Volume 19, Issue 2 (June 2014) of Juiced.GS, the longest-running Apple II publication in print, has been mailed to all subscribers. This issue features a celebration of the BASIC programming language’s fiftieth birthday; an interview with programmer Ron Graff; Charles Mangin’s introduction to using 3D printers to create Apple II parts; a behind-the-scenes look at how ADTPro accomplishes bootstrapping; reviews of the book Vintage Game Consoles and the chiptune documentaries Reformat the Planet and Europe in 8 Bits; and much, much more!

This is Juiced.GS‘s second quarterly issue of 2014. Subscriptions are available at $19 for United States customers, $24 for readers in Canada and Mexico, and $27 for international customers, with several free sample issues available as PDFs.

Documentary director and tech historian Jason Scott announced today that the raw interview footage from his most recently released film, GET LAMP: An Interactive Documentary, has been posted and is available for viewing over at the Internet Archive.  Generally speaking, these interviews are extended versions of what you saw in the film, or items that for whatever reason, didn’t make it into Scott’s final cut.  (This isn’t the first time he has done this – you can view hours upon hours of extra video from his first film, BBS: The Documentary, here.)  If you’re a fan of Scott’s work or just interested in technology in general, this footage, comprised of over 50 individual interviews, is well worth viewing, and after you’re done, you can go buy a copy of the movie.

Jason Scott has been hard at work filming his next set of documentaries.  As part of the process, Scott has been posting to his YouTube channel “teaser” clips and “test footage” from some of the interviews he’s been conducting.  Here’s one that might be of particular interest to Apple II users, in which John Romero describes committing the Apple II memory map to memory.

Get Lamp, the text adventure documentary from Jason Scott, is now available for pre-order. The film, which will debut at the PAX East convention in Boston this March, costs $40 USD plus shipping. The package includes a two-DVD set with dozens of interviews; interactive, branching paths; retro-style package artwork; actual text adventures, including Eamon for the Apple II; and an upgrade guarantee.

UPDATE: GET LAMP will premiere at PAX, but DVDs will not start shipping for another month or two.

Jason Scott, creator of BBS: The Documentary, continues his work on his next project: a documentary of text adventures entitled Get Lamp. Media distribution has changed much in the four years since Scott’s last release, and he’s looking for his audience’s perspective on how they want this next documentary delivered.

To that end, he has created an informal survey on his blog, asking potential viewers how they’d like to get their hands on Get Lamp. Do you want a DVD or a digital download? Are the extras as important to you as the film? Help shape the course of this project with just a moment of your time.

Update: This survey was completed on September 20th. Thank you to all who participated.

KANSAS CITY, MO — December 18, 2008 — Technology historian and documentarian Jason Scott will be the keynote speaker at KansasFest 2009, the world’s only Apple II computer convention. Scott, whose documentary about dial-up bulletin board systems was presented at KansasFest 2007, brings with him a comprehensive insight into the Apple II and its role in the development of the personal computer.

“I’ve been wanting to attend KansasFest for years,” said Scott. “That there’s still an Apple II conference going on after all this time is just wild.”

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Jason Scott, creator of BBS: The Documentary, recently created a blog dedicated to his latest project, a documentary of text adventures. The new site, “Taking Inventory“, is “a weblog related to the production of the documentary Get Lamp and the general subject of interactive fiction.”

A trailer for this film’s pending release is also available.

Jason Scott, creator of BBS: The Documentary, recently updated his blog with news on his latest project, Get Lamp, a documentary of text adventures:

I have finished going through all 120 hours of footage for useful clips. This is the most dreary aspect of the way I do these documentaries. I listen to an interview and clip out any statements, poses, glances, or spoken ideas that I think might at all have to do with the final work … I just checked my clip drives: I have 2,439 clips.

So the hardest, most drudgery-filled portion of the editing process is done. Having all these clips at my disposal allows me to start piecing together sequences and overlaps and putting together all the things being said … I’m now working on putting the clips into folders … and that’s probably another week or so, and then sequences in very rough form start happening. Eventually I’ll have stuff I’m showing to friends for feedback, and probably a sneak preview or two, and then working even more on the final product …

So rejoice, ever-present inquisitive types… progress is being made.

A teaser trailer of this documentary is currently available, as is this longer trailer: