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This month on Open Apple we sit down with Mike Westerfield, of The Byte Works’ fame. We talk about his adventures writing assemblers & compilers for 8/16 bit computers, and we see what he’s up to nowadays. We talk about small-system compilers, Logo, the perils of open source, and where to go for Byte Works’ products. It’s a compiler and assembler-themed episode of the one-and-only Apple II podcast.

Tune in to hear Mike pine longingly for Lawless Legends, and hear Quinn achieve maximum Boo Atari Density (BAD). We find amazing new hardware and unauthorized museums. There are wacky Australians, wacky Russians, wacky Brazilians, and wacky Germans. There are Arduinos, headphone jacks, and realtime clocks, oh my! You won’t want to miss Mike dropping a Murphy Brown reference. Take that, Millenials!

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Stay tuned for a couple of genuinely weird games, an introduction to copy protection, and lots of user feedback. Some of you feel the show is too long. Does everyone feel that way? Email us at [email protected] and let us know.

More information on everything discussed in this episode after the jump.

• The Byte Works – Mike still writes great languages.
• Byte Works Opus ][ – All The Byte Works’ software now available for purchase on Juiced.GS
• Make: Rockets – Mike’s latest book.
• Building iPhone and iPad Electronic Projects – Another great hobbyist read from Mike.
• The Great-Man Myth – Great things are built by teams (of all genders).
• Italian Apple Museum – What Cupertino won’t do. More info here, here and also here.
• New Lady Tut ending – You won’t want to miss the video of this never-before-seen ending.
• Plamen finally opens a store – Apple II nerds the world over rejoice and grab their wallets.
• Dave Jones tears down a IIc – Always entertaining, always upbeat. Good ole Dave.
• AGAT Soviet Apple II clone – Just when you think you’ve seen every clone…
• Unitron 2200 – One of the more nicely-executed Apple II clones
• KFest via Atari Podcasts – ANTIC, Inverse ATASCII, and Player Missile can’t stop talking Apple II
• Uthernet II available – You can also enter to win one. At least, you could. Sorry, monthly show.
• Apple I emulation on Arduino – The Apple I is a fun thing to emulate on tiny systems.
• CiderPress updated – Now in 4.0.1 glory.
• Merlin 32 in Visual Studio – Olivier builds a VSLS for Apple II programming.
• Paul Terrell interview – The original Byte Shop owner looks back.
• Spend time in Sudoku – A2Sudoku gets RTC support.
• Lawless Legends footage – New visuals on the coolest Apple II project around.
• Jobs is overrated – Woz speaks out.
• Cult Of Mac talks Charles – Mr. Mangin’s miniatures get some press.
• Headphone jack for your IIc Plus – A nice installation video.
• Headphone jacks for all – You can get one for whatever Apple II you have as well.
• BluRay Disk II – Another fun use for dead Disk II drives.
• M0100 USB mouse – Coming soon, for the ultimate retro experience.
• Matt chats with Becky – Matt Chat talks to Burger, twice!
• Apple II Festival France – Some great video from across the pond.
• Zany Golf cheats – Some great reverse engineering of everyone’s favorite GS game.
• 8-bit Generation – The documentary that almost wasn’t is back.
• IDEA2c – Ultimate Micro is bringing back THE coolest IIc accessory.
• Ramfactor Clone – Ultimate Micro reproduces one of the coolest RAM cards.
• Disk Image Nybbler – Rastan author John Brooks is back to his old tricks.
• Raster Blaster Reloaded – The Bill Budge classic has been cloned.
• Ultima IV turns 30 – You feel old now, don’t you?
• New Apple I auction – The prices definitely seem to have peaked.
• Apple II #0005 at auction – Apple I auctions are so last year. It’s in a Mac commercial!
• President Elect – Mike’s weird game.
• Zendar – Quinn’s weird game.
• Copy Protection 101 – A great intro by Big Mess O’ Wires, to help you understand 4am.

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This month on Open Apple, we sit down with Rebecca “Burger Becky” Heineman. Becky is a legendary Apple II developer (not to mention many other platforms), and was the keynote speaker at KansasFest 2015. We discuss Becky’s KansasFest experiences then and now, how the community has changed, and what she’s up to now. She has a lot of Apple II gold archived away, and we’re starting to see more and more of it as a result of the continued warmth and friendliness of the Apple II community.

