The announcement will be posted to all major Apple II news sources online, including A2Central.com, the KFest mailing list, the Apple2List, and the Apple II forums on Delphi and Syndicomm Online. Watch for it!.

In a tremendous turn of events, Ryan Suenaga, editor-in-chief of Juiced.GS, announced today that Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computer, Inc. and inventor of the Apple II computer, will attend this year’s KansasFest event, and will give the keynote address. Space is limited, so be sure to sign up right away! If you register before May 15, you can attend for just $265 including room and board..

There is now an RSS feed of A2Central.com’s news available for those of you who aren’t Mac-heads or for some reason don’t like MacReporter. Feed this into your RSS type client program http://myrss.com/f/a/2/a2central8ye17w0.rss and enjoy!.

We have created a plugin for the popular Mac OS X “dockling” called MacReporter. MacReporter sits in the user’s dock and periodically checks their favorite web sites for new news, making them available in a popup menu for quick and easy access. Now you can be notified by your Macintosh as soon as news strikes! Download the plugin now, unstuff it, and copy it to your ~/Library/Application Support/MacReporter/Plugins folder!.

A.P.P.L.E. released the April issue of the popular online and disk-based magazine Call-A.P.P.L.E. today. Members of the group can download the magazine from the web site..

Today Syndicomm announced the immediate availability of The MPW IIGS Collection, a new CD-ROM compilation of all of the MPW IIGS programming languages and tools on one CD-ROM, including all the reference manuals in PDF format. MPW is a development environment that runs on the Macintosh; these tools let programmers write Apple IIGS software on the Mac.

The languages included are MPW IIGS C, MPW IIGS Pascal, the MPW IIGS Assembler, and MPW IIGS ORCA/C. Also includes the very latest versions of the header files and includes for all of those languages, the LinkIIGS linker, Rez compiler, and many other must-have utilities. Not included is the MPW environment itself, which is available as a free download from Apple’s web site..

The April issue of The Lamp!, the monthly compilation of news and information from the message boards in the Syndicomm Online Apple II forum and the Delphi A2 Forum, has been released..

PAUG will be meeting on Friday, April 19, at 7:00 PM, which is earlier than usual. The meeting will focus on setting up and installing system software as well as an IDE card and drives on a Power Mac 8600. The meeting will be held in Dave Ciotti’s basement, as usual..

In a new addition to the over 20 great prizes to be offered during various KansasFest 2003 events, Lyle Syverson (The Lamp!) and Tony Diaz (Computer Circulation Center) have graciously donated two fantastic new prizes for KFest 2003 attendees.

Lyle is putting up a ZipGSx accelerator card for the Apple IIGS — these rare cards have been out of production for several years and often go for several hundred dollars on eBay. The ZipGSx card will be given at random to a KFest 2003 attendee — to have a chance to win, all you have to do is register for KFest and show up!

Tony is offering a FocusDrive internal hard drive for the Apple IIe or Apple IIGS to the winner of the 2003 edition of Apple II Jeopardy.

These two very generous prizes are two more great reasons to attend what’s shaping up to be an excellent KansasFest event this summer!.

A newly-redesigned, easier-to-navigate KansasFest web site has ben unveiled. With more and more helpful information, and details on the upcoming KFest 2003, the site is a welcome and attractive update. Check it out!.