Show #6 (July 2011): User groups, Beautiful Boot, KFest memories, and game tournaments

Summary: 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