Tune in after that interview, when Quinn and Mike go on to talk about amazing Bulgarian hardware products, new ways to acquire Byteworks software, the mysteries of Double Hires graphics, and of course Halt & Catch Fire. KansasFest stories abound, Mike plugs the Apple III, and Quinn acts oblivious to Mike on the subject of Prince of Persia. Listen in awe as she tells the exact same story about Mechner’s source code, immediately after Mike says the same thing. We swear your co-hosts do listen to each other most of the time, folks.

Place your orders now for the hottest new fragrance, R3TR0: By Gagne.

More information on everything discussed in this episode after the jump.

• Quinn on Twitter – Better late than never?
• Becky on the web – Rebecca’s personal site.
• Becky on LinkedIn – Rebecca’s business connections.
• Becky on Twitter – Rebecca’s latest updates.
• Halt & Catch Fire – Finally, an Apple II makes an appearance. Sort of.
• D-Clock clone – Plamen continues to make awesome stuff. Buy it!
• RamWorks III clone – Plamen’s not done yet.
• IIc RAM/Clock clone – Plamen’s cloning all the things. Buy them all.
• Byteworks’ products – Availability may be increasing?
• ORCA/C Open Source – Briefly, anyway. Hope you got it while you could.
• Buy ORCA direct – Mike Westerfield will sell to you directly via email now.
• Buy from Syndicomm – As of this writing, they do also still sell Byteworks’ products.
• Ken plays King’s Quest – The modern reboot is… well… a modern reboot.
• Double Hi-Res – What it is, and how to know if you have it.
• KansasFest – Mark your calendars right now!
• KansasFest HackFest – The entries for 2015 were incredible.
• Drop /// Inches – Can’t miss an opportunity to plug our sister podcast.
• Motherboard – Mainstream press notices KansasFest.
• 4am at KFest – He was there, but no we’re not going to tell. Neener neener.
• Jason Scott’s crack screen collection – Hey crackers- vanity search. You know you want to.
• KFest Funk – Dr. Weyhrich’s latest masterpiece.
• Floppy Days – A great podcast, also with a Weyhrich touch.
• Cult of Mac takes cheap shots – All in good fun, we assume.
• Space Ace compiled – Built from Becky’s original source.
• Oregon Trail speed run – Everyone’s first game, done quickly.
• Wasteland 2 Director’s Cut – The excellent modern sequel has a new version.
• GS/OS 6.0.2 & 6.0.3 released – Bug fixes for GS/OS from the community.
• Apple II on Ars Technica – More mainstream-ish coverage of our band of broken toys.
• Retrobits podcast – Quinn’s gateway drug to retrocomputing. Thanks, Earl!
• Steve Jobs opera – Yup. This is a thing.
• Business Insider – They keep trying, but their interns are clearly writing this stuff.
• Time Magazine – Time gives a little love to the Trash-80.
• Windwalker GS – Mike’s pick for a weird game.
• AcidTrip – Quinn’s pick for a weird game. Really, really weird.
• Orphan Black – Update on that Apple II monitor cameo.
• Show Notes – How to find our show notes for this episode.
• Open Apple Patreon – Help defer the costs of hosting our audio.

This month on Open Apple, we sit down with Laine Nooney, researcher of early computer and software companies. Laine has been digging into the history of such greats as Brøderbund and Sierra On-Line. In particular, they have done awesome research on the infamous Soft Porn Adventure, including behind-the-scenes details on the infamous advertising photo. We talk about broken microfilm projectors, we talk about printer stands, and we talk about revisionist small town historians. Trust us, it will all make sense in the end. Laine is going deep into the role of the microcomputer revolution in transforming domestic life (and the very layout of the houses we live in).

Listen and wonder why Quinn thinks it’s 2010, wonder how loud an ASR-33 really is, and why Mike reads local newspapers of small towns in Utah. Explore the lost art of naming computer user groups, witness the first pure hack of Rastan, and see what Woz thinks about… well, everything and everyone.

More information on everything discussed in this episode after the jump.

