Open Apple

Aug 20 2024 49 ep. 103 mins 350
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Welcome to the Open Apple podcast, where we share news and memories of the Apple II, Steve Wozniak's most famous personal computer.

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Open Apple #84 (July 2024): KansasFest 2024 Megapodcast

Aug 20 2024 67 mins  
Welcome to Ron’s Metal Roundtable Apple Assembly Lock, the annual “megapodcast” from KansasFest 2024, hosted IRL and on StreamYard. Participants: * Ken Gagne (Open Apple, Polygamer & Transporter Lock) * Kate Szknotnicki (RetroMetal) * Chris Torrence (Assembly Lines) * Ron McAdams (Ron’s Computer Videos & Retro Repair Roundtable) * Pau

Open Apple #83 (July 2023): KansasFest 2023 Megapodcast

Aug 07 2023 96 mins  
Welcome to the annual “megapodcast” from KansasFest 2023, hosted IRL and on Zoom. Participants: * Paul Hagstrom (Retrocomputing Roundtable & Drop /// Inches) * Ron McAdams (Ron’s Computer Videos) * Kate Szknotnicki (LadyAiluros) (Retro Metal) * Javier Rivera (Retro Repair Roundtable) * Chris Torrence (Assembly Lines) * Josh Malone (48KRAM) *

Open Apple #82 (July 2022): KansasFest 2022 Megapodcast

Jul 23 2022 45 mins  
Welcome to Open Retro Chicken Drop Retro Adventure Table Lines Roundup, the annual “megapodcast” from KansasFest, hosted IRL and on Zoom. Participants: * Ken Gagne (Open Apple, Polygamer & Transporter Lock) * Charles Mangin (Chicken Missile) * Chris Torrence (Assembly Lines) * Javier Rivera (Adventures in Retro Computing & Retro Repair Roundtable)

Open Apple #81: Remembering Tony Diaz

Nov 05 2021 40 mins  
For decades, Tony Diaz held the record of the only person to have attended every KansasFest. Whether at that convention, on the comp.sys.apple2 Usenet newsgroup, or on his livestreams, he would share his comprehensive knowledge of Apple II hardware and demo the rare prototypes in his vast collection. When KansasFest lost its home at Avila University, Tony, then the head of the

Open Apple #80 (July 2021): KansasFest 2021 Megapodcast

Jul 25 2021 54 mins  
Welcome to Poly Retro Assembly Cast Chicken Missile Drop Grue Museum, the annual “megapodcast” from KansasFest, hosted again via Zoom. Participants: * Charles Mangin (Chicken Missile)* Carrington Vanston (Retro Computing Roundtable & Eaten by a Grue)* Chris Torrence (Assembly Lines)* Joe Strosnider (Joe’s Computer Museum)* John Leake (RetroMacCast)* Kat

Open Apple #79 (July 2020): KansasFest 2020 Megapodcast

Aug 16 2020 86 mins  
Welcome to Retro Open Poly Roundtable Chicken Missile Lines Drop Museum Gruecast, the annual “megapodcast” from KansasFest, this time conducted virtually via Zoom. Scroll past the links for Open Apple‘s audio edition, or enjoy the video edition courtesy Chris Torrence’s Assembly Lines podcast: Participants: * Quinn Dunki (Blondihacks, Open Apple

Open Apple #78 (September 2018) – Retro Antic Assembly Chicken Missile Talks Our Way Out Of It

Sep 11 2018 71 mins  
This month on Open Apple, we bring you the traditional big group podcast that we record every year at KansasFest. Tune in for a casual chat with your favorite retro podcasters, and get a behind-the-scenes peek at what makes KansasFest special. This year we managed to twist the following arms into joining us: * Quinn Dunki – Open Apple* Carrington Vanston – Retrocomputi

Open Apple #77 (March 2018) – Kay Savetz & Carrington Vanston, Eaten By A Grue

Jul 17 2018 107 mins  
This month on Open Apple, we sit down with Kay Savetz and Carrington Vanston of the Eaten By A Grue podcast. Eaten By A Grue is a game-by-game style of podcast where the intrepid hosts are playing every Infocom game. They both play the game, then discuss it in detail, with and without spoilers. They discuss the amount of cheating required, how mapping was done, the quality of

Open Apple #76 (January 2018) – Ken Gagne & Andy Molloy, Juiced.GS, Nukes

Feb 18 2018 100 mins  
This month on Open Apple, we sit down with Ken Gagne and Andy Molloy of Juiced.GS, the longest running continuously published Apple II magazine (that you can still get in your mailbox to this day!). Juiced.GS is in its 23rd year, which has to be a record for magazines of almost any type. Ken and Andy talk about the bloodless coup of the magazine, the long history of same,

Open Apple #75 (October 2017) – Seth Sternberger, Class Apples, GS Graphics

Dec 24 2017 119 mins  
We’re baaaack! Sorry for the unscheduled hiatus folks, but your intrepid hosts had some family matters to attend to. This month on Open Apple, we sit down with Seth Steinberger of 8-bit Weapon. We talk about their new album Class Apples, which was made entirely on an Apple II. Yes, every sound on the album is generated by real Apple II hardware with no add-on cards. Apple I