The March 2012 issue of Juiced.GS is now available!

Volume 17, Issue 1
This issue features interviews with Jason Scott, David Greelish, Andrew Plotkin, Stephen Emond, Vince Briel, and others for whom crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter offer great potential for bringing retrocomputing projects to life. Also included are reviews of the book The Complete Historically Brewed and 8 Bit Weapon's DMS Drummer software; an interview with AppleWorks legend Randy Brandt; the first in a three-part series on programming in Logo; and much, much more!

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March 30, 2012 · Comments Off

Volume 17, Issue 1 Page: 5-7
Type: Apple Core
Author: Ken Gagne
Headline: Getting a Kickstart
Sub-headline: Crowdfunding in the retrocomputing community
Synopsis: Online crowdfunding platforms like Kickstarter and RocketHub are making Apple II projects more possible than ever.

Page: 3-4
Type: Cover ][ Cover
Author: Andy Molloy
Headline:
Sub-headline:
Synopsis: David Greelish brings a classic magazine back into print with the paperback collection, The Complete Historically Brewed.

Page: 18-19
Type: DumplinGS
Author: Ken Gagne
Headline: Return to Core
Sub-headline: Programmers, historians revisit their roots
Synopsis: KansasFest registration opens; Kelvin Sherlock releases Shrink-Fit X; Brutal Deluxe releases Fishhead; Ivan Drucker releases Slammer 1.1.1; Kim Howe reclassifies shareware as freeware; Steve Weyhrich begins writing an Apple II history book; David Greelish and Blake Patterson release Not Another Apple Podcast; Jordan Mechner revisits Karateka.

Page: 20
Type: Advertisement
Author: KansasFest
Headline:
Sub-headline:
Synopsis:

Page: 10-13,16
Type: MusinGS
Author: Mike Maginnis
Headline: Beagle Bros Brandt
Sub-headline: An AppleWorks guru looks back
Synopsis: An interview with Brandy Brandt, alumnus of Beagle Bros, Quality Computers, and JEM Software.

Page: 2
Type: My Home Page
Author: Ken Gagne
Headline: Commitment to the Canvas
Sub-headline:
Synopsis: The Apple II has been a sandbox environment in which to learn professional life skills.

Page: 14-16
Type: Programming
Author: Peter Neubauer
Headline: Learning Logo
Sub-headline: Part I: More than a turtle
Synopsis: Logo is a valuable tool for learning programming, whatever your skill level.

Page: 19
Type: Random Numbers
Author: Eric Shepherd
Headline: OMG Gadgets
Sub-headline:
Synopsis: It doesn't matter what the latest gadget is, Sheppy wants it.

Page: 8-9
Type: Review
Author: Ivan Drucker
Headline: A Drummer in Your Apple II
Sub-headline:
Synopsis: A review of 8 Bit Weapon and Michael J Mahon's DMS Drummer software.

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Cover ][ Cover

The Complete Historically Brewed
David Greelish's paperback reprint of his complete newsletter.

Apple Core

Kickstarter
The leading crowdfunding platform for USA artists.

RocketHub
An online crowdfunding platform for creative projects.

The Jason Scott Sabbatical
Jason Scott's first Kickstarter project, which funded the completion of the Get Lamp documentary.

The Jason Scott Documentary Three Pack
A second campaign to fund the simultaneous filming of three documentaries.

Bring a great computer history zine back to a new audience!
David Greelish's Kickstarter to fund The Complete Historically Brewed.

Double Fine Adventure
Tim Schafer's $3.3-million fundraiser for an original adventure game.

Wasteland 2
Brian Fargo's Kickstarter campaign for a sequel to the Apple II RPG Wasteland.

Ultima – The Ultimate Collector's Guide
Stephen Emond's RocketHub project for an Ultima RPG companion book.

The Disko Apocalypse Tour!
8 Bit Weapon's 2010 chiptune tour.

Hadean Lands: Interactive Fiction for the iPhone
Andrew Plotkin's project to develop text adventures for iOS devices.

CFFA3000
Rich Dreher's CompactFlash For Apple, funded without crowdfunding.

Briel Computers
Vince Briel's full-time business, ripe for a Kickstarter.

Other crowdfunding sites
For musicians, Australians, and others.

Review

Apple II DMS Drummer Software
Chiptune music utility, from 8 Bit Weapon and Michael J. Mahon.