This month on Open Apple, we sit down with Tony Diaz- KansasFest committee member, and consummate Apple II collector. With KansasFest just days away, we go deep on Tony’s amazing collection of unique prototypes, documents, peripherals, and the stories that go with them. If there’s a person with deeper knowledge of the early history of Apple Hardware, we haven’t met them.

Thanks for your patience in June, everyone! Some technical and logistical difficulties kept us from posting this episode as soon as we would have liked. We hope the show is worth the wait. We dive into lots of new hardware toys, KansasFest-like events around the world, lots of software updates, and one of the best Apple II games ever made.

How many times does Quinn boo Atari this month? What can we learn about Mike’s dark, mysterious past? How many tedious Jobs movie news items can the world produce? Listen and find out!

KansasFest 2015 is just days away. Hope to see you all in Kansas City this week!

More information on everything discussed in this episode after the jump.

• KansasFest – Registration closed by the time you read this, but come next year!
• Halt & Catch Fire – The fast-and-loose-with-the-facts retro romp is back.
• SpriteCastle – Flack expresses his secret jealousy for the Apple II.
• The IT Crowd Manual – Retro hardware hiding in everyone’s favorite IT-centric comedy.
• Orphan Black – An Apple II (ish) sighting in one of the best shows on television.
• UltimateMicro – Mike reviews the Transwarp GS clone and RamWorks III.
• Wasteland – A mainstream portal reviews the classic. The lame MS-DOS version, but still.
• Wasteland II – The kickstarted decades-later sequel.
• Minority Report – Futuristic UI was better when it was an AppleSoft BASIC prompt.
• MakerFaire Apples – Hack-a-day shares some great photos of odd Apples.
• Swyft Card – Still odd, still neat. Could have been what we’re all using now.
• Guy Kawasaki – Area man goes on bizarre rant. Film at never.
• Marina IP – The coolest 8-bit thing ever, now with DNS support!
• Jobs Trailer – Can’t wait ’til we can stop talking about these movies.
• French “KFest” – Apple II gathering in Toulouse. Six days in retro style.
• Mockingboard Clone – From the up-and-comer in Korea continues to impress.
• Bride of the Wizard King – Kids picture book, Apple II style.
• Kaboom update – The coolest IIgs game in years gets some bug fixes.
• NinjaTracker – The music player from the MegaDemo is now open for all. Amazing!
• GGLabs IIgs video – An awesome component video converter for the 16-bitters.
• Merlin Macros – New GS/OS System 6 assembly macros from Sheppy.
• Dung Beetles remake – A tribute to Bob Bishop right in your browser.
• Assembly Lines videocast – Chris Torrence shows you all sorts of great Apple II stuff.
• Senior PROM – The infamous cracking board has been..cracked? Copied, anyway.
• Apple IIoz – As in, “Australia”. Not “ounces”. Honest.
• Apple II video streaming – Like Airplay, but for Apples that are still fun.
• NTSC on an iPad – It can be a display for your Apple II, with some patience.
• Early Apple Photos – They surface again and again. What’s old is new again, I guess.
• Blake Patterson – He did it first, four years ago.
• Zorkduino – Zork on an Arduino. Because Zork and because Arduino.
• Nishida Radio – On hiatus again, probably for a while this time. Sad face.
• Bob Bishop’s Language Card – The inevitable auctioning of his estate has begun.
• Sundog – Way better than Elite. Most underrated Apple II game ever?
• Sundog Ressurection – The probably-lapsed attempt to reproduce, and/or open-source Sundog.

Welcome to a special extra episode of Open Apple! Fellow Apple II enthusiast Matt Ownby recently sat down for a chat with John Brooks, author of Rastan on the IIgs. It’s a fascinating conversation with tons of technical detail that you won’t want to miss. They talk copy protection, cycle counting, fast GS sprite rendering, and lots more!

A huge thanks to John for taking the time to share his knowledge. Also a huge thanks to Matt for recording this and allowing us to air it on Open Apple.

There are some audio quality issues with this piece, but we feel the conversation is well worth it. Enjoy, and send a thanks to Matt and John!

This month on Open Apple, we sit down with Jason Scott, documentary filmmaker, historian, public speaker, and archivist.

We talk about the importance of a nuanced appreciation of history, the flavors of sadness in comment threads, whom not to trust with special data and the nature of humanity, and failing at life.

