This month on Open Apple, Mike and Ken chat with Brendan Robert of the Java Apple Computer Emulator (JACE) and Apple Game Server. Innovative cross-platform tools are being used to bring Lawless Legends, an original 8-bit RPG, to the Apple II and Commodore 64; as part of the programming team, Brendan takes us behind the scenes. He lives in a lawless land himself — the Old West of Texas, where gaming icons Ion Storm, Zynga, Lord British, and Rooster Teeth reside. But when it comes to games, sometimes you can’t do better than Tetris, of which there are many new and devious deviations. We get rid of old toys, like a SCSI CD-ROM 7-disc changer and a LANceGS card, so we can all have room for new toys, like A2CLOUD, Apple2Pi, BenchmarkeD, AppleIIWorks Envoy, and Final Cut Pro X. And sadly, Wayne Green of InCider and Byte has passed away; we remember his magazines fondly.

Click past the jump for links mentioned in this episode.

Introduction (0:00 – 11:50)

• Robert Frost’s October
• Send voicemail!
• United States federal government shutdown
• Apple II subreddit
• The International Center for the History of Electronic Games
• Ken Gagne’s off-brand MP3 players on eBay
• A spare LANceGS
• SCSI 7-disc CD-ROM changer
• SSI AD&D games
• Upgrading the Mac mini, by Paul Zaleski
• Final Cut Pro X
• Xbox One & PlayStation 4 pre-ordered for unboxing!

User Login (11:51 – 36:40)

• Brendan Robert, aka BLuRry
• Lawless Legends on Facebook
• Lawless Legends on GitHub
• Java Apple Computer Emulator (JACE)
• Prince of Persia for the Commodore 64 (C64)
• Outlaw Editor for Lawless Legends
• Apple Game Server & Apple Game Server Online!
• Wasteland 2 on Kickstarter

II News (36:41 – 1:30:43)

• Blocks of Explosive Dismemberment at BostonFIG is not like Structris
• First-Person Tetris and Not Tetris
• Bastard Tetris
• Ultima IV from Good Old Games
• Mockingboard-rendered Ultima music
• Ultima Forever: Quest for the Avatar
• Boston’s Digital Den
• The Goodwill Computer Museum of Austin, Texas
• John Romero’s Apple II reunion at Ion Storm (1998)
• Steve Chiang of Shareware Games > DuelTris”>DuelTris joins Zynga
• Vintage Computer Festival Southwest 3.0
• Richard Garriott’s Britannia Manor for sale
• Abington (Mass.) Zombie Apocalypse
• Wayne Green of Byte & InCider passes away
• Wayne Green on changing the world
• The Softalk Apple Project
• Softalk Forever on Facebook
• Oz KFest
• Rich Dreher’s CFFA3000
• Rob O’Hara’s CFFA3000 review
• The Apple II at PAX East
• Charles Mangin’s RetroConnector joystick shield
• AppleWin & Virtual II
• Henry Courbis’ ReactiveMicro.com — still closed :(
• Hack your old Mac’s ADB keyboard to bring it up-to-date
• Griffin iMate
• A2CLOUD
• A2CLOUD setup video tutorial series
• ADTPro‘s Virtual Drive
• David Schmenk’s Apple2Pi
• Brutal Deluxe’s BenchmarkeD
• Brian Picchi’s Apple IIGS SCSI hard drive
• Scholastic’s Microzine
• AppleIIWorks Envoy
• CloudConvert
• MacLinkPlus 15
• Jobs film props on eBay?
• Ashton Kutcher’s extreme, Steve Jobs-like diet
• Unifile Twiggy Assembly on eBay
• Apple’s Twiggy Disks
• Apple Lisa Twiggy drive cleaning, adjusting, and circuit board repair