2011 year-end roundtable

As 2011 fades into memory and 2012 shines bright, the hosts of Open Apple are joined by Tony Diaz of Syndicomm, Sean Fahey of A2Central.com, Andy Molloy of Juiced.GS, and Eric Shepherd of Sheppyware to reflect on all that has happened with the Apple II and its community in the past year. Topics include favorite hardware and software releases, community connectivity, the loss of Steve Jobs, KansasFest 2012, and more. This show reunites the guests of A2Unplugged‘s annual review and is held in fond memory of Ryan Suenaga. Click past the jump for links mentioned in this episode. Intro (0:00 – 4:02) Eggnog cheesecake recipe Hardware (4:03 – 14:13) Vince Briel’s A2MP3 Mike Willegal’s Brain Board Rich Dreher’s CFFA3000 Tony Diaz’s Focus IDE card David Schmidt’s ADTPro eBay (14:14 – 24:15) Software (24:16 – 34:14) NiftySpell Slammer MountIt HashTool T40 Trasher A2Command DMS Drummer Codebreaker SideClick ActiveGS Escape! From The Homebrew Computer Club Emulation (34:15 – 52:34) Sweet16 AppleIIGo OpenEmulator P2E cAndy Apple II in a Mac FC5025 Virtual II KansasFest (52:35 – 1:06:09) John Romero to keynote KansasFest 2012 VCF East 8.0 Bite the Bag 2011 Kickstarter Rockhurst recognized by Computerworld Honors Program Community connectivity (1:06:10 – 1:16:30) A2Central.com Retro Computing Roundtable David Greelish’s The Complete Historically Brewed Juiced.GS comp.sys.apple2 6502 Lane Call-A.P.P.L.E. Apple II Enthusiasts group on Facebook 300 Baud Steve Jobs (1:16:31 – 1:26:03) Mona Simpson’s eulogy for her brother, Steve Jobs Memories of 2011 & predictions for 2012 (1:26:04 – 1:35:30) Dungeons & Desktops Present a KansasFest session Apple II ornament, as featured in Juiced.GS Blatant plugs (1:35:31 – 1:44:00) Tony Diaz’s Reset Vector Peter Neubauer’s Advanture Trek Vintage Computer Festival East 8.0 Nicole Polizzi Apple II History The post 2011 year-end roundtable first appeared on Open Apple.