This month on Open Apple, Mike and Ken chat with Jimmy Maher, the historian behind the renowned blog The Digital Antiquarian. A published author, Jimmy provides us with his perspective on the pros and cons of going with a publishing house over the recent trend in retrocomputing toward self-publishing. We gripe about the Steve Jobs film sacrificing historical accuracy for mass appeal and recommend some alternative movies that get it right. We’re still loving iOS as a platform for classic gaming ports, from the adventure game Transylvania to the recently released Lode Runner Classic. Speaking of platforms, which is better: the Apple II or the Commodore 64? The answer may not be as obvious as you think! Finally, we offer a cautionary tale to vintage computer collectors whose inventory may be at the mercy of an avaricious landlord.
Click past the jump for links mentioned in this episode.
- Open Apple #1, two years ago this month
- No Quarter classic arcade game podcast
- The 1Up barcade in Denver
- 1Up purchases Twin Galaxies
- Funspot‘s American Classic Arcade Museum
- Going Cardboard
- MIT Medical
- PB403: Electronic Publishing at Emerson College
- Visual 6502
- Drift demo disk by Daniel Kruszyna, Antoine Vignau, Melissa Barron — and Wade Clarke!
- Jimmy Maher’s The Digital Antiquarian
- The Future Was Here, an Amiga book by Jimmy Maher
- Jimmy’s posts about Oregon Trail and The Hobbit
- Let’s Tell a Story Together: A History of Interactive Fiction
- "Why You Should Follow the Digital Antiquarian", by Jason Scott
- First look at jOBS biopic
- Steve Wozniak on what’s wrong with jOBS
- Feedback about jOBS on Facebook
- jOBS to feature Mike Willegal’s Mimeo!
- Micro Men, a BBC documentay about Clive Sinclair
- Sophistication & Simplicity book of Dr. Steve Weyhrich’s Apple II History
- Atari Inc.: Business is Fun by Curt Vendel
- The New Apple II User’s Guide by David Finnigan
- Every Apple TV ad (ever made)
- Atari files for bankruptcy
- Kickstarter in the UK
- Elk Cloner virus creator Rich Skrenta looks back
- RetroChallenge Winter Warmup
- ByteBagger
- A2Central Down-Under Chat, hosted by Andrew Roughan
- Samurai IRC CDA
- Lode Runner Classic for iOS, Android, Windows Phone
- Transylvania Adventure for iOS
- Choplifter for XBLA on Microsoft Xbox 360
- AtariAge asks what’s better: Apple II or Commodore 64?
- Super Crate Box coming to C64, as reported by CheckPoint
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