Open Apple

By Em Maginnis & Quinn Dunki

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August 02, 2013 Open ANTIChertz at KansasFest 2013
Mike Maginnis and Ken Gagne, the hosts of Open Apple, join forces with Carrington Vanston of 1 MHz and Kevin 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, […]
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August 02, 2013 Speaking with Steve Wozniak at KansasFest 2013
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 […]
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22min
July 04, 2013Open Apple #29 (July 2013): Mike Willegal, Apple-1, cons, and films
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.
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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
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1h 46min
July 04, 2013 Open Apple #29 (July 2013): Mike Willegal, Apple-1, cons, and films
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 […]
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1h 46min
June 05, 2013Open Apple #28 (June 2013): Lon Seidman, BBSs, Steve Wozniak, and documentaries
This month on Open Apple, Mike and Ken chat with Lon Seidman, sysop of the Matrix Returns BBS and co-host of Behind the Video. The dial-up bulletin board is making a comeback, thanks to Warp Six and the Raspberry Pi! It’s so easy, anyone can do it — unlike buying an Apple-1, the going rate for which has skyrocketed to $668,000 USD. But even that is a pittance compared to what Steve Wozniak’s former house is selling for. How long before he sells his current house and moves to Australia? Jordan Mechner’s Karateka reboot has paved the way for Karateka Classic on iOS, just the way we remember it. Charles Mangin also blends new and old with his USB interfaces for the Apple II — get yours next month at KansasFest! Finally, if you want a GET LAMP coin or any of Jason Scott’s documentaries shipped overseas, you’re outta luck — but he has four new films coming, with a colleague’s pinball film en route as well.
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Introduction (0:08 – 5:39)
Arrested Development season 4
The Pubcast podcast
User Login (5:40 – 27:09)
Lon Seidman
Behind the Video
Synchronet BBS
Age of Reason BBS shuts down
Matrix Returns BBS
Raspberry Pi
Warp Six by Jim Ferr, as featured on TWiT
SyncTERM
Space Ship of Death door game
Apple II Enthusiasts on Facebook
BBS: The Documentary
Lon’s Apple IIGS on TWiT
Dick DeBartolo, MAD‘s Maddest Writer
II News (27:10 – 1:38:48)
Apple-1 sells for record price of $668,000
Full lot includes Curta calculators
CurtaSim wins at HackFest 2012
The Geeks Who Saved Prince of Persia’s Source Code From Digital Death
Prince of Pesia source code, now with documentation and quick start
Jordan Mechner’s development journal e-books
How to pronounce “Karateka”
Karateka Classic for iOS
Classic Prince of Persia for Xbox
Boulder Dash XL for iOS, Android, and Xbox 360
Spy vs Spy for the Apple II and iOS
Wings of Valor
Apple II-themed Minecraft server on Apple2Forever.ca
Brendan Roberts’ Minecraft mods
XCOM: The Enemy Unknown
John Carmack’s Apple IIc for Christmas
Dan Budiac’s Apple IIc unboxing album on Flickr
Shareware Games > DuelTris”>DuelTris by Steve Chiang of Zynga
Apple pop-up museum at Vintage Computer Festival Southeast 1.0
Steve Wozniak gives commencement speech at UC Berkeley
I, Woz autobiography
The Apple II on G4’s ICONS
Steve Wozniak’s house for sale, but nobody wants it — check the listing!
Woz to emigrate to Australia — for the broadband!
Get Steve Wozniak as a speaker for over $40,000
Juiced.GS now on Facebook, Google+, and LinkedIn
David Schmenk’s Apple II Pi
Google Orkut
Charles Mangin’s USB keyboard interface
SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY
Jason Scott drops international shipping and GET LAMP coins
Jason Scott Documentary Three Pack Kickstarter
Going Cardboard board game documentary
Shoot Again: The Resurgence of Pinball documentary by Lorien Green
DEFCON: The Documentary, coming soon!
QWK message format for BBSs
CompuServe, Prodigy et al.: What Web 2.0 can learn from Online 1.0
GEnie and Jasmine’s login screen on Wikipedia — can we talk?
Rare 1985 Mac Plus once owned by the Woz
Double Dragon Neon
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1h 40min
June 05, 2013 Open Apple #28 (June 2013): Lon Seidman, BBSs, Steve Wozniak, and documentaries
This month on Open Apple, Mike and Ken chat with Lon Seidman, sysop of the Matrix Returns BBS and co-host of Behind the Video. The dial-up bulletin board is making a comeback, thanks to Warp Six and the Raspberry Pi! It’s so easy, anyone can do it — unlike buying an Apple-1, the going rate […]
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1h 40min
May 08, 2013Open Apple #27 (May 2013): Daniel Kruszyna, demoparties, iSteve, and clones
This month on Open Apple, Mike and Ken chat with famed demo programmer Daniel Kruszyna, aka krüe. We chat about @party, the upcoming fourth annual demoparty to be held in recently beleaguered Boston, and how even non-programmers will find plenty to like. The first of three movies based on the life of Steve Jobs is now available for free online streaming — what’s the popular verdict on iSteve? There’s still more CFFAs coming from Rich Dreher, and they’ll work on even an original Apple-1, of which Mike Willegal is making yet more replicas. Speaking of clones, we found a “Redstone” Apple IIe clone in Australia that looks like a PC XT and is certainly no Tiger Learning Computer.
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Introduction (0:13 – 4:56)
