This month on Open Apple, Ken Gagne speaks with Wayne Arthurton, who recently attended his first KansasFest since 2004, and Paul Hagstrom and Jeremy Rand, both first-time attendees at the world’s premier annual Apple II convention. In this panel-format discussion, the four veterans discuss their personal highlights from the show, what motivated them to attend, and their favorite sessions, HackFest challenges, keynote speaker memories, vendor fair purchases, and more.

Links mentioned in this episode:

• KansasFest
• Wayne Arthurton’s homepage
• Paul Hagstrom’s homepage
• Jeremy Rand’s homepage
• Jason Scott’s “Floppy Disks: It’s Too Late“
• Axion portable televisions
• Martin Haye’s Short
• The Geeks Who Saved Prince of Persia’s Source Code From Digital Death
• Mike Willegal’s SUPERPROTO Card
• David Finnigan’s The New Apple II User’s Guide (as purchased by Jeremy Rand)
• Rich Dreher’s CFFA3000
• Jeremy Rand’s HackFest project: CurtaSim
• Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe“

This month on Open Apple, Mike and Ken speak with Rich Dreher, developer of the CompactFlash For Apple (CFFA) card. The first batch of CFFA3000 cards sold out in 2011, and the second batch is now shipping with similar sales numbers. Rich takes us behind the scenes of the product’s success before dishing on other II hardware developers Vince Briel and Mike Willegal. We look at the astronomical numbers rare Apple-1 computers are fetching on eBay and at Sotheby’s and celebrate HyperCard turning 25 while Atari turns 40, though Mike objects to the latter. David Finnigan’s new book is out, and Robert Tripp is hot on his heels when an updated and digitized version of the classic What’s Where in the Apple — and we have the exclusive interview with Bob! All this content and all these guests make for our longest episode ever, perfect for listening to while you drive to next week’s KansasFest.

Click past the jump for links mentioned in this episode.

Introduction (0:00 – 19:36)

• KansasFest
• KansasFest on Wikipedia
• WordCamp NYC 2012
• Behind the scenes at Tekserve
• Ken’s presentation at @party demoparty
• @party’s Kickstarter (August 2010)
• TEDxBoston 2012
• TED iOS app
• Podcasts app for iOS
• Open Apple on iTunes
• Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes in theaters on July 23, 2012
• KansasFest on backchan.nl

User Login (19:37 – 30:14)

• Rich Dreher’s CFFA3000

II News (30:15 – 1:36:29)

• CFFA3000 for sale!
• Locations of current CFFA3000 customers
• Mimeo Apple-1 available again
• Super Proto Cards coming from Mike Willegal
• CFFA for Apple-1
• Fine Books and Manuscripts – Lot 57 : Appleﾠ Iﾠ Computer -“>Sotheby’s of New York sells working Apple-1 fo $374K in June 2012

| slide rule, All other categories of objects | Christie’s”>Apple-1 sells at Christie’s of London for $213K in November 2010

Retroviews (1:36:30 – 2:00:15)

• What’s Where in the Apple Kickstarter

Apple Pickings (2:00:16 – 2:18:12)

• Apple IIe 8 MHz UltraWarp accelerator card
• Apple IIe joystick controller
• Bill Budge’s Space Album, by California Pacific (Buy It Now!)
• Bill Budge’s Space Album auction
• Akalabeth in a plastic bag

Introduction (0:00 – 15:29)

• Apple II Bits
• A2Central.com
• 6502 Lane: Beagle Bros clean-up
• Creative Commons
• KansasFest
• Ken’s photos of ROFLCon III
• Old Spice Guy’s Manta Claus
• Know Your Meme: 10-hour videos
• Waltham Steampunk Festival

User Login (15:30 – 29:46)

• Martin Haye’s Integer BASIC article for Juiced.GS (also available as a PDF)
• Super-Mon & NakedOS
• p2e (Pseudo-II Emulator)
• Ivan Drucker’s Structured Applesoft

II News (29:47 – 1:15:32)

• Photos from Vintage Computer Festival East 8.0
• More VCF 8.0 photos!
• Briel Computers at Maker Faire
• Jeri Ellsworth’s Commodore 64 guitar
• Bill Fickas advertises Guitar Hero for the ALF Music Card by ALF Products, Inc.
• The @party demoparty of Boston, Massachusetts
• Interactive fiction author Andrew Plotkin, aka Zarf
• The Dreamhost text adventure for iOS
• Leisure Suit Larry succeeds on Kickstarter

Apple Pickings (1:15:33 – 1:33:17)

