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.
Em Maginnis
Mike is the editor-in-chief of A2Central, as well as a blogger and rescuer of classic manuals and books.
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
Open Apple #76 (January 2018) – Ken Gagne & Andy Molloy, Juiced.GS, Nukes
This month on Open Apple, we sit down with Ken Gagne and Andy Molloy of Juiced.GS, the longest running continuously published Apple II magazine (that you can still get in your mailbox to this day!). Juiced.GS is in its 23rd year, which has to be a record for magazines of almost any type. Ken and […]
Posted inPodcasts
Open Apple #75 (October 2017) – Seth Sternberger, Class Apples, GS Graphics
We’re baaaack! Sorry for the unscheduled hiatus folks, but your intrepid hosts had some family matters to attend to. This month on Open Apple, we sit down with Seth Steinberger of 8-bit Weapon. We talk about their new album Class Apples, which was made entirely on an Apple II. Yes, every sound on the album […]
Posted inGames
Nox Archaist Kickstarter is Live!
6502 Workshop announced today that their Kickstarter Campaign for Nox Archaist has been launched! Nox Archaist’s Kickstarter Collector’s Edition recaptures the immersive 8-bit RPG experience of the 1980s with its full color game box stuffed with feelies including fabric map, printed manual, and game artifacts – all with custom, professional artwork. Listen to this episode […]
Posted inPodcasts
Open Apple #74 (September 2017) – Mark Lemmert, Nox Archaist Kickstarter, Fake Quinn, and Softalk #5
This month on Open Apple, the part of Quinn Dunki is played by RCR Podcast co-host Carrington “Fake Quinn” Vanston. A post-KansasFest Mark Lemmert of 6502 Workshop returns to the show to promote the new Nox Archaist Kickstarter. You should contribute because it’s awesome to support those still developing for the Apple II and not […]
Posted inPodcasts
Open Apple #73 (August 2017) – Assembly Chicken PolyANTICast Roundtable
This month on Open Apple, we run the annual group megapodcast that is recorded live at KansasFest! This is a four-year-old tradition whereby all the attending retro podcasters get together and do one big silly show together. It’s clunky, it’s pointless, and the audio quality is terrible because we’re all crowded one microphone in a […]