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Show #7 (August 2011): David Schmenk, KansasFest 2011, CFFA3000, and buttons
This month in Open Apple, Mike and Ken keep the KansasFest vibe going with first-time attendee David Schmenk, getting his perspective on the greatest products, sessions, and experiences of last month’s...
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Open Apple #11 (Jan 2012): David Greelish, Steve Weyhrich, John Sculley, and...
This month on the Open Apple podcast, Mike and Ken chat with David Greelish, co-host of the Retro Computing Roundtable podcast and recently published author of the book The Complete Historically...
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Open Apple #15 (May 2012): David Finnigan, new books, CRPGs, and prototypes
This month on Open Apple, Mike and Ken chat with David Finnigan, proprietor of the Mac GUI Web site and author of the upcoming book, The New Apple II User’s Guide. Our eyes are caught by another new...
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Open Apple #17 (July 2012): Rich Dreher, Apple-1, Atari, and Robert Tripp
This month on Open Apple, Mike and Ken speak with Rich Dreher, developer of the CompactFlash For Apple (CFFA) card. The first batch of CFFA3000 cards sold out in 2011, and the second batch is now...
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Open Apple #19 (Sep 2012): David Schmidt, iOS games, Apple III, and IMSAI
This month on Open Apple, Mike and Ken chat with David Schmidt, the programmer responsible for ADTPro. Beyond his own program, David has also contributed to the development of Davex, GSport,...
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Open Apple #26 (Apr 2013): Earl Evans, Z80, Zephyr, and LucasArts
This month on Open Apple, Mike and Ken chat with Earl Evans, Retrobits podcast host and Commodore 64 enthusiast — but we don’t hold that against him. Registration for KansasFest 2013 is open, and we...
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Open Apple #27 (May 2013): Daniel Kruszyna, demoparties, iSteve, and clones
This month on Open Apple, Mike and Ken chat with famed demo programmer Daniel Kruszyna, aka krüe. We chat about @party, the upcoming fourth annual demoparty to be held in recently beleaguered Boston,...
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Open Apple #28 (June 2013): Lon Seidman, BBSs, Steve Wozniak, and documentaries
This month on Open Apple, Mike and Ken chat with Lon Seidman, sysop of the Matrix Returns BBS and co-host of Behind the Video. The dial-up bulletin board is making a comeback, thanks to Warp Six and...
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Open ANTIChertz at KansasFest 2013
Mike Maginnis and Ken Gagne, the hosts of Open Apple, join forces with Carrington Vanston of 1 MHz and Kevin Savetz of ANTIC, for one massive retro computing roundtable at KansasFest 2013. We chat...
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Speaking with Steve Wozniak at KansasFest 2013
While attending KansasFest 2013, Steve Wozniak — inventor of the Apple-1 and Apple II and co-founder of Apple Computer Inc. — takes a moment to speak with the Open Apple podcast about Steve Jobs, Randy...
View ArticleVideo: Speaking with Steve Wozniak at KansasFest 2013
Happy 63rd birthday, Steve Wozniak! And thank you again not only for taking the time to attend KansasFest 2013, but to speak with Open Apple. If you haven’t already heard our 20-minute interview with...
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Open Apple #30 (Sep 2013): Charles Mangin, Jobs movie, Tetris, and S-Prize
This month on Open Apple, Mike and Ken chat with Charles Mangin, the mad scientist who puts Mac Minis inside Apple II cases and inventor of the RetroConnector. It’s our first show since KansasFest, and...
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Open Apple #32 (Nov 2013): Bill Martens, history, Apple founders, and WOZPAK
This month on Open Apple, Mike and Ken chat with Bill Martens of Call-A.P.P.L.E. Preserving our community’s software and documentation is important not just to the users, but to the people doing the...
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Open Apple #33 (Dec 2013): Andrew Schultz, interactive fiction, JSMESS, and...
This month on Open Apple, Mike and Ken chat with Andrew Schultz — gamer, FAQ author, and Interactive Fiction Competition participant. Text adventures are enjoying a resurgence in popularity and access,...
View ArticleOpen Apple #43 (January 2015) : Happy New Year with Ben Heck!
This month on Open Apple, we sit down with Ben Heck, one of our most-requested interviews. We talk about his Apple I replica, his Apple IIgs laptop, and Adam Sandler for some reason. Meanwhile, Mike...
View ArticleOpen Apple #44 (February 2015) : Beagle Bros Reunion Roundtable, Andrew Roughan
This month on Open Apple, we sit down with Beagles Bros Randy Brandt, Mark Simonsen Tom Weishaar, and Alan Bird. We share stories of Beagle’s development, poke lots of fun at each other, and check in...
View ArticleOpen Apple #45 (March 2015): Mark Kriegsman, FastLED, Transwarp GS Clone, and...
This month on Open Apple, we sit down with Mark Kriegsman, author of Star Blaster, and a modern Apple II hacker. He has ported the awesome FastLED driver library to the Apple II, so you can drive many...
View ArticleOpen Apple #47 (May 2015) : Jason Scott, Kaboom!, Infocom Secrets
This month on Open Apple, we sit down with Jason Scott, documentary filmmaker, historian, public speaker, and archivist. We talk about the importance of a nuanced appreciation of history, the flavors...
View ArticleOpen Apple #52 (October 2015) : GEOS! Robert Bowdidge, and more GEOS!
This month on Open Apple we sit down with Robert Bowdidge, one of three interns at Berkeley Softworks who ported GEOS to the best line of 8-bit computers. We talk about what a great place Berkeley...
View ArticleOpen Apple #57 (March 2016) : Bill Budge!
This month on Open Apple, we sit down with legendary Apple II programmer, Bill Budge. In addition to being an icon of Apple II gaming and graphics, he is the number-one-requested guest by listeners of...
View ArticleOpen Apple #58 (April 2016) : Huibert Aalbers, IIGS Stuff, Taiwanese Ham
This month on Open Apple, we sit down with Huibert Aalbers, author of Soundsmith. It’s hard to overstate what a platform-defining piece of software this was for the Apple IIgs. Few people appreciated...
View ArticleOpen Apple #62 (August 2016) : Mark Pilgrim, Passport, Ancient Legends
This month on Open Apple, we sit down with Mark Pilgrim, one of the most active software preservationists in the Apple II community. Mark has been spending his free time working on Passport, an...
View ArticleOpen Apple #65 (November 2016) : Alex Lee, What Is The Apple IIgs?
This month on Open Apple, we sit down with Alex Lee, purveyor of the canonical IIgs reference site What Is The Apple IIgs? We talk about what it was like being one of the brave few with this machine,...
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