate NadaPong Scholastic's Microzine Comic-Con Andy Molloy's tribute to Ray Borrill and the Data Domain Fire in the Valley The Apple-1 boots up Apple-1 Owners' Club Apple-1 Registry A2MP3 workshop at KansasFest 2011 Musée de l'Informatique La Défense Musée de l'Informatique photo gallery Apple-1 at the Smithsonian The Ryan Suenaga Scholarship Fund Syndicomm announces change of management Sweet16 emulator Bob Bishop's homepage The First 10 Apple Employees: Where Are They Now? Ron Wayne's homepage Ron Wayne on Twitter Welcome to Macintosh CNN article on Ron Wayne Logo Draw for iOS GraFORTH Cult of Mac reports on player pianos Reddit: An Apple II making player piano rolls 1979 Apple Graphics Tablet vs. the iPad on Slashdot Retroviews (46:52 – 59:24) A+ magazine inCider magazine Softalk Shareware Solutions II Computist in the Internet Archive The Lost Classics Project Treasure Chest Project Apple Archives Apple Pickings (59:25 – 1:18:28) Ultima trilogy Ultima I remastered Mockingboard Ultima V on the Passport Mark Simonsen's keynote speech Apple IIe in portable carrying case Apple Users Society of Melbourne Apple IIGS System 6.0.1 Vulcan Gold 100MB hard drive The Visible Computer Name the Game (1:18:29 – 1:37:57) Lode Runner for Xbox 360 Miner ReactiveMicro.com David Schmidt's RetroFloppy Name the Game rules Gold Runner Lite 16 gaming classics that need to be remade today Karateka II: The Wrath of Dude Take1 How Elite took flight Ian Bell's Elite homepage Balance of Power HHGTTG being remade Legends of Zork MMO closes Peter Neubauer, graphic designer extraordinaire

This month in Open Apple, Mike and Ken are joined by Brian Wiser, an unsung hero of the Apple II archivist movement, as well as a director and producer of films related to Joss Whedon’s Firefly television show and Serenity movie. Ken reports on his trip to the Vintage Computer Festival East 7.0, Mike notes the changing of the guard at Syndicomm, and Brian brags about the Apple employees he’s met and the museums he’s visited, after which Mike and Brian chat about their favorite Apple II publications. We all lusted after the Ultima trilogy on eBay but were dismayed by two other auctions that were not what they seemed. Classics that need to be remade, those that are being remade, and those that were and failed are our gaming topics of the month. Congratulations to Brian Sturk, who named the game as Lode Runner! He won a 20% or $50 discount off one ReactiveMicro.com order. Next month’s winner gets a $20 credit at the RetroFloppy store, courtesy David Schmidt. Click past the jump for links mentioned in this episode. Introduction (0:00 – 10:18) * Applied Engineering Repository * Beagle Bros Software Repository * Nibble Magazine and Books * The Computist Archive * What is the Apple IIGS? The Book * Brian Wiser on Twitter * Done the Impossible * Browncoats: Redemption II News (10:19 – 46:51) * VCF East 7.0 * InfoAge Museum * Apple II visual matrix *