Don’t miss Mike Hate Sponge Delicate Snowflake Maginnis’s sigh to end all sighs. Join us to learn how to take care of your capacitors, how to count your cycles, and how to do TCP/IP on your 8-bit Apple II.

Want to troll your cable company, accelerate your IIe, or play Bomberman on your GS? Tune in and find out how!   More information on everything discussed in this episode after the jump.

• Archive.org – Where they store Jason Scott and a bunch of stuff.
• textfiles.com – The archive that started it all.
• Nightfall Crew – An all-in-one cross-compiler and tool suite for… not Apple. :(
• ADTPro Updated – Version 2.0.1, a minor fix.
• Becoming Steve Jobs – A book, if you’re not sick of this guy’s mythos already.
• Big Mess O’ Wires – Mac Floppy Emu adds Apple II support (800k!).
• BMoW on Emulation – A nice post summarizing Apple II emulation.
• Pranking Comcast – My Apple II won’t google!
• Let’s Play Apple II Games – Leigh Alexander’s gameplay videos.
• Via Skepchick – Retro computing commercials. Take that, RCR.
• Marina – A TCP/IP stack for Apple II. Yes. Seriously.
• Crazy Cycles – Desynchronized video mode demo from French Touch.
• Ibiza II – Another awesome FT demo. Like magic!
• ReactiveMicro – Sean Fahey writes up his experiences with the new products.
• TechnoBytes – A new(!) Transwarp-based accelerator for 8-bit Apples.
• UNISDISK Air – OMGOMGOMG. A wi-fi version of the SD card solution. So great.
• Kaboom! – An amazing game from NinjaForce finally finished.
• Apple (II) Watch – A neat little statement piece.
• BrkDown – A snazzy new disassembler from Ewen Wannop.
• Auctioning Relics – NYT takes you behind the scenes.
• Brutal Deluxe Cassette Archive – A great collection of very early II software.
• Cassette Archive Update – Antoine updates us on the latest.
• OzKFest – Great tweet log from the best Australian show.
• Woz and Lee – Woz sponsors a Comic Con in the Bay Area.
• Early Rev 0 on eBay – But we don’t talk about eBay.
• The Cave of Time – Mike’s pick for a weird game.
• Short Circuit – Quinn’s pick for a weird game.
• Crazy Cycles – How does it work? Disk image here.
• Scroll Scroll Scroll – So many scrolls. Disk image here.
• Veronica’s GPU – Quinn’s VGA generator, which uses a similar cycle-counting technique.
• Capacitors – Take care of them, and they’ll take care of you.
• AuctionSieve – A listener’s nifty tool for finding Apple hardware on eBay.
• NinjaForce – Because NinjaForce.
• Apple II Clones – A decent starting point on Wikipedia.
• Gravis Joystick – The best way to play Autoduel.
• Autoduel – The best thing to play with your Gravis joystick.
• Beagle Bros Repository – Brian & Bill’s wonderful archive of all things Beagle.

You wouldn’t steal a car! Unless of course, you were acquiring an exact copy of the car that harmed nobody, cost nobody anything, and didn’t diminish the original in any way. Then, well, you probably would, particularly if you wouldn’t have even wanted the car if it wasn’t free, so the car seller hasn’t given up anything either way.

This month on Open Apple, we sit down with Paul Lutus, author of seminal early Apple II software such as AppleWriter and GraFORTH. We talk about the impacts of software development on society, the value of the individual in the process, and the trials of coding software in the woods.

We talk extreme offsite backups, KansasFest keynotes, telnet BBSing, and the hurricane of awesome that is ReactiveMicro. We reminisce about the original Home Computer Wars (these kids today arguing about their smartphones are so darned cute), and also Boo Atari.

We trek from Bulgaria to Korea to Canada and back again, to bring you the latest in sound cards, solid state storage, and portable Apple IIc action. You won’t want to miss Quinn plugging Phil Plait for some reason. With our story on Atari 8-bits in Poland, this marks the most Atari content ever on Open Apple. It also qualifies us as the 698th currently operating Atari podcast. Boo Atari. See what you get when you poke the bear, people? ][ Infinitum.

More information on everything discussed in this episode after the jump.

