The July 2012 episode of Open Apple, the Apple II community’s only co-hosted podcast, is now available.

This month, Mike and Ken speak with Rich Dreher, developer of the CompactFlash For Apple (CFFA) card. The first batch of CFFA3000 cards sold out in 2011, and the second batch is now shipping with similar sales numbers. Rich dishes on other II hardware developers Vince Briel and Mike Willegal before we look at the astronomical numbers rare Apple-1 computers are fetching on eBay and at Sotheby’s. HyperCard turns 25 while Atari turns 40, though Mike objects to the latter. David Finnigan’s new book is out, and Robert Tripp is hot on his heels when an updated and digitized version of the classic What’s Where in the Apple — and we have the exclusive interview with Bob! All this content and all these guests make for our longest episode ever, perfect for listening to while you drive to next week’s KansasFest.

Find the show on the Open Apple Web site or in iTunes or the Zune marketplace.

Rich Dreher’s CFFA3000 prototype has made its public debut (at least an assembled version has). It doesn’t work yet; Rich says there is still much work to be done with the card’s logic before it’s ready… but if all goes as planned, the new card is projected to be completed by mid-2010.

Rich Dreher's CFFA3000 Prototype; with 4 LEDs, you KNOW it's serious.

In addition to the usual CFFA features we’ve grown accustomed to, the CFFA3000 is expected to include nibble-level floppy disk emulation, USB flash drive support (for holding .dsk images only) and possibly full DMA support — all of which makes it a worthy successor to the popular “classic” CFFA card.

Juiced.GS Volume 13, Issue 3 (September 2008) shipped today to all subscribers. This issue features Andy Molloy’s report on building a Replica 1 at the Vintage Computer Festival; Mike Maginnis’ review of the Computer Gaming World DVD; Eric Shepherd’s guide to beta testing; Howard Katz’s review of CFFA v2.0; KansasFest 2008 coverage; and much, much more!

This is Juiced.GS’s third quarterly issue of 2008. Subscriptions and renewals for 2008 and 2009 are available for both United States and international customers.