This month in Open Apple, Mike and Ken chat with Apple II historian Steve Weyhrich about strategies and philosophies for scanning, preserving, and publishing the story of the Apple II. Hardware hacks for the Apple IIc and expansion cards making their KansasFest debut caught our attention this month, as did the American Humanist Association recognizing Steve Wozniak, who earned a musical tribute from Jonathan Mann. Watches, shirts, boxes, and Risk topped our eBay auctions, while games ran the gamut from text adventures to Xbox spiritual successors to IIGS classics, with a few decorative posters thrown in for good measure. In addition to Dr. Steve, former KansasFest logo designer Chris Lackey makes not one but TWO guest appearances this month! Congratulations to Jeremy Rand, who correctly named the game as Out of this World! He wins a $25 discount off KansasFest 2011 registration or a free KansasFest shirt. Next month's winner will earn a 20% or $50 discount off one ReactiveMicro.com order. Click past the jump for links mentioned in this episode. Introduction (0:00 – 23:21) Taking the Apple II online with Uthernet Ken's blog post about Jeri Ellsworth Triangulation podcast interview with Jeri Ellsworth 6502 Lane Transmit FTP client for Mac OS X Navicat MySQL tool Graduate school presentation about the Apple II Echoes of KFest Steve Weyhrich's Apple II History Steve Weyhrich's Apple II History, circa 1991 Copy protection for Apple II cassettes Minecraft Apple II Apple II Scans A scanned Blue Book Visioneer Mobility scanner Eye-Fi memory card Visioneer Mobility + Eye-Fi bundle at Newegg.com II News (23:22 – 52:02) Apple IIc mass storage Smartport hack Apple II Weather Display Rich Dreher's CFFA3000 Vince Briel's A2MP3 card at KansasFest Jonathan Mann's "That's Just the Woz" song Song-A-Day: The Album by Jonathan Mann — Kickstarter Steve Weyhrich's audio parody RetroMacCast #200 David Greelish's Retro Computing Roundtable Carrington Vanston's 1 MHz Vintage Computer Festival East 7.0 What's an "Atari 64"? BYTE.com iWoz, by Gina Smith Cold Spring Design Steve Wozniak wins the American Humanist Association's Isaac Asimov award 2011 Humanist Awards Banquet video The true origin of the Apple logo Electronic Frontier Foundation Steve Wozniak on Big Bang Theory Syndicomm's DVD of Steve Wozniak's KansasFest 2003 keynote Apple Pickings (52:03 – 1:01:20) Vintage Computer Museum collection Englebart mouse Apple boxes Letting the Boxes Go: A Tale of Sadness, by Blake Patterson Bell & Howell Apple II Plus (Darth Vader) Apple Computer watch, 18k plated Timex watch, boxed Juiced.GS Volume 9, Issue 2 Risk (relisted) Another Risk Risk Factions for Xbox Live Commandant SixFour IIGS PRAM battery ReactiveMicro's IIGS PRAM battery ROM 01 battery pack Radio Shack PRAM battery Name the Game (1:01:21 – 1:19:53) Out of this World coming to iOS Outland for Xbox Live Portal: The Flash Version Wolfenstein 3D turns 19 (and acknowledging its roots) Catacombs 3-D Creating Interactive Fiction with Inform 7 (and Jason McIntosh's review) Usenet group rec.arts.int-fiction Trizbort, the Interactive Fiction Mapper Retro videogame propaganda posters Panic's lost 1982 artwork. Found. OverClocked Remix fundraiser

This month in Open Apple, Mike and Ken chat with Apple II historian Steve Weyhrich about strategies and philosophies for scanning, preserving, and publishing the story of the Apple II. Hardware hacks for the Apple IIc and expansion cards making their KansasFest debut caught our attention this month, as did the American Humanist Association recognizing Steve Wozniak, who earned a musical tribute from Jonathan Mann. Watches, shirts, boxes, and Risk topped our eBay auctions, while games ran the gamut from text adventures to Xbox spiritual successors to IIGS classics, with a few decorative posters thrown in for good measure. In addition to Dr. Steve, former KansasFest logo designer Chris Lackey makes not one but TWO guest appearances this month! Congratulations to Jeremy Rand, who correctly named the game as Out of this World! He wins a $25 discount off KansasFest 2011 registration or a free KansasFest shirt. Next month’s winner will earn a 20% or $50 discount off one ReactiveMicro.com order. Click past the jump for links mentioned in this episode. Introduction (0:00 – 23:21) * Taking the Apple II online with Uthernet * Ken’s blog post about Jeri Ellsworth * Triangulation podcast interview with Jeri Ellsworth * 6502 Lane * Transmit FTP client for Mac OS X * Navicat MySQL tool * Graduate school presentation about the Apple II * Echoes of KFest *

