| Pages | Type | Headline | Author | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | My Home Page | Contingency Plans | Ken Gagne | Plan a fate for your Apple II collection, digital presence, and online accounts, whether by using Dr. Stephen Buggie's Apple II Will or tools like the Google Inactive Account Manager. Also, welcome to new staff writer Mike Whalen! |
| 3-5 | Programming | Eric Rangell | How to make music with the Applied Engineering Phasor sound card, backward compatible with the Mockingboard and available from ReActiveMicro.com. | |
| 6-10 | Event coverage | In Line for KansasFest | Chris Torrence | Chris Torrence shares his account of KansasFest 2018, from keynote speaker Roger Wagner to the last Garage Giveaway. |
| 11 | Behind the Scenes | A Rush Job | Ivan Hogan, April Ayres-Griffiths | How Ivan Hogan became the youngest HackFest first-place winner with his game Rush, and one judge's perspective. |
| 12 | Meet the Staff | Mike Whalen | Mike Whalen | Mike Whalen |
| 13-14 | Event coverage | Running the Oregon Trail | Marcus Adams | Running the fourth annual Oregon Trail Game 5K in Oregon City, Oregon. |
| 14 | Advertisement | Retro Roundup | ||
| 15-16 | Cover ][ Cover | The Deprotection Dictionary | Antoine Vignau | A review of the Tome of Copy Protection, by Bruce Jones and Lane Roathe and published by Call-APPLE. |
| 16-17,19 | Cover ][ Cover | A Slice of History | Steven Weyhrich | A review of A Histry of Video Games in 64 Objects, by the World Video Game Hall of Fame at the International Center for the History of Electronic Gaming (ICHEG) at the Strong Museum of Play in Rochester, New York. |
| 18-19 | DumplinGS | Ken Gagne | Charles Mangin patches Karateka to support two players; IRATA.ONLINE launches on PLATO emulator; NinjaForce released NinjaTrackerPlus; Jeremy Rand releases a2buildpipeline; Brutal Deluxe updates Snake Byte and releases Graffidisk; 8 Bit Weapon releases a USB-based MIDI adapter; Marinetti updated to v3.0b9. | |
| 19 | Random Numbers | 16-bit solutions for 64-bit problems | Eric Shepherd | Will the HTTP/2 protocol close the Internet to the Apple II? |
| 20 | Advertisement | Retro Computing Roundtable |
My Home Page
Dashlane
Password manager that allows trusted individuals to access your information in an emergency.
LastPass
Password manager that allows trusted individuals to access your information in an emergency.
Google Inactive Account Manager
Share parts of your account data or notify someone if you’ve been inactive for a certain period of time.
Facebook Legacy Contact
Someone you choose to look after your account if it’s memorialized.
Programming
Phasor
ReActiveMicro.com’s wiki about Applied Engineering’s Phasor card.
Phasor software
Demo disks provided with the Phasor sound card.
Adventure
Crowther and Woods’ text adventure game with speech support.
Code
Supplemental material, including copiable code from the article.
Behind the Scenes
RUSH
Ivan Hogan’s winning entry in HackFest 2018.
Oregon Trail Game 5K
The fourth annual race is a fun run based off the 1980s classic computer game.
Cover ][ Cover
Tome of Copy Protection
Written by Bruce Jones and Lane Roathe and published by Call-A.P.P.L.E.
A History of Video Games in 64 Objects
Written at World Video Game Hall of Fame at the International Center for the History of Electronic Gaming (ICHEG) at the Strong Museum of Play in Rochester, New York.
DumplinGS
Karateka
Jordan Mechner’s classic action game, patched by Charles Mangin to support two players.
Jumpy Guy
Charles Mangin’s original action game for the Apple II.
Minesweeper
Charles Mangin’s Minesweeper clone for the Apple II.
IRATA.ONLINE
An online service powered by a PLATO emulator.
PLATO
A terminal emulator for use with IRATA.ONLINE.
NinjaTrackerPlus
A music player for the Apple IIGS.
a2buildpipeline
Jeremy Rand’s pipeline for building Applesoft BASIC, ca65 assembly, cc65 C and Merlin32 assembly projects in Xcode for MacOS.
Snake Byte
Brutal Deluxe’s unofficial update to Chuck Sommerville’s game.
Apple Time Warp
A podcast interview with Chuck Sommerville of Snake Byte.
Graffidisk
Brutal Deluxe’s tool for creating visual disk “images”.
MIDI adapter
8 Bit Weapon and Charles Mangin’s MIDI adapter for the Apple II.
Marinetti
v3.0b9 of the TCP/IP stack for GS/OS.
