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Welcome to the first INIT HELLO Megapodcast! INIT HELLO is an Apple II conference that debuted in July 2025 at the System Source Computer Museum in Hunt Valley, Maryland. A week later, on August 2, six podcaster attendees gathered to reflect on their experiences at inaugural retrocomputing event. Participants: Kate Szknotnicki ( RetroMetal ) Paul Hagstrom ( Retro Computing Roundtable ) Blake Patte...

Welcome to Ron’s Apple Transporter Roundtable , the annual “megapodcast” from KansasFest 2025. Participants: Ken Gagne ( Open Apple  &  Transporter Lock ) Ron McAdams ( Ron’s Computer Videos  &  Retro Repair Roundtable ) Megan Lemmer

Ken, Em & Quinn reunite to discuss KansasFest & INIT HELLO, ImageWriter printers, Steve Jobs movies, web-based Apple II emulation, and games we regret buying.

In this lost episode of Open Apple , recorded 14 July 2018, Em Maginnis and Quinn Dunki are joined by John Morris, creator of the Applesauce floppy disk controller . The post Open Apple #86 (July 2018): John Keoni Morris of Applesauce FDC first appeared on Open Apple .

On Saturday, September 28, 2024, the Portland Retro Gaming Expo hosted this panel: The Apple II Origins of Today’s Games The Apple II is known for its impact on the workplace (VisiCalc) and education (Oregon Trail) — but it was also an iconic games machine that launched and inspired franchises that continue to these days. From the early stealth action of Castle Wolfenstein to the strategic depth o...

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 ) Paul Hagstrom ( Retro Computing Roundtable &amp...

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 ) Ken Gagne ( Juiced. GS , A2Central.com & Open Appl...

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 ) Ron McAdams ( Ron’s Computer Video...

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 KansasFest committee...

Welcome to Poly Retro Assembly Cast Chicken Missile Drop Grue Museum , the annual “megapodcast” from KansasFest, hosted again via Zoom.

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:

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:

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 writing and pu...

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.

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 IIs  can ma...

This month on Open Apple , the part of Quinn Dunki is played by RCR Podcast co-host Carrington “Fake Quinn” Vanston. A post-KansasFest Megan Lemmert of 6502 Workshop returns to the show to promote the new Nox Archaist Kickstarter. You should contribute because it’s awesome to support those still developing for the Apple II and not just because you get cool stuff when you do (though that’s a thing...

This month on  Open Apple , we run the annual group megapodcast that is recorded live at KansasFest! This is a four-year-old tradition whereby all the attending retro podcasters get together and do one big silly show together. It’s clunky, it’s pointless, and the audio quality is terrible because we’re all crowded one microphone in a grungy old basement chapel. Yet it’s one of our favorite th...

This month on  Open Apple , we sit down with KansasFest committee member and lifelong Apple II user Peter Neubauer. We talk lots about the upcoming KansasFest, of course, but also Peter’s own experiences with the machine. He has a passion for Logo, and a special place in his heart reserved for the Apple IIc Plus. I think many of us can relate to that.

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 impressive, and his first foray into solo Apple II game production is shaping up great. He’s also been very encouraging to the commun...

This month on  Open Apple , we sit down with Megan Lemmert, co-founder of 6502 Workshop. She and her partners (Mike Reimer, Bill Giggie, Robert Padovan, Gordon Mackay, and Galactagog) have been building Nox Archaist, a brand new story-driven tile-based role-playing game in the classical Ultima style. They’re pushing the hardware as far as they can with this new engine, working to break new gr...

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 for the cutting machines in a factory. He was a pioneer in using the Apple II for what computers are actually good at-...

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.

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 & Chris Torrence. We have a really fun mix of Apple II fans from all walks of life and all parts of the world t...

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 in the glory days of the Apple II BBS scene.

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. He has graciously agreed to let us run it here on our feed. It’s wonderfully produced, and a great way to get a feel for what Kansa...