This month in Open Apple, Mike and Ken share the studio for a one-on-one recording session. We look at user groups, museums, and academic classes that celebrate the Apple II, as well as the growing collection of the Internet Archive, courtesy Jason Scott. While looking forward to next week’s KansasFest convention, memories of previous KFests are unearthed and examined. Unusual Apple II and Apple III machines are hot on eBay, as are the competitors in recent and upcoming arcade tournaments. And let’s not overlook the gauntlet that Richard Garriott has thrown down over the future of the Ultima franchise.



Congratulations to Alex Lee, who named the game as DuelTris! He won a $20 credit to the RetroFloppy store, courtesy David Schmidt. Next month’s winner gets a three-issue hardcopy collection of 300 Baud magazine.



Click past the jump for links mentioned in this episode.



Introduction (0:00 – 12:58)







Thomas Compter’s homepageNAUG’s AppleWorks Forum scansAndy Molloy’s homepageDenver Apple PiGamebits, Ken’s defunct gaming columnDone the Impossible



II News (12:59 – 54:24)



Seattle Retro-Computing SocietyCommodore Computer Club’s trip to the SRCSPhotos from the Living Computer MuseumComputer History Museum on FacebookThis Day in HistoryCS 185C: History of ComputingSan José State University class audit formComputist on the Internet ArchiveWhy Jason Scott put Computist on Archive.orgThe GET LAMP Interview ArchivesBBS Documentaries“Yes.“6502 vs. 8088Machine Project’s Aple II concertVideo of the Apple II concertBill Fickas’ Guitarple for ALF Products, Inc.LoadingReadyRun’s CheckPointSquare Enix to release a chiptune albumSymphony for Dot Matrix Printers (video demo)“A Simple Text File” by Man or Astro-man?Music Construction Set YouTube playlist (hat tip: Reddit)Matthew Pearce’s stock footage under Creative CommonsCNBC Titans: Steve JobsMini-Appler reflects on Beautiful BootBeautiful Boot source codeApple’s 10 worst products ever (hat tip: 8Bit Aficionado)Smartport Virtual Hard DriveRich Dreher’s CFFA3000ReactiveMicro & UltimateApple2 on hiatusCommodore 64 ReplicaByte relaunches



Retroviews (54:25 – 1:09:01)




Ken’s report from his first KansasFestSilvern CastleMaxster v0.79.5, a Napster client designed for HackFest



Apple Pickings (1:09:02 – 1:22:56)




AppleWorks 429 Forgotten Realms novelsApple II EuroplusLisa X/ProFile Hard Drive EmulatorFocus IDE HD ControllerSCSI terminatorJames Littlejohn’s 18.75 MHz Applied Engineering Transwarp GSTranswarp IIApple III



Name the Game (1:22:57 – 1:43:24)



Classic Apple II game deathsThe American Classic Arcade Museum at FunspotGamers gather for retro glory in New HampshireWorld’s largest arcade introduces interactive Wall of FamePinball tournament at The 1-UpFree PC version of Ultima IV (requires DOSBox)Does a free Ultima IV herald a new Ultima game?Richard Garriott: “Only my team can create the true heir to my previous work.”Eamon PC to Inform 6 conversion scriptsLeigh Alexander’s memories of Colossal CaveMCC-216 S-videoAlex Freed’s Carte BlancheThe post Show #6 (July 2011): User groups, Beautiful Boot, KFest memories, and game tournaments first appeared on Open Apple.

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