MORE LINKS WILL ADDED LATER Andre Lozano greeted early risers with the first session of the day. Andre was part of the group that restored disks from the collection of Chris Marker, a French film director, writer and early pioneer in multimedia computing and authoring. Chris was interested in how computers and humans interacted emotionally […]
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Michael Sternberg’s A2MP3-Xfer
We totally missed this during RetroChallenge Winter Warmup 2014. Luckily, we caught up with Michael Sternberg during KansasFest for a demo. Checkout his disk/image transfer program for the Apple II using Vince Briel’s A2MP3 adapter. Michael wrote A2MP3-Xfer has a proof of concept, so it’s rather limited (DOS 3.3, DSK images only). The source code […]
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KansasFest Day 2
I’ve heard that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. During KansasFest, that isn’t true — it’s lunch. So many people stay up late and then sleep in that lunch is kind of the new breakfast. Sadly, the food isn’t worth jumping out of bed for. Right off the bat, we had a […]
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KansasFest Day 1
For those willing to get up early and make the trek, breakfast happened. Others (imo) wisely chose to save their energy and sleep in. Today is the official first day of KansasFest 2014 and it’s going to be crammed full of activity. Our first event was the Garage Giveaway, sometimes referred to as ‘freebay’. Attendees […]
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KansasFest Day 0
Tuesday is move-in day, and it’s HOT here at Rockhurst University in Kansas City, MO. I arrived with James Littlejohn just before 11:00am and we were greeted by several other KansasFest attendees. We have a big turnout this year (lots of new people), about 70 Apple II enthusiasts have braved the elements, highways and crowded […]
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KansasFest News: All 1200+ Nibble Magazine programs available FREE
For nearly 4 years, Stavros Karatsoridis has been a very busy man, collecting, typing and debugging Nibble Magazine’s complete 12 1/2 year run of (1,200+) featured programs. What a remarkable achievement. Even better news, Mike Harvey (Nibble Magazine’s editor and publisher) has made all of the software from Nibble Magazine available for free! Mike’s announcement […]
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Vince Briel to host BIY workshop at KansasFest 2014
KansasFest attendees are in for a special treat this year. Vince Briel is attending and will once again host a ‘build it yourself’ workshop. You can sign up to assemble any of his famous kits, including the brand new Ohio Scientific Superboard III (another famous 6502-based micro). Complete details are on the Briel Computers web […]
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Dagen Brock releases Flapple Bird
Based on the maddening ‘Flappy Bird’ game, Dagen Brock has released a reproduction (or de-make) game for the Apple II dubbed ‘Flapple Bird’. Download 5.25? version Download 3.5? version