Open Apple

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

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!

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
  

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

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!

Click past the jump for links mentioned in this episode.

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

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