As 2011 fades into memory and 2012 shines bright, the hosts of Open Apple are joined by Tony Diaz of Syndicomm, Sean Fahey of A2Central.com, Andy Molloy of Juiced.GS, and Eric Shepherd of Sheppyware to reflect on all that has happened with the Apple II and its community in the past year. Topics include favorite hardware and software releases, community connectivity, the loss of Steve Jobs, KansasFest 2012, and more.
This show reunites the guests of A2Unplugged‘s annual review and is held in fond memory of Ryan Suenaga.
Click past the jump for links mentioned in this episode.
Intro (0:00 – 4:02)
Hardware (4:03 – 14:13)
- Vince Briel’s A2MP3
- Mike Willegal’s Brain Board
- Rich Dreher’s CFFA3000
- Tony Diaz’s Focus IDE card
- David Schmidt’s ADTPro
eBay (14:14 – 24:15)
Software (24:16 – 34:14)
- NiftySpell
- Slammer
- MountIt
- HashTool
- T40
- Trasher
- A2Command
- DMS Drummer
- Codebreaker
- SideClick
- ActiveGS
- Escape! From The Homebrew Computer Club
Emulation (34:15 – 52:34)
KansasFest (52:35 – 1:06:09)
- John Romero to keynote KansasFest 2012
- VCF East 8.0
- Bite the Bag 2011
- Kickstarter
- Rockhurst recognized by Computerworld Honors Program
Community connectivity (1:06:10 – 1:16:30)
- A2Central.com
- Retro Computing Roundtable
- David Greelish’s The Complete Historically Brewed
- Juiced.GS
- comp.sys.apple2
- 6502 Lane
- Call-A.P.P.L.E.
- Apple II Enthusiasts group on Facebook
- 300 Baud
Steve Jobs (1:16:31 – 1:26:03)
Memories of 2011 & predictions for 2012 (1:26:04 – 1:35:30)
Blatant plugs (1:35:31 – 1:44:00)
- Tony Diaz’s Reset Vector
- Peter Neubauer’s Advanture Trek
- Vintage Computer Festival East 8.0
- Nicole Polizzi
- Apple II History