KANSASFEST 2018 SCHEDULE

KEY: CF - CAFETERIA - MASSMAN HALL 1200-1530 CR - CORCORAN HALL CR KC - KANSAS CITY AIRPORT Registration KS - KANSAS CITY SAC - STUDENT ACTIVITY CENTER Stop by the Corcoran Lobby to check in (THE PARTY BARN) and pick up your registration packet and name badge. ======1530-1415 MONDAY JULY 16 CR ======Newcomer Orientation (optional)

Meet in the Corcoran basement to learn 1100-1400 tips for an enjoyable week. KC Peikop Endropov 1630-2000 - Carl Knoblock, chief taxi coordinator KC Dinner Outing Airport ride sharing. Jack Stack (BBQ), Lidia’s (Italian), 1400-1700 Cafe Gratitude (Vegan). Gather in the CR Corcoran Lobby and we will make the trek Super-early Dorm Check-in together. All eateries are close to each other. We will need drivers, so if you For those arriving Monday, stop by the have a car please offer a ride to your Corcoran Lobby to check in and pick up fellow KFest attendees. your room key. 2100-2200 1700-1745 CR CR KFest Committee Meeting Newcomer Orientation (optional) In case you don’t see any committee Meet in the Corcoran basement to learn members around, now you know why! tips for an enjoyable week. (closed door)

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0800- 0700- KC CR Peikop Endropov HackFest Begins - Carl Knoblock, chief taxi coordinator See https://www.kansasfest.org/hackfest/ Airport ride sharing. for rules and past entries.

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0730-0830 Introduction of committee members; tips CF and tricks for having a fantastic week. Breakfast at Rockhurst 1330-1530 0900-1000 CR CR KansasFest 2018 Keynote Free Time - Roger Wagner Wind up the air conditioning, stock the coolers, set up your Apple II gear, KansasFest welcomes back one of its settle in and meet your neighbors. alumni. Though 2018 will mark Wagner’s Decorate your door for the door contest! third time as a keynote speaker for the event, most current attendees haven’t had 1000-1130 the opportunity to hear him speak because CR his last appearance was 23 years ago. He Sean’s Apple II Garage Giveaway has deep roots in the Apple II community, - Sean Fahey & James Littlejohn back to the beginnings of the platform. In 1978, Wagner started his own software One never knows what goodies Sean will publish-ing company, Southwestern Data disperse at KFest. All items are free; Systems (SDS), as a vehicle for some of however, please leave a donation to help his first software products for the Apple defray the many expenses Sean has in II, Programmer’s Utility Pack and Apple- storing, acquiring and transporting the Doc, sold on cassette. He also wrote a stash. Please be thoughtful in what you word processor for the Apple II, The grab so that everyone gets a chance to Correspondent. take home a treasure. Transportation of goods provided by James Littlejohn in During the years he also wrote articles “The Big Green Truck”. for the major publications of the day, including Call-A.P.P.L.E., Nibble, 1130-1300 inCider, A+ Magazine, and GS+. Wagner is SAC (not Massman Cafeteria) best remembered for his long-running The Great KFest Kookout Assembly Lines column in Softalk, - Rockhurst Catering teaching that first generation of Apple II users how to write software in 6502 Enjoy the BBQ and get to know your assembly language. fellow Apple II nuts. Lunch will be catered by Rockhurst Dining Services. He later renamed his software company to Roger Wagner Publishing and continued to 1230-1300 provide quality software for both the 8- CR bit Apple II and the 16-bit Apple IIGS. Juiced.GS Staff Photo His most famous contribution to the IIGS - Ken Gagne was the HyperCard-inspired program, HyperStudio, which linked pictures, audio If you have been invited to this year's media, and text with clickable links, a Juiced.GS staff photo, please meet foretaste of the hyperlinked web that was outside the SAC at 12:30 p.m. to later arrive in the 1990s.

