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This month on the Open Apple podcast, Mike and Ken chat with Michael J Mahon, software and hardware developer extraordinaire and creative genius behind both recent DMS Drummer software and the ever-popular AppleCrate parallel processing computer. We talk about 8 Bit Weapon, the chiptune music scene, and the importance of commenting and documenting one’s code, whether it be commercial or open source. Michael’s not much of a gamer, but Ken and Mike are enjoying new versions of classic games, including Eamon, Choplifter, and possibly Rescue Raiders. We consider entering a Robot War competition, despite our poor showing at the RetroChallenge contest. Several new pieces of hardware to convert video signals are now available, which you can use with a pair of complete Apple IIGS systems, for sale and shipping for free from Bulgaria.
Congratulations to Bryan Letcher, who won a set of Microzine issues by completing our listener survey!
Click past the jump for links mentioned in this episode.
- iCade
- iMAME
- The making of an Apple II holiday ornament
- Red vs. Blue Season 9
- Apple II at the Boston Museum of Science
- The history of AppleWorks
- Denver Pi presentation attended by Randy Brandt
- Randy Brandt visits Mike Maginnis
- Discovering NAUG’s AppleWorks Forum magazine
- Scans of NAUG’s AppleWorks Forum
- Homepage of Michael J Mahon
- Juiced.GS interview with Michael
- IBM 1620 Data Processing System
- The Burroughs 220 computer
- KIM-1 computer
- 8 Bit Weapon, chiptune musicians and vendors of DMS
- RT.SYNTH
- 8bit Generation chiptune documentary (see also: Reformat the Planet)
- State Shirt music video
- AppleCrate II parallel computer
- NadaNet network
- NadaPong video demonstration from KansasFest 2007
- More details on NadaPong
- Ivan Drucker’s A2SERVER
- Rich Dreher’s CFFA3000
- David Schmidt’s ADTPro
- Egan Ford’s Apple Game Server Online!
- How to build a NadaNet adapter
- Brutal Deluxe’s Fishhead
- FTA’s Photonix
- History of FID
- Ewen Wannop’s SNAP v1.1.1
- Gerard Putter’s Virtual II v6.4.1
- Apple II Oasis
- Ivan Drucker’s Structured Applesoft
- Don Knuth
- Eamon Adventurer’s Guild Online
- GEnieLamp interview with Tom Zuchowski
- Wade Clarke’s Leadlight
- The Magnavox Odyssey Pong console
- Stan Freberg
- Choplifter HD
- Interview with Dan Gorlin
- Steve Wozniak’s Fusion-io
- Rescue Raiders Mobile — coming Winter 2011?
- Rescue Battlefield
- Silas Warner’s RobotWar
- Jimmy Maher’s Robot War challenge
- Computer Gaming World Museum
- VCF East 8.0, keynoted by Dan Kottke and Thomas Kurtz
- TWiT Triangulation interviews Dan Kottke
- The biennial ROFLCon at MIT
- Chuck Peddle at VCF East 4.0
- AUSOM’s magazine archive
- Rhode Island Apple Group
- The Commodore 64 Scene Database
- Star Trek: TNG — “A Matter of Honor”
- David Greelish interviews Bob Cook of Sun Remarketing
- Apple Lisa museum
- Steve Howell’s Carte Blanche FPGA Card
- 12-bit color output
- Apple II Colour Demodulator
- RetroChallenge Winter Warmup
- Mike Maginnis’s RetroChallenge update