Volume 22, Issue 3 (September 2017)

Index

Pages	Type	Headline	Author	Summary
2	My Home Page	Giving Back	Ken Gagne	Donations to Sean Fahey and James Littlejohn's Garage Giveaway and the Ryan Suenaga Scholarship demonstrated the generosity of KansasFest 2017 attendees.
3,23	Apple Mysteries		Ivan Drucker	The mysterious case of the serial cable that wouldn't communicate.
4-9	Event coverage	Countdown to KansasFest	Charles Mangin	Charles Mangin shares his highlights of KansasFest 2017, including the weeks of preparation and anticipation beforehand and acclimating back to the real world afterward.
10-13	MusinGS	Christmas in July	Ken Gagne	An interview with Sean Fahey, founder of the Garage Giveaway, an annual tradition that delivers literal tons of Apple II hardware, software, and documentation to KansasFest attendees for free.
14	Behind the Scenes	Comparing Apples and Amidar	Rob McMullen, Paul Hagstrom	Rob McMullen details how he won HackFest 2017 with Fujirun, an Apple II port of the Atari game Amidar, while Paul Hagstrom provides a judge's perspective.
15-16	Review	A Downpour of Delight	Martin Haye	A review of Alien Downpour, a new action arcade game from Michael Packard.
16	Advertisement		Eaten by a Grue	A podcast of Infocom games, text adventures, and interactive fiction.
17-20	Programming	Expanding Applesoft	Stavros Karatsoridis	An overview of popular ampersand packages with which to extend Applesoft BASIC programming.
20-21	Cover ][ Cover	A Synergistic History	Wade Clarke	A review of the book Cyber Jack: The Adventures of Robert Clardy and Synergistic Software, written by Robert Clardy and published by Call-A.P.P.L.E.
22	DumplinGS	Once More Unto the Breach	Ken Gagne	KansasFest 2018 dates announced; Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for Nox Archaist launched; Froggy Software's La Crapule game published by Brutal Deluxe; GBBS Pro made open source and manual published; Michael Sternberg's Infocom/Inform presentation from KansasFest 2017 published; Ian Kim's CP/M Turbo7 + VDP-1000 card for SG-1000 and ColecoVision games released.
23	Simplicity Notes	Emulation Magic	Steven Weyhrich	Marveling at Tom Phelps' Apple II emulator, Aiiee.
24	Wild Apples			A photo by Jason Scott of KansasFest 2017 attendees celebrating the Apple II's 40th birthday.

Issue Links

KansasFest 2017

KansasFest
Annual Apple II convention held at Rockhurst University in Kansas City, Missouri, USA.

YouTube playlist
Session recordings from KansasFest 2017.

HackFest 2017
Video demos of programming competition entries.

"Rockhurst"
Parody music video by Steve Weyhrich.

Class Apples
Chiptune band 8 Bit Weapon's album of classical tunes, scored entirely on an Apple II.

MusinGS

PayPal
Donate to offset expenses of Sean Fahey and James Littlejohn's Garage Giveaway.

Behind the Scenes

Fujirun
Rob McMullen's winning HackFest entry, an Apple II port of the classic Atari game Amidar.

Review

Alien Downpour
Michael Packard's original shoot-em-up game, in the style of Alien Rain and Galaxian.

Programming

Beagle Bros Software Repository
Home of ampersand command packages Beagle Graphics, Big U, and Extra K.

Apple2Online.com
Home of Penguin Software ampersand command packages CAT Graphics and Short Cuts.

Cover ][ Cover

Cyber Jack
The Adventures of Robert Clardy and Synergistic Software.

DumplinGS

Nox Archaist
A Kickstarter campaign for an 8-bit RPG by 6502 Workshop.

La Crapule
A graphical text adventure from Froggy Software, sold by Brutal Deluxe Software.

GBBS Pro
A popular multiline BBS software program for the Apple II.

GBBS Pro 2.2
A physical manual for the upcoming v2.2 release of GBBS Pro.

An Apple II Build Chain for Inform
Michael Sternberg's KansasFest 2017 dissertation on using Inform to create Z-machine text adventures for the Apple II.

VDP-1000 Plus and CP/M Turbo7
Ian Kim's boards to run SG-1000 and ColecoVision games on the Apple II.

Juiced.GS