Apple II podcaster, programmer, writer, editor, and event coordinator Ryan Suenaga has passed away. In this special episode, Mike and Ken remember their friend. Show notes to follow... Ryan's last LiveJournal entry Ryan's wish to establish a scholarship Ryan's podcast, A2Unplugged Ricky Li remembers Ryan Suenaga (video) Presentation: Social Media and Health (PDF) Tweetup tribute to Ryan (May 10, 6–10 PM, Honolulu, Hawai'i) Apple II community tributes: Eric Shepherd Tony Diaz Mike Maginnis Ken Gagne A2Central.com KansasFest Juiced.GS All other tributes (courtesy Ryan Ozawa)

Apple II podcaster, programmer, writer, editor, and event coordinator Ryan Suenaga has passed away. In this special episode, Mike and Ken remember their friend. Click past the jump for links mentioned in this episode. * Ryan’s last LiveJournal entry * Ryan’s wish to establish a scholarship * Ryan’s podcast, A2Unplugged * Ricky Li remembers Ryan Suenaga (video) * Presentation: Social Media and Health (PDF) * Tweetup tribute to Ryan (May 10, 6–10 PM, Honolulu, Hawai’i) * Apple II community tributes: * Eric Shepherd * Tony Diaz * Mike Maginnis * Ken Gagne * A2Central.com * KansasFest * Juiced.GS * All other tributes (courtesy Ryan Ozawa)

The third monthly episode of Open Apple, recorded on April 3, 2011, has Mike and Ken joined by KansasFest committee member Peter Neubauer. The three look forward to attending KansasFest and VCF and reading Juiced.GS, 300 Baud, Twisty Little Passages, and Don Lancaster's Assembly Cookbook; review favorite edutainment software; gawk at outrageous eBay "Buy It Now" prices; and discover remakes of classic games Ultima, King's Quest, SimCity, Lode Runner, Wizardry, Choplifter, and more. Winning a two-day pass to VCF East is Marvin Malkowski Jr., who correctly named the game from last month's episode! The prize for this month's contest is a $25 discount off KansasFest registration or a free KansasFest 2011 t-shirt, both courtesy KansasFest sponsor 16Sector. Click past the jump for links mentioned in this episode. Introduction (0:00 – 10:46) Retro Computing Roundtable RetroMacCast Earl Evans of Retrobits on Twitter KansasFest committee roster Thomas Compter PAX East 2011 in pictures, by Andy Molloy Littlejohn Systems II News (10:47 – 31:10) KansasFest 2011 opens for registration Steve Wozniak's Facebook comment on attending KansasFest KansasFest Vendor Fair Peter Neubauer's KansasFest 2010 session on Alan Floeter's Macrosoft Vintage Computer Festival East 7.0 Jay and Silent Woz shirt Juiced.GS Volume 16, Issue 1 (March 2011) Nick Montfort's Twisty Little Passages 300 Baud magazine Mike Willegal's Brain Board ProFUSE Kelvin Sherlock Uthernet Ethernet card ADTPro Don Lancaster's Assembly Cookbook Retroviews (31:11 – 40:07) Popular Mechanics article on Logo Homepage for Brian Harvey, author of multiple academic texts on Logo 3D Logo The Computist Archive Warren Robinett's Rocky's Boots Apple Pickings (40:08 – 44:30) Apple IIGS Woz Signature Edition Sammy Lightfoot Bob Bishop's Bomber Panic.com converts iPad audio to Applesoft Make Your Own Murder Party Apple Adventure (disk only) Apple Adventure (Buy It Now) Apple Adventure (disk & manual)

The third monthly episode of Open Apple, recorded on April 3, 2011, has Mike and Ken joined by KansasFest committee member Peter Neubauer. The three look forward to attending KansasFest and VCF and reading Juiced.GS, 300 Baud, Twisty Little Passages, and Don Lancaster’s Assembly Cookbook; review favorite edutainment software; gawk at outrageous eBay “Buy It Now” prices; and discover remakes of classic games Ultima, King’s Quest, SimCity, Lode Runner, Wizardry, Choplifter, and more. Winning a two-day pass to VCF East is Marvin Malkowski Jr., who correctly named the game from last month’s episode! The prize for this month’s contest is a $25 discount off KansasFest registration or a free KansasFest 2011 t-shirt, both courtesy KansasFest sponsor 16Sector. Click past the jump for links mentioned in this episode. Introduction (0:00 – 10:46) * Retro Computing Roundtable * RetroMacCast * Earl Evans of Retrobits on Twitter * KansasFest committee roster * Thomas Compter * PAX East 2011 in pictures, by Andy Molloy * Littlejohn Systems II News (10:47 – 31:10) * KansasFest 2011 opens for registration * Steve Wozniak’s Facebook comment on attending KansasFest * KansasFest Vendor Fair *

