A2Unplugged

Show 0031: 2008 Year End Review/2009 Year Beginning Preview

a2unplugged — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 07:22:10 +0000

Welcome to Show 0031! Our annual year in review/new year preview edition features Andy Molloy and Ken Gagne of Juiced.GS magazine, Sean Fahey of A2Central.com, Tony Diaz of Apple2.org, Apple2.info, 16Sector.com, and Eric Shepherd of Syndicomm. Our topics this episode include a review of KansasFest 2008 and preview of KansasFest 2009. We look at new hardware including James Littlejohn’s LittlePower, AppleLogic’s work, and 16Sector’s revived products. Ken’s Apple II hardware makes a comeback and we all admire the winner of the eBay auction for a new in box IIc. While there’s less development in software, Kelvin Sherlock’s ProFUSE and Java based IIgs assembler are noteworthy. Tony brings back Lost Classics with a huge name, ProTERM 3.1, and we look at emulators like Virtual II, Sweet16, AppleWin, and KEGS, as well as new ones for the Nintendo Wii and DS. A coffee table book from What is the Apple IIgs is discussed. Finally, our picks and plugs include KansasFest, ProTERM 3.1, Virtual Apple, ADTPro, Juiced.GS, the Focus card, the Sirius card, AppleLogic.org, WordPress, 16Sector, Bit Stampede, and the entire Apple II community.

Show 0030: Catching Up with Burger Becky Heineman

a2unplugged — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 06:38:18 +0000

Welcome to Show 0030! I’ve had all kinds of issues getting this show out, and if you’re interested you can read my personal blog (if you’re not, ignore this!). Email this episode from Charlie, Antoine, and Rob (thanks, gang!). A new Apple II blog has surfaced, and where in the world is Carrington Vanston (to be fair, I’m just as tardy as the Big, Bad, Bald Canadian)? In this episode, the most request interview subject in the history of Apple II podcastion: Burger ~~Bill~~ Becky Heineman!

Equipment Delays Plague A2Unplugged

a2unplugged — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 05:40:12 +0000

I’m better enough to record, but I discovered that during what I’m calling “the truck fiasco”, my Logitech Clearchat Pro headset was stolen. I have to find my backup headset to record. Sorry for the (additional) delay.

A2Unplugged Delayed Due to Illness and… Other Stuff

a2unplugged — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 19:34:02 +0000

I have an interview recorded, but I’m sick (read coughing and sneezing) and dealing with some… other stuff right now. I was also supposed to send the MacBook I’m using as the A2Unplugged recording machine in for a screen repair, but I’m waiting until both the recording is done and the… other stuff is paid for.

Back as soon as I can stop hacking!

Show 0029: Sweet 16 2.0 Public Beta

a2unplugged — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 05:45:55 +0000

Welcome to Show 0029! Overlapping audio fixed (I hate Audacity some days). Welcome to our post Labor Day edition! Our voicemail hotline is ~~still down~~ back up thanks to Sprint (but no thanks to AT&T). Much mahalo to Wayne and Mark with donations this episode; we couldn’t do A2Unplugged without help from our listeners! We receive email from Rob and Cindy for this show–yes, show notes are an issue. We cover the sad news that A.P.P.L.E. legend Val Golding passed away in July. Your host finally gets a program out the door–Bitly CDA is released!

Our main topic this episode: Sweet16 2.0b178 public beta 2! And one last bit of a rant on SHOUTING in IRC at people who are trying to help you… see you all in awhile!

Show 0028: KansasFest 2008 Wrap Up

a2unplugged — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 06:23:04 +0000

Welcome to Show 0028! Voicemail is down! Email from John this episode–we hope you can come to KansasFest too and thanks for the kind words. Our main topic–KansasFest 2008 coverage: on Tuesday after Piekop Endropov service we hit Sweet Tomatoes, hang out, and write tons of code.

Wednesday’s agenda includes HackFest opening (thanks to Ken Gagne of Juiced.GS, Eric “Sheppy” Shepherd of Syndicomm, and Dr. Steven Weyhrich of Apple2History.org for judging!), KFest Kookout (Kirk Mitchell, King of the Kooks), registration (nice ~~purple~~ green shirts, Ken), Lane Roath’s awesome keynote harking back to his Softdisk days, Rob Walch of Today in iPhone’s follow up on last year’s session, dinner, and the PizzaFest reception courtesy of Syndicomm and Juiced.GS (mahalo to Sheppy and Ken!), as well as the usual hanging out.

