Open Apple #25 (Mar 2013): Egan Ford, 8088, Voyager, and abandonware
Episode description
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 podcast
- Small Wonder TV sitcom
- Operation Rainfall: How a fan campaign brought Nintendo to its knees
- Videogame History Museum
- Will Win/Should Win: The NAVGTR Awards Debate, a PAX East 2013 panel moderated by Ken
- Egan Ford’s the jerkwerks
- Aztec C compiler
- Codebreaker game for the Apple-1
- c2d (code to disk) utility
- Apple II Game Server Online! & Disk Server (based on the original Apple Game Server
- π Day: Apple II vs. HP-41C & Rematch
- Which is faster, 6502 or 8088?
- Apple II emulator for iPad
- Bill Budge releases source code for Pinball Construction Set, to be followed by GDC postmortem
- Laurie Spiegel’s Web site
- JPL’s Starship Voyager and its Golden Record
- Laurie Spiegel’s Music Machine
- “The Harmony of the World“
- An interview with Laurie Spiegel
- “The Expanding Universe“
- More music by Laurie Spiegel
- Music Mouse — an intelligent instrument
- David Greelish’s Kickstarter for Vintage Computer Festival Southeast 1.0
- VCF SE 1.0 to feature a “pop-up museum”
- Robert Tinney to keynote VCF SE 1.0
- VCF East 9.0 postponed
- “Brisfest” an Australian Apple II convention
- KansasFest XXV, coming July 23–28, 2013
- Terry Stewart’s Apple IIe video tour
- Abandoned Apples photo gallery by Benj Edwards
- Apple II Enthusiasts group on Facebook and Google+
- Apple II History spotlight on Don Worth
- Softalk on Facebook and Apple II Scans
- Apple Assembly Line
- Begin Computing magazine
- Ewen Wannop releases Phoenix
- Shareware Solutions II archive & index
- Brutal Deluxe’s Apple cassette archive
- Randy Kindig’s FloppyDays podcast
- The Information Diet, by Clay A Johnson
- Steve 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 Book
- Steve Weyhrich‘s Sophistication & Simplicity: The Life & Times of the Apple II Computer, from Variant Press
- Apple IIe w/original packaging — rare!
- Apple II (not plus) #6684
- Apple IIGS ROM 03, excellent condition
- Apple IIe, brand new, in original box, never unpacked