This month on Open Apple, we sit down with Beagles Bros Randy Brandt, Mark Simonsen Tom Weishaar, and Alan Bird. We share stories of Beagle’s development, poke lots of fun at each other, and check in on where everyone is now.
We spread the love for Oz KFest with Andrew Roughan, and amazingly resist the urge to make any upside-down jokes about Australia. Mike and Quinn are trying to be bigger than northern-hemispherism, and they like to think they’ve grown as people as a result.
We talk brain-imaging, we talk helicopter piloting, and we spread more IIgs love than usual. We search for amazing things, and sometimes we find them. Join us for another great month of Apple II brouhaha.
BREAKING NEWS: Dates for KansasFest 2015 also announced! July 14-19. More at http://www.kansasfest.org
More information on everything discussed in this episode after the jump.
- Oz KFest – Come on down under for Apple II fun, April 17-19, 2015. #ozkfest2015
- Apple II comes home – 33 years in Nepal, and still fighting fit.
- Infiltrator – Interview with the creator, who is much smarter than us.
- SkyFox – Bionic Toad interviews the creator, who is also much smarter than us.
- Brian Picchi reviews the IIÂ – Tanru Nomad bringing the fun, as usual.
- Stanford stats – Athletics department used a II for proper work.
- PFS: File – Great, but not the recipe panacea Quinn had hoped for.
- Woz at NAMMÂ – The lovable engineer shows up in the strangest of places.
- The IIc bag drama continues – Mike and Quinn continue to share delusions.
- More IIc images – It looks different in every promotional picture.
- I.O. Silver – Version 1.2 is now available, and documentation.
- Bootstrapping – Never hurts to review ADTPro again.
- Beautiful Boot – Still amazing!
- Jason Scott on BB – Seriously- still amazing!
- Speccies –Â Ewen Wannop’s great collection of GS terminal software.
- WITA2GS – Alex Lee’s awesome collection of disk images and IIgs information.
- New In Box Apple IIc+Â – So purrrrrty.
- Juiced.GS Unboxing – Everyone’s favorite magazine interviews the IIc unboxer.
- Escape! – Jimmy Maher discusses the inspiration for Akalabeth.
- In Search of the Most Amazing Thing – “Open World” before that was a thing.
- The Halley Project – Orbital mechanics for the whole family.
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3 Comments to 'Open Apple #44 (February 2015) : Beagle Bros Reunion Roundtable, Andrew Roughan'
Mar 4, 2015 10:05 PM
Quinn and Mike:
Your Beagle Bros. round table interview was terrific. I think that even if my house had caught on fire during the middle of it that I’d have to keep listening. Nice work.
Thanks also, Quinn, for asking Alan about some of the TimeOut technical specifics. That was really interesting.
One TimeOut trivia question I wish had been asked — All TimeOut programs have a ‘signature’ consisting of the following HEX Bytes: 0B 02 E1 26 44
Was that series of numbers just random, or did it actually go back to something? Hmm.
Hugh Hood
Mar 13, 2015 10:46 AM
As usual, thanks for a great one. Beagle Bros. is certainly one of the greatest. I was always impressed with their ads as well as their products.
And how about interviewing Ray Tobey? Skyfox is a great game indeed, and Mr. Tobey knows Jim Nitchals – who’s also an interesting figure for all the Apple II enthusiasts.
Mar 20, 2015 11:27 AM
Just finished listening the show and indeed, a great/terrific one!
Looking at the commented beautiful code page (so the disassembled work), I can’t help but to notice “Source by Deckard”, a fellow countryman :)