Thursday’s deal–Steve W. (not -that- Steve W) digitizes videos and photos, our other doc, Stavros, gives a tutorial on the Apple II Monitor, your A2Unplugged host runs a session on blogging for (lots of) fun and (very little) profit (best way to make a small fortune blogging is to start off with a large fortune!)–some video of me and other sessions are on YouTube–lunch, Bruce Baker taking us through Softdisk’s library of games, James Littlejohn of 8 Bit System on CAD for Apple II hardware, Sheppy demos Sweet16 and discusses developing Apple II software using Sweet16 (lots of new features!), followed by War Games 25th Anniversary showing–when the projector wasn’t crashing–or working on HackFest projects!

Friday featured Margaret Anderson on HyperCard IIgs (see her interactive fiction article in Volume 11, Issue 4 of Juiced.GS!), Geoff Weiss on ZFS (no monkeying around with this ape free file system!), Tony Diaz on 16 Sector (hardware available again–Sirius RAM cards and Focus drive controllers), lunch, more digitizing with Dr. Steve (audio this time), Tony and your host on Internet Anywhere (There’s Cell Phone Coverage) using a (possibly absolutely awful) phone, USB modem, and maybe a Cradlepoint router, and Sheppy programming Shepfari for the iPhone in less than 1/2 hour and a page worth of code. Friday night brings us the banquet and door prizes followed by an Apple Store run (Leawood store rocks! T shirts for KFest attendees!), Krispy KremeFest, and Independence Day RiffTrax style.

Saturday features announcements and demos from me, 8 Bit System and Reactive Micro (Little Control Panel, Double Seven, Little Expander Plus), Geoff Weiss (Hash Toolset update and MegaMemory memory tester), Ken Gagne and Russ Nielson reclassify Esprit de Apple Corps as freeware and Ken announces that Juiced.GS will continue on, Ken demos FaceBook including the Apple II Enthusiast group, your host wins HackFest with the Bitly CDA (barely) over Margaret’s Game Menu in HyperCard, we eat yet again, attend the vendor fair, head off to K.C. Masterpiece (Free WiFi!–well, from McDonald’s).

Finally, Sunday (or was it still Saturday–is it the next day if you don’t sleep?) was departure day; hope we can see you all at KansasFest in 2009 (no dates yet, but hopefully Rockhurst University will work things out with the committee soon). And much mahalo to Kirk for not only rooming with me for nine freaking long years but for finding my lost key!

KansasFest 2008 Wrap Up Show to be recorded this week

a2unplugged — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 06:14:50 +0000

Maybe tomorrow. Maybe Wednesday. Not likely Tuesday.

KansasFest Eve… For Real

a2unplugged — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:52:32 +0000

..and no podcast ::sigh::. I’m headed to Honolulu International Airport within the hour; will be podcasting from somewhere, soon, like before Friday.

KansasFest Eve^2

a2unplugged — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 01:05:42 +0000

I am leaving for Kansas City on Monday night, so I’m going to give it the best shot I have to put out a show before I leave. I’m still working on getting my programming project done before I leave (I’m like 95% there!) so that’s a priority but I’ll see what I can do… here’s hoping!

Show 0027: Marinetti Programming Primer

a2unplugged — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 05:07:08 +0000

Welcome to Show 0027! Sorry for the delay; prepping for KansasFest 2008. This time around, we got a donation from Doug–thanks! We also got another piece of email from Rob–Rob says thanks for the new episodes and the attempt to stay on a regular schedule (thanks for the kind words!). Some news: A2Central.com has returned from its technical issues–one change: to chat, use irc.a2central.com, not the old server address of plain ole’ a2central.com; A2Central.com is now also @a2central on Twitter (and if you care, I’m @rsuenaga on Twitter). What’s Twitter? Hard to explain, but you may find out about it on the Apple II in about a month! Onto our main topic: programming for Marinetti. See you all later!

No A2Unplugged This Week

a2unplugged — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 22:24:18 +0000

Tons going on and trying to get my project ready for KansasFest 2008. We hope to return next week.

