This month on Open Apple, Mike and Ken speak with Martin Haye, 8-bit programmer extraordinare. We love us some conventions, be they KansasFest, the Vintage Computer Festival, @party, ROFLCon, or WordCamp. We wonder why video games have abandoned humor and if Kickstarter can bring it back. Steve Wozniak is advising the Steve Jobs film — no, not the one in which Ashton Kutcher will play Steve Jobs, but that raises the question: who will play the hosts of Open Apple? On eBay, we’re suspicious of an Apple IIe that was supposedly once Jobs’, and we wish there were a more comprehensive online resource for Apple II clones.
Click past the jump for links mentioned in this episode.
- Apple II Bits
- A2Central.com
- 6502 Lane: Beagle Bros clean-up
- Creative Commons
- KansasFest
- Ken’s photos of ROFLCon III
- Old Spice Guy’s Manta Claus
- Know Your Meme: 10-hour videos
- Waltham Steampunk Festival
- Felicia Day of The Guild does a steampunk photoshoot
- "Steve Jobs’ death could clear way for more open Apple"
- Jeri Ellsworth
- WordPress turns 9
- WordCamp NYC 2012
- Windows Live Writer & MarsEdit
- WebWorks GS
- Ivan Drucker’s IvanExpert
- Martin Haye’s Integer BASIC article for Juiced.GS (also available as a PDF)
- Super-Mon & NakedOS
- p2e (Pseudo-II Emulator)
- Ivan Drucker’s Structured Applesoft
- Photos from Vintage Computer Festival East 8.0
- More VCF 8.0 photos!
- Briel Computers at Maker Faire
- Jeri Ellsworth’s Commodore 64 guitar
- Bill Fickas advertises Guitar Hero for the ALF Music Card by ALF Products, Inc.
- The @party demoparty of Boston, Massachusetts
- Interactive fiction author Andrew Plotkin, aka Zarf
- The Dreamhost text adventure for iOS
- Leisure Suit Larry succeeds on Kickstarter
- Computerworld: "Crowdfunding: The latest way to get your project funded"
- Star Command funding not everything devs expected
- "The Man in the Leisure Suit" — an interview with Al Lowe
- Red vs. Blue Halo machinima (NSFW)
- Cave Johnson: "When life gives you lemons, burn life’s house down"
- Space Quest franchise revived on Kickstarter
- AGD Interactive – Download free King’s Quest remakes
- Battle Chess funding fails on Kickstarter
- Organ Trail
- Wings of Valor, based on Wings of Fury (Touch Arcade’s review)
- Scientific American: Free apps drain battery
- The Woz hired as an adviser on Sony’s Steve Jobs biopic
- The Steve Jobs movie will film at the original Apple garage
- Mac G4 in Apple IIc
- Disc movie premiere at KansasFest
- Ken Gagne in Fever Pitch
- Disk II iPod charger
- Apple floppy drive audio amplifier
- Signed by Steve Wozniak
- Cult of Mac: "Drugs, Cops & Dismemberment: The Crazy Adventures Of A Vintage Mac Collector", that being eBay user Wozniac (hat tip: Andrew Smith [nightskyre])
- Smithsonian exhibit "The Patents and Trademarks of Steve Jobs: Art and Technology that Changed the World"
- Buy a plaque at the Computer History Museum!
- Ultimate Apple II’s VGA card vaporware
- Converting PowerPoint to Apple II slides
Apple Pickings (1:15:33 – 1:33:17)
- eBay reorganizes vintage computing categories
- Steve Jobs’ personal Apple IIe? (hat tip: Sean Fahey)
- Dan Kruszyna’s Waterline demo for the Colecovision at Block Party
- Apple II clone computer
- Wikipedia’s list of Apple II clones
- Apple II Clones via the Wayback Machine
- Rainbow logo ballpoint pen
- Cross Apple pen
- Basic Computer Programming for Kids (also on Amazon)
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5 Comments to 'Open Apple #16 (Jun 2012): Martin Haye, demoparty, Leisure Suit Larry, and clones'
Jun 5, 2012 6:20 PM
“Steve Jobs IIe?”
I personally e-mailed the seller (more than three times) asking for more proof than what he was offering and received the same responses each time.
He keeps saying that he took it out of the garbage can at the curb. This whole thing is laughable.
Steven
Jun 9, 2012 11:36 AM
Some good banter in this month’s episode.
Something random I learned from this ep is what an Oric is. And this story has roots.
If we go back, oh, 27 years, amongst the computer programmy books I had as a kid, there were two not-so-great ones which contained a few stories on a particular theme (EG Mystery, Sci-fi), stories which were interrupted by BASIC program listings. The idea is you would type in the listing, run the program and learn/see/decipher something relevant to that point in the story.
The reason these books never appealed to me is that they were non-interactive. The listings were super elementary and did things like draw ASCII art of the location, which you could pretty much see just by glancing at the listing itself. Or if they involved text, well, you could read the text without typing. And the programs didn’t change the outcome of the stories.
I still wish I could remember who published them (it definitely wasn’t Usborne) and exactly what they were called.
But… the upshot of all this is that on the front of these books, amongst the list of supported computers, there was something called the Oric. I assumed it was some British/European computer like other stuff I saw on the cover. The Electron, the Dragon… things I never heard of elsewhere.
So learning from Open Apple that the Oric is a Bulgarian Apple II clone joined the dots on something I remember from ages ago. That was neat.
Jun 10, 2012 5:50 PM
What happened to the Apple Vintage Computing sub-category on eBay?
Jun 10, 2012 7:57 PM
Comox: Listen to the show and find out!
Jul 13, 2012 12:08 AM
(Sweet) 16 episode! :)
Something about Oric, widely spread in France, is that it wasn’t an Apple II clone per se: while they shared the processor, the OS was different.