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Kansasfest 2016 Schedule KEY: CF - CAFETERIA - MASSMAN HALL See https://www.kansasfest.org/hackfest/ CR - CORCORAN HALL for rules and past entries. KC - KANSAS CITY AIRPORT KS - KANSAS CITY 0730-0830 CF Breakfast at Rockhurst ================ Tuesday, July 19 0900-1200 CR ================ Settle In Wind up the air conditioning, stock the 0800- coolers, set up your Apple II gear, settle KC in and meet your neighbors. Decorate your Peikop Endropov – airport ride sharing door for the door contest! - Carl Knoblock, chief taxi coordinator 0900-0930 1200-1600 CR CR Juiced.GS Staff Meeting Registration For writers and editors of Juiced.GS only: Stop by the Corcoran Lobby to check in and we'll take this rare opportunity to sit pick up your registration packet and name down together and brainstorm enough content badge. to keep the magazine going for years to come. Please bring an idea for a feature 1630-2000 or story, whether or not you want to be the Dinner Outing one to write it. We'll meet behind closed doors in the side room near the main Jack Stack (BBQ), Lidia’s (Italian), Cafe session hall. Gratitude (Vegan). Gather in the Corcoran Lobby and we will all make the trek 0930-1000 together. All three eateries are close to CR each other. We will need drivers, so if you Juiced.GS Staff Photo have a car please offer a ride to your fellow KFest attendees. If you have been invited to this year's Juiced.GS staff photo, please meet in the ================== Corcoran lobby at 9:30 AM. Wear a dark shirt, but bring a light / white one as Wednesday, July 20 well for any necessary costume changes. ================== 1200-1300 CR (Our lobby, not Massman Cafeteria) 0700- The Great KFest Kookout CR - Rockhurst Catering HackFest 2016 Begins 1 Enjoy the BBQ and get to know your fellow Apple II magazine, Nibble. The first four Apple II nuts. This year, head Kook Kirk issues contained his own programs until he Mitchell is taking a well-deserved break; was able to attract freelance authors. Over lunch will be catered by Rockhurst Dining the next 12 ½ years, he published over Services. 16,000 pages and inspired countless technology-related careers. At its pinnacle, 1300-1430 Nibble earned about $5 million annually, had CR over 100,000 readers, and had the second Sean’s Apple II Garage Giveaway highest circulation among Apple II - Sean Fahey & James Littlejohn magazines, all handled via an Apple II-based order and fulfillment system that he One never knows what goodies Sean will developed. The technical challenges were disperse at KFest. All items are free; considerable – for example, figuring out how however, please leave a donation to help to sort and print 30,000 subscriber labels defray the many expenses Sean has in in ZIP code sequence on a network of Apple storing, acquiring and transporting the IIs. The success of Nibble contributed to stash. Please be thoughtful in what you Harvey’s publication of PC Hands On for IBM grab so that everyone gets a chance to take PC compatible systems and to four years of home a treasure. Transportation of goods Nibble Mac. After Nibble shut down in 1992, provided by James Littlejohn in “The Big Harvey returned to executive leadership in the mainframe industry. He retired in 2000 Green Truck”. and now enjoys web development, photography, computer art, and travel. 1300-1430 CR 1700-1715 Late Registration at Corcoran Hall CR Session - Ultimate Micro: State of the 1445-1500 Union CR - Henry Courbis & Anthony Martino Welcome to KFest With several newly released Apple II Introduction of committee members; tips and products, Anthony and Henry have been quite tricks for having a fantastic week. busy. Hear the latest news from Ultimate Micro. 1500-1700 CR 1730-1830 KansasFest 2016 Keynote CF - Mike Harvey Dinner at Rockhurst Mike Harvey, a business executive, 1900-2000 salesperson, technologist, project manager, CR entrepreneur, programmer, and best known in Session - Today in iOS the Apple community as the founder and - Rob Walch publisher of Nibble magazine. Harvey started his career as a salesperson for IBM and continued with various roles at other major Rob Walch of Today in iOS podcast joins us technology companies, including marketing at for a look at tips, tricks, and the latest Burroughs, planning and project management in Apple’s iOS and related hardware. This at Xerox, and executive positions with year marks his 10th presenting at several others. In October 1979, he was KansasFest! between jobs and thought he would start an 2 2015-2115 to produce it: the Outlaw editor and the CR Mythos runtime, designed with more than Workshop - RetroConnector Mini HackFest just this one game in mind. There will also - Charles