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Open Apple #72 (June 2017) – Peter Neubauer, KansasFest, Last Jedi
July 16, 2017

In show #72 of Open Apple, the Apple II podcast of record, Quinn & Mike chat with Peter Neubauer of the KansasFest Committee, read Apple II news & Wews, feedback and more.

Open Apple #71 (May 2017) – Michael Packard, Alien Downpour, Kermit (The Frog)
May 30, 2017

This month on Open Apple, we sit down with Michael Packard, author of the upcoming new game Alien Downpour. Michael has gone back to teach himself assembly language and make the kinds of games he wished he had made back in the day. The results are indeed

Open Apple #70 (April 2017) – 6502 Workshop, 1st-Person Lo-Res, Softalk #4
April 18, 2017

This month on Open Apple, we sit down with Mark Lemmert, co-founder of 6502 Workshop. Him and his partners (Mike Reimer, Bill Giggie, Robert Padovan, Gordon Mackay, and Galactagog) have been building Nox Archaist, a brand new story-driven tile-based role-

Open Apple #69 (March 2017) – Craig Peterson, KansasFest, Computer Show!
April 04, 2017

This month on Open Apple, we sit down with Craig Peterson, who got involved with hardware and software development very early in the life of the Apple II. Craig integrated Apple II computers with a numerical control manufacturing system, producing G-code

Open Apple #68 (February 2017) : Emulator Updates, EDD, Softalk #3
March 04, 2017

This month on Open Apple, Mike and Quinn sit down with each other and catch up on all the news they’ve been neglecting lately. Mike and Quinn discuss the disappointing 8BitDo controller, get excited about remanufactured printer ribbons, and pretend

Open Apple #67 (January 2017) : Year End Roundtable!
February 02, 2017

This month on Open Apple, we round out the year with our annual tradition of sitting around a virtual table with some friends of the show, discussing whatever comes to mind. Mike and Quinn are joined by Jeremy Barr-Hyde, Jorma Honkanen, Kate Szkotnicki &#

Open Apple #66 (December 2016) : Glenda “The Atom” Adams
December 28, 2016

This month on Open Apple, we sit down with Glenda Adams, better known on the Apple II as The Atom. She was a cracker of some note back in the 1980s, and she shares great stories with us of her exploits in boot tracing, cracking, and distributing software

Open Apple #65.5 (December 2016) : Mike Whalen At KansasFest
December 12, 2016

This week on Open Apple, we run a special piece of extra content, courtesy of friend-of-the-show Mike Whalen. Mike brought his mobile audio production gear to KansasFest back in July, and he captured a series of interviews and biographies during the event

Open Apple #65 (November 2016) : Alex Lee, What Is The Apple IIgs?
December 06, 2016

This month on Open Apple, we sit down with Alex Lee, purveyor of the canonical IIgs reference site What Is The Apple IIgs?  We talk about what it was like being one of the brave few with this machine, and that feeling of living in a secret world of incred

Open Apple #64 (October 2016) : John Brooks, Tiger Learning Computer, Softalk
October 29, 2016

This month on Open Apple, we share an excerpt of an interview with John Brooks, courtesy of Juiced.GS.  John talks about how and why he updated ProDOS, and his experiences getting back into the community. Tune in to hear Quinn lose 20 years of time percep