Open Apple #12 (Feb 2012): Michael J Mahon, chiptune, source code, and demodulation

This month on the Open Apple podcast, Mike and Ken chat with Michael J Mahon, software and hardware developer extraordinaire and creative genius behind both recent DMS Drummer software and the ever-popular AppleCrate parallel processing computer. We talk about 8 Bit Weapon, the chiptune music scene, and the importance of commenting and documenting one’s code, whether it be commercial or open source. Michael’s not much of a gamer, but Ken and Mike are enjoying new versions of classic games, including Eamon, Choplifter, and possibly Rescue Raiders. We consider entering a Robot War competition, despite our poor showing at the RetroChallenge contest. Several new pieces of hardware to convert video signals are now available, which you can use with a pair of complete Apple IIGS systems, for sale and shipping for free from Bulgaria. Congratulations to Bryan Letcher, who won a set of Microzine issues by completing our listener survey! Click past the jump for links mentioned in this episode. Introduction (0:00 – 12:00) iCade iMAME The making of an Apple II holiday ornament Red vs. Blue Season 9 Apple II at the Boston Museum of Science The history of AppleWorks Denver Pi presentation attended by Randy Brandt Randy Brandt visits Mike Maginnis Discovering NAUG’s AppleWorks Forum magazine Scans of NAUG’s AppleWorks Forum User Login (12:01 – 33:03) Homepage of Michael J Mahon Juiced.GS interview with Michael IBM 1620 Data Processing System The Burroughs 220 computer KIM-1 computer 8 Bit Weapon, chiptune musicians and vendors of DMS RT.SYNTH 8bit Generation chiptune documentary (see also: Reformat the Planet) State Shirt music video AppleCrate II parallel computer NadaNet network NadaPong video demonstration from KansasFest 2007 More details on NadaPong II News (33:04 – 1:38:24) Ivan Drucker’s A2SERVER Rich Dreher’s CFFA3000 David Schmidt’s ADTPro Egan Ford’s Apple Game Server Online! How to build a NadaNet adapter Brutal Deluxe’s Fishhead FTA’s Photonix History of FID Ewen Wannop’s SNAP v1.1.1 Gerard Putter’s Virtual II v6.4.1 Apple II Oasis Ivan Drucker’s Structured Applesoft Don Knuth Eamon Adventurer’s Guild Online GEnieLamp interview with Tom Zuchowski Wade Clarke’s Leadlight The Magnavox Odyssey Pong console Stan Freberg Choplifter HD Interview with Dan Gorlin Steve Wozniak’s Fusion-io Rescue Raiders Mobile — coming Winter 2011? Rescue Battlefield Silas Warner’s RobotWar Jimmy Maher’s Robot War challenge Computer Gaming World Museum VCF East 8.0, keynoted by Dan Kottke and Thomas Kurtz TWiT Triangulation interviews Dan Kottke The biennial ROFLCon at MIT Chuck Peddle at VCF East 4.0 AUSOM’s magazine archive Rhode Island Apple Group The Commodore 64 Scene Database Star Trek: TNG — “A Matter of Honor” David Greelish interviews Bob Cook of Sun Remarketing Apple Lisa museum Steve Howell’s Carte Blanche FPGA Card 12-bit color output Apple II Colour Demodulator RetroChallenge Winter Warmup Mike Maginnis’s RetroChallenge update Apple Pickings (1:38:25 – 1:57:18) Ultima IV CFFA3000 iDisk Apple IIe Platinum w/books, software, games Apple IIe Platinum w/games, software, books BootZero 8 Bit Weapon’s Bits With Byte album “Apple Core II“ Smithsonian’s GameFest Nolan Bushnell The post Open Apple #12 (Feb 2012): Michael J Mahon, chiptune, source code, and demodulation first appeared on Open Apple.