Open Apple #23 (Jan 2013): 2012 year-end roundtable

Having gathered the treasures of 2012 and being tempted by the promises of 2013, the hosts of Open Apple are joined by Andy Molloy of Juiced.GS, Peter Neubauer of KansasFest, Vince Briel of Briel Computers, and Antoine Vignau of Brutal Deluxe to reflect on all that has happened with the Apple II and its community in the past year. We pick our favorite products, share memorable events, and make predictions for 2013. Topics include Apple-1 auctions, Kickstarter-funded sequels, progress in emulation, and more. Click past the jump for links mentioned in this episode. Introduction (0:00 – 4:58) Andy Molloy’s homepage Peter Neubauer’s homepage Vince Briel’s homepage Brutal Deluxe’s homepage Hardware (4:59 – 17:43) Rich Dreher’s CFFA3000 Mike Willegal’s SUPERPROTO and Apple-1 Mimeo projects Briel Computers’ A2MP3 card a2RetroSystems’ Uthernet card Cedric Peltier’s Smartport Virtual Hard Drive (SPVHD) Alex Lukacz’s Bluetooth proof of concept Apple-1 (17:44 – 26:02) Brain Board with Wozanium Pack Ray Borrill’s VCF 4.0 auction of an Apple-1 Emulation (26:03 – 33:32) Eric Shepherd’s Sweet16 emulator AppleWin Gerard Putter’s Virtual ][ emulator GSport, based on Kent Dickey’s KEGS Java Apple Computer Emulator (JACE) by Brendan Robert VICE Eamon Deluxe The Lost Treasures of Infocom for iOS Software development (33:33 – 46:42) Ewen Wannop’s SNAP & SAFE Drift demo disk with custom floppy sleeves The Deadly Orbs game by Brian Picchi Martin Haye’s Structris Jordan Mechner’s Deathbounce Brutal Deluxe’s Fishhead copier Dagen Brock’s KansasFest 2013 demo Game remakes and Kickstarter projects (46:43 – 54:11) Bard’s Tale for iOS (includes IIGS originals) Organ Trail Ground Kontrol arcade in Portland, Oregon Living Computer Museum in Seattle, Washington Publications & media (54:12 — 1:01:50) Dave Finnigan’s The New Apple II User’s Guide Kay Savetz’s Terrible Nerd memoir Rob O’Hara’s Commodork Jeff Atwood’s “I Was a Teenage Hacker” What’s Where in the Apple e-book Steve Weyhrich’s Sophistication & Simplicity Retro Gamer magazine Jimmy Maher’s Digital Antiquarian Juiced.GS: The Early Years Podcasts (1:01:51 – 1:11:50) Retro Computing Roundtable 1 MHz by Carrington Vanston’s Monster Feet RetroMacCast Brian Picchi’s YouTube computer game reviews Not Another Apple Podcast?! Vintage Computer Festival Southeast 1.0 Top stories (1:11:51 – 1:18:02) Prince of Persia source code saved KansasFest (1:18:03 – 1:27:19) Randy Wigginton to keynote KansasFest 2013 Randy Brandt’s History of AppleWorks session Sara, an Apple III emulator Multi Emulator Super System (MESS) Melissa Barron’s Etsy shop ReactiveMicro.com — will it ever come back? Charles Mangin’s Mac mini inside a Disk II case Participant picks from 2012 (1:27:20 – 1:34:12) Predictions for 2013 (1:34:13 – 1:41:23) The now-defunct iDisk card Parting shots (1:41:24 – 1:45:50) The post Open Apple #23 (Jan 2013): 2012 year-end roundtable first appeared on Open Apple.