1300-1330 1545-1630 CR CR Late Registration at Corcoran Hall lobby New Product Announcements

1315-1330 If you have a new product announcement, CR this is the time to share it! Welcome to KFest

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1630-1715 write it. We'll meet behind closed doors in CR the side room near the main session hall in Session – Nox Archaist Update the basement. - Mark Lemmert 2200-2300 This update on the sword and sorcery RPG CR in development for the Apple II will Bite the Bag include a demo and technical discussion - Geoff Weiss of the game’s double hi-res splash screen, prototype Mockingboard support, A time-honored KFest classic returns in and more! honor of Roger Wagner. How low can you go? You don't have to be Bilbo Baggins 1730-1830 to play this game. This is something CF that you can really sink your teeth in. Dinner at Rockhurst Pick up a paper bag with only one limb on the ground. The bag gets shorter and 1845-1945 shorter in every round. Who will be CR crowned champion? Who will sing the sog- Session - Today in iOS gy paper bag blues? Who will faceplant? - Rob Walch Don’t miss the fun. Prizes awarded. Takes place in the side room near the Rob Walch of Today in iOS podcast joins main session hall in the basement. us for a look at tips, tricks, and the latest in Apple’s iOS and related 2300-? hardware. This year marks his 11th Late Night Run to Steak & Shake, Jack in presenting at KansasFest! the Box, Denny’s, etc.

2000-2200 Why sleep? You can do that when you get CR home! May occur on this night or any Workshop - SolderFest! other. - Vince Briel & Henry Courbis ======Vince and Henry will help users assemble and test a Replica 1 or other kit THURSDAY JULY 19 projects from ReActiveMicro. ======

Also, feel free to bring your soldering 0730-0830 projects and work alongside others. CF Share tips and tricks, and get help from Breakfast at Rockhurst those with years of experience. Don’t forget to bring your own soldering iron, 0845-0930 solder, etc. CR Session – Apple. II Programming 2115-2200 Adventures CR - Vince Weaver Juiced.GS Staff Meeting - Ken Gagne Vince will discuss his Apple II programming adventures, which started in For writers and editors of Juiced.GS only: the 80s but only really got interesting we'll take this rare opportunity to sit down in the past ten years or so. This together and brainstorm enough content to keep the magazine going for years to come. includes 6502 assembly games (Tom Please bring an idea for a feature or story, Bombem, Talbot Fantasy 7) and graphic/ whether or not you want to be the one to Mockingboard demos (VMW Chiptune Player,

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8k Mode7 Demo). He also does unlikely 1200-1300 things with Applesoft BASIC, such as CF Uthernet webservers and "ports" of Lunch at Rockhurst modern games (Portal, Kerbal Space Program). All of this work has full 1315-1345 source code available as part of his CR Linux dos33fsutils project. Session - Apple II Desktop Disassembly & Enhancement 0930-1015 - Michael Guidero CR Session – Blogging II Infinitum Michael will present ongoing efforts to - Ken Gagne reverse engineer, fix, and enhance Apple II Desktop 1.1. He will give an intro- More than 40 years after its debut, how duction covering the project and the is it there's still so much to say about people involved, a short history of the the Apple II? How do we find what's new, effort so far, and the long term goals. and how do we spin it to make it He will finish up with an appeal for interesting? After eight years and 500+ more participants and a Q&A. weekly blog posts, Ken still has plenty of new material about his favorite 1345-1415 computer. He'll reveal the secrets of CR his sources, blogging and distribution Session – Lawless Legends Update platforms, and audience engagement - Martin Haye techniques in this session. The Lawless Legends team has been 1030-1115 working hard this year, and the game is CR getting close to release. Martin shows Session – The Other for off the latest additions including the the Apple II most-requested feature: auto-mapping. - Jay Graham 1415-1445 What is the Zilog Z80? How did it come CR to be used in the Apple II? Jay will Session – Advanced Time Travel, with answer these questions and more, Applications starting with a brief history of the - Tom Phelps Zilog Z-80 and how it came to be used in the Apple II, followed by how it works, We will build a series of increasingly and options (past and present) for the sophisticated time machines, driven by Apple II. He will also discuss what you ever more demanding applications. need to get started to run the CP/M and the wide array of 1500-1530 software that is available for it. The CR session concludes with a live demonstra- Session – VidHD: an Apple II HDMI Video tion of how to install the card and get Card started running the O/S and all the - John Brooks software available. This session covers the features and 1115-1145 creation of a new HDMI video card for CR Apple II computers. Session - NewGS - Daniel Krusyna

Daniel is building an FPGA IIgs. Stop by to see what he has so far.

