The Syndicomm online store now offers Ultimate UpTime, a complete collection of all four years of UpTime magazine-on-disk for the Apple II on one CD-ROM. The collection costs $25..

A2-ROMulan, a fascinating collection of often strange Apple II software and source code, and DV-ROMulan A2, a collection of Apple II related video on a DVD video disc, are now available for purchase for $30 each from Syndicomm’s online store..

Syndicomm is now offering a special $15 upgrade to current owners of Totally SheppyWare, the complete collection of Eric Shepherd’s software. The price includes a new CD-ROM and printed book, and is only available to people that bought the package directly from Shepherd or from Syndicomm..

Syndicomm’s online store now (at last) includes their popular ImageMaker utility for the Apple IIgs for sale for just $5.00. It is available as both a download and on diskette; if you purchase the disk version, you pay added shipping charges..

Spectrum Internet Suite 1.2, which adds a ton of new features, will be released on Saturday. New features include a new and improved HTTP protocol engine, improved performance, bookmark importing, email attachment support, and direct Marinetti support. In addition, SIS 1.2 is open source, so all Apple II programmers will be able to contribute to the project..

Jay Edwards demonstrated Rogher Johnstone’s new adapter cable that allows you to plug a PS/2 mouse into an AppleMouse port, such as the one on the AppleMouse II controller card, the Apple IIc, or the very earliest Macintosh computers. The adapter will be available soon for $22 plus $5 shipping..

Andrew Roughan and Richard Bennett-Forrest of the Marinetti Open Source Project announced today the release of Marinetti 3.0b1, an open beta of the TCP/IP stack for the Apple IIGS.Documentation has been revised, header files updated, a new link layer format introduced, the MacIP link layer is included, the PPP and PPP Scripted link layers now support CHAP. Additionally, several bugs have been fixed.

A new CD-ROM including all the materials needed to build and install Marinetti 3.0b1 is available from Andrew at KFest, and will be sold by Syndicomm thereafter. The CD will also include Geoff Weiss’s gwftp and ping, plus the Crypto and Hash tool sets.

The long-awaited Casper web server program for the Apple IIGS is included with Marinetti 3.0b1.

Tonight’s KFest celebrity roast (dis)honored Geoff Weiss. The presentation was fantastic, with presentations by Max Jones and Cindy adams, Richard Bennett-Forrest, Ryan Suenaga, and Eric Shepherd. Ken Gagne served as emcee for the third year in a row and did a fabulous job.Eric Shepherd has made his Star Wars-themed video available for download in a small 7 MB file (the high-resolution version presented at the roast was a whopping 285 MB). You can download the video right here at A2Central.com..

Tuesday’s keynote address by Steve Wozniak was a rousing success. He spent two hours telling fun and fascinating stories about the early days of Apple, his childhood, his infamous pranks, and much more. Woz also spent hours chatting with us and was a great deal of fun to hang out with. He also signed many, many autographs on everything from name tags to T-shirts to books to computers.

We’d like to thank Woz for coming to KFest this year, and we hope to see him again next year..

Andy McFadden has released CiderPress 1.2.2, the incredible Apple II file and disk archive utility for Windows. The new version supports converting AppleWorks 3.0 spreadsheets into comma-separated-value files, which can be read by most spreadsheets. With this feature added, CiderPress now supports all AppleWorks document types.

The new version also adds support for converting MacPaint images. Additionally, you can specify file extensions that will be viewed in an external program; for example, if you specify .GIF and .JPG, CiderPress will now display these files using whatever program Windows would normally display them in. This lets you view files without manually extracting them first.

Finally, CP/M disk image support has been improved, with better determination of file lengths and support for the read-only flag. Sparse files are also now supported properly..