Registration for KansasFest 2005 opened last night with the posting of the downloadable registration form on the KansasFest web site. Visit the site’s Register section for details on how to sign up for this annual Apple II conference and all-around-good-time..

Lyle Syverson has released the March 2005 issue of The Lamp!, the monthly overview of the goings-on in the Apple II forum on Syndicomm Online.

Among the many tidbits of information is talk about Apple II podcasting, Silver Platter (the new IIGS file server), Marinetti, the next release of Silvern Castle, Jef Raskin, and even an 8-bit version of DiskMaker!.

Syndicomm announced tonight that it has finished mailing Juiced.GS, volume 10, issue 1 to all subscribers. The issue features a 10-year retrospective of Juiced.GS, a look at the first “killer app”, VisiCalc, and much more! For a complete list of the contents, visit the Juiced.GS web site..

The Princeton, New Jersey, Apple Users Group is scheduled to meet on Friday, March 11, at 7:30 in Dave Ciotti’s basement. Apple II users are welcome..

Rich Dreher has identified a timing issue with the version 1.3 CPLD that ships with his popular CFFA compact flash 8-bit card. A new version will fix the problems that have prevented larger compact flash cards from working. He provides a couple of options for existing card owners to receive an updated v1.4 chip..

Gerard Putter has released Virtual ][ 3.4.1, which fixes a bug that could cause booting CP/M to fail during boot.Virtual ][ is an impressive 8-bit Apple II emulator that lets you install virtual cards in its slots, including a clock, floppy drive, SCSI, Grappler+, and even a CP/M card so you can run Z-80 software..