This month on the Open Apple podcast, Mike and Ken are joined by Rob Kenyon, a two-time KansasFest attendee as well as a professional programmer and 30-year veteran of the Apple II. We talk about how great it is to be a part of the international community of Apple II users, even if none of us can afford to buy Apple’s founding contract in a Sotheby’s auction. Rob asks, did Steve Jobs purposely kill HyperCard to turn the Mac into a more closed environment? We congratulate Wade Clarke and Andrew Schultz on their showing in the 17th annual Interactive Fiction Competition. Plenty of original Apple II computers are selling on eBay, with Mike and Rob discussing how to distinguish an authentic classic from a modified one. We share our wishes for the holiday season, including for an affordable accelerator card and a CFFA3000, before signing off for the calendar year. Please take our listener survey, and see you in 2012!
[Please note: technical difficulties have resulted in a low volume on Ken’s track, and a loud volume for Rob. Our apologies for the inconvenience.]
Click past the jump for links mentioned in this episode.
Introduction (00:00 – 7:08)
- Funspot, home of the American Classic Arcade Museum
- Pinball Wizard
- Super Mario Bros. pinball
- Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One (hat tip: Retro Computing Roundtable)
- Open Apple listener survey
- Peter Neubauer’s Advanture Trek
User Login (7:09 – 17:29)
- GNO/ME UNIX environment for the Apple IIGS
- Present a session at KansasFest 2012!
- Vote for your favorite Apple II license plate
II News (17:30 – 1:04:03)
- A Dream Comes True! IIGS Users Unite in Paris!”>Alex Lee’s trip tp Paris
- FTA Wormz Party
- Mt. Keira Fest (2009)
- Apple-picking on Cult of Mac
- Denver Apple Pi Macintosh User Group
- Sotheby’s to auction off Apple’s founding contract (hat tip: Computerworld)
- Chris Espinosa’s Bandley 1 floor plan
- Folklore.org: Macintosh stories
- Apple Design coffee table book (hat tip: RetroMacCast)
- Denver Art Museum
- Why HyperCard had to die (hat tip: /.)
- HyperCard for the Apple IIGS
- 8 Bit Weapon’s DMS Drummer software
- Michael J. Mahon’s DMS Drummer details & demo disk
- AppleCrate parallel computer
- ChatterBox Video Game Radio interviews 8 Bit Weapon (Sep 12, 2005)
- 8 Bit Weapon’s Disko Apocalypse Tour on Kickstarter
- Commodore Users Group of Kansas City
- Daniel Kottke on TWiT’s Triangulation podcast
- Steve Jobs
- Obama & Steve
- The Jason Scott Documentary Three Pack on Kickstarter
- The 6502: A Documentary
- Building a cast list
- Jason Scott’s travel calendar
- Jimmy Kimmel’s Footloose parody trailer
- Finders Keepers: The Heart of Collecting
- Project: Ultima — The Ultimate Collector’s Guide
- DOSBox
- Boxer, a DOSBox client for Mac OS X
- Ultima VII on GOG (hat tip: The Escapist)
- Brian Picchi’s Apple IIGS video reviews
- Matt’s Macintosh
- Choplifter HD, published by Konami
- Ninjaforce
- Results of the 17th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition
- Six, by Wade Clarke
- Fan Interference, by Andrew Schultz
- Andrew Schultz’s GameFAQs
Apple Pickings (1:04:04 – 1:24:46)
- Lot of Microzine lot
- Steve Jobs and Woz phreaking blue box
- Apple II computer sells for $6,100 (hat tip: MacNN)
- 1978 Apple II sells for $3,000
- 1978 Apple II sells for $5,995
- Mike Willegal’s motherboard identification page
- 1977 Apple II photo gallery
- Australian lot of Apple hardware & software
- Rich Dreher’s CFFA3000
- Apple Silentype printer
- ADTPro
- RetroFloppy cables
- a2RetroSystem’s Uthernet card
- You had me at Hello World t-shirt
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2 Comments to 'Open Apple #10 (Dec 2011): Rob Kenyon, HyperCard, IFComp, and authenticity'
Dec 22, 2011 5:39 PM
I disagree about the remark made later in the show that an Apple II or II Plus machine really isn’t useful these days and that it’s better off as a collectible item.
I set up my Apple II Plus a day or two ago. It has just a Disk II controller, Language Card, and Videx 80-columns adapter.
I have so far been able to play all of the games that I wanted out of the games disk bin. Some of these games are newer, from 1985 or 1984, and they play just fine on the II Plus, no complaints.
Dec 24, 2011 6:02 PM
@DF
Thanks for the comment. You aren’t going to be able to accomplish as much with an early, unmodified Apple II as you are with a later model in the Apple II line, which is all I was trying to point out.
Thanks for listening and for commenting!