Famicom Dojo Podcast: Apples to Apples

by Sean "TheOrange" Corse, filed in Famicom Dojo Podcast, Podcasts on Oct.22, 2011

The recent passing of Steve Jobs has left us to reflect on how he and his business ventures have affected our lives and the rest of the world. For us retro gamers (at least our age), that means looking back on the Apple ][, Apple //e, and that line of PCs that literally made “computer” a household name. Sean and Vinnk recall a time when “Apple” was still synonymous with “gaming” — before the iPhone, before the Macintosh, and (in some cases) before Nintendo. Also, a history of Apple’s rise to dominance, Steve Jobs’ gig at Atari, and why the original iPod came with free copies of Breakout.

Direct Link: Famicom Dojo Podcast 23: Apples to Apples

Play Apple games like it’s 1983! Check out our show notes for links to Virtual Apple 2, and other sites:
http://famicomdojo.tv/podcast/23

Get a sweet discount on the Famicom Dojo Season 1 DVD if you use promo code “NOSHAME”:
http://famicomdojo.tv/store/fdojos1.php

Also check out the Powet Alphabet article A is for Apple ][!

Tags: Apple, Bill Gates, Choplifter, Frogger, Ghostbusters, Jumpman, Lisa, Macintosh, Pippin, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak

Crade Lit

It’s interesting to see how different is the life and death of Dennis Ritchie, who also unfortunately passed very close to the same time as Steve Job’s.� I can’t imagine what today would look like without Ritchie’s contributions,�one could argue they are as important in shaping the present as Jobs’, but his passing received little press.� He was much more of a hero of mine,�you would think it would be depressing that he seems so�unappreciated but instead it just makes his�work even more admirable to me.� The C programming language and Unix are not “known” for gaming, but I spent much of my youth playing�unix based MUDS�and�I’ll be breaking out nethack and zork to honor Unix retro-gaming 🙂

http://www.famicomdojo.tv/ Sean “TheOrange” Corse

C is the basis for just about every language we use today (even Visual Basic has been tacking closer to it ever since .NET came out), so that’s something!

Anonymous

I’ll have you know that us Linux nerds still use our Apple IIe’s as VT220 terminals.
Anonymous

This needs to be shared in this thread. �http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA-UqKAv1rE

Anonymous

Oh man, I’d never seen the video for that before. �Makes a beautiful song even better.

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