John talks about how and why he updated ProDOS, and his experiences getting back into the community. This month on Open Apple, we share an excerpt of an interview with John Brooks, courtesy of Juiced.GS. * Huibert Aalbers – Recovered software, and the story behind it. * System 6.0.3 bug – Antoine Vigneau identifies a big auxtype problem.
* ADTPro 2.0.2 – A new update to everyone’s favorite imager and bootstrapper. * New editions – This and this are fresh from Call A.P.P.L.E. * Nox Archaist: Shattered Sword – Vignettes showing off their engine progress. * Simulating a Burroughs 220 on an Apple II – Michael Mahon expands his KFest showing. * Retro Hour with Lord British – An interview on how he loved the II a bit II much. * What Is The Apple IIgs? – Alex Lee’s wonderful site, including all the games we discuss. * Apple II Scans – Mike’s repository of Apple II documentation and related media. More information on everything discussed in this episode, after the jump.
Combinations of illness, holiday commitments, and technical difficulties all conspired against us this month. Our apologies for this episode being a bit late. Tune in as well to pine along with Quinn for the never-to-be Ultima VI. Keep listening, because you won’t want to miss Alex casually dropping the phrase “Late nineties and early naughties” in his charming Australian accent.
Help encourage him to finish it, because we all want to buy it very very badly.
He also talks about the legal challenges of running an archive site like this, which luckily are not too serious for this obscure machine. We finish up with talk of the future of the site, and the difficulty of finding some really rare software packages- help contribute content!Īlex is also working on an Apple IIgs coffee table book. 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 incredible graphics and sound that nobody else seemed to know about.Īlex walks us through the history of IIgs emulators, and all the ways that the IIgs Finder was actually better than the Mac.