This month on Open Apple, Mike and Ken chat with Charles Mangin, the mad scientist who puts Mac Minis inside Apple II cases and inventor of the RetroConnector. It’s our first show since KansasFest, and we share our highlights and favorite products and announcements from the show. The Steve Jobs film is now out, and Ashton Kutcher and Steve Wozniak have words while critics publish their own mixed reviews. However, we have nothing but praise for Walter Isaacson’s biography, and Steve Wozniak gets his own moment in the spotlight courtesy interviews with the Verge and Game Informer. We’re super-psyched that Eric Shepherd has established the S-Prize — how big will the pot grow before some enterprising programmer claims it?

Click past the jump for links mentioned in this episode.

Introduction (0:00 – 7:46)

• Open ANTIChertz KansasFest episode
• Open Apple interview with Steve Wozniak in audio and video
• “Have you ever wondered why we’re here?”

User Login (7:47 – 37:09)

• Charles Mangin of Mental Hygiene, RetroConnector, and Twitter
• Charles’ KansasFest 2013 interview on Computerworld

II News (37:10 – 1:48:44)

• No VCF Southwest 4.0!
• Melissa Barron’s 73H 0r3g0n 7r41L game mod
• Interactive Fiction Competition 2013, as sponsored by Juiced.GS
• Wade Clarke’s Leadlight game for Eamon
• Jason Scott’s Get Lamp documentary
• Steve Wozniak interviewed by The Verge and Game Informer
• Steve Wozniak secretly submitted Tetris scores to Nintendo Power
• The Jobs movie Web site, poster, and trailer
• Ken’s review of Jobs
• Ashton Kutcher and Steve Wozniak trade barbs
• Lawless Legends 8-bit RPG
• The history of Sierra On-Line documentary failed Kickstarter
• Missing in Action: 8-Bit Generation documentary
• When Kickstarter investors want their money back
• Juiced.GS in 2014 & three new Concentrate PDFs
• Sweet16 v3.0.1
• Eric Shepherd’s S-Prize to bring the Samba networking protocol to the IIGS
• Lewis Kornfeld of Radio Shack and Tandy passes away
• Rare Apple-1 fetches $387,750 in Christie’s online auction
• Apple II #0148 sells for $24,099
• Woz-edition IIGS sells for $610
• Shut up and take my money!

While attending KansasFest 2013, Steve Wozniak — inventor of the Apple-1 and Apple II and co-founder of Apple Computer Inc. — takes a moment to speak with the Open Apple podcast about Steve Jobs, Randy Wigginton, and the Apple II.

Be sure to listen to the story of how we got Woz to KansasFest, and watch the video of this interview, too!

Mike Maginnis and Ken Gagne, the hosts of Open Apple, join forces with Carrington Vanston of 1 MHz and Kay Savetz of ANTIC, for one massive retro computing roundtable at KansasFest 2013. We chat about the convention’s two surprise guests — Steve Wozniak and a working Apple-1 — and how both came to be there, as well as our favorite sessions and games of the week, including Michael Sternberg’s tournament of Martin Haye’s Structris.

It wasn’t long before Mike and Ken ditched the two other guys for the most amazing guest ever. Be sure to listen to our interview with Steve Wozniak!

This month on Open Apple, Mike and Ken chat with Mike Willegal, Apple-1 and Apple II reproduction expert extraordinaire. His topic is hot this month: five Apple-1 computers were simultaneously on display at the History San Jose museum; one is being auctioned online; Willegal was interviewed for a Kickstarter-funded book about the Apple-1; and his clones are appearing in a feature-length film about Steve Jobs — what a guy! He even went to Vintage Computer Festival Southeast this spring, though he’ll be absent from VCF Southwest, KansasFest, and Oz KFest, all occurring this summer. We watch the trailer for the Jobs movie and find we all have different reasons to see (or skip) Ashton Kutcher in the title role. We may or may not have dressed up to see the recent Star Trek and Man of Steel films; maybe we’ll fit the part by wearing some Apple t-shirts from 1986 to see Jobs.

Click past the jump for links mentioned in this episode.

Introduction (0:20 – 7:10)

User Login (7:11 – 31:51)

• Mike Willegal’s homepage
• Vintage Computer Festival (VCF) East 7.0
• VCF Southeast 1.0
• Apple II Rev 0 motherboard clone
• Apple-1 Mimeo Project
• Apple-1 Registry
• Computerworld: Apple-1 goes for $213K in Christie’s auction
• Vince Briel’s Replica 1
• Mike Willegal’s SCELBI reproduction

II News (31:52 – 1:44:47)

• Melissa Barron on the Open Apple podcast
• Melissa’s glitch art to appear at the Furtherfield Gallery in London
• KansasFest
• The 30th anniversary of WarGames
• Oz KFest
• Mt. Keira Fest
• Google Fiber arrives in Kansas City
• Tokyo Video Chat at KansasFest 2012
• Rockhurst recognized in the Computerworld Honors Program
• VCF Southwest
• Apple pop-up museum
• Classic Computing list
• Robert J. Luther’s The First Apple on Kickstarter
• Robert J. Luther on Bloomberg News
• Jason Scott feels “there’s no book there”
• What’s Where in the Apple on Kickstarter
• Five Apple-1 computers at History San Jose
• Conway’s Game of Life for Apple II
• Conway for iOS
• Apple-1 auction expected to go for $500,000
• Original Apple II #47 sels for $23,099 on eBay
• The geeks who saved Prince of Persia’s source code from digital death
• Prince of Persia source code from Jordan Mechner, Adam Green, and Fabien Sanglard
• Electronic Arts is America’s worst company
• Apple II developer of Madden sues Electronic Arts
• Apple’s clothing collection from 1986
• Apple T-Shirts: A Yearbook of History at Apple Computer
• Appledesign: The Work of the Apple Industrial Design Group
• Dave Finnigan’s The New Apple II User’s Guide
• Jason Scott’s upgrade guarantee
• Juiced.GS Concentrate
• Doug Cuff with Wil Wheaton and Felicia Day
• Steve Jobs: “All my work will be obsolete by 2005”
• Mom’s first iPad: An unexpected reception
• Jobs starring Ashton Kutcher releases August 16
• Official movie trailer for Jobs
• Matthew Modine
• Rhode Island Apple Group Floppy Disk Crate 001, courtesy Jason Scott
• Oregon Trail on eBay
• Darth Vader Bell & Howell Apple II with A/V backpack