This month on Open Apple, Mike and Ken chat with Kevin Savetz, Internet publisher and author of the memoir Terrible Nerd. We cross enemy lines to review a book about the cultural, scientific, and philosophical implications of Commodore 64 programming, some of it applicable to the Apple II. Paul Terrell’s Polaroid snapshots of the first Apple-1 computers are cool, just like our reception to Jordan Mechner’s new Karateka game. On eBay, we discover the Androbot is not just another neat product from a Nolan Bushnell company, but another reason we prefer the Apple II to other platforms. And Ken’s accidental purchase of some Microzines produces the concept for a new and very expensive podcast!
Click past the jump for links mentioned in this episode.
- No Quarter podcast
- Arcade Explorers books
- Ken’s review of Max Brooks’ World War Z
- Organ Trail for iOS
- Ken’s Wii U unboxing
- Denver Apple Pi
- Colorado Macintosh Users Group
- Kevin Savetz’s homepage
- Terrible Nerd, from Savetz Publishing
- AtariArchives.org
- Classic Computer Magazine Archive
- Douglas Engelbart’s Mother of All Demos
- Kevin’s Free Printables & FaxZero sites
- Kevin on the Retro Computing Roundtable
- Name.com domain name registrar
- Liquid Web: Storm on Demand hosting company
- 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10, by Nick Montfort, et al
- The 8 Bit Weapon Collection 1998-2012
- The early days of PCs as seen through DEAD TREES
- Remembering the EasyKey keyboard overlay for the Apple II
- Paul Terrell’s Polaroid photos of the Apple-1
- Help KansasFest by shopping at Amazon.com
- TIME‘s top 100 video games ever
- Elite Dangerous: Kickstarter
- Trade Wars
- Save the Day, an HTML5-based Choplifter remake (hat tip: Hanuman Welch)
- Karateka not so hot with Ken or Metacritic
- RIP, Tony Gonzalez of Ultima GS
Apple Pickings (1:03:34 – 1:18:44)
- Androbot Topo II robot, Apple IIe, sending unit, Toposoft software (video)
- The history of Androbot, Inc.
- Heathkit H.E.R.O robots
- Ken’s new Microzines, complete with case!
- Carrington’s DoubleTake podcast
- Jeri Ellsworth’s C64 Direct-to-TV joystick
- A modern PC inside a Commodore 64 case
- Curt Vendel’s Atari Inc: Business Is Fun, courtesy Kickstarter
- Commodore 64 games on the Nintendo Wii’s Virtual Console
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