Legends of Adventure has launched a BackerKit crowdfunding campaign for a documentary about Ken and Roberta Williams’ company, Sierra On-Line.
Interviews
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Nasir Gebelli, from Sirius Software to Final Fantasy
A recent interview of Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi recalls the programming genius of Apple II and Square alumnus Nasir Gebelli.
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Floppy Days podcast interviews Paul Terrell
Randy Kindig of the Floppy Days retrocomputing podcast recently interviewed Paul Terrell, founder of the Byte Shop computer store.
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Retrocomputing Roundtable podcast interviews Laine Nooney
The Retrocomputing Roundtable (RCR) podcast interviewed Laine Nooney of The Apple II Age. A2Central.com readers get a discount on the book!
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GitHub celebrates release of Infocom source code
The source code for 45 Infocom text adventures is now available in its native ZIL (Zork Implementation Language) from GitHub. I’ve uploaded the entirety of source code of all Infocom text adventures/interactive fiction to Github. https://t.co/p0K8MRKoTN If you don’t understand ZIL, and you probably don’t, read this instruction manual. https://t.co/H8nl1fxWcv — Jason Scott (@textfiles) April […]
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Open Apple #57 (March 2016) : Bill Budge!
This month on Open Apple, we sit down with legendary Apple II programmer, Bill Budge. In addition to being an icon of Apple II gaming and graphics, he is the number-one-requested guest by listeners of the show. Mike and Quinn are very excited he was able to make some time to talk to them, and […]
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Drop /// Inches #16: Taylor Pohlman
In this episode of Drop /// Inches, we interview Taylor Pohlman, who joined Apple in 1979 and became the Apple /// Product Marketing Manager in 1981, managing the “Reintroduction” of the Apple ///. He is also well known for the series of columns in Softalk magazine (“The Third BASIC”) introducing concepts in Business BASIC programming. […]
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ZDNet posts article on how communist-era clones of the Apple II influenced today’s technologists
ZDNet has posted an interesting story on how clones of popular computers (notably, copies of the Apple II) built during the communist era have influenced today’s technologists in Bulgaria, Romania and other former Soviet Bloc countries. Even today, the Apple II Community is benefiting; Plamen Vayssilov’s A2Heaven.com is a great example.