Episodes 100
Avg. Duration 1h 32m
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Since Feb 2011
Latest Episode Aug 2025

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Open Apple #89 (August 2025): INIT HELLO Megapodcast

Aug 16, 2025 1h 13m

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,…

Open Apple #88 (July 2025): KansasFest 2025 Megapodcast

Jul 25, 2025 1h 9m

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…

Open Apple #87: The 2025 Episode

Apr 13, 2025 1h 19m

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

Open Apple #86 (July 2018): John Keoni Morris of Applesauce FDC

Apr 01, 2025 2h 1m

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):…

Open Apple #85: The Apple II Origins of Today’s Games

Feb 09, 2025 47m

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…

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

Aug 21, 2024 1h 7m

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 &…

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

Aug 08, 2023 1h 36m

Welcome to the annual “megapodcast” from KansasFest 2023, hosted IRL and on Zoom. Participants: Paul Hagstrom (Retrocomputing Roundtable & Drop /// Inches) Ron McAdams (Ron’s…

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

Jul 23, 2022 45m

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…

Open Apple #81: Remembering Tony Diaz

Nov 06, 2021 40m

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…

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

Jul 25, 2021 54m

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…

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

Aug 17, 2020 1h 26m

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…

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

Sep 12, 2018 1h 11m

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…

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

Jul 17, 2018 1h 47m

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…

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

Feb 19, 2018 1h 40m

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!).…

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

Dec 24, 2017 1h 59m

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…

Open Apple #74 (September 2017) – Megan Lemmert, Nox Archaist Kickstarter, Fake Quinn, and Softalk #5

Sep 19, 2017 2h 36m

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…

Open Apple #73 (August 2017) – Assembly Chicken PolyANTICast Roundtable

Aug 09, 2017 1h

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…

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

Jul 16, 2017 1h 27m

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…

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

May 31, 2017 1h 40m

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…

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

Apr 19, 2017 1h 44m

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…

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