• eBay reorganizes vintage computing categories
• Steve Jobs’ personal Apple IIe? (hat tip: Sean Fahey)
• Dan Kruszyna’s Waterline demo for the Colecovision at Block Party
• Apple II clone computer
• Wikipedia’s list of Apple II clones
• Apple II Clones via the Wayback Machine
• Rainbow logo ballpoint pen
• Cross Apple pen
• Basic Computer Programming for Kids (also on Amazon)

This month on Open Apple, Mike and Ken chat with David Finnigan, proprietor of the Mac GUI Web site and author of the upcoming book, The New Apple II User’s Guide. Our eyes are caught by another new book release, The Best of Creative Computing: Volume 3, as well as the upcoming biopic based on Steve Jobs, in which actors have been cast to play Apple’s two co-founders. Prince of Persia is still big news, with the source code for Jordan Mechner’s classic Apple II game having been salvaged, released, and modified, while classic games like Leisure Suit Larry, Dungeon Master, and even Repton are enjoying literal and spiritual remakes. On eBay, we crack open the case to examine broken Apple III boards and prototype Apple IIGS boards.

Click past the jump for links mentioned in this episode.

Introduction (0:00 – 8:33)

• Randy Brandt’s homepage
• Randy’s fried Beagle Bros Apple IIGS
• MS Challenge Talk podcast
• Mike Willegal’s homepage
• A conversation with PCB designer Howard Cantin
• Brain Board with Wozanium Pack
• Apple-1 Mimeo Project

User Login (8:34 – 15:35)

• David Finnigan’s Mac GUI City
• Usenet Archive
• GeoCities “Neighborhoods”
• Macintosh SE/30
• Microsoft QuicKBASIC

II News (15:36 – 1:17:52)

• The New Apple II User’s Guide book by David Finnigan
• Glenn Jones’ Uthernet
• Amazon CreateSpace print-on-demand service
• Steve Weyhrich’s Apple II History
• KansasFest
• KansasFest committee
• David Greelish’s Kickstarter
• The Best of Creative Computing: Volume 3, by Kay Savetz & David Ahl
• New Jersey-based non-profit Beyond the Walls
• Ashton Kutcher to play Steve Jobs
• Josh Gad to play Steve Wozniak
• Noah Wyle impersonating Steve Jobs at Macworld 1999
• Double Fine’s Tim Schafer goes indie with Kickstarter
• The lost Steve Jobs tapes (1985–1986), also available via the Fast Company iOS app
• KansasFest alumnus Stan Marks passes away
• Jack Tramiel, founder of Commodore, passes away
• The Apple II from Commodore? It almost happened
• Jordan Mechner Q&A (begins at 1:49:24) at PAX East
• Prince of Persia ported to Commodore 64
• The geeks who saved Prince of Persia’s source code from digital death
• Prince of Persia source code on GitHub
• The original Prince of Persia for Xbox 360
• Hacks and ports of Prince of Persia
• Jordan Mechner’s Deathbounce
• Al Lowe revives Leisure Suit Larry via Kickstarter
• Why funny games need a kickstart: an editorial by Al Lowe
• Repton remake for iOS (with YouTube gameplay video)
• ActiveGS
• Legend of Grimrock (not Grimlock) available on Good Old Games
• Shadowgate Classic for Game Boy Color
• The CRPG Addict and its GIMLET ranking system
• Alex Lukazi’s WALTR robot
• Brian Picchi’s Applesoft Action & Dogfighters of Mars
• Daniel Kruszyna’s DRIFT demo disk

Apple Pickings (1:17:53 – 1:32:27)

• Vintage Micros
• Appe III Logic boards — guaranteed to not work!
• Prototype ROM 3 Apple IIGS
• Wizardry I: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overload for Apple II + III
• Brian Fargo’s Kickstarter for Wasteland 2
• Wizard and the Princess reprint from Sierra (see also Wikipedia)
• Juiced.GS, a quarterly Apple II journal
• Mac GUI Vault

Join us as Open Apple celebrates the 20th anniversary of the founding of premier Apple II programming group, Brutal Deluxe, developers of such famous games as LemminGS, The Tinies, Cogito, and Blockade; utilities including Fishhead, T40, and Convert 3200; and projects such as the Apple Cassette Archive.

In this special podcast episode, Ken interviews Brutal Deluxe members Antoine Vignau and Olivier Zardini on the group’s history, what the Apple II and BBS scenes were like in France in the 1980s, how they acquired the rights and assets to popular licenses and ported them to the Apple II, their open source philosophy, and news from other French developers.