The July 2007 edition of 1MHz! The Apple II Podcast, is now available for download from Carrington Vanston’s website or as a free podcast subscription from the iTunes store.
July 2007
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Microcomputer viruses turn 25
Salon.com staff writer Farhad “Machinist” Manjoo has posted an article in his blog commemorating the 25th “birthday” of the first microcomputer virus, which sadly, was developed on the Apple II.
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A2Unplugged show #0011 released
Podcast host Ryan Suenaga presents A2Unplugged, show #0011. In this episode, Ryan takes a look at helpful literature for learning assembly language, and makes predictions for next week’s 19th annual KansasFest. A2Unplugged can be freely downloaded from the podcast’s web site, or subscribed to from the Apple iTunes store.
Posted inNostalgia & Preservation, People
Woz Interview: “The Apple II was coded by hand”
Courtesy Slashdot comes a lengthy interview with Steve Wozniak at the site 10 Zen Monkeys. In addition to talking about the iPhone, Digital Rights Management (DRM), his favorite pranks, and his recent appearance on the television show The Colbert Report (video clips available at 10 Zen Monkeys), Woz also discusses how he coded the Apple […]
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Juiced.GS Volume 12, Issue 2 now available
Juiced.GS Volume 12, Issue 2 (June 2007) is now in subscriber’s hands. Among this issue’s features are an interview with copy protection expert Roland Gustafsson; Ewen Wannop’s “TCP/IP for Dummies”; a look at the development of Appleworks emulator Deja IIx by its author, Mark Munz; and Em Maginnis’ review of the FTP client SAFE2. This […]
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The History of Zork
Via Slashdot comes a six-page feature on the history of Zork, a classic series of text-based adventure games (or interactive fiction). The article looks at Zork‘s predecessor, the original Colossal Cave game; and Zork’s impact on gaming to follow. Full interviews with Zork’s designers, excerpted in the article, are also available online. In related news, […]