Open Apple #16 (Jun 2012): Martin Haye, demoparty, Leisure Suit Larry, and clones

Introduction (0:00 – 15:29)

• Apple II Bits
• A2Central.com
• 6502 Lane: Beagle Bros clean-up
• Creative Commons
• KansasFest
• Ken’s photos of ROFLCon III
• Old Spice Guy’s Manta Claus
• Know Your Meme: 10-hour videos
• Waltham Steampunk Festival
• Felicia Day of The Guild does a steampunk photoshoot
• “Steve Jobs’ death could clear way for more open Apple“
• Jeri Ellsworth
• WordPress turns 9
• WordCamp NYC 2012
• Windows Live Writer & MarsEdit
• WebWorks GS
• Ivan Drucker’s IvanExpert

User Login (15:30 – 29:46)

• Martin Haye’s Integer BASIC article for Juiced.GS (also available as a PDF)
• Super-Mon & NakedOS
• p2e (Pseudo-II Emulator)
• Ivan Drucker’s Structured Applesoft

II News (29:47 – 1:15:32)

• Photos from Vintage Computer Festival East 8.0
• More VCF 8.0 photos!
• Briel Computers at Maker Faire
• Jeri Ellsworth’s Commodore 64 guitar
• Bill Fickas advertises Guitar Hero for the ALF Music Card by ALF Products, Inc.
• The @party demoparty of Boston, Massachusetts
• Interactive fiction author Andrew Plotkin, aka Zarf
• The Dreamhost text adventure for iOS
• Leisure Suit Larry succeeds on Kickstarter
• Computerworld: “Crowdfunding: The latest way to get your project funded“
• Star Command funding not everything devs expected
• “The Man in the Leisure Suit” — an interview with Al Lowe
• Red vs. Blue Halo machinima (NSFW)
• Cave Johnson: “When life gives you lemons, burn life’s house down”
• Space Quest franchise revived on Kickstarter
• AGD Interactive – Download free King’s Quest remakes
• Battle Chess funding fails on Kickstarter
• Organ Trail
• Wings of Valor, based on Wings of Fury (Touch Arcade’s review)
• Scientific American: Free apps drain battery
• The Woz hired as an adviser on Sony’s Steve Jobs biopic
• The Steve Jobs movie will film at the original Apple garage
• Mac G4 in Apple IIc
• Disc movie premiere at KansasFest
• Ken Gagne in Fever Pitch
• Disk II iPod charger
• Apple floppy drive audio amplifier
• Signed by Steve Wozniak
• Cult of Mac: “Drugs, Cops & Dismemberment: The Crazy Adventures Of A Vintage Mac Collector”, that being eBay user Wozniac (hat tip: Andrew Smith [nightskyre])
• Smithsonian exhibit “The Patents and Trademarks of Steve Jobs: Art and Technology that Changed the World“
• Buy a plaque at the Computer History Museum!
• Ultimate Apple II’s VGA card vaporware
• Converting PowerPoint to Apple II slides

Apple Pickings (1:15:33 – 1:33:17)

• eBay reorganizes vintage computing categories
• Steve Jobs’ personal Apple IIe? (hat tip: Sean Fahey)
• Dan Kruszyna’s Waterline demo for the Colecovision at Block Party
• Apple II clone computer
• Wikipedia’s list of Apple II clones
• Apple II Clones via the Wayback Machine
• Rainbow logo ballpoint pen
• Cross Apple pen
• Basic Computer Programming for Kids (also on Amazon)