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Welcome to Metal Video RPG Lock , the annual “megapodcast” from KansasFest 2026. Participants: Ken Gagne ( Open Apple & Transporter Lock ) Ron McAdams ( Ron’s Computer Videos , Retro Repair Roundup & Olde...
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Open Apple
Hosted by Em Maginnis & Quinn Dunki · technology · EN-US
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An Apple II Podcast
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Who hosts Open Apple?
Open Apple is hosted by Em Maginnis & Quinn Dunki. The show has published 100 episodes to date.
What has Open Apple covered recently?
Recent episodes include "Open Apple #90 (August 2026): KansasFest 2026 Megapodcast" (5 August 2026, 86 minutes), "Open Apple #89 (August 2025): INIT HELLO Megapodcast" (16 August 2025, 73 minutes), and "Open Apple #88 (July 2025): KansasFest 2025 Megapodcast" (25 July 2025, 69 minutes).
How often does Open Apple publish?
Open Apple publishes roughly irregularly, with episodes averaging 84 minutes across 100 episodes.
How hard is it to get booked on Open Apple?
Booking probability for Open Apple is 24%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Open Apple requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Open Apple's contact route on record: verified email.
About the host
Em Maginnis & Quinn Dunki hosts Open Apple, a technology podcast with 100 episodes published.
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Recent episodes
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- Aug 16, 20251h 13mS0
<p>Welcome to the first INIT HELLO Megapodcast! INIT HELLO is an Apple II conference that debuted last month at the System Source Computer Museum in Hunt Valley, Maryland. A week later, on August 2, six podcaster...
- Jul 25, 20251h 9mS0
<p>Welcome to Ron’s Apple Transporter Roundtable, the annual “megapodcast” from KansasFest 2025.</p> <p>Participants:</p> Ken Gagne (Open Apple & Transporter Lock) Ron McAdams (Ron’s Computer Videos & Retro Repair...
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Open Apple #87: The 2025 Episode
Apr 13, 20251h 19mS0<p>Ken, Em & Quinn reunite to discuss KansasFest & INIT HELLO, ImageWriter printers, Steve Jobs movies, web-based Apple II emulation, and games we regret buying.</p> <p>Links mentioned in this episode:</p> <h2 >Intro...
- Apr 1, 20252h 2mS0
<p>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.</p>The post Open Apple #86 (July 2018): John Keoni...
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- Feb 9, 202547 minS0
<p>On Saturday, September 28, 2024, the Portland Retro Gaming Expo hosted this panel:</p> <h2 >The Apple II Origins of Today’s Games</h2> <p>The Apple II is known for its impact on the workplace (VisiCalc) and education...
- Aug 21, 20241h 8mS0
<p>Welcome to Ron’s Metal Roundtable Apple Assembly Lock, the annual “megapodcast” from KansasFest 2024, hosted IRL and on StreamYard.</p> <p>Participants:</p> Ken Gagne (Open Apple, Polygamer & Transporter Lock) Kate...
- Aug 8, 20231h 37mS0
<p>Welcome to the annual “megapodcast” from KansasFest 2023, hosted IRL and on Zoom.</p> <p>Participants:</p> Paul Hagstrom (Retrocomputing Roundtable & Drop /// Inches) Ron McAdams (Ron’s Computer Videos) Kate...
- Jul 23, 202246 minS0
<p>Welcome to Open Retro Chicken Drop Retro Adventure Table Lines Roundup, the annual “megapodcast” from KansasFest, hosted IRL and on Zoom.</p> <p>Participants:</p> Ken Gagne (Open Apple, Polygamer & Transporter Lock)...
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Open Apple #81: Remembering Tony Diaz
Nov 6, 202141 minS0<p>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 his...
- Jul 25, 202154 minS0
<p>Welcome to Poly Retro Assembly Cast Chicken Missile Drop Grue Museum, the annual “megapodcast” from KansasFest, hosted again via Zoom.</p> <p>Participants:</p> Charles Mangin (Chicken Missile)Carrington Vanston...
- Aug 17, 20201h 27mS0
<p>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 Apple‘s audio...
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Open Apple #78 (September 2018) – Retro Antic Assembly Chicken Missile Talks Our Way Out Of It
Sep 12, 20181h 12mS0<p>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 behind-the-scenes peek at...
- Jul 17, 20181h 48mS0
<p>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 every Infocom game...
- Feb 19, 20181h 41mS0
<p>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!). Juiced.GS is in...
- Dec 24, 20172 hourS0
<p>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 talk about their...
- Sep 19, 20172h 37mS0
<p>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 new Nox Archaist...
- Aug 9, 20171h 1mS0
<p>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 big silly show...
- Jul 16, 20171h 27mS0
<p>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 experiences with the...
- May 31, 20171h 40mS0
<p>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 wished he had made...
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Tony Diaz
Program Coordinator for the Amarillo College Truck Driving Academy, After School Matters
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John Leake
Co Author of Vaccines: Mythology, Ideology, and Reality, McCullough Foundation
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Jason Scott
Vice-Chair, Diversity Equity & Inclusion Committee, Progressive Crop Consultant
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Craig Peterson
Principal, Director of Design, and Design Leader, America’s Leading Cybersecurity Coach
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