Summary: 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.<br> Congratulations to Wade Clarke, who correctly guessed Karateka for last month’s “Name the Game” contest! His prize is a free <a href="http://juiced.gs/store/concentrate/" title="Concentrate | Juiced.GS" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener">Juiced.GS Concentrate</a>, courtesy Juiced.GS publisher Gamebits. The prize for this month’s contest is a free two-day pass to <a href="http://www.vintage.org/2011/east/" title="Vintage Computer Festival - VCF East 7.0" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener">VCF East 7.0</a>, courtesy Evan Koblentz of <a href="http://www.midatlanticretro.org/" title="MidAtlantic Retro Computing Hobbyists - MARCH - a vintage computing community | historical computers | computer history | donate computers" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener">MARCH</a>.<br> Click past the jump for links mentioned in this episode.<br> <a name="intro">Introduction (0:00 – 11:56)</a><br> <br> * <a href="http://apple2scans.net/" title="Apple II Scans | A Library of Apple II-related Documents" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener">Apple II Scans</a><br> * <a href="http://www.computerhistory.org/membership/" title="Computer History Museum | Membership" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener">Computer History Museum memberships</a><br> * <a href="http://www.ivanexpert.com/" title="Mac Help New York City | iPhone, iPad, iPod Help | Apple Consultant - IvanExpert" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener">IvanExpert</a><br> * <a href="http://www.kansasfest.org/" title="KansasFest -- Apple II Forever!" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener">KansasFest</a><br> <br> <a name="news">II News (11:57 – 35:45)</a><br> <br> * <a href="http://www.vintage.org/2011/east/" title="Vintage Computer Festival - VCF East 7.0" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener">Vintage Computer Festival East 7.0</a><br> * <a href="http://www.reactivemicro.com/" title="ReactiveMicro.com" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener">ReactiveMicro.com</a><br> * <a href="http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/25_most_important_pcs_history" title="Maximum PC | The 25 Most Important PCs in History" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener">Maximum PC‘s 25 Most Important PCs in History</a><br> * <a href="http://www.willegal.net/blog/?p=1283" title="'mind blowing' demo -- Mike's Hobby Blog" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener">Mike Willegal’s Brain Board demo</a><br> * <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/activegs-best-of-fta/id405115025" title="ActiveGS - Best Of FTA for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener">ActiveGS for iOS</a><br> * <a href="http://www.apple.com/ipad/" title="Apple - iPad - All-new design. Video calls. HD video. And more." data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener">Apple iPad 2</a><br> * <a href="http://www.syndicomm.com/sheppyware/software-mac/sweet16/index.html" title="Sweet16 for Mac OS X" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener">Swe...</a>
