| Pages | Type | Headline | Author | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | My Home Page | Campus Tales | Ken Gagne | Anecdotes from KansasFest 2024, including archiving CDs, recovering a lost audio recording, an encounter with campus police, and the annual fundraiser in Ryan Suenaga's memory. |
| 3-4 | Retrospective | A Dragon Lurks | Kay Savetz | A look back at Tic Tac Dough, Wink Martindale's CBS game show that was powered by Bob Bishop's software for the Apple II. |
| 5-9 | Behind the Scenes | Developing the SMB FST | Stephen Heumann | After over a decade of waiting, the Apple IIGS finally has a file system translator (FST) that enables network access to other computers via the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol. |
| 9 | Sidebar | The S-Prize | Eric Shepherd | The founder of the S-Prize gives the history and motivtion of the award and what its next steps are. |
| 10-17 | Event Coverage | A Fresh Start for KansasFest | Ken Gagne | Relocating the event from Rockhursst University in Kansas City, Missouri, to University of Illinois Springfield and implementing stronger COVID policies enabled KansasFest to be safer, more accessible, and more fun and social than it has in a long time. Highlights include keynote speeches by Rich Williams and Rob Gemmell; a presentation by Jordan Mechner of Karateka and Prince of Persia fame; sessions by Stephen Heumann, Lucas Scharenbroich, Jiří Doležal, John Flanagan, and Tom Giacchi; and Jeremy Rand's Lisa. |
| 18 | Behind the Scenes | The Garage Giveaway Game | Kevin Powers & Megan Lemmert | A look at The Great Garage Giveaway, the Applesoft BASIC game by first-time KansasFest attendee Kevin Powers, who won this year's HackFest. |
| 19-21 | Behind the Scenes | Porting NES to the IIGS | Lucas Scharenbroich | How the Generic Tile Engine evolved into a runtime layer that enables Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) games like Super Mario Bros. to run on the Apple IIGS. |
| 22-23 | DumplinGS | Announcements from KansasFest | Ken Gagne | Juiced.GS raises subscription prices for 2025; Micah Cowan releases Taki, the Text Animation Kit; Vince "deater" Weaver demakes Myst sequel Riven; Rob Kim releases Apple IIc VGA adapter TangyPack; Alex Lukacz releases VGA and HDMI adapter A2VGA; Dan Vincent of Userlandia produces one-hour documentary on Apple IIGS megahertz myth; and Wizardry co-creater Andrew C. Greenberg passes away. |
| 23 | Advertisement | Digital Dinos | ||
| 23 | Pop the Stack | Found Sound | Kay Savetz | The Famous Computer Café radio show's tapes have been recovered, digitized, and published, with several luminary interviews of interest to Apple II users. |
| 24 | Wild Apples | A KansasFest 2024 group photo. |
My Home Page
Applied Engineering’s View of the Apple II
A KansasFest 1991 talk by Tom Milks, recovered from the 2024 Garage Giveaway.
Ryan Suenaga Scholarship Fund
Donations to the Kapiolani Community College in memory of the late Juiced.GS editor.
Retrospective
CBS from April 1981
Channel 8 in San Diego takes a look at Wink Martindale’s Tic Tac Dough.
Behind the Scenes: SMB FST
SMB FST
The GitHub code repository for Stephen Heumann’s Server Message Block File System Translator for the Apple IIGS.
S-Prize
Eric Shepherd’s website detailing and promoting his S-Prize that incentivized the creation of an SMB FST.
Event Coverage
KansasFest
The annual Apple II convention, held for the first time this year at the University of Illinois Springfield.
KansasFest/A24EVR 2024
A YouTube playlist with dozens of video recordings from KansasFest 2024’s online and offline events.
Behind the Scenes: HackFest
The Great Garage Giveaway
Kevin Powers’ winning Applesoft BASIC game.
Behind the Scenes: Generic Tile Engine
Silky GS
Lucas Scharenbroich’s Nintendo Entertainment System runtime layer, allowing NES games to run on the Apple IIGS.
DumplinGS
Juiced.GS
Online account management for subscribers to the Apple II community’s longest-running print publication.
Taki
Micah Cowan’s Taki—the Text Animation Kit.
Riven
Vince “deater” Weaver’s 8-bit demake of the Myst sequel.
TangyPack
Rob Kim’s HDMI and VGA adapter for the Apple IIc.
A2VGA
Alex Lukcaz’s VGA adapter for the Apple IIe and IIc.
The Apple IIGS Megahertz MythA one-hour YouTube video by Dan Vincent of Userlandia.
Andrew C. Greenberg
Robert Woodhead reports on the passing of his Wizardry co-creator.
