This month in Open Apple, Mike and Ken talk with Kelvin Sherlock, prolific Apple II programmer of GShisen, Silver Platter, ProFUSE, and more. Ken builds the suspense before revealing the identity of KansasFest 2012’s keynote speaker before we look at the latest Kickstarter fundraising projects that appeal to Apple II users. We ask ourselves, “Why are Apple II users different?” when sharing knowledge, products, and magazines. On eBay, we’re looking at soundtracks, CP/M cards, compression software, and defunct user group newsletters, before engaging in a smackdown of BASIC programming languages. Finally, we enjoy classic Apple II games on iOS and challenge Kelvin to explain why we can’t port Portal to the 6502.

Congratulations to Sal Bugliarisi, who named the game as Choplifter! He won a $20 credit to the Juiced.GS store, courtesy publisher Gamebits. Our next winner gets an autographed copy of Bob Bishop‘s Bomber on cassette.

Click past the jump for links mentioned in this episode.

Introduction (0:00 – 3:36)

• WarGames t-shirt

User Login (3:37 – 12:29)

• Kelvin Sherlock’s homepage
• A Touch of Applesoft BASIC
• inCider
• Kelvin’s IIGS software
• ProFUSE
• Silver Platter from Syndicomm
• KShisen for Linux
• iShisen for iOS
• FlaShisen
• Vintage Computer Festival East 2.0

II News (12:30 – 50:52)

• John Romero to keynote KansasFest 2012
• Wolfenstein 3D
• Vintage Computer Festival Midwest 6.0
• Retro Computing Roundtable #16
• Vintage Computer Festival South
• GLI.TC/H
• GLI.TC/H Kickstarter
• Melissa Barron’s homepage
• Google+
• Facebook Video Calling vs. Google+ Hangout
• The Jason Scott Documentary Three-Pack — Kickstarter
• Textfiles.com
• 8 mysterious Apple products which you might not know of
• ROM 04, aka Mark Twain
• The Apple Graphics Tablet
• Knowledge Navigator
• Bandai Pippin
• Why are Apple II users “different”?
• Softalk
• inCider
• T40 crack screen editor
• T40 art gallery by Daniel Kruszyna
• Rich Dreher’s CFFA3000
• CFFA3000 for Apple III
• Apple III driver for CFFA3000
• Juiced.GS Volume 16, Issue 3 ships
• Happy 25th birthday, Apple IIGS!

Apple Pickings (50:53 – 1:09:52)

• Metal Gear Solid 3 soundtrack
• Karate Kid soundtrack
• Microzine lot
• More about Microzine
• Open Megahertz
• Sid Meier’s Pirates!
• A2MP3 auction to benefit @rsuenaga fund
• DRALS’s CP/M card
• Microsoft Softcard
• More about Digital Research’s CP/M card
• Apple CPM Yahoo! group
• AutoArk
• HardPressed
• AutoArk from Syndicomm
• Ultima IV
• Apple IIGS crystal paperweight
• Electric car with on-board Apple IIc
• Pimp My Ride
• Boston Computer Society newsletter
• The Boston Computer Society’s Wikipedia page
• Still more about the Boston Computer Society

Retroviews (1:09:53 – 1:19:30)

• Morgan Davis’ MD-BASIC
• Micol Advanced BASIC
• GSoft BASIC
• Toolbox Programming in GSoft BASIC
• SideClick
• Trasher
• Nibble magazine
• ORCA/Integer BASIC

Name the Game (1:19:31 – 1:36:14)

• Choplifter
• Bob Bishop’s Bomber
• Ultima 1–4 now available at Good Old Games (GOG)
• DOSBox
• Boxer, a DOSBox client for Mac OS X
• Defender of the Crown for iOS
• Amiga emulator
• Video demo of Amiga emulator
• iBASIC
• Jimmy Maher’s writings about the Apple II & Eamon
• Portal 2 soundtrack
• Portal: The Flash Version
• ASCII Portal
• Silver Platter now a free download!