At the dawn of 2014, Open Apple engages in its annual tradition of reflecting on all that has transpired in the Apple II community in the past year. Ken Gagne moderates a panel of Mike Maginnis, Andy Molloy, Ivan Drucker, and David Schmenk to look at topics in news, emulation, hardware, software, conventions, and publications. Popular themes include the Raspberry Pi, the S-Prize, social media, JSMESS, the Jobs film, and KansasFest 2013.

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News (0:00 – 17:49)

• Ivan Drucker’s Raspple II
• David Schmenk’s Apple II Pi
• Craig Johnston & John Romero’s Apple Time Warp podcast
• Rich Dreher’s CFFA3000
• John Romero’s KansasFest 2012 keynote speech
• Eric Shepherd’s S-Prize for the SMB protocol
• Juiced.GS
• UltimateApple2 and ReactiveMicro.com to re-open

Emulation (17:50 – 25:09)

• GSport
• Sweet16
• JSMESS
• Option8’s RetroConnector
• CFFA for Apple-1

Hardware (25:10 – 36:24)

• Nishida Radio products
• iDisk Bluetooth card
• Replica 1 Ten

Software (36:25 – 50:55)

• Lamb Chops!
• RetroChallenge Winter Warmup
• Lawless Legends 3D Ray casting engine demo 1.0
• Software by Martin Haye
• Ewen Wannop’s software
• No Quarter podcast

Conventions (50:56 – 1:00:46)

• KansasFest
• Vintage Computer Festival East 9.1 (2014)

Books (1:00:47 – 1:06:46)

• Iconic, by Jonathan Zufi
• Sophistication & Simplicity: The Life & Times of the Apple II Computer, by Steven Weyhrich
• The First Apple, by Bob Luther
• The WOZPAK Special Edition: Steve Wozniak’s Apple-1 & Apple ][ Computers, by Steve Wozniak, Bill Martens, Brian Wiser

In Memory (1:06:47 – 1:07:39)

• Gina Saiken
• Wayne Green
• Lewis Kornfeld

Predictions (1:07:40 – 1:17:24)

• Aaron Sorkin’s Steve Jobs film

Participants’ Picks (1:17:25 – 1:23:37)

• Juiced.GS
• KansasFest
• comp.sys.apple2 (csa2) Usenet newsgroup
• Apple II Enthusiasts on Facebook
• Apple II Enthusiasts on Google+
• Gallery of Undiscovered Entities

Parting Shots (1:23:38 – 1:26:28)

• Apple II games on MobyGames
• A dog riding a Roomba (hat tip: Monica Castillo)