
Pages | Type | Headline | Author | Summary |
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2 | My Home Page | A New Investment | Ken Gagne | KansasFest looks different after 11 years on the planning committee. |
3-4 | II's Company | Steven Weyhrich | A look at the founding and popular early releases of Electronic Arts (EA). (Part 2/2) | |
5-9 | Event coverage | Read/Write Memories | Ken Gagne | Randy Wigginton, Steve Wozniak, an Apple-1, and games galore made KansasFest 2013 the best yet. |
10 | Behind the Scenes | Mapping the Unknown | Margaret Anderson | A look at Margaret's HackFest 2013-winning entry, an Eamon mapper. |
10 | Sidebar | HackFest runner-ups | Ken Gagne | Descriptions of this year's seven HackFest entries. |
11 | Cover ][ Cover | Tracing the Source | Steven Weyhrich | Review of Robert J. Luther's Kickstarter-backed book, The First Apple. |
12-15 | Event coverage | KFest in the Land of Woz | Alex Lukacz | The second Oz KFest, following Mt. Keira Fest in 2009. |
16-17 | Reel ][ Reel | The iMyth of Jobs | Martin Haye | The Jobs film, starring Ashton Kutcher, makes Steve Jobs out to be the genius he wasn't. |
18-19 | DumplinGS | Fall Bounty | Ken Gagne | KansasFest 2014, The WOZPAK, Sweet16 3.0.1, AppleIIWorks Envoy, A2CLOUD, CFFA3000, BenchmarkeD, apple2pi, Lewis Kornfeld, and Wayne Green. |
19 | TidinGS | Changing Time Zones | Ivan Drucker | Hacking Time Zone got Ivan into the Apple II, but he didn't have to finish the hack to stay. |
20 | Advertisement | Juiced.GS | Annual subscription renewal reminder |
II’s Company
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Oz KFest
Oz KFest
A gathering of Apple II users in Brisbane, Australia.
Photo gallery
The results of a Flickr search for “OzKFest”.
A Trip Down Memory Lane
Matt Jenkins’ presentation on Apple II RAM.
Near Field Communication on iPhone with iCarte
Andrew Roughan’s presentation on NFC.
Storify
A collection of tweets about Oz KFest.
Oz KFest Apple IIGS Medusa
Andrew Roughan’s YouTube playlist of five one-minute videos from Oz KFest.
What is the IIGS? Report
An Oz KFest post-mortem by attendee Alex Lee.
Behind the Scenes
HackFest
An archive of entries to the KansasFest programming competition, 1998–present.
Cover ][ Cover
The First Apple
Robert J. Luther’s tale of his Apple-1’s history.
Kickstarter
The crowdfunding campaign that made Luther’s book possible.
Reel ][ Reel
The Jobs Movie
The biopic starring Ashton Kutcher as Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.
DumplinGS
KansasFest
Annual Apple II convention in Kansas City, Missouri.
The WOZPAK
A 300-page technical document, now back in print, courtesy Call-A.P.P.L.E.
Sweet16
Eric Shepherd’s Apple IIGS emulator for Mac OS X.
AppleIIWorks Envoy
Hugh Hood’s utility for adding AppleWorks filetype recognition to Mac OS X.
A2CLOUD
Add a Raspberry Pi to your Apple II for additional networking and storage options, courtesy Ivan Drucker.
CFFA3000
Rich Dreher’s USB and CompactFlash storage interface card for the Apple II.
BenchmarkeD
Brutal Deluxe’s benchmarking utility for modern Apple II storage devices.
David Schmenk on YouTube
Watch various demonstrations of Apple II and Raspberry Pi integration.
apple2pi
An Apple II client/server for the Raspberry Pi.
Wayne Green
Blog of the late publisher of inCider/A+.