KansasFest 2007 has been scheduled for July 17 through 22, 2007! Start saving your pennies today!

Version 3.0b3 of the Marinetti TCP/IP stack has been released. To install it, you need to first have an installation of Marinetti 3.0b1, then unpack the updated TCP/IP extension on top of that.

Eric “Sheppy” Shepherd has released the new Mac OS X version of Sweet16. While not as fully-featured as Bernie ][ The Rescue, this new Universal Binary emulator is a good step forward, running natively under Mac OS X.

Being checkin day, there wasn’t a lot of structure to Tuesday, other than the run out to Sweet Tomatoes for dinner. Yum. Still, there was a lot going on, as most attendees got moved into their rooms, with the exception of a few stragglers that haven’t arrived yet.This is my first year at KFest since the switch to Rockhurst University, and I have to say that for the most part, it’s a change for the better. I do miss the loop formation of the rooms, rather than the straight-shot line we have here, but otherwise everything seems nicer.

With one exception: at the moment, our network access is severely limited. Only ports 110 (POP), 80 (HTTP), and 443 (HTTPS) are open. Which means no iChat (although we did realize finally we can tell iChat to use port 80), no telnet, no FTP, etc. That’s really, really painful.

We’ll be talking to them this morning to see if they can ease up on us some. Here’s hoping…

An early peek at the sessions that will be presented at this year’s KansasFest has been released.Sessions include:

• The Development of DiskMaker 8
• The launch of Sweet16 for Mac OS X
• A presentation of the video Hackers: Wizards of the Computer Age
• A demo of Silvern Castle and other cool Apple II software
• Virtual Machines
• Getting Started with ORCA
• Intel Mac Tips and Tricks
• How to Build a RAID Array
• Adventure Games for the Apple II
• Skype
• A demo of the Semi-Virtual Diskette

There are other events and sessions, but this is the list so far. Sean Fahey will be providing our primary coverage again this year, and it looks like it’ll be a great KansasFest! Stay tuned — it all begins tomorrow!

Lyle Syverson has posted the July, 2006 issue of The Lamp!, the monthly distillation of the conversations on Syndicomm Online’s Apple II forum.

The Princeton Apple II Users Group meets tonight, Friday, July 14, at 7:30 PM in Dave Ciotti’s basement. The meeting will focus on maintenance issues for Mac OS X, but, as always, Apple II users are welcomed!

The second annual Vintage Computer Festival Midwest is this Saturday (July 15, 2006). This one-day event takes place from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.

Howard Katz has released the June, 2006 issue of Apple II News & Notes, the freely-redistributable newsletter covering the highlights of the Apple II world.

The Apple II Programming Contest, sponsored by the Apple Pugestsound Program Library Exchange begins today. If you plan to participate in the contest, be sure to visit the web page and enter — all participants must inform A.P.P.L.E. of their participation by September 30th. All entries must be submitted by January 1, 2007.There will be three judges: Eric Shepherd (Syndicomm), John Woodall (Vintage Micros), and a third special judge to be announced later.

All entries will be judged for originality, usefulness, completeness, and the overall “coolness” factor as determined by the judges.