This month on Open Apple, Mike and Ken chat with Lon Seidman, sysop of the Matrix Returns BBS and co-host of Behind the Video. The dial-up bulletin board is making a comeback, thanks to Warp Six and the Raspberry Pi! It’s so easy, anyone can do it — unlike buying an Apple-1, the going rate for which has skyrocketed to $668,000 USD. But even that is a pittance compared to what Steve Wozniak’s former house is selling for. How long before he sells his current house and moves to Australia? Jordan Mechner’s Karateka reboot has paved the way for Karateka Classic on iOS, just the way we remember it. Charles Mangin also blends new and old with his USB interfaces for the Apple II — get yours next month at KansasFest! Finally, if you want a GET LAMP coin or any of Jason Scott’s documentaries shipped overseas, you’re outta luck — but he has four new films coming, with a colleague’s pinball film en route as well.

Click past the jump for links mentioned in this episode.

Introduction (0:08 – 5:39)

• Arrested Development season 4
• The Pubcast podcast

User Login (5:40 – 27:09)

• Lon Seidman
• Behind the Video
• Synchronet BBS
• Age of Reason BBS shuts down
• Matrix Returns BBS
• Raspberry Pi
• Warp Six by Jim Ferr, as featured on TWiT
• SyncTERM
• Space Ship of Death door game
• Apple II Enthusiasts on Facebook
• BBS: The Documentary
• Lon’s Apple IIGS on TWiT
• Dick DeBartolo, MAD‘s Maddest Writer

II News (27:10 – 1:38:48)

• Apple-1 sells for record price of $668,000
• Full lot includes Curta calculators
• CurtaSim wins at HackFest 2012
• The Geeks Who Saved Prince of Persia’s Source Code From Digital Death
• Prince of Pesia source code, now with documentation and quick start
• Jordan Mechner’s development journal e-books
• How to pronounce “Karateka”
• Karateka Classic for iOS
• Classic Prince of Persia for Xbox
• Boulder Dash XL for iOS, Android, and Xbox 360
• Spy vs Spy for the Apple II and iOS
• Wings of Valor
• Apple II-themed Minecraft server on Apple2Forever.ca
• Brendan Roberts’ Minecraft mods
• XCOM: The Enemy Unknown
• John Carmack’s Apple IIc for Christmas
• Dan Budiac’s Apple IIc unboxing album on Flickr
• Shareware Games > DuelTris”>DuelTris by Steve Chiang of Zynga
• Apple pop-up museum at Vintage Computer Festival Southeast 1.0
• Steve Wozniak gives commencement speech at UC Berkeley
• I, Woz autobiography
• The Apple II on G4’s ICONS
• Steve Wozniak’s house for sale, but nobody wants it — check the listing!