This month on Open Apple, Mike and Ken chat with Sean Fahey, proprietor of A2Central.com and KansasFest committee member. Sean and James Littlejohn distribute a plethora of Apple II hardware and software every year to KansasFest attendees, and next year’s haul will be bigger than ever — we have the details why. Glenn Jones is working on a new Uthernet card, and we can’t wait to see what new software it makes possible. The Mac turned thirty years old last month, and we reminisce about the first time we added a non-Apple II Apple to our inventory. Madden NFL, the football game that got its start on the Apple II, is the subject of both preservation and litigation — but we’d rather be playing Silvern Castle.

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Introduction (0:00 – 10:03)

• Retrochallenge Winter Warmup
• Apple Sophisticated Operating System (Apple SOS)
• Gamebits on YouTube
• Elgato Game Capture HD
• Quinn Dunki’s Mac mini arcade

User Login (10:4 – 31:01)

• A2Central.com — Your total source for Apple II computing
• KansasFest
• AppleWin
• The return of Sean’s Garage at KansasFest 2011
• Michael Mahon donates Apple II collection

II News (31:02 – 1:28:43)

• Glenn Jones working on Uthernet II
• Brian Picchi’s Retro Fever
• Zéphyr unboxing
• Jeff Fink’s Silvern Castle
• Epic Apple II versus Commodore 64 chess match
• Penguin Software (and announcement)