In the second monthly episode of Open Apple, Mike and Ken are joined by Ivan Drucker: two-time KansasFest alumnus, Juiced.GS staff writer, and Mac consultant based out of New York City. News this month includes a look forward to Vintage Computer Festival (VCF) East 7.0 by two of its alumni, an Apple-1 expansion card for the Apple II, and controlling Apple II emulators via an iOS VNC; reviews of our favorite Beagle Bros programming utilities; the exorbitant prices Apple II hardware and software are fetching on eBay; and new iterations of our favorite adventure, role-playing, and text-adventure games. Congratulations to Wade Clarke, who correctly guessed Karateka for last month's "Name the Game" contest! His prize is a free Juiced.GS Concentrate, courtesy Juiced.GS publisher Gamebits. The prize for this month's contest is a free two-day pass to VCF East 7.0, courtesy Evan Koblentz of MARCH. Click past the jump for links mentioned in this episode. Introduction (0:00 – 11:56) Apple II Scans Computer History Museum memberships IvanExpert KansasFest II News (11:57 – 35:45) Vintage Computer Festival East 7.0 ReactiveMicro.com Maximum PC's 25 Most Important PCs in History Mike Willegal's Brain Board demo ActiveGS for iOS Apple iPad 2 Sweet16 Mini vMac II in a Mac Mocha VNC Lite A2Command Starring the Computer movie database Retroviews (35:46 – 43:20) Slammer GPLE Program Writer Space Ship of Death BBEdit Language Module Library Super-Mon Apple IIGS Laptop Project Apple Pickings (43:21 – 53:17) Apple IIGS College shirt Microsoft Adventure Castle Wolfenstein original cover art painting John Benson's art reproductions Auction Sniper Ultima I Ultima I w/original Ziploc bag Pawn Stars episode "Wise Guys" Apple IIGS as seen on Pawn Stars Name the Game (53:18 – 1:06:31) Apple II in Minecraft Ultima 4: Flash Version xu4 — Ultima IV Recreated Play It Again for the First Time — King's Quest I The Magic Candle adventure log Sword & Sworcery PAX East 2011 Interactive fiction at PAX East 2011 Learn Inform 7 Frotz Z-Machine interpreter

In the second monthly episode of Open Apple, Mike and Ken are joined by Ivan Drucker: two-time KansasFest alumnus, Juiced.GS staff writer, and Mac consultant based out of New York City. News this month includes a look forward to Vintage Computer Festival (VCF) East 7.0 by two of its alumni, an Apple-1 expansion card for the Apple II, and controlling Apple II emulators via an iOS VNC; reviews of our favorite Beagle Bros programming utilities; the exorbitant prices Apple II hardware and software are fetching on eBay; and new iterations of our favorite adventure, role-playing, and text-adventure games. Congratulations to Wade Clarke, who correctly guessed Karateka for last month’s “Name the Game” contest! His prize is a free Juiced.GS Concentrate, courtesy Juiced.GS publisher Gamebits. The prize for this month’s contest is a free two-day pass to VCF East 7.0, courtesy Evan Koblentz of MARCH. Click past the jump for links mentioned in this episode. Introduction (0:00 – 11:56) * Apple II Scans * Computer History Museum memberships * IvanExpert * KansasFest II News (11:57 – 35:45) * Vintage Computer Festival East 7.0 * ReactiveMicro.com * Maximum PC‘s 25 Most Important PCs in History * Mike Willegal’s Brain Board demo * ActiveGS for iOS * Apple iPad 2 * Swe...