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1530-1600 2000-2045 CR CR Session – CatsGS: 60fps Destructible 2D Session - Up Close with the MAME Terrain Monster: Building Your Own Controller - Quinn Dunki - Kate Szkotnicki

Cats GS is a new Apple IIgs game in You’ve seen it the last two years at development, and one of its main KFest, now find out how this behemoth features is fully destructible 2D came to be! Join Kate as she describes terrain that renders at 60 fps. This the process of finding components, talk will go over the technical details designing, building and wiring a of the terrain engine and the controller, and setting up software. Can compromises made along the way to you use something like this on an Apple achieve 60 fps on an unaccelerated IIgs. II? Probably. Can you use it with an ? Absolutely, it’s USB! It uses 1615-1645 a Mac so it’s totally Apple-related! CR (No, Kate will not be using power tools Session – Tome of Copy Protection in Corcoran Hall. Sorry.) - Lane Roathe 2100-2200 Call A.P.P.L.E. will be releasing a new CR printing of The Tome of Copy Protection, Ryan Suenaga Memorial Krispy Kreme Night a book Bruce Jones and Lane wrote back & Tie One On Contest in 83-86 and released in very limited quantities. This session covers the main Come enjoy some warm donuts and cold topics of the book, along with a general milk in the lobby, as Ryan would've discussion of copy protection methods, wanted. A donation jar will be cracking, and how all of this relates to available, with 100% of the proceeds the new AppleSauce hardware/software. going toward his scholarship fund.

1645-1715 We’ll also have the Tie One On contest, CR so wear your most outlandish tie and Session – Memory Testing Utility impress Roger Wagner! Prizes! - Andrew Hogan 2300-? Andrew demonstrates a new memory tester Late Night Run to Steak & Shake, Jack in for the Apple II family. the Box, Denny’s, etc.

1730-1830 Why sleep? You can do that when you get CF home! May occur on this night or any Dinner at Rockhurst other.

1845-1945 ======CR Lightning Talks FRIDAY JULY 20 ======Rapid-fire, five-minute talks on a variety of Apple II topics. We have slots for 12 talks--look for the sign-up 0730-0830 sheet in the Corcoran lobby. CF Breakfast at Rockhurst

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0845-0930 Wozniak about the development of the CR Disk ][. Session – The $6502 Pyramid - Kevin Savetz 1115-1145 CR Kevin continues the tradition of Apple Session - A.P.P.L.E.'s Blast from the II-themed game shows, this time with a Past hilarious word guessing game. - Brian Wiser & Bill Martens

0930-1015 Join Brian and Bill for an overview of CR the oldest user group from 1978 - Session - Fun with Applesauce and WOZ A.P.P.L.E. - and member benefits like Files Call-A.P.P.L.E. magazine that continues - John Morris to be produced. Learn about their recent books such as Tome of Copy Protection, John will show off the finalized The Apple House, All About Applesoft: Applesauce hardware and run it through Enhanced Edition, and others beyond its paces. There will also be an their previous nine books. They have new explanation of the new WOZ disk image software manuals too, like Big Mac: format that encapsulates disks with the Macro Assembler. A few surprises are copy protection intact. Finally, there likely. will be a demo of the fun things you can do with this new stuff. 1200-1300 CF 1030-1115 Lunch at Rockhurst CR Session - "Upcycling" Apple II Classics 1315-1400 with MicroM8 CR - Melody & April Ayres-Griffiths Session – Postscript on the Apple IIgs - Geoff Weiss Melody and April from Paleotronic will show attendees how to "upcycle" classic The Apple IIgs System Software comes games using Paleotronic's Apple IIe with two components to leverage printing emulator, microM8. microM8 enhances the to Postscript printers. The most common traditional Apple II gaming experience is the Laserwriter driver which by adding various emulator-only features converts Quickdraw II drawing and IIgs such as 3D voxel rendering of pixels, native bitmap images into Postscript color remapping, 3D camera movement, code. Apple also provided IWEm, which is graphical backdrops and overlays, and a Postscript program that emulates an more. All of these features can be Imagewriter II printer. automated via parallel-executing BASIC control programs, which can interact This session will include a solution to with the environment of an emulated provide compatibility with more Post- session to create a renewed, novel script printers with the Apple IIgs. experience more attractive to younger Also, one can take the results from the users, all without modifying the Laserwriter printer driver (from a real underlying Apple II software. or emulated IIgs), load the contents into Ghostscript, and generate a PDF They'll also take a look at their Apple file. Print from a IIgs and kill more II disk-image management tool diskM8, trees. and give away a few printed copies of the first issue of Paleotronic Magazine, which includes an interview with Steve