Mangin be a special surprise. Charles Mangin from RetroConnector will 0945-1045 present and demo a new general purpose I/O CR board for the Apple II. See what new Session - Apple II Emularity: The Deep Dive madness Charles hath wrought, and learn how - Jason Scott to take advantage of the new hardware in your own applications. The session will Infinite Apple II online experiences in the also mark the start of a "mini hackfest" browser producing greater and greater for anyone who wants to create a new fidelity in recovery of critical computer program or hack new functionality into an history, blah blah.... We've now achieved existing one that takes advantage of the the dream of Apple II emulation - it's new board. ubiquitous, it's in the browser and therefore instant, and it's repeatable. Now Participants will receive free beta let's start treating it like a real hardware, sample assembly and BASIC code to technology and utility, and talk about how get started, as well as troubleshooting to work with it. This talk covers the assistance and access to a variety of basics of what's going on under the hood, additional hardware and tools to complete the unique aspects of MAME's emulation of their entry. Entries will be reviewed, and Apple II (and III, and //c, and...) and prizes awarded, at the end of KansasFest. then goes much deeper into how you can get Good Luck! the best experience out of working with this emulation system (The Emularity), both 2300-? at the Internet Archive and your own sites. Late Night Run to Steak & Shake, Jack in the Box, Denny’s, etc. 1100-1145 Why sleep? You can do that when you get CR home! May occur on this night or any other. Session - Silicone Molding and Resin Casting Small Parts ================= - Kathryn Szkotnicki Thursday, July 21 Join Kate as she demonstrates how to prepare small parts for mold-making, create ================= the mold, and make copies of small plastic parts. 0730-0830 CF 1200-1300 Breakfast at Rockhurst CF Lunch at Rockhurst 0900-0930 CR Session - Lawless Legends Project Update - Martin Haye Martin Haye will demonstrate progress made this year on the Lawless Legends old-west RPG, focusing especially on the tools used 3 1315-1415 Steam is the largest online marketplace for CR PC, Mac, and Linux games, making it easy Session - A2SERVER, A2CLOUD and Raspple II for independent game developers to 2016 distribute their software. But indie game - Ivan Drucker developers often lack the resources of major game studios. What they lack in Can you believe it? A2SERVER, A2CLOUD, and funding, they make up for in creativity, Raspple II have received some exciting turning to classic games and genres for updates for 2016. For example, did you know inspiration. We'll look at many Steam you can now get a IIGS on the internet titles where the Apple II influence is without an Uthernet card? With A2SERVER you strong, suggesting modern games that will can. Come to the session and see what else appeal to classic gamers. is in store. 1545-1615 If you're unfamiliar, these all use the oh- CR so-cute Raspberry Pi to enhance your Apple Session - Ultimate Micro PSU Project II. A2SERVER is a LAN file server and - Anthony Martino & Henry Courbis network boot host for Apple II's. A2CLOUD is an internet access device, file transfer Learn more about Ultimate Micro’s new tool, and virtual hard drive for Apple II's replacement power supply for the Apple II. (even the IIc). Raspple II ties them both The Universal PSU Kit is designed to be together in a single easy-to-install installed in your existing Apple II or /// package. Power Supply Enclosure and replace your old Power Supply PCB. All connections can be 1430-1500 made by the user and are safe, simple, and CR designed to last for the next decade and Session - Photoshop for the IIGS beyond of use. The Kit is also - Geoff Weiss uninstallable and the enclosure isn’t modified in any way. There is no chance that Adobe will ever develop Photoshop for the Apple IIGS. But, 1615-1700 the next best thing will be available CR during this session. Using the power of GNU Session - Disks, EDD, Copy Protection & Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) and Emulators python, anybody will be able to create - Paul Hagstrom native IIGS graphic images. Convert your favorite picture to the IIGS. Draw new The EDD+ card and "I'm fEDD Up" has enabled images. Export images straight into IIGS us to take low-level images of the data on images formats--watch for the release of our aging disks. These files contain all this component during this session. Bring the bits as they are read off the disk, your computer with GIMP (2.6 or later) and bringing us closer to the ultimate goal of python (2.6 or later) installed.