MusinGS

Randy Brandt
AppleWorks, Quality Computers, and Beagle Bros veteran.

Beagle Bros Software Repository
An archive of Beagle Bros software, now available for download as freeware.

Programming in Logo

UCBLogo
The University of Berkeley Logo for many platforms.

3D Logo
By The ByteWorks and now sold by Syndicomm.

DumplinGS

KansasFest
Annual Apple II convention in Kansas City, Missouri.

Shrink-Fit X
Kelvin Sherlock's ShrinkIt decompressor for Mac OS X.

Fishhead
Brutal Deluxe's file copying utility for GS/OS.

Slammer
Ivan Drucker's utility for using assembly routines from Applesoft BASIC.

Kim Howe
Freeware versions of Telnet NDA, Shipwrecked!, Yahtzee NDA, and Arachnid.

Apple II History
Steve Weyhrich's history of the Apple II, coming soon in book format.

Not Another Apple Podcast?!
David Greelish and Blake Patterson's podcast about Apple retail.

Jordan Mechner
Creator of Prince of Persia announces a reboot of its predecessor, Karateka.

Storytime with Jordan Mechner
Keynote speech at PAX East 2012, a gaming convention held April 6–8 in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Juiced.GS publisher Gamebits is pleased to announce that it will be attending the Vintage Computer Festival East 7.0 in Wall Township, New Jersey, USA, this Saturday, May 14, 2011. Both editor-in-chief Ken Gagne and associate editor Andy Molloy will be present, with the former representing Juiced.GS and the latter exhibiting an Atari 1040ST.


This weekend will be Gamebits' first time attending the Vintage Computer Festival since VCF East 2.0 in 2004. Products available for purchase by VCF attendees will include 2011 subscriptions, the 2010 volume, the Friends for Life CD, all at discounted rates. Interested parties can also pick up a free sample issue, as well as flyers for the KansasFest convention and the Open Apple podcast.
VCF East 2.0

Come to the vintage computing market and peruse our wares!
Photo by Brendon Chetwynd.


Any and all retrocomputing enthusiasts are invited to attend VCF East 7.0. Registration occurs at the door and costs $10 per day or $15 for the entire weekend.

See you there!

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As announced yesterday, the first issue of the sixteenth volume of Juiced.GS is now arriving in all subscriber's mailboxes, having been mailed four days ago.

The most striking feature about this issue is the full-color cover. The past year has been good to Juiced.GS, and we've reinvested that fortune back into our print publication. The cover sports artwork by artist and Leadlight game designer Wade Clarke, who not only gave Gamebits permission to reprint his piece but who also did some custom revision for our purposes. The product of his effort also marks the first Juiced.GS cover to feature artwork, instead of a photograph or screenshot.

The story that goes with this cover is Ivan Drucker's review of Leadlight, framed in the larger context of the potential and struggles faced by the interactive fiction genre. This in-depth piece represents Juiced.GS's first Apple Core feature.

Another first is Martin Haye's introduction to the Apple II. Our retrocomputing community includes many enthusiasts who are dusting off their Apple II for the first time in decades, or even acquiring their first Apple II machine from eBay. Martin welcomes those new to the hobby or interested in joining by looking at likely places to get Apple II hardware and software, kicking off a three-piece series that will review everything one needs to know to get an Apple II up and running.

By contrast, this issue also includes the last installment in another series, that being what the Juiced.GS staff have familiarly been referring to as "the file transfer series". Directed by Ewen Wannop, this five-part series has featured contributions from almost every one of our staff writers, describing ways to exchange files between an Apple II and a Mac, Windows, or UNIX machine, and what to do with the files once they're there. This series has been literally years in the making; now that it's done, we're reviewing all the changes that have occurred in retrocomputing technology since we first outlined the series, so that we can start revising it for its next iteration.

Finally, occasional contributor Peter Neubauer returns to our pages with an exclusive interview with Alan Floeter, creator of Macrosoft and The Assembler. Look for exclusive bonus content from this profile tomorrow on the Juiced.GS blog.

My Home Page, DumplinGS, Random Numbers, and a full-page, full-color advertisement for KansasFest round out this issue's twenty pages. These stories are indexed in our exhaustive online database and this issue's own page, with additional resources listed in the online issue links.

With this issue under our belt, we're hard at work on the next. Be sure to get yours by subscribing today!

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