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Open Apple #30 (Sep 2013): Charles Mangin, Jobs movie, Tetris, and S-Prize

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This month on Open Apple, Mike and Ken chat with Charles Mangin, the mad scientist who puts Mac Minis inside Apple II cases and inventor of the RetroConnector. It’s our first show since KansasFest, and we share our highlights and favorite products and announcements from the show. The Steve Jobs film is now out, and Ashton Kutcher and Steve Wozniak have words while critics publish their own mixed reviews. However, we have nothing but praise for Walter Isaacson’s biography, and Steve Wozniak gets his own moment in the spotlight courtesy interviews with the Verge and Game Informer. We’re super-psyched that Eric Shepherd has established the S-Prize — how big will the pot grow before some enterprising programmer claims it?

Click past the jump for links mentioned in this episode.

Introduction (0:00 – 7:46)

  • Open ANTIChertz KansasFest episode
  • Open Apple interview with Steve Wozniak in audio and video
  • “Have you ever wondered why we’re here?”
  • Mike Maginnis’s documentation scans
  • Jason Scott’s BBS: The Documentary
  • KenGagne.com
  • Johngineer of Adafruit plugs Open Apple‘s interview with Steve Wozniak

    • User Login (7:47 – 37:09)

    • Charles Mangin of Mental Hygiene, RetroConnector, and Twitter
    • Charles’ KansasFest 2013 interview on Computerworld
  • Ken’s blogs about Charles’ Frankintosh machines
  • Apple IIGS double-minded commercial
  • BeagleBone
  • Homage t-shirt shop with custom Apple II signup station
  • PressurePen on Kickstarter, round one and round two, as featured on Computerworld
  • RetroConnector Raspberry Pi demo

    • II News (37:10 – 1:48:44)

    • No VCF Southwest 4.0!
    • Melissa Barron’s 73H 0r3g0n 7r41L game mod
    • Interactive Fiction Competition 2013, as sponsored by Juiced.GS
    • Wade Clarke’s Leadlight game for Eamon
    • Jason Scott’s Get Lamp documentary
    • Steve Wozniak interviewed by The Verge and Game Informer
    • Steve Wozniak secretly submitted Tetris scores to Nintendo Power
    • The Jobs movie Web site, poster, and trailer
    • Ken’s review of Jobs
    • Ashton Kutcher and Steve Wozniak trade barbs
    • Lawless Legends 8-bit RPG
    • The history of Sierra On-Line documentary failed Kickstarter
    • Missing in Action: 8-Bit Generation documentary
    • When Kickstarter investors want their money back
    • Juiced.GS in 2014 & three new Concentrate PDFs
    • Sweet16 v3.0.1
    • Eric Shepherd’s S-Prize to bring the Samba networking protocol to the IIGS
    • Lewis Kornfeld of Radio Shack and Tandy passes away
    • Rare Apple-1 fetches $387,750 in Christie’s online auction
    • Apple II #0148 sells for $24,099
    • Woz-edition IIGS sells for $610
    • Shut up and take my money!
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