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1400-1445 IIgs, or the six-pin female plug for the CR IIe). Session – Apple II Smorgasbord - Tony Diaz The large power supply rests on the floor beneath the computer table, We don’t know what Tony will share, but connected to the by a five it’s guaranteed to be Apple II related. ft six-wire color-coded cable. Its external placement keeps heat away from 1500-1530 interface cards and motherboard; fan- CR cooling enables the power supply to run Session – What’s New in ProDOS 2.5 continuously 24/7. Optional accessories - John Brooks that can be added to the power supply include the following: yellow and red This session goes through the new LED indicator lamps added to the DC +12v features in ProDOS 2.5 and BASIC.System and DC +5v power lines; speed-control 1.7. potentiometer added in series to the DC fan power line; protective felt glued to 1530-1600 the lower surface to protect the CR hardwood floor under the computer table; Session – Powerboosting the IIgs and IIe and retaining the Molex-4 female sockets - Stephen Buggie to power other computer accessories.

A weakness of the IIgs and IIe is that Following the presentation, reprints of the standard Apple-brand power supply is Stephen’s Juiced.GS article on the insufficient for operating the computer power-boosting topic will be dis- when it is fully loaded with power- tributed. Also, at the end of the hungry interface cards. When overloaded, session, the power supply shown as a excessive heat is generated, the sample will be given away in a free computer may malfunction, or the raffle for attendees. computer may stall entirely. 1615-1645 The solution is to change to a more CR robust power supply that produces the Session – So You Want to Write an FST same voltages (+5v, +12v, -12v, -5v) - Kelvin Sherlock needed by the Apple. Early IBM power supplies generate these voltages, Kelvin discusses how expressed with much larger watt Translators really work and some advice capacity. Standard internal power for anyone who wants to write their own. supplies for the Apple II merely Particular emphasis is placed on the GS+ generate 30-40 watts of DC power, but Emulator's Host FST, which makes sharing fan-cooled IBM power supplies generate files between the emulator and the host 150–300 watts of clean DC power. system a snap.

In this presentation, attendees will be 1645-1715 shown, step-by-step with close-up CR photos, how to adapt an older IBM power Session – The BBC Micro supply to serve as an external power - Neil Forsyth source for the IIgs or IIe. The IIgs and IIe versions are identical, except for Neil will give a technical overview of the power plug that connects to the the BBC Microcomputer as well as its Apple’s motherboard. Possible suppliers genesis and influence on a UK will be identified for scarce parts generation. (e.g., the Molex-7 female plug for the

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1730-1815 CR Sleep is for lightweights! May occur on Pizza from Juiced.GS this night or any other. - Ken Gagne ======The pizza party is brought to you by Juiced.GS, whose publisher will take the SATURDAY JULY 21 opportunity to share news of the ======magazine's future.