• AppleWriter – Arguably the first Apple II word processor.
• WPL (PDF warning) – The word processing scripting language.
• GraFORTH & TransFORTH – Terrific early implementations of FORTH on the II.
• GraFORTH (PDF warning) – Try it out for yourself, here. FORTH is neat.
• TransFORTH (PDF warning) – The business/science-focused version.
• Electric Duet – Multi-voice music from a single flip-flop.
• Pictures of Paul’s Apple – Coding in the woods, with an epic extension cord.
• FrEDWriter – The unauthorized clone of AppleWriter.
• Paul Lutus’ website – Keep up with what he’s up to now.
• TransWarp GS clone – Now available! Shut up and take our money!
• No Slot Clocks and Scalable Oscillators – Also now becoming available in limited quantities.
• Rebecca “Burger” Heineman – Keynote speaker at KansasFest! Squee!
• Burger Becky – Her personal site, with lots of fun stuff new and old.
• KansasFest Registration – It’s now open! Go register. Now. Seriously. Now.
• Don Worth’s archive – Classic software and source code imaged by Mike.
• Deviceside Data – The 5.25″ floppy imaging tool that works over USB, and supports almost all retrocomputer formats.
• A2Cloud, A2Server, Raspple II updated – Ivan’s era-bridging tools are a very cool use of a Pi.
• Peersoft 1.5 – A new version of a snazzy AppleSoft library is available.
• Classic IDE – Technobytes’ version of the CFFA 2 is sold out, and shipping soon.
• Mockingboard Clone – Ian Kim’s new product coming soon. Watch his blog.
• Assembly Lines – Chris Torrence’s awesome book project, now available as a free PDF.
• Open source Pong – Jason Griffiths looking for help.
• BMP2SHR – Bill Buckels’ new Super Hi-Res graphics converter.
• 4am’s Cracks – Learn cracking Apple II software on Twitter, now archived as well.
• Joe Ely is back – Soon with more tracks, and Woz’s liner notes are now available.
• The Jobs home – Slate talks about the infamous childhood home (with the irrelevant garage).
• Bad Astronomy – Phil Plait’s blog about science, critical thinking and other fun stuff.
• Omega – Because programmers keep thinking other people think programming is fun.
• Infidel – A fascinating, controversial text adventure that would probably never get made today.
• Player Missile Podcast – A great show from the “other” side.
• Teddy Top with Flash – Quinn’s road warrior IIc Plus gets storage.
• Apple II Gamepad – Quinn prototypes a gamepad to take II gaming on the road.

This month on Open Apple, we sit down with Mark Kriegsman, author of Star Blaster, and a modern Apple II hacker. He has ported the awesome FastLED driver library to the Apple II, so you can drive many hundreds of 32-bit RGB LEDs with your Apple II.

Meanwhile, we browbeat people into attending KansasFest, we rationalize our shame at developing on emulators, we talk dead tree easter eggs, we make terrible awesome BASIC & Twitter puns, we talk about post-mortem collecting, and Mike generates hate mail. Just in case you’re not completely over movies about Steve Jobs, we talk about one of those as well. Yawn.

More importantly, help us convince Mark to build a lo-res display from FastLEDs and bring it to KansasFest.

Once again, in case you missed it, the dates for KansasFest 2015 have been announced. July 14-19! Go to http://www.kansasfest.org to register. Then pull up a comfy chair and enjoy this super-sized episode of Open Apple. Apologies for some audio quality issues in this month. Quinn had some equipment difficulties and Mike has been under the weather. Thanks for your patience. Stay tuned until the end of the show for a special treat (not just Mike’s usual cheeky outtake)!

More information on everything discussed in this episode after the jump.

