Show #7 (August 2011): David Schmenk, KansasFest 2011, CFFA3000, and buttons

This month in Open Apple, Mike and Ken keep the KansasFest vibe going with first-time attendee David Schmenk, getting his perspective on the greatest products, sessions, and experiences of last month’s Apple II convention, from the CFFA3000 to Sweet16 and more. Ewen Wannop’s publication of an online magazine archive leads to a brief discussion on the creation and consumption of PDF scans, after which we get Tony Diaz on the line to clarify a hardware matter. On eBay, we like pins, buttons, and games, before getting ready for a special guest at this month’s Denver Apple Pi user group meeting.

Congratulations to Antony Mauget, who named the game as Hard Hat Mack! He won a complete collection of 300 Baud magazine. Next month’s winner of the easiest Name the Game contest ever gets a $20 gift certificate to the Juiced.GS store.

Click past the jump for links mentioned in this episode.

Introduction (0:00 – 7:57)

• KansasFest
• Tony Diaz’s A2 Drivecast
• Has Open Apple gotten too long?
• The “new” Commodore 64
• The original C64 on eBay

User Login (7:58 – 17:16)

• David Schmenk’s homepage
• COBOL for the Apple III
• John Carmack
• Xorg
• Wolfenstein 3D for the Apple IIGS
• Apple II turns 30 (in 2007)
• Escape from the Homebrew Computer Club
• David’s KansasFest 2011 session on Escape from HBCC

II News (17:17 – 1:03:27)

• Woz’s keynote speech KansasFest 2003
• CFFA3000
• David Schmidt’s ADTPro
• iDisk
• RAMFast SCSI card
• Vintage Computer Festival
• Daniel Kruszyna’s HackFest
• Open Megahertz
• Wizardry written in Pascal
• Silvern Castle
• Sweet16 emulator
• SideClick 2.0
• Martin Haye’s Pseudo-II Emulator (P2E)
• FTA’s ActiveGS
• Virtual Apple
• Jason Scott
• The Internet Archive
• Bob Bishop’s homepage
• Michael J. Mahon’s homepage
• VM02 — 6502 Java Virtual Machine
• Apple II concert by The Machine Project
• Melissa Barron‘s weavings
• Ewen Wannop’s BASUG / Apple2000 archives
• Adobe Acrobat X
• iBooks application for Apple’s iOS mobile devices
• David Greelish’s Historically Brewed Kickstarter project
• Softalk magazine
• Titan III + IIe emulator users’ guide
• Apple Industrial designers Robert Brunner and Jerry Manock
• A photo of the Apple IIsi
• COSMAC Elf (not an Apple-1)
• Quark purchased by Platinum Equity
• Quark Word Juggler
• Quark Catalyst
• Andy Hertzfeld’s Apple II
• Happy 61st birthday, Woz!

Apple Pickings (1:03:28 – 1:18:44)

• Auction Sniper
• Star Saga:Two
• Lot of Apple II cards
• Ask Me How Computers Work
• Open Apple button
• Apple II Tutorial pilot wings
• Wizardry
• Archon

Name the Game (1:18:45 – 1:29:22)

• Galaga
• Championship Lode Runner
• Denver Apple Pi
• Randy Brandt
• The D-Pad podcast