This month on Open Apple, the Apple II community’s only monthly podcast, Mike and Ken chat with Bill Martens of Call-A.P.P.L.E. Preserving our community’s software and documentation is important not just to the users, but to the people doing the preserving; Bill explains why. The show looks at how the media can never get enough of Steve Jobs, examining his early career and denoting his boyhood home as a historical landmark — but Woz gets his time in the spotlight too, on panels about Atari, the Jobs movie, or a Homebrew Computer Club reunion. Highlighted eBay auctions include the ten rarest and most expensive games and yet another Apple-1. Finally, Brian Wiser calls in to discuss The WOZPAK Special Edition, a book that made its debut at KansasFest 2013 alongside its creator, Steve Wozniak.

Find the show at the Open Apple Web site or in the iTunes and Zune podcast directories.

This morning, our good friend Bill Martens over at Call-A.P.P.L.E. announced the (re-)release of the GEOS Apple II CD.  Containing a wealth of documentation and software, this download weighs in at a hefty 140 MB.  GEOS is a graphical user interface for 8-bit computers that was originally developed and released by Berkeley SoftWorks for the Commodore 64.  Breadbox Software, current GEOS copyright holder, reclassified the Apple II version, which was originally released in 1986, as freeware thanks to the efforts of Bill and Call-A.P.P.L.E.

Visit the Call-A.P.P.L.E. article to read more about it and download the CD.