In the second monthly episode of Open Apple, Mike and Ken are joined by Ivan Drucker: two-time KansasFest alumnus, Juiced.GS staff writer, and Mac consultant based out of New York City. News this month includes a look forward to Vintage Computer Festival (VCF) East 7.0 by two of its alumni, an Apple-1 expansion card for the Apple II, and controlling Apple II emulators via an iOS VNC; reviews of our favorite Beagle Bros programming utilities; the exorbitant prices Apple II hardware and software are fetching on eBay; and new iterations of our favorite adventure, role-playing, and text-adventure games.

Congratulations to Wade Clarke, who correctly guessed Karateka for last month’s “Name the Game” contest! His prize is a free Juiced.GS Concentrate, courtesy Juiced.GS publisher Gamebits. The prize for this month’s contest is a free two-day pass to VCF East 7.0, courtesy Evan Koblentz of MARCH.

Click past the jump for links mentioned in this episode.

Introduction (0:00 – 11:56)

• Apple II Scans
• Computer History Museum memberships
• IvanExpert

II News (11:57 – 35:45)

• Vintage Computer Festival East 7.0
• ReactiveMicro.com
• Maximum PC‘s 25 Most Important PCs in History
• Mike Willegal’s Brain Board demo
• ActiveGS for iOS
• Apple iPad 2
• Sweet16
• Mini vMac
• II in a Mac
• Mocha VNC Lite
• A2Command
• Starring the Computer movie database

Retroviews (35:46 – 43:20)

• Slammer
• GPLE
• Program Writer
• Space Ship of Death
• BBEdit Language Module Library
• Super-Mon
• Apple IIGS Laptop Project

Apple Pickings (43:21 – 53:17)

• Apple IIGS College shirt
• Microsoft Adventure
• Castle Wolfenstein original cover art painting
• John Benson’s art reproductions
• Auction Sniper
• Ultima I
• Ultima I w/original Ziploc bag
• Pawn Stars episode “Wise Guys”
• Apple IIGS as seen on Pawn Stars

Name the Game (53:18 – 1:06:31)

• Apple II in Minecraft
• Ultima 4: Flash Version
• xu4 — Ultima IV Recreated
• Play It Again for the First Time — King’s Quest I
• The Magic Candle adventure log
• Sword & Sworcery
• PAX East 2011
• Interactive fiction at PAX East 2011
• Learn Inform 7
• Frotz Z-Machine interpreter

Welcome to the inaugural episode of Open Apple, the Apple II community’s first co-hosted podcast. In this show, hosts Mike Maginnis and Ken Gagne reflect on their Apple II history before welcoming guest Andy Molloy. Segments include “II News”, a roundup of the latest events in the Apple II community, such as a CompactFlash adapter for the Apple IIc, the downsizing of the Apple II’s Usenet newsgroups, public appearances by Bill Budge, Bob Bishop, and Steve Wozniak, and a classic game now available for iOS; “Apple Pickings”, a review of Apple II software, hardware, and accessories on eBay and Craigslist; and the audio trivia challenge “Name the Game”.

Links mentioned in this episode:

Introduction (0:00 – 9:09)

• Trekcast, a Star Trek podcast
• Open-Apple newsletter reclassified under Creative Commons
• Dan McLaughlin’s Appleslices blog

II News (9:10 – 25:55)

• Robert Justice’s Apple IIc Smartport Compact Flash Adapter
• RFD: Apple II Usenet downsizing
• Bill Budge to receive AIAS Pioneer Award
• Bob Bishop to keynote KansasFest 2011
• Computer History Museum
• DigiBarn Computer Museum
• AppleTrek for iOS
• Retrochallenge 2011 Winter Warmup

Apple Pickings (25:56 – 31:52)

• Raster Blaster
• Microsoft Adventure
• Apple IIGS College shirt

Name the Game (31:53 – 37:34)

• Major Nelson’s Xbox podcast
• American Classic Arcade Museum
• Pinball Wizard Arcade