This month on Open Apple, Mike and Ken chat with Earl Evans, Retrobits podcast host and Commodore 64 enthusiast — but we don’t hold that against him. Registration for KansasFest 2013 is open, and we all want to go, but Earl has another destination in mind. Tech history is being unearthed before our eyes, with schematics for operating systems and circuit boards appearing in museums (where the price is right) and art galleries (where it’s not). Brutal Deluxe is on a tear, releasing retroprogramming utilities for Windows and commercial games for the Apple II; we’re big fans! But not all news is happy news: the Steve Jobs film has been delayed, and LucasArts has closed its doors — will we ever get another Maniac Mansion game for the Apple II? Maybe not, but Richard Garriott’s successful Kickstarter gave fans a chance to pick up an original copy of Akalabeth. Better late than never!

Click past the jump for links mentioned in this episode.

Introduction (0:00 – 9:20)

• An apology to Mr. Egan Ford
• Behind the scenes with Open Apple
• Boston’s WordPress community
• Dave Ross (csixty4) on Twitter

User Login (9:21 – 23:16)

• Brent Spiner is unhireable since “the incident”
• Earl Evans of the Retrobits podcast
• Martin Haye’s Super-Mon
• Ivan Drucker’s Structured Applesoft
• Rooster Teeth

II News (23:17 – 1:22:44)

• KansasFest 2013 registration opens
• Randy Wigginton to keynote KansasFest
• Steve Wozniak & Randy Wigginton at Denver Apple Pi
• Apple schematics as works of arts
• Disk II operating system schematics and code revealed
• “The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads.”
• Where’s the tech in The Social Network?
• New batch of Alex Freed’s Applicard 20 MHz Z80 cards?
• Bill Buckels’ BMP2RAG, HMONSTER, and BIN2RAG
• Brutal Deluxe’s Mr Sprite
• Celebrating the 20th anniversary of Brutal Deluxe
• Brutal Deluxes releases physical, commercial Apple II game, Zephyr
• Battle Kid: Fortress of Peril for 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System
• David Schmenk’s QuickCam capture
• Lego Apple II by Chiukeung
• jOBS film delayed
• iSteve trailer starring Justin Long hits FunnyorDie
• Apple II at PAX East 2013
• Disney closes LucasArts
• ScummVM game emulator
• The Dig on Steam
• Another World (aka Out Of This World) for Mac
• Eamon Deluxe newsletter for March 2013 (PDF)
• Eamon for Apple IIGS tech demos
• GET LAMP text adventure documentary
• Richard Garriott’s Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues on Kickstarter
• Brian Fargo’s Torment and Veronica Mars projects on Kickstarter

Apple Pickings (1:22:55 – 1:32:21)

• Stephen Buggie’s Computist magazine collection
• 11 new Atarisoft games
• Arcade Ambience
• Google Nose (beta)
• Z-80 expansion card