"Je m'appelle Brian" is a perfect sentence in French ;-) and, yes, I am a listener of the open apple podcast which I really like. I am glad Brian likes his new disk :-)

As far as Jordan's last name is concerned, I frankly do not know how it should be pronounced, why not ask Jordan? I've always pronounced "meshnèr"

See you soon and thank you again for a very good episode (both content and sound)

Antoine

sudo port install tin

You may need to install macports first.

Thanks, Egan! I've tried that before, with no success. Here's the error I got:

[y2kgagne:~] kgagne% sudo port install tin
sudo: port: command not found
[y2kgagne:~] kgagne% bash
bash-3.2$ sudo port install tin
sudo: port: command not found
bash-3.2$

I'm fairly sure I have macports installed, but how do I verify?

http://macports.org. Install that first. Then make sure that /opt/local/bin is in your path.

Thumbs up for another episode.

Some comments on various topics: Yes, the value of the PoP source is a combination of historical significance, and if it's released publicly, the potential for assembly programmers to be able to study it to see how it was structured and just how it was done on the Apple II. There's not really any significance for non-assembly ports or other versions of the game.

Re: online II emulators, you can save stuff you do on them, at least you can with ActiveGS. As you write to your disks in the emulator, a local copy (on your hard drive) of the disk image is updated, and it stays there. That's why I used this scheme for Leadlight – I needed players to be able to save their game and I didn't want them to have to know anything about Apple IIs to be able to do it. They still had to install the emulator plugin in the 1st place, though. The fuss free-est ideal would be an Apple II emulator that runs online, requires no installation at all and also saves disk images, and such a thing does not exist. Perhaps it can't if writing anything larger than a cookie to the user's hard drive is involved?

Re: Kid Niki. That game rocked! I was really impressed when I got it in high school, as it had big cute graphics, platformy action and boss fights. In other words it was very much like a good 8-bit coin-op platformer, missing only scrolling, and you didn't get many games that looked and worked like that on the Apple 2. It might have been my sister's fave game on our Apple II.