2018
Posted inPodcasts
Open Apple #78 (September 2018) – Retro Antic Assembly Chicken Missile Talks Our Way Out Of It
This month on Open Apple, we bring you the traditional big group podcast that we record every year at KansasFest. Tune in for a casual chat with your favorite retro podcasters, and get a behind-the-scenes peek at what makes KansasFest special.
Posted inNostalgia & Preservation
Apple VHS Archive: Patents at Apple
The excellent Apple VHS Archive YouTube channel continues to unearth analog video gold. The latest update is a nine and a half minute company internal video featuring, among others, a beardless(!) Woz – by then an “Apple Fellow” – talking up the benefits and general warm fuzzies of hardware and software patents. Watching Apple patent […]
Posted inSoftware
Brutal Deluxe announces Graffidisk
From Antoine Vignau’s post at comp.sys.apple2 on August 17: Graffidisk is a new kind of software for the Apple II. Its limit is your imagination: enter text or draw a GR picture on your Apple II and let Graffidisk tag your 5.25? floppy disks. See the results of your piece of art with John Morris’ […]
Posted inApple 1, Auction
Another Apple-1 up for auction
British technology news and opinion website The Register reports that another Apple-1 is about to hit the auction block. Says The Reg: This Apple-1 was acquired from Adam Schoolsky, a friend of Apple founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, for $3,500 in 1994 by David Larson, a former professor at Virginia Tech. Gets your wallets […]
Posted inUncategorized
This week in Apple II news
(With apologies to Leo Laporte…) Packing and readying for a move across town has kept me from getting started here as soon as I’d like, but that’s coming to an end so I thought I’d kick things off with a summary of all the Apple II goings-on I could find, in the last week or […]
Posted inPublications
Juiced.GS to publish in 2019; more Concentrate PDFs
Juiced.GS, the world’s last and longest-running Apple II print publication, will publish its two-dozenth volume (issues #93–96) in 2019. 2019 subscriptions and renewals are available immediately. Customers who have previously purchased a subscription that automatically renews need to do nothing; their accounts will be charged on January 1. (An active subscription status can be verified […]
Posted inKansasFest
KansasFest 2019 dates announced
Last week, at the largest gathering of Apple II users since 1994, the dates for KansasFest 2019 were announced. Retrocomputing enthusiasts are invited to Rockhurst University in Kansas City, Missouri, next July 15–21 for the 31st annual KansasFest — featuring a week of sessions, workshops, announcements, demos, releases, games, podcasts, and more! Registration for the […]