According to the KansasFest committee, they have received the contract from Avila University, and pricing will be finalized once they have obtained pricing for the needed insurance. Registration will open as soon as that’s happened..

KEGS, the cross-platform Apple IIGS emulator, received several bug fixes in the new 0.85 release.Changes in KEGS v0.85 since v0.84 (01/09/04)

• Fixed some minor 65816 bank-crossing bugs
  
• Added -noignhalt to allow user to stop on code red halts
  
• Fixed Win32 capslock problem as reported by Edward Moore
  
• Fixed DreamVoir app on the sample image (it was corrupt).

Axel Bauer has released version 0.8b of OSXII, an Apple II emulator for Mac OS X. The new version has been recompiled for Mac OS X 10.3 Panther and fixed a sound bug that occurred when using the previous version on that version of Mac OS X.OSXII emulates an Apple ][+ or Apple //e computer and has a really nice user interface. It’s based on the YAE emulation core, but has a beautiful Mac OS X “Cocoa” user interface. If you use Mac OS X, you should give it a try..

AppleLinc will hold meetings on Friday, January 9 at 7 p.m. and Saturday, January 10 at 9 a.m. Both meetings take place at the Faith Orthodox Presbyterian Church, 5640 Salt Valley View Street (North Side of Old Cheney at about 12th Street) in Lincoln, Nebraska. New folks are always welcome..

The Aurora, Illinois, AAAC will meet on January 8th at 7:00 PM. The program Will Writer will be demonstrated, and there will be a discussion of producing legal documents using the Apple II. The meeting will be held, as usual, in the basement community room at 900 North Lake Street (Route 31) in Aurora..

Want to run an Apple II BBS on your PC? Terry Olson is running Metal BBS on the KEGS emulator. He can talk to the BBS through the serial port (making it usable through telnet) and expects that the use of an external modem should make it a dial-up BBS. He also has authored a Windows program called BBS Gateway that allows an Apple II BBS to be accessible via telnet..

Two chapters of Roy Allan’s “A History of the Personal Computer” cover Apple Computer in the 1970s and 1980s. An online version of the book is freely downloadable..