Open Apple #48 (June 2015) : Tony Diaz, KansasFest Memories, Prototypes, and 8-bit DNS
Summary: This month on Open Apple, we sit down with Tony Diaz- KansasFest committee member, and consummate Apple II collector. With KansasFest just days away, we go deep on Tony’s amazing collection of unique prototypes, documents, peripherals, and the stories that go with them. If there’s a person with deeper knowledge of the early history of Apple Hardware, we haven’t met them.<br> Thanks for your patience in June, everyone! Some technical and logistical difficulties kept us from posting this episode as soon as we would have liked. We hope the show is worth the wait. We dive into lots of new hardware toys, KansasFest-like events around the world, lots of software updates, and one of the best Apple II games ever made.<br> How many times does Quinn boo Atari this month? What can we learn about Mike’s dark, mysterious past? How many tedious Jobs movie news items can the world produce? Listen and find out!<br> KansasFest 2015 is just days away. Hope to see you all in Kansas City this week!<br> More information on everything discussed in this episode after the jump.<br> <br> <br> <br> * <a href="http://www.kansasfest.org" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener">KansasFest</a> – Registration closed by the time you read this, but come next year!<br> * <a href="http://www.amc.com/shows/halt-and-catch-fire" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener">Halt & Catch Fire</a> – The fast-and-loose-with-the-facts retro romp is back.<br> * <a href="http://www.spritecastle.com/?p=297" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener">SpriteCastle</a> – Flack expresses his secret jealousy for the Apple II.<br> * <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8ZxDijh_Zw" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener">The IT Crowd Manual</a> – Retro hardware hiding in everyone’s favorite IT-centric comedy.<br> * <a href="http://www.bbcamerica.com/orphan-black/guide/season-2/episode-9/" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener">Orphan Black</a> – An Apple II (ish) sighting in one of the best shows on television.<br> * <a href="https://ultimateapple2.com" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener">UltimateMicro</a> – Mike reviews the Transwarp GS clone and RamWorks III.<br> * <a href="http://www.spokesman.com/blogs/tech-deck/2015/may/11/weeks-free-game-wasteland/" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener">Wasteland</a> – A mainstream portal reviews the classic. The lame MS-DOS version, but still.<br> * <a href="https://wasteland.inxile-entertainment.com" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener">Wasteland II</a> – The kickstarted decades-later sequel.<br> * <a href="https://www.fastcodesign.com/3046205/7-questions-for-the-guy-who-designed-minority-reports-futuristic-uis" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener">Minority Report</a> – Futuristic UI was better when it was an AppleSoft BASIC prompt.<br> * <a href="http://hackaday.com/2015/05/17/vintage-computers-at-maker-faire/" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener">MakerFaire Apples</a> – Hack-a-day shares some great photos of odd Apples.<br> * <a href="http://willegal.net/superproto/index.php?title=Swyft_Card" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener">Swyft Card</a> – Still odd, still neat. Could have been what we’re all using now.<br> * <a href="http://www.channelworld.in/features/%27i-lived-in-complete-and-utter-fear-of-steve%27%3A-kawasaki" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener">Guy Kawasaki</a> – Area man goes on <a href="http://www.traffick.com/2009/03/is-guy-kawasaki-singlehandedly-ruining.asp" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener">bizarre rant</a>
