| Pages | Type | Headline | Author | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | My Home Page | Fake It 'til You Make It | Ken Gagne | Working outside the technology industry left me feeling out of place at KansasFest; but working in the tech industry underscores how much I still have to learn. |
| 3-4 | Review | Ken Gagne | A review of the electronic handheld Oregon Trail game, developed by Basic Fun! and available exclusively from Target. | |
| 5-7 | Review | Carrier Detected | Mike Whalen | A review of the WiModem232 modem emulator by Jim Drew of CBMStuff. |
| 8-9 | Event coverage | Gleaning Apples | Kay Savetz | A chat with Jason Howe about his alphaSyntauri synthesizer exhibit and with Lath Carlson about the Apple-1 at Vintage Computer Festival Northwest. |
| 9-11 | Programming | GitHub for Retrocomputing | Quinn Dunki | An introduction of how to use git and GitHub for version control when programming the Apple II. |
| 12-15 | MusinGS | A Duplication of Effort | Antoine Vignau | An interview with Robert Freedman, formerly of HLS Duplication. |
| 16-17 | Apple Mysteries | 6,502 Things Gone Wrong | Ivan Drucker | Lila Stafford wants to learn assembly programming; Manning LeConte is having CATAKIG issues; and what's up with Doug Bishop's keyboard? |
| 17 | Advertisement | Eaten by a Grue | A podcast of Infocom games, text adventures, and interactive fiction. | |
| 18-19 | DumplinGS | Operating Updates | Ken Gagne | KansasFest 2018 to be keynoted by Roger Wagner; WOzFest DB9 announced; Eamon ported to the Web; Virtual ][ updated to v8.1; ProDOS updated to v2.4.2; DOS 4.4 proof of concept announced; AppleWorks InitPack 2017 released; Clip Copy Plus NDA released; PLASMA updated to v1.1. |
| 19 | Random Numbers | Unforgettable II | Eric Shepherd | Acronyms have many meanings. |
| 20 | Advertisement | KansasFest | Come celebrate the 30th KansasFest with a keynote speech by Roger Wagner of HyperStudio fame. |
My Home Page
Anna Garvey’s “The Oregon Trail Generation: Life Before and After Mainstream Tech”
A 2015 article that defined a synonym for Xennials.
Review: Oregon Trail
Oregon Trail handheld game
A handheld electronic version of the classic edutainment title, available exclusively from Target.
Review: WiModem232 Modem Emulator
WiModem232
An Internet modem that emulates a standard Hayes compatible modem; works with any computer with an RS-232 interface port.
Manual
Installation and usage manual for the WiModem232.
Forum
User and support forum for the WiModem232.
VCF Pacific Northwest
Vintage Computer Festival Pacific Northwest
Seattle’s inaugural VCF.
Living Computers Museum + Labs
Venue for the VCF Pacific Northwest.
Charlie Kellner
Creator of the Syntauri alphaSyntauri synthesizer.
Programming: GitHub
GitHub
A web-based hosting service for version control using git.
Tower
A commercial git client for Mac and Windows.
XKCD
An introduction to git!
MusinGS: Robert Freedman
Protection check for 3.5″ disks
A track-length protection scheme for the Apple IIGS.
Prince of Persia source code
Featuring copy protection by Robert Freedman.
DumplinGS
KansasFest
Annual Apple II convention held this July 17–22, 2018, in Kansas City, Missouri, USA, with a keynote speech by Roger Wagner.
WOzFest DB9
Informal gathering of Australia’s Apple II users on April 28, 2018.
Eamon Remastered
The classic text adventure game engine Eamon, ported to the Web.
Virtual ][
Gerard Putter’s Windows-based Apple II emulator.
ProDOS 8
John Brooks’ v2.4.2 update to the 8-bit operating system.
DOS 4.4
A proof of concept by Brutal Deluxe.
AppleWorks InitPack 2017
Ten enhancements and extensions to AppleWorks v5.1, courtesy Hugh Hood.
Clip Copy Plus
Chris Vavruska’s Finder extension to enable the cutting, copying, and pasting of files.
PLASMA
David Schmenk’s Proto Language AsSeMbler for Apple, now at v1.1.
Random Numbers
Browser Compatibility Data
Mozilla’s project to collect detailed data about what version (if any) of each browser added every feature and subfeature of every Web technology.
JSON
JavaScript Object Notation is a data-interchange format.
Binary-coded decimal
A class of binary encodings of decimal numbers where each decimal digit is represented by a fixed number of bits, usually four or eight.
