This month on the Open Apple podcast, Mike and Ken chat with Andrew Roughan, Australian Apple II user and curator of the Marinetti Open Source Project. From Jordan Mechner at PAX East 2012 to John Romero at KansasFest 2012 to Nolan Bushnell at GameFest, we’re all about attending conventions and chasing luminaries. We squabble over how to pronounce “Karateka”, look forward to new Monkey Island and Wasteland games, and eagerly consume iBooks for Apple II users on our iPads. On eBay, we get a previously untold tale of an extravagant Australian lot, then take a small jump north to look at an Apple II J-plus, before marveling at how astounded major press outlets were over your typical Bell & Howell.

Click past the jump for links mentioned in this episode.

Introduction (0:00 – 10:32)

• Total Confusion
• A2SERVER
• Steve Howell’s Carte Blanche FPGA card
• Ewen Wannop’s SNAP newsreader
• Beagle Bros’ Program Writer
• Beagle Compiler
• Nibble Magazine
• Open Apple on the Internet Archive
• Boston Museum of Science’s former Computer Revolution exhibit
• Computer History Museum

User Login (10:33 – 23:51)

• Andrew Roughan’s blog & email address
• Australian BBS scene
• The Complex II docs
• The Complex III (SHK)
• Marinetti
• Marinetti Open Source Project docs & getting started
• Uthernet link layer for Marinetti
• TCP Snooper
• Downunder IRC chat
• Mt. Keira Fest

II News (23:52 – 1:05:42)

• PAX East 2012
• Jordan Mechner to keynote PAX East 2012 (hat tip: Phil Cheetham)
• Wil Wheaton keynotes PAX East 2010
• Karateka gets rebooted
• How to pronounce Karateka by Jordan Mechner
• KansasFest registration now open
• KansasFest videos on Vimeo, YouTube, iTunes, Internet Archive
• 3.5 hours of Nyan Cat
• AirServer — bring AirPlay and AirTunes to your Mac
• Smithsonian’s Art of Video Games exhibition & GameFest event
• Double Fine, Tim Schafer & Ron Gilbert’s Kickstarter
• Brian Fargo to create Kickstarter-funded Wasteland 2
• Official Wasteland 2 site
• Infocom’s Trinity
• Kelvin Sherlock’s Shrink-Fit X
• DOS 3.3 Launcher
• Kim Howe reclassifies his IIGS software as freeware
• Uthernet card — sold out!
• Pascal for iPad
• PCWorld: Kevin Huffman still running his business on an Apple II
• Superior Watch Service
• Linotype: The Film
• Lim Thye Chean’s Virtual GS Book for iBooks
• Steve Weyhrich working on Apple II History print book
• Jason Scott’s Lumarca trailer
• A look at Cortland
• 1980s Apple vintage advertisements
• Not Another Apple Podcast?! (also via iTunes)

Apple Pickings (1:05:43 – 1:26:10)

• $75,000 lot of Australian Apples
• Wayne’s Computer, by Wayne Bibbens
• Kensington ADB Turbo Mouse
• Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs
• Apple II J-plus with Videx card
• Apple IIGS ROM 01 w/6 MB RAM
• Bell & Howell Apple II, as reported by Engadget & TUAW
• Dumpling-64 printer buffer
• Woz-autographed Apple-1 schematic, courtesy SignedByWoz.com
• Andrew Roughan’s autographed PowerBook