Open Apple #25 (Mar 2013): Egan Ford, 8088, Voyager, and abandonware
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In show #25 of Open Apple, the only co-hosted Apple II podcast, Mike & Ken chat with Egan Ford about space music, CPU speeds, abandoned Apples, and more.
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This month on Open Apple, Mike and Ken chat with Egan Ford, aka the datajerk, the Apple-1 and II programmer extraordinaire responsible for the Apple II Game Server Online! Egan expertly demonstrates which CPU is faster, the 6502 or 8088, running circles around everyone listening. Laurie Spiegel is an Apple II user you may not have heard of, but extraterrestrials have, thanks to her contributions to Voyager’s Golden Record; we have some of her music for you to listen to. Courtesy Facebook and scanners, we save Don Worth’s magazines from the trash and Softalk from extinction, but we can’t save derelict hardware from abandoned buildings. Will Steve Wozniak be as good a commencement speaker as the late Steve Jobs? Having heard Woz at KansasFest, we weigh in.
(Please also note a correction to this episode.)
Click past the jump for links mentioned in this episode.
No Quarter podcastSmall Wonder TV sitcomOperation Rainfall: How a fan campaign brought Nintendo to its kneesVideogame History MuseumWill Win/Should Win: The NAVGTR Awards Debate, a PAX East 2013 panel moderated by Ken
Egan Ford’s the jerkwerksAztec C compilerCodebreaker game for the Apple-1c2d (code to disk) utilityApple II Game Server Online! & Disk Server (based on the original Apple Game Serverπ Day: Apple II vs. HP-41C & RematchWhich is faster, 6502 or 8088?Apple II emulator for iPad
Bill Budge releases source code for Pinball Construction Set, to be followed by GDC postmortemLaurie Spiegel’s Web siteJPL’s Starship Voyager and its Golden RecordLaurie Spiegel’s Music Machine“The Harmony of the World“An interview with Laurie Spiegel“The Expanding Universe“More music by Laurie SpiegelMusic Mouse — an intelligent instrumentDavid Greelish’s Kickstarter for Vintage Computer Festival Southeast 1.0VCF SE 1.0 to feature a “pop-up museum”Robert Tinney to keynote VCF SE 1.0VCF East 9.0 postponed“Brisfest” an Australian Apple II convention
KansasFest XXV, coming July 23–28, 2013Terry Stewart’s Apple IIe video tourAbandoned Apples photo gallery by Benj EdwardsApple II Enthusiasts group on Facebook and Google+Apple II History spotlight on Don WorthSoftalk on Facebook and Apple II ScansApple Assembly LineBegin Computing magazineEwen Wannop releases PhoenixShareware Solutions II archive & indexBrutal Deluxe’s Apple cassette archiveRandy Kindig’s FloppyDays podcastThe Information Diet, by Clay A JohnsonSteve Wozniak to be UC Berkeley 2013 commencement speaker“Stay hungry, stay foolish” — Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford commencement speech
Apple Pickings (1:21:53 – 1:40:38)
Apple II Processor Cards: The BookSteve Weyhrich‘s Sophistication & Simplicity: The Life & Times of the Apple II Computer, from Variant PressApple IIe w/original packaging — rare!Apple II (not plus) #6684Apple IIGS ROM 03, excellent conditionApple IIe, brand new, in original box, never unpacked
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