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)* <a href="http://sourceforge.