1815-1845 0730-0830 CR CF Awards and Contests Breakfast at Rockhurst Presentation of the Apple II Forever awards, Door contest, contest contest. 0845-0930 CR 1845-1915 Session - Turn Your Apple II into an 8- CR bit Weapon KFest Group Photo - Charles Mangin

Right after the awards we will assemble Charles will demonstrate the hardware in the Corcoran lobby for the annual and software used to produce the audio KansasFest group photo. Ahh, the tracks on the latest 8 Bit Weapon album, memories! Class Apples. This was the first full length album created entirely from 1930-2200 sounds generated by an Apple II. Now you CR can turn your own Apple into a musical Game Night instrument, connected via a MIDI-to- serial connector designed by Charles, Attendees are welcome to gather in the and controlled by Michael Mahon's Corcoran basement to play board games, software, DMS. RPGs, Apple II games—-you name it! 0930-1015 2100-2200 CR CR Session - Infocom's Non-Interactive Non- Big Mega Podcast Fiction - Kevin Savetz & Carrington Vanston Podcasters in attendance gather in the chapel for their annual round table Carrington and Kevin host Eaten by a discussion. (closed door) Grue, a podcast where they are playing every Infocom interactive fiction game. 2300-2330 Infocom also released several non-IF CR programs, including a series of digital Video linkup with WOzFest (Sydney, comics, a board game, a database, and Australia) more. The intrepid hosts delve into - Sean McNamara, April & Melody Ayers- Infocom's lesser-loved works and discuss Griffith their place in the company's canon.

Video chat with Australian Apple II 1000-1200 enthusiasts gathering in Sydney. CR HackFest Behind-closed-doors Judging 2300-? Late Night Run to Steak & Shake, Jack in the Box, Denny’s, etc.

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1030-1100 (or game tiles) to the Hi-res screens, CR starting from the basics all the way up Session - Teaching an Old Zork New to highly optimized code for the fastest Tricks font rendering this side of an Atari. - Peter Ferrie 1430-1500 Peter will describe the enhancements CR that he made to the Z-Machine inter- Session – The First Laserdisc Video Game preter that led to the creation of a - Kevin Savetz ProDOS-compatible interpreter, as used by the Pitch Dark GUI. What was the first video game that used a laserdisc? Dragon's Lair? Astron Belt? 1100-1145 No and no. The first laserdisc-based CR video game was a text adventure that ran Session – It Is Pitch Dark on the Apple II. - Mark Pilgrim 1515-1715 You are likely to be eaten by a GUI. (A CR modern reimagining of how to interact Apple II Exhibition Hall / Swap Meet / with classic interactive fiction.) Vendor Fair

1200-1300 Bring out your gear, set it up, and we CF can all enjoy each other’s hacks, Lunch at Rockhurst machines, etc. This is also a good time to lay out your wares for sale. 1315-1400 CR 1630 Session - Vintage Computer Design and CR Repair with 3D Printing Awarding of HackFest Prizes - Alexander Jacocks 1730 This session covers the use of 3D KS printing to both upgrade and repair Informal Trip to Local Restaurants vintage computers. For example, Alex is currently designing a new Baby-AT case Gather in the Corcoran Lobby and we will for a 386sx motherboard and printing disperse to local area restaurants. We some replacement keycaps for a ZX will need drivers, so if you have a car Spectrum 128. He has done this sort of please offer a ride to your fellow KFest work for over a year and will share how attendees. it is done. 2200 Alex will bring and demonstrate KS measuring tools and techniques, where to Coin-op Arcade & Movie Night find physical specifications, and talk about techniques for getting the most On the town or in the dorm, stay tuned out of 3D printers. for details.

1400-1430 2300-? CR Late Night Run to Steak & Shake, Jack in Session – Fast HGR Font Rendering the Box, Denny’s, etc. - Rob McMullen Last chance for a Late Night Run. You Rob will describe techniques needed in can always sleep on the plane or at a 6502 assembly to draw font characters rest stop!

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SUNDAY JULY 22 ======

0800-0900 CF Breakfast at Rockhurst

1100-1300 CR Move out of dorms

1300 CR Latest time for checkout

Please turn in your card to a KFest Committee member or check out at the RA desk

PLEASE DO NOT FORGET TO TURN IN YOUR KEY AND CARD. THEY COULD COST US $100!!!

1300-? You are free (not FREE) to spend the afternoon visiting with old and new friends, exploring Kansas City, etc.

SEE YOU NEXT YEAR!

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