Boston Marathon bombings and their effect on MIT and Boston
StarFest
User Login (4:57 – 23:34)
Daniel Kruszyna, aka krüe
@party 2010
Waterline demo, as seen on Apple II Bits
Drift demo disk, as seen in Juiced.GS
Treehugger printer driver for GS/OS
Opus II: The Works from Syndicomm
Programming the 65816 by Western Design Center
Wade Clarke, Antoine Vignau, and Melissa Barron
Notacon 2011
pixeljam
Leadlight interactive fiction game
Brazil demo
Satin Weave
II News (23:35 – 1:10:38)
KansasFest opens for registration
VCF Southeast 1.0
Vintage Computer Festival Southeast 2013 in 5 minutes
Apple Pop-Up Museum
@party 2013 demoparty to be held at MIT
Moleman 2: The Art of the Algorithm
Gina Saikin passes away
iSteve on Funny or Die
Reviews of iSteve from Wired and Macworld
Steve Jobs’ Apple IIe is back on the market
PCWorld slideshow: What’s your obsolete tech really worth on eBay?
T40 ASCII art editor from Brutal Deluxe
fortycolumns gallery of T40 art, curated by krue
ADTPro updated to v1.2.7
Ivan Drucker’s A2SERVER
March issue of Juiced.GS ships
Another run of Rich Dreher’s CFFA3000
CFFA1 for Apple-1 and replicas
Mike Willegal’s Apple 1 Mimeo project
Mike Willegal’s Apple-1 registry
iPod interface to Apple-1 cassette board by Wendell Sander
Apple IIGS Plus on Wikipedia
Ninjaforce demos
Zephyr gameplay and unboxing videos
Karateka not coming to Nintedo Wii U
Libraries aren’t floppy archives
Apple Pickings (1:10:39 – 1:27:23)
Redstone Apple IIe clone in Australia
Restoring and repairing Apple II clones
Tiger Learning Computer licensed Apple IIe clone
Steve Wozniak now has his very own baseball card — available from Amazon and eBay
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1h 28min
May 08, 2013 Open Apple #27 (May 2013): Daniel Kruszyna, demoparties, iSteve, and clones
This month on Open Apple, Mike and Ken chat with famed demo programmer Daniel Kruszyna, aka krüe. We chat about @party, the upcoming fourth annual demoparty to be held in recently beleaguered Boston, and how even non-programmers will find plenty to like. The first of three movies based on the life of Steve Jobs is […]
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1h 28min
April 15, 2013Open Apple #26 (Apr 2013): Earl Evans, Z80, Zephyr, and LucasArts
This month on Open Apple, Mike and Ken chat with Earl Evans, Retrobits podcast host and Commodore 64 enthusiast — but we don’t hold that against him. Registration for KansasFest 2013 is open, and we all want to go, but Earl has another destination in mind. Tech history is being unearthed before our eyes, with schematics for operating systems and circuit boards appearing in museums (where the price is right) and art galleries (where it’s not). Brutal Deluxe is on a tear, releasing retroprogramming utilities for Windows and commercial games for the Apple II; we’re big fans! But not all news is happy news: the Steve Jobs film has been delayed, and LucasArts has closed its doors — will we ever get another Maniac Mansion game for the Apple II? Maybe not, but Richard Garriott’s successful Kickstarter gave fans a chance to pick up an original copy of Akalabeth. Better late than never!
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Introduction (0:00 – 9:20)
An apology to Mr. Egan Ford
Behind the scenes with Open Apple
Boston’s WordPress community
Dave Ross (csixty4) on Twitter
Jason Scott of Textfiles.com and Sockington the Cat
Kay Savetz of Terrible Nerd
Setting up the Apple II at MIT
Zork on Big Bang Theory
User Login (9:21 – 23:16)
Brent Spiner is unhireable since “the incident”
Earl Evans of the Retrobits podcast
Martin Haye’s Super-Mon
Ivan Drucker’s Structured Applesoft
Rooster Teeth
II News (23:17 – 1:22:44)
KansasFest 2013 registration opens
Randy Wigginton to keynote KansasFest
Steve Wozniak & Randy Wigginton at Denver Apple Pi
Apple schematics as works of arts
Disk II operating system schematics and code revealed
“The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads.”
Where’s the tech in The Social Network?
New batch of Alex Freed’s Applicard 20 MHz Z80 cards?
Bill Buckels’ BMP2RAG, HMONSTER, and BIN2RAG
Brutal Deluxe’s Mr Sprite
Celebrating the 20th anniversary of Brutal Deluxe
Brutal Deluxes releases physical, commercial Apple II game, Zephyr
Battle Kid: Fortress of Peril for 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System
David Schmenk’s QuickCam capture
Lego Apple II by Chiukeung
jOBS film delayed
iSteve trailer starring Justin Long hits FunnyorDie
Apple II at PAX East 2013
Disney closes LucasArts
ScummVM game emulator
The Dig on Steam
Another World (aka Out Of This World) for Mac
Eamon Deluxe newsletter for March 2013 (PDF)
Eamon for Apple IIGS tech demos
GET LAMP text adventure documentary
Richard Garriott’s Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues on Kickstarter
Brian Fargo’s Torment and Veronica Mars projects on Kickstarter
Apple Pickings (1:22:55 – 1:32:21)
Stephen Buggie’s Computist magazine collection
11 new Atarisoft games
Arcade Ambience
Google Nose (beta)
Z-80 expansion card
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1h 33min
April 15, 2013 Open Apple #26 (Apr 2013): Earl Evans, Z80, Zephyr, and LucasArts
This month on Open Apple, Mike and Ken chat with Earl Evans, Retrobits podcast host and Commodore 64 enthusiast — but we don’t hold that against him. Registration for KansasFest 2013 is open, and we all want to go, but Earl has another destination in mind. Tech history is being unearthed before our eyes, with […]
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1h 33min

FAQs about Open Apple:

How many episodes does Open Apple have?

The podcast currently has 125 episodes available.