Show 0026: Rez, Rez, Rez

a2unplugged — Tue, 27 May 2008 07:09:42 +0000

Welcome to Show 0026! Our Memorial Day episode. Your host will be showing up for KansasFest 2008 and he plans on not sucking again this year. Our topic this week is Rez, Apple’s resource compiler, the way you create resources on your Apple IIgs. It’s a programming language that’s somewhat like C (I still hate C!). Lesson three of Toolbox Programming in Pascal is all about Rez. Go ahead and keep reusing whatever Rez code you come up with in your new projects; it’ll save you a ton of time! We’ll be back in a bit.

Show 0025: What’s a Resource?

a2unplugged — Tue, 20 May 2008 06:07:47 +0000

Welcome to Show 0025! Not the best quality, but I’m out of practice. We are -way- overdue this episode! The iBook is dead; long live the MacBook! Mahalo to donations by Gene and John! KansasFest 2008 is coming over at Rockhurst University! Your host ~~may not be able to show up for the first time in over a decade~~will be there again, barely. Our main topic: what is a resource? It’s pretty constrained to the IIgs and classic (not modern) Macintosh machines. These computers have files with two parts: a data fork and a resource fork. Eight bit IIs need not apply! Don’t use an eight bit program for file maintenance on a IIgs. You can check out various Apple IIgs resource editors (Foundation, Design Master, or Genesys, which are not in the same league as ResEdit on the Mac) or even Shadowrite or Hermes to do a little snooping around. See you all in awhile!

A2Unplugged to Return From Hiatus Soon

a2unplugged — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 06:19:21 +0000

Sorry about the delays again; this time after a few weeks of being on call, I had a major hardware failure. New MacBook is on the way, but until then I’m rather limited in what I can do. However, I hope that all changes within the next week.

No A2Unplugged This Week

a2unplugged — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 06:47:15 +0000

Sorry, I’m on call this week and working nine straight days starting today. Was hoping to get one squeezed in tonight but that just didn’t happen… will be back hopefully next Wednesday!

Show 0024: Toolbox Programming in Pascal

a2unplugged — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 07:01:49 +0000

Welcome to Show 0024! This time coming to you from Coffee Talk in Kaimuki. Sorry about the unexpected hiatus, but I had lots of hardware issues this past month. In the meantime, Carrington Vanston and 1MHz! return from hiatus before we do. And Tony Diaz’s 16 Sector–well, what’s the mystery? In email, Fred Sanford recommends CiderPress and George has WordPress questions (even though he probably doesn’t know those are Wordpress questions). Blatant Plug: WordPress also powers Uncommon-Cents.net and the neglected RyansAppleSoftware.com! KansasFest approaches. The head of the committee says registration might be open by the end of March? Onto our main topic: Toolbox Programming in Pascal. This book assumes you know Pascal–if you don’t, try Learn to Program in Pascal (and the same for C). Think about your programming references; you’ll need a bunch! We’ll be back!

A2Unplugged About To Return from Hiatus

a2unplugged — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 06:59:58 +0000

If I’m lucky (which I haven’t been for a long time now), the RAM module for my iBook comes back before Sunday and a new A2Unplugged gets recorded this weekend. That was the warranty return from someplace warm…

A2Unplugged on Hiatus

a2unplugged — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:38:55 +0000

Unexpectedly, A2Unplugged is on hiatus due to equipment issues. Sorry… at least a week or two before I can get everything fixed.

Show 0023: A IIgs Toolbox Programming Primer

a2unplugged — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 07:51:07 +0000

Welcome to Show 0023! This episode we have listener email from Rob (twice) and Alaine (once), the latter requesting we track down Mike Westerfield of Byteworks for an interview. We also have the return of voicemail from Rocky, this time wanting to know more about Tower of Myraglen and the AppleIIGo Java based IIe emulator. We move on to our main topic of the episode: a Toolbox programming primer: you’ll want Opus ][ (and its included Programmer’s Reference to System 6.0 and 6.0.1) as well as Toolbox Reference Volumes 1, 2, and 3 and a hexadecimal calculator to get cracking on this one. Back soon!

No A2Unplugged this Week

a2unplugged — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 05:19:48 +0000

Sorry, just too busy right now… we hope to return next week!