• Star Blaster – The game you probably know Mark Kriegsman for.
• FastLED6502 – If an Arduino can do it, the Apple II can do it better.
• Inside FastLED – More info about Mark’s project.
• Space Cadets – In case you’re a boardgamer, like Quinn.
• BASIC Source – Microsoft’s original code found its way into the wild.
• Jobs filming – The celluloid is finally rolling on the Sorken film.
• Jobs cast – Photos of the cast of the upcoming Jobs biopic.
• Apple II Web Server – A mysterious Dave Schmenk project.
• PLASMA – Dave’s awesome Apple II programming language.
• Lawless Legends – The incredible game that uses PLASMA for mission scripting.
• CiderPress 4.0 – A long awaited new version of the best disk image tool.
• John Romero to the rescue – The late Bob Bishop’s Apple II collection gets rescued.
• Jason Scott’s photos – The West Coast Computer Faire like you’ve never seen it.
• More photos – Thanks for these, Jason!
• Akalabeth re-reviewed – The clever iOS port is back in the news.
• Retro StackOverflow – Help us make this awesome resource a reality.
• The Home Computer Wars – (PDF warning)  Read it while you can?
• Apple’s Fonts – Who doesn’t love fonts? Yay Helvetica!
• Helvetica – The documentary for type nerds.
• Halt And Catch Fire – Play Spot-The-Apple-II with your friends.
• LCD SD Disk II – A screen for the new(?) Korean solid-state drive.
• SD Floppy II – The Bulgarian staple, not to be confused with the Korean device above.
• UNISDISK – New firmware for the Nishida Radio masterpiece.
• CFFA3000 – The card everyone wants, and which makes //c users jealous.
• SmartDisk – The floppy-disk-SD-card adapter thing that doesn’t seem to actually work.
• Carmack //c – John teaches his kids to program on the best 8-bit computer.
• VisiCalc on NPR – A great PlanetMoney story about the Apple II killer app.
• Drop /// Inches – Mike and Paul’s dumb show about dumb stuff that is also great.
• Carte Blanche closed – No more orders in this run of the Carte Blanche II.
• Snow IIgs – Dagen Brock’s fun little micro-demo.
• FTA XMAS – The original demo that snows.
• Stanford Display – Some kinda sad looking Apple IIs in a prominent place.
• 65xx Boards – Now can be acquired in exchange for dollars.
• Classic IDE – The solid state options for Apple II are multiplying like bunnies.
• MC1 Clone – Courtesy of Plamen, everyone’s favorite Bulgarian.
• VCFs – They are everywhere.
• VCF on Floppy Days – An interview with Evan Koblentz.
• VCF Photos – A nice gallery of the galleries.
• TRW Swap Meet – Great old-school swap meet.
• LCD //c – An LCD in an old Apple //c monitor.
• WozPak in hardcover – Keep it classy!
• Cubit 128 – Q*Bert clone patched for the everyperson Apple IIe.
• Virtual II updated – The best emulator gets better.
• Stynx music – Apple II electronica music.
• Joe Ely B4 84 – He’s on tour supporting his Apple II+ music.
• Jonathan Mann – The song-a-day guy releases an Apple-themed mixtape.
• Music Master RPG – A low-res music-themed adventure game.
• JACE – It’s a thing again! Emulate your Apple II in Java.
• Beagle Bros on Coding Horror – Sadly, no mention of our show.
• OC Register – We feel dirty linking to this again.
• Woz in a Cadillac? – No, just in the commercial for some reason.
• Nissan Leaf – Want a Tesla? Can’t afford one? The Leaf is super awesome.
• Every Apple Ad – All the commercials. Yes, really, ALL of them.
• A2Central – The best source for all Apple II news. Thanks Sean!
• Call-A.P.P.L.E. – Expanding their coverage to other Apple products.
• GEOS – Finally, a download link for the original, incredible, amazing Apple II GUI.
• ShrinkIt for Mac – Get at those IIgs archives. Another option here.
• Pinball Construction Set source – Yay Bill Budge!
• Jesse Blue – The myth, the legend. Ninjaforce lives!
• Halley and Ultima – Two weird games, one magazine.
• Beagle Bros Disk Care – Watch out for toasters and alligators.
• Supermartian – Mike’s weird game.
• Knights of Legend – Quinn’s weird game, too big for its breeches.
• KoL Screenshots – So purrrty!
• Quinn’s Apple II programming reference bookmarks:

This month on Open Apple, we sit down with Beagles Bros Randy Brandt, Mark Simonsen Tom Weishaar, and Alan Bird. We share stories of Beagle’s development, poke lots of fun at each other, and check in on where everyone is now.

We spread the love for Oz KFest with Andrew Roughan, and amazingly resist the urge to make any upside-down jokes about Australia. Mike and Quinn are trying to be bigger than northern-hemispherism, and they like to think they’ve grown as people as a result.

