Having gathered the treasures of 2012 and being tempted by the promises of 2013, the hosts of Open Apple are joined by Andy Molloy of Juiced.GS, Peter Neubauer of KansasFest, Vince Briel of Briel Computers, and Antoine Vignau of Brutal Deluxe to reflect on all that has happened with the Apple II and its community in the past year. We pick our favorite products, share memorable events, and make predictions for 2013. Topics include Apple-1 auctions, Kickstarter-funded sequels, progress in emulation, and more.
Click past the jump for links mentioned in this episode.
Introduction (0:00 – 4:58)
Hardware (4:59 – 17:43)
- Rich Dreher’s CFFA3000
- Mike Willegal’s SUPERPROTO and Apple-1 Mimeo projects
- Briel Computers’ A2MP3 card
- a2RetroSystems’ Uthernet card
- Cedric Peltier’s Smartport Virtual Hard Drive (SPVHD)
- Alex Lukacz’s Bluetooth proof of concept
Apple-1 (17:44 – 26:02)
Emulation (26:03 – 33:32)
- Eric Shepherd’s Sweet16 emulator
- AppleWin
- Gerard Putter’s Virtual ][ emulator
- GSport, based on Kent Dickey’s KEGS
- Java Apple Computer Emulator (JACE) by Brendan Robert
- VICE
- Eamon Deluxe
- The Lost Treasures of Infocom for iOS
Software development (33:33 – 46:42)
- Ewen Wannop’s SNAP & SAFE
- Drift demo disk with custom floppy sleeves
- The Deadly Orbs game by Brian Picchi
- Martin Haye’s Structris
- Jordan Mechner’s Deathbounce
- Brutal Deluxe’s Fishhead copier
- Dagen Brock’s KansasFest 2013 demo
Game remakes and Kickstarter projects (46:43 – 54:11)
- Bard’s Tale for iOS (includes IIGS originals)
- Organ Trail
- Ground Kontrol arcade in Portland, Oregon
- Living Computer Museum in Seattle, Washington
Publications & media (54:12 — 1:01:50)
- Dave Finnigan’s The New Apple II User’s Guide
- Kevin Savetz’s Terrible Nerd memoir
- Rob O’Hara’s Commodork
- Jeff Atwood’s "I Was a Teenage Hacker"
- What’s Where in the Apple e-book
- Steve Weyhrich’s Sophistication & Simplicity
- Retro Gamer magazine
- Jimmy Maher’s Digital Antiquarian
- Juiced.GS: The Early Years
Podcasts (1:01:51 – 1:11:50)
- Retro Computing Roundtable
- 1 MHz by Carrington Vanston’s Monster Feet
- RetroMacCast
- Brian Picchi’s YouTube computer game reviews
- Not Another Apple Podcast?!
- Vintage Computer Festival Southeast 1.0
Top stories (1:11:51 – 1:18:02)
KansasFest (1:18:03 – 1:27:19)
- Randy Wigginton to keynote KansasFest 2013
- Randy Brandt’s History of AppleWorks session
- Sara, an Apple III emulator
- Multi Emulator Super System (MESS)
- Melissa Barron’s Etsy shop
- ReactiveMicro.com — will it ever come back?
- Charles Mangin’s Mac mini inside a Disk II case
Participant picks from 2012 (1:27:20 – 1:34:12)
Predictions for 2013 (1:34:13 – 1:41:23)
Parting shots (1:41:24 – 1:45:50)
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4 Comments to 'Open Apple #23 (Jan 2013): 2012 year-end roundtable'
Jan 3, 2013 12:58 AM
a great discussion to the year.
I noticed you have the wrong link for
Melissa Barron’s Etsy shop
Geoff B
Jan 3, 2013 9:36 AM
Geoff: Good catch! We had the right link, but the HTML code was broken. It was fixed on Wed, Jan 2, at 8:21 PM EST.
Jan 3, 2013 2:28 PM
Hey, let’s show some love for Marc Ressl’s OpenEmulator! :-)
And hope that version 1.0.4 gets released in this new year 2013.
Jan 16, 2013 1:59 PM
Fantastic episode as always. Makes one hope you’d publish the podcast more often :)