This month in Open Apple, Mike and Ken are joined by Brian Wiser, an unsung hero of the Apple II archivist movement, as well as a director and producer of films related to Joss Whedon’s Firefly television show and Serenity movie. Ken reports on his trip to the Vintage Computer Festival East 7.0, Mike notes the changing of the guard at Syndicomm, and Brian brags about the Apple employees he’s met and the museums he’s visited, after which Mike and Brian chat about their favorite Apple II publications. We all lusted after the Ultima trilogy on eBay but were dismayed by two other auctions that were not what they seemed. Classics that need to be remade, those that are being remade, and those that were and failed are our gaming topics of the month.

Congratulations to Brian Sturk, who named the game as Lode Runner! He won a 20% or $50 discount off one ReactiveMicro.com order. Next month’s winner gets a $20 credit at the RetroFloppy store, courtesy David Schmidt.

Click past the jump for links mentioned in this episode.

Introduction (0:00 – 10:18)

• Applied Engineering Repository
• Beagle Bros Software Repository
• Nibble Magazine and Books
• The Computist Archive
• What is the Apple IIGS? The Book
• Brian Wiser on Twitter
• Done the Impossible
• Browncoats: Redemption

II News (10:19 – 46:51)

• VCF East 7.0
• InfoAge Museum
• Apple II visual matrix
• NadaNet
• AppleCrate
• NadaPong
• Scholastic’s Microzine
• Comic-Con
• Andy Molloy’s tribute to Ray Borrill and the Data Domain
• Fire in the Valley
• The Apple-1 boots up
• Apple-1 Owners’ Club
• Apple-1 Registry
• A2MP3 workshop at KansasFest 2011
• Musée de l’Informatique
• La Défense Musée de l’Informatique photo gallery
• Apple-1 at the Smithsonian
• The Ryan Suenaga Scholarship Fund
• Syndicomm announces change of management
• Sweet16 emulator
• Bob Bishop’s homepage
• The First 10 Apple Employees: Where Are They Now?
• Ron Wayne’s homepage
• Ron Wayne on Twitter
• Welcome to Macintosh
• CNN article on Ron Wayne
• Logo Draw for iOS
• GraFORTH
• Cult of Mac reports on player pianos
• Reddit: An Apple II making player piano rolls
• 1979 Apple Graphics Tablet vs. the iPad on Slashdot

Retroviews (46:52 – 59:24)

• A+ magazine
• InCider Magazine”>inCider magazine
• Softalk
• Shareware Solutions II
• Computist in the Internet Archive
• The Lost Classics Project
• Treasure Chest Project
• Apple Archives

Apple Pickings (59:25 – 1:18:28)

• Ultima trilogy
• Ultima I remastered
• Mockingboard
• Ultima V on the Passport
• Mark Simonsen’s keynote speech
• Apple IIe in portable carrying case
• Apple Users Society of Melbourne
• Apple IIGS System 6.0.1
• Vulcan Gold 100MB hard drive
• The Visible Computer

Name the Game (1:18:29 – 1:37:57)

• Lode Runner for Xbox 360
• Miner
• ReactiveMicro.com
• David Schmidt’s RetroFloppy
• Name the Game rules
• Gold Runner Lite
• 16 gaming classics that need to be remade today
• Karateka II: The Wrath of Dude
• Take1
• How Elite took flight
• Ian Bell’s Elite homepage
• Board Games > Balance of Power 1990″>Balance of Power
• HHGTTG being remade
• Legends of Zork MMO closes
• Peter Neubauer, graphic designer extraordinaire