Open Apple #13 (Mar 2012): Andrew Roughan, Marinetti, Karateka, and e-books

This month on the Open Apple podcast, Mike and Ken chat with Andrew Roughan, Australian Apple II user and curator of the Marinetti Open Source Project. From Jordan Mechner at PAX East 2012 to John Romero at KansasFest 2012 to Nolan Bushnell at GameFest, we're all about attending conventions and chasing luminaries. We squabble over how to pronounce "Karateka", look forward to new Monkey Island and Wasteland games, and eagerly consume iBooks for Apple II users on our iPads. On eBay, we get a previously untold tale of an extravagant Australian lot, then take a small jump north to look at an Apple II J-plus, before marveling at how astounded major press outlets were over your typical Bell & Howell.

Click past the jump for links mentioned in this episode.

Introduction (0:00 – 10:32)

Total Confusion

A2SERVER

Steve Howell's Carte Blanche FPGA card

Ewen Wannop's SNAP newsreader

Beagle Bros' Program Writer

Beagle Compiler

Nibble Magazine

Open Apple on the Internet Archive

Boston Museum of Science's former Computer Revolution exhibit

Computer History Museum

User Login (10:33 - 23:51)

Andrew Roughan's blog & email address

Australian BBS scene

The Complex II docs

The Complex III (SHK)

Marinetti

Marinetti Open Source Project docs & getting started

Uthernet link layer for Marinetti

TCP Snooper

Downunder IRC chat

Mt. Keira Fest

Sydney Apple Users Group's Applecations magazine

II News (23:52 - 1:05:42)

PAX East 2012

Jordan Mechner to keynote PAX East 2012 (hat tip: Phil Cheetham)

Wil Wheaton keynotes PAX East 2010

Karateka gets rebooted

How to pronounce Karateka by Jordan Mechner

KansasFest registration now open

KansasFest videos on Vimeo, YouTube, iTunes, Internet Archive

3.5 hours of Nyan Cat

AirServer — bring AirPlay and AirTunes to your Mac

Smithsonian's Art of Video Games exhibition & GameFest event

Double Fine, Tim Schafer & Ron Gilbert's Kickstarter

Brian Fargo to create Kickstarter-funded Wasteland 2

Official Wasteland 2 site

Infocom's Trinity

Kelvin Sherlock's Shrink-Fit X

DOS 3.3 Launcher

Kim Howe reclassifies his IIGS software as freeware

Uthernet card — sold out!

Pascal for iPad

PCWorld: Kevin Huffman still running his business on an Apple II

Superior Watch Service

Linotype: The Film

Lim Thye Chean's Virtual GS Book for iBooks

Steve Weyhrich working on Apple II History print book

Jason Scott's Lumarca trailer

A look at Cortland

1980s Apple vintage advertisements

Not Another Apple Podcast?! (also via iTunes)

Apple Pickings (1:05:43 - 1:26:10)

$75,000 lot of Australian Apples

Wayne's Computer, by Wayne Bibbens

Kensington ADB Turbo Mouse

Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs

Apple II J-plus with Videx card

Apple IIGS ROM 01 w/6 MB RAM

Bell & Howell Apple II, as reported by Engadget & TUAW

Dumpling-64 printer buffer

Woz-autographed Apple-1 schematic, courtesy SignedByWoz.com

Andrew Roughan's autographed PowerBook