Talking with Brutal Deluxe

Monday, April 30th, 2012 | Episodes

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Join us as Open Apple celebrates the 20th anniversary of the founding of premier Apple II programming group, Brutal Deluxe, developers of such famous games as LemminGS, The Tinies, Cogito, and Blockade; utilities including Fishhead, T40, and Convert 3200; and projects such as the Apple Cassette Archive.

In this special podcast episode, Ken interviews Brutal Deluxe members Antoine Vignau and Olivier Zardini on the group's history, what the Apple II and BBS scenes were like in France in the 1980s, how they acquired the rights and assets to popular licenses and ported them to the Apple II, their open source philosophy, and news from other French developers.

Happy birthday, Brutal Deluxe!

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Tags: anniversary, Antoine Vignau, birthday, Brainies, Brutal Deluxe, cassette, developers, France, French, Olivier Zardini, open source, programming, T40, Tinies

6 Comments to 'Talking with Brutal Deluxe'

Brian
Apr 30, 2012 5:20 PM

Excellent interview Ken. Antoine and Olivier are very well respected members of the community and it's nice to actually hear their voices and their history. A lot of great suggestions were made too, especially unifying our efforts to make 1 comprehensive 8-bit Apple site, similar to Alex Lee's brilliant IIGS website. Also, I noticed Antoine was allowed to say the "A" word! You know, the one that rhymes with Hasimov :) What's up with the special treatment, Ken? I'm not french enough for ya? :) C'est la vie.

Jesse Blue
May 3, 2012 7:03 PM

Many greetings to Brutal Deluxe, we met in 1993 (?) in Bordeaux. Very nice guys!

Rdh
May 10, 2012 4:12 PM

Congratulation for this interview. It's nice to hear these good old stories. I had the opportunity to meet Antoine recently. It was like sliding in time,

Olivier (G)
Jun 29, 2012 4:13 PM

Just finished listening this episode, really nice indeed! Next time I'd like Ken and Mike to interview in their guests' native language ;)

Antoine and Olivier talked about Minitel. Coincidentally, this service is still available but will cease to exist this week-end.

Ken Gagne
Jun 29, 2012 4:19 PM

Thank you for listening, Olivier! I have three good friends whose first language is English but who are nonetheless fluent in French. I would've loved to have brought them onboard to assist in creating a French language edition of this podcast… Maybe next time!