Want to watch video podcasts, repair tutorials, livestreams, and Let’s Plays? These YouTube, Twitch, and self-hosted channels have plenty of multimedia content about the Apple II. Many channels feature the Apple II prominently or occasionally but not exclusively, with other retrocomputing content to be found as well.

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48kRAM

Josh Malone, a vintage computer enthusiast and fixer-upper, livestreams using and repairing old hardware.


Adrian’s Digital Basement

Adrian Black features repairs and electronics/ refurbishment techniques with technical reviews of newer electronics like smart home components.


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Adventures in Retro Computing

Javier Rivera, aka “Javmaster”, discusses and demos retrocomputing, electronics, plastics, programming, and Retr0brighting.


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Antoine Vignau

Half of Brutal Deluxe Software, Antoine demos software and preserves historical footage.


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Assembly Lines

A video podcast by Chris Torrence (CT6502) with reviews of new Apple II hardware and software, interviews with retro computing luminaries, tips on writing 6502 assembly language, and creating your own emulator.


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Gamebits

Ken Gagne of Juiced.GS unboxes and plays Apple II games.


Highretrogamelord

A YouTube channel with nearly ten thousand videos of gameplay from retrocomputers.


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How II

Charles Mangin of Option8 and RetroConnector offers hardware troubleshooting tips.


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Joe’s Computer Museum

Joe Strosnider plays with old computers and shares that love with the world. Some reviews, some thoughts, infrequent updates.


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KansasFest

Archives of talks, presentations, and sessions given at the annual Apple II convention in Kansas City, Missouri.


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LadyAiluros

Cat livestreams games directly from her Apple II to Twitch most Sundays.


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Leigh Alexander

A games columnist, critic, and industry writer plays Apple II games.


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Oz KFest

Recordings of sessions and events at the Apple II users gatherings in Australia.


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Retro Repair Roundup

Rudy Panigas, Joe Strosnider, Javier Rivera, and Ron McAdams livestream their discussions about vintage computers repairs, configurations, modifications and new technologies to make vintage computers even more useful. First and third Sundays at 8 PM ET.


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Retro RPG Roundtable

Mark Lemmert of 6502 Workshop joins developers of other role-playing games for retrocomputers in this video podcast.


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Ron’s Computer Videos

Ron McAdams’ retrocomputing repair and exploration channel with a focus on Apple II, early Macintosh, and MS-DOS era PCs.


Disclaimer: This index is not intended to be comprehensive. No channel has paid to be included on this list, nor is inclusion necessarily an endorsement. All channels are listed alphabetically. Based on an article by Sean McNamara in Juiced.GS Volume 26, Issue 4 (December 2021). This page was last modified on Aug 7, 2023 @ 11:18 am.