This month on Open Apple, Mike and Ken chat with Ewen Wannop, British programmer of 16-bit telecommunications programs such as Spectrum, SAM, SNAP, and SAFE. The hosts share feedback galore from the last episode and contemplate how to record a live show. After catching up on some headlines from last month, we plow forward, celebrating the return of an interactive fiction publication and grumbling that even beginner IF can be as obscure as the medium is infamous for. The September 2012 issue of Juiced.GS just shipped, and with it, a look at what features a hypothetical System 7.0 operating system would include. Is it reasonable to consider that a software upgrade warrants a hardware bump, and what the next model of Apple II would look like? Photos of Steve Jobs in his natural habitat show an Apple stronghold as Spartan as ever, but you can decorate yours with Melissa Barron’s screenprints from Etsy. There’s a Disk II floppy drive on eBay that holds within it a working Mac mini — a cool hack, but is it worth a cool grand? We question the value of purchasing free software on eBay and marvel at everything from lighters to thumb drives in the shape of an Apple II.Click past the jump for links mentioned in this episode.Introduction (Retro Computing Roundtable podcastActiveGSKen Gagne’s @party presentation via SceneSatBostonFIG covered at ComputerworldIndie Game: The MovieEcstasy of Order: The Tetris MastersGoing Cardboard: A Board Game DocumentaryGet LampUser Login (Ewen Wannop’s homepageGeoff Weiss’s Spectrum Internet SuiteII News (William F. Luebbert’s What’s Where in the Apple, published by Robert TrippJACE (Java apple computer emulator) out of betaRich Dreher’s CFFA3000 cardEdge Online’s interview with Trip Hawkins of Electronic Arts & 3DOVintage Computer Festival MidwestVCF Southeast 1.0David Greelish’s The Complete Historically BrewedChristmas Bytes film on KickstarterSociety for the Promotion of Adventure Games (SPAG) newszine returnsThe 18th Annual Interactive Fiction CompetitionAndrew Plotkin’s The DreamholdMille BornesJuiced.GS Volume 17, Issue 3Steve Weyhrich’s alternate Apple timelineRetro Gamer Issue #107Stanford’s Silicon GenesisRetronaut’s Steve Jobs photos, by Norman SeeffMelissa Barron’s Etsy shopRegretsyA Google Street View of KansasFest 1999Richard Garriott’s Man on a MissionCheckpoint’s Graham Stark on Lady BritishApple Pickings (Charles Mangin’s Mac Mini in Disk II enclosure (item has been relisted)Prototype RAMWORKS VGA interface for Apple IIe Applied EngineeringPrototype Apple IIc VGA adapterADTPro with adapters — and David Schmidt’s responseApple II ProDOS and GS/OSFree, legal downloads of Apple II system software from SyndicommApple II-shaped lighterApple II-shaped USB thumb drive w/videoStickers!More stickers!The post Open Apple #20 (Oct 2012): Ewen Wannop, Spectrum, the next Apple II, and Mac Mini first appeared on Open Apple.