| Pages | Type | Headline | Author | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | My Home Page | Weekend Connection | Ken Gagne | The first INIT HELLO was a diverse and welcoming experience. |
| 3 | Letters from the Land of ROM | Oliver Schmidt, Frank O'Donnell, Yoshi Sugawara | Updates to A2Pico/A2retroNET; praise for Sophistication & Simplicity; Apple II emulation on iOS. | |
| 4-8 | Event coverage | The Start of Something New | David Schmidt | A longtime Apple II user attends his first Apple II conference at The Computer Museum at System Source. |
| 9 | Sizecoding with Deater | tiny hgr8 | Vince Weaver | A Lovebyte 2023 Showcase entry demonstrates how to use Apple II graphics in as few programming commands as possible. |
| 10-14 | Event coverage | KansasFest Rewind | Jeremy Rand | KansasFest 2025 was held entirely virtually, with impressive presentations from Dan Bricklin, Chuck Mauro, and more. |
| 15 | Behind the Scenes | The Way to Oware | Paul MacMillan & Mark Long | How a Mancala-like game won this year's KansasFest programming contest. |
| 16-17 | Tech-torial | Plotting a Course | Kate Szkotnicki | Resurrecting an Apple Plotter 410 requires some innovative modeling and part replication with a 3D printer. |
| 18-19 | DumplinGS | History's Code | Ken Gagne | Microsoft open-sources Applesoft BASIC; Chuck Mauro and David Pogue write new books about the history of Apple and Silicon Valley; Alex Lee updates What Is the Apple IIGS? Launcher; Brutal Deluxe releases The Secret of Anubis and patches Boulder Dash; Nicholas Bernhard releases Catching Snowflakes game; Jawaid Bazyar releases GSSquared emulator; and David R. Darrow passes away. |
| 19 | Advertisement | Digital Dinos | ||
| 19 | Pop the Stack | Cozy Computing | Kay Savetz | Telnet BBSes offer a slower, cozier way to compute, a throwback to the dial-up of yesteryear. |
| 20 | Wild Apples | Sam Knutson | INIT HELLO group photo |
Letters from the Land of ROM
A2Pico
Oliver Schmidt’s updated hardware card with A2retroNET firmware.
Sophistication & Simplicity
Steve Weyhrich’s hardcover history of the Apple II.
The Apple II Age
INIT HELLO keynote speaker Laine Nooney’s look at the evolution of the personal computer.
Event coverage: INIT HELLO
INIT HELLO
An inaugural Apple II convention held just outside Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Computer Museum at System Source
Site of the inaugural INIT HELLO convention in Hunt Valley, Maryland.
Video playlist
A YouTube list of every talk and keynote given at INIT HELLO 2025.
Getting Started – Applesauce+
Online manual for the latest floppy drive controller.
Shufflepuck Cafe
Colin Leroy-Mira’s two-player air hockey game for the Apple II.
PR#6
All entries in INIT HELLO’s six-line contest, as compiled by Sean Gugler.
Sizecoding
tiny hgr8
Vince “deater” Weaver’s Lovebyte 2023 entry.
Event coverage: KansasFest
KansasFest
Annual Apple II convention, traditionally held in the American Midwest, this year held virtually.
Video playlist
A YouTube list of every talk and keynote given at KansasFest 2025.
Behind the Scenes
Oware
Paul MacMillan’s winning HackFest 2025 entry, a game similar to Mancala.
DumplinGS
Microsoft BASIC
6,955 lines of assembly code constituting 1977’s Applesoft BASIC.
From Apple to Zilog
A Silicon Valley memoir by Chuck Mauro.
Apple: The First Fifty Years
David Pogue’s book releasing March 10, 2026.
What Is the Apple IIGS? Launcher
Alex Lee’s Apple IIGS game compendium, recently updated to v0.8.1.
The Secret of Anubis
A port of an Amstrad CPC game to the Apple IIGS by Brutal Deluxe.
Boulder Dash 2025
The classic 1984 game from First Star Software, updated by Brutal Deluxe.
Catching Snowflakes
An 8-bit game from Nicholas Bernhard of Nantucket Lit.
GSSquared
A new Apple II emulator by Jawaid Bazyar.
David R. Darrow
Tribute to the late artist of the Dungeon Master game box art.
