In the second monthly episode of Open Apple, Mike and Ken are joined by Ivan Drucker: two-time KansasFest alumnus, Juiced.GS staff writer, and Mac consultant based out of New York City. News this month includes a look forward to Vintage Computer Festival (VCF) East 7.0 by two of its alumni, an Apple-1 expansion card for the Apple II, and controlling Apple II emulators via an iOS VNC; reviews of our favorite Beagle Bros programming utilities; the exorbitant prices Apple II hardware and software are fetching on eBay; and new iterations of our favorite adventure, role-playing, and text-adventure games.
Congratulations to Wade Clarke, who correctly guessed Karateka for last month’s “Name the Game” contest! His prize is a free Juiced.GS Concentrate, courtesy Juiced.GS publisher Gamebits. The prize for this month’s contest is a free two-day pass to VCF East 7.0, courtesy Evan Koblentz of MARCH.
Click past the jump for links mentioned in this episode.
- Vintage Computer Festival East 7.0
- ReactiveMicro.com
- Maximum PC‘s 25 Most Important PCs in History
- Mike Willegal’s Brain Board demo
- ActiveGS for iOS
- Apple iPad 2
- Sweet16
- Mini vMac
- II in a Mac
- Mocha VNC Lite
- A2Command
- Starring the Computer movie database
- Slammer
- GPLE
- Program Writer
- Space Ship of Death
- BBEdit Language Module Library
- Super-Mon
- Apple IIGS Laptop Project
Apple Pickings (43:21 – 53:17)
- Apple IIGS College shirt
- Microsoft Adventure
- Castle Wolfenstein original cover art painting
- John Benson’s art reproductions
- Auction Sniper
- Ultima I
- Ultima I w/original Ziploc bag
- Pawn Stars episode "Wise Guys"
- Apple IIGS as seen on Pawn Stars
Name the Game (53:18 – 1:06:31)
- Apple II in Minecraft
- Ultima 4: Flash Version
- xu4 — Ultima IV Recreated
- Play It Again for the First Time — King’s Quest I
- The Magic Candle adventure log
- Sword & Sworcery
- PAX East 2011
- Interactive fiction at PAX East 2011
- Learn Inform 7
- Frotz Z-Machine interpreter
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3 Comments to 'Show #2 (Mar 2011): IvanX, VCF, VNC & GPLE'
Mar 11, 2011 1:40 AM
Good show fellas. Program writer did come after GPLE. I purchased Program Writer in 1985. It was released under The Software Touch label and later released under the Beagle Brothers label. It had a number of features GPLE did not have such as auto line numbering (also renumbered if you added in a new line in the middle of the code), mouse cursor control, split or combine line and much more. It also came with a bonus program called ProBasic which enhanced applesoft basic with basic and machine language modules you could write.
Jim Kelly
PS…you right on target about Ebay prices…they seemed to have skyrocketed the last few months on any item that has Apple II in the auction title!
Mar 11, 2011 9:39 PM
VNC isn’t a viable replacement for an emulator – especially for a GS. VNC doesn’t generally support audio pass-through.
Mar 11, 2011 9:51 PM
Maybe “viable” isn’t the right word. How about “satisfying”?