The KansasFest committee, having recently published an extensive video record of KansasFest 2010’s sessions, is now making the audio of some of those recordings available separately. The Echoes of KFest podcast debuted with Mark Simonsen’s keynote speech. Catch future episodes by subscribing to the podcast in iTunes.
October 2010
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Leadlight brings horror adventure to the Apple II
Australian Apple II enthusiast Wade Clarke has released Leadlight, a “survival horror” interactive fiction game (i.e. text adventure) for the Apple II. The premise of the game is that you are Belinda Nettle, a teenage student attending Linville Girls High School. While studying in the library one afternoon, Belinda falls asleep — but when she […]
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Some Assembly Required: Let’s Do It Again
Last time, we looked at how to increment and decrement the values in registers. The code sample wasn’t very interesting, but learning how to use INC and DEC is a key step in learning how to build code that repeats tasks. A loop is a code sequence that executes over and over again until some […]