Open Apple #31 (Oct 2013): Brendan Robert, Lawless Legends, Texas, and Wayne Green

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.

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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* <a href="https://www.