We talk brain-imaging, we talk helicopter piloting, and we spread more IIgs love than usual. We search for amazing things, and sometimes we find them. Join us for another great month of Apple II brouhaha.

BREAKING NEWS: Dates for KansasFest 2015 also announced! July 14-19. More at http://www.kansasfest.org

More information on everything discussed in this episode after the jump.

• Oz KFest – Come on down under for Apple II fun, April 17-19, 2015. #ozkfest2015
• Apple II comes home – 33 years in Nepal, and still fighting fit.
• Infiltrator – Interview with the creator, who is much smarter than us.
• SkyFox – Bionic Toad interviews the creator, who is also much smarter than us.
• Brian Picchi reviews the II – Tanru Nomad bringing the fun, as usual.
• Stanford stats – Athletics department used a II for proper work.
• PFS: File – Great, but not the recipe panacea Quinn had hoped for.
• Woz at NAMM – The lovable engineer shows up in the strangest of places.
• The IIc bag drama continues – Mike and Quinn continue to share delusions.
• More IIc images – It looks different in every promotional picture.
• I.O. Silver – Version 1.2 is now available, and documentation.
• Bootstrapping – Never hurts to review ADTPro again.
• Beautiful Boot – Still amazing!
• Jason Scott on BB – Seriously- still amazing!
• Speccies – Ewen Wannop’s great collection of GS terminal software.
• WITA2GS – Alex Lee’s awesome collection of disk images and IIgs information.
• New In Box Apple IIc+ – So purrrrrty.
• Juiced.GS Unboxing – Everyone’s favorite magazine interviews the IIc unboxer.
• Escape! – Jimmy Maher discusses the inspiration for Akalabeth.
• In Search of the Most Amazing Thing – “Open World” before that was a thing.
• The Halley Project – Orbital mechanics for the whole family.

This month on Open Apple, we sit down with Ben Heck, one of our most-requested interviews. We talk about his Apple I replica, his Apple IIgs laptop, and Adam Sandler for some reason. Meanwhile, Mike and Quinn talk about Apple Porsches, Pinball Construction Set, and Western Design Center. In the comedy department, we get back to our roots (making fun of Wizardry).

There’s potato chips, there’s troll pits, there’s 3D printing, and all kinds of other wandering off topic this month, so be sure to stay tuned for none of that.

We’re looking forward to a great new year with the Apple II, so join us as we kick off what is sure to be an awesome 2015!

Wews!

More information on everything discussed in this episode after the jump.

• Porsche Apple – Replica of the 935K3 LeMans Porsche in Apple livery.
• A2Central – The number one Apple II news site. Go there! Now!
• A2Central Contact – Want to help out? Here’s how.
• Ben Heck – Ben’s blog.
• Ben Heck Show – Ben’s YouTube channel.
• Apple I Replica – Ben’s three part series on the project.
• Apple IIGS Laptop – Every Apple II fan’s favorite project of Ben’s.
• Replica I – Vince Briel’s awesome kit.
• Nishida Radio – The man, the wizard, the legend.
• Ben’s Chip Clip – A rite of passage.
• Pet Conversions – File his legs down a bit!
• Pinball Construction Set – The source code released! Boo Atari.
• 65xx Dev Boards – Now available for purchase (sort of).
• CiderPress 4.0.0 – Squeeze more out of your disk images (nyuk nyuk).
• Assembly Lines – Chris Torrence’s book now available. Buy it or Quinn will kick a kitten.
• Woz & Kari – New reality show “The Woz”, with Kari Byron.
• Wizard of Oz – It’s official.
• BMP2DHR – Bill Buckels’ graphics converter.
• VirtualApple2 – Updates to the coolest Apple II browser emulator.
• Lamb Chops – Brian Picchi releases his source code.
• Akalabeth on GOG – A good? old game.
• Ultima Progression – Jimmy Maher walks through the evolution of the best CRPG.
• Two Apple I – The latest in two-chip Apple I replicas.
• Arduino Apple – A replica of the Apple I based on an Arduino.
• AVRFreaks – The hub for Atmel microcontroller community.
• KLOV – An arcade collector community.
• Adafruit – An awesome hobbyist hardware source.
• Guest Lecture – Quinn makes an appearance at Stanford.
• KansasFest – Watch this space to see when KFest 2015 will be!