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Kansasfest 2017 Schedule KEY: CF - CAFETERIA - MASSMAN HALL Stop by the Corcoran Lobby to check in and CR - CORCORAN HALL pick up your registration packet and name KC - KANSAS CITY AIRPORT badge. KS - KANSAS CITY SAC - STUDENT ACTIVITY CENTER 1530-1415 (THE PARTY BARN) CR Newcomer Orientation (optional) ================ Meet in the Corcoran basement to learn tips for an enjoyable week. Monday, July 17 ================ 1630-2000 Dinner Outing 1100-1400 KC Jack Stack (BBQ), Lidia’s (Italian), Cafe Peikop Endropov – airport ride sharing Gratitude (Vegan). Gather in the Corcoran - Carl Knoblock, chief taxi coordinator Lobby and we will make the trek together. 1400-1700 All eateries are close to each other. We CR will need drivers, so if you have a car Super Early Bird Dorm Check-in please offer a ride to your fellow KFest attendees. For those arriving Monday, stop by the Corcoran Lobby to check in and pick up your 2100-2200 room key. CR KFest Committee Meeting 1700-1745 CR Newcomer Orientation (optional) In case you don’t see any committee members around, now you know why! (closed door) Meet in the Corcoran basement to learn tips for an enjoyable week. ================== Wednesday, July 19 ================ ================== Tuesday, July 18 ================ 0700- CR HackFest Begins 0800- See https://www.kansasfest.org/hackfest/ KC for rules and past entries. Peikop Endropov – airport ride sharing - Carl Knoblock, chief taxi coordinator 0730-0830 CF 1200-1530 Breakfast at Rockhurst CR Registration 0900-1000 Introduction of committee members; tips and CR tricks for having a fantastic week. Settle In Wind up the air conditioning, stock the 1345-1545 coolers, set up your Apple II gear, settle CR in and meet your neighbors. Decorate your KansasFest 2017 Keynote door for the door contest! - Antoine Vignau and Olivier Zardini 1000-1130 Vignau and Zardini founded Brutal Deluxe CR Software in 1992 focusing on 16-bit Sean’s Apple II Garage Giveaway software. The team created programs, such as - Sean Fahey & James Littlejohn the Convert 3200 graphics tool, and adapted games like Bille Art, The Tinies, Cogito, One never knows what goodies Sean will Blockade, and LemminGS. The team remains disperse at KFest. All items are free; active and has since released numerous however, please leave a donation to help titles, including Cadius (disk image defray the many expenses Sean has in utility), Merlin 32 (cross-assembler), You, storing, acquiring and transporting the DustHead! (disk head cleaning utility), i’m stash. Please be thoughtful in what you fEDD up (disk archiving), MountIt (disk grab so that everyone gets a chance to take image tool), and Fishhead (file copier). home a treasure. Transportation of goods They also created comprehensive archives of provided by James Littlejohn in “The Big cassette tapes, French cracking and Green Truck”. underground groups, machine serial numbers, and unique documentation. This year, Brutal 1130-1300 Deluxe published demonstrations and tools SAC (not Massman Cafeteria) for playing quadraphonic and octaphonic The Great KFest Kookout sound on the Apple IIgs. A quarter-century - Rockhurst Catering of continuing Apple II innovations and personal perspectives on the European Enjoy the BBQ and get to know your fellow computing scene are sure to delight all. Apple II nuts. Lunch will be catered by Rockhurst Dining Services. 1600-1630 CR 1230-1300 Session - Universal PSU Kit CR - Henry Courbis & Anthony Martino Juiced.GS Staff Photo Learn more about ReActiveMicro’s If you have been invited to this year's replacement power supply for the Apple II. Juiced.GS staff photo, please meet outside The Universal PSU Kit is designed to be the SAC at 12:30 PM. Wear a dark shirt, installed in your existing Apple II or /// but bring a light / white one as well for Power Supply Enclosure and replace your old any necessary costume changes. Power Supply PCB. All connections can be made by the user and are safe, simple, and 1300-1330 designed to last for the next decade and CR beyond of use. The Kit is also uninstall- Late Registration at Corcoran Hall lable and the enclosure isn’t modified in any way. Users are invited to bring their 1330-1345 own supplies to upgrade and follow along. CR Welcome to KFest 1645-1715 2030-2230 CR CR Session - Making Your Own Apple Gear Workshop - SolderFest! - Kathryn Szkotnicki Bring your soldering projects and work Join Kate as she shows you how to put the alongside others. Share tips and tricks, Apple (c) logo on shirts, hoodies, bags, and get help from those with years of blankets .... (Technique can also be used experience. Don’t forget to bring your own for other computer logos, but why would you soldering iron, solder, etc. want to?) 2300-? 1730-1830 Late Night Run to Steak & Shake, Jack in CF the Box, Denny’s, etc. Dinner at Rockhurst Why sleep? You can do that when you get 1845-1945 home! May occur on this night or any other. CR Session - Today in iOS - Rob Walch ================= Thursday, July 20 Rob Walch of Today in iOS podcast joins us for a look at tips, tricks, and the latest ================= in Apple’s iOS and related hardware. This year marks his 11th presenting at 0730-0830 KansasFest! CF Breakfast at Rockhurst 2000-2030 CR 0845-0915 Workshop - RetroConnector Mini HackFest II CR - Charles Mangin Session - Disk Imaging with Applesauce - John Morris Charles from RetroConnector will present new hardware to tinker with, along with a John will discuss the development of the "mini hackfest" contest for software and Applesauce floppy drive controller that hardware hackers alike. enables you to connect your Apple II floppy drive directly to your modern computer via Participants can create new software or USB. He will also discuss how to use the hardware that takes advantage of any software and various other topics around RetroConnector product, or hack new disk imaging and copy protection. functionality into existing hardware. Everyone who enters will receive necessary 0915-945 hardware to test with, sample code to get CR started, as well as troubleshooting Session - Porting Games from Booter to assistance and access to a variety of ProDOS additional boards and tools to complete - Peter Ferrie their entry. Supplies are limited, first come, first served, so get your ideas Peter will demonstrate how to convert self- together early. booting games to files that run from a ProDOS system. Entries will be reviewed, and prizes awarded, at the end of KFest. Good Luck! 0945-1015 of Apple II Hi-Res graphics? How close can CR we really get to that? Sprite compiling is Session - Text Adventures Revisited a technique we can use to find out. Quinn - Evan Wright will start with a primer on working with Apple II Hi-Res graphics, and will conclude Evan will be presenting a cross platform with an exploration of sprite compiling on text-adventure authoring tool which can this strange beast. Is 8-bit sprite export a game from PC straight to Apple ][. compiling worthwhile? Come to this session Topics will include the data structures and find out. underlying a text adventure and how a parser actually works. 1430-1530 CR 1030-1100 Session - Cracking at Scale CR - Mark Pilgrim Session - Disassembling KVOS - Charles Mangin Automation is the future of preserving the past. Charles will introduce KansasFest to KIM-1, a single board 6502 hobbyist computer from 1545-1630 1976. From there, he will delve into KVOS, CR a previously unpreserved (homebrew?) Session - More Steamed Apples operating system for the KIM, recovered - Ken Gagne from four 1K ROMs acquired at an estate sale. What has he discovered? What remains As yesterday's gamers become today's game to be found? Does he know what he's doing, developers, they look to their childhood or what he's gotten himself into? favorites for inspiration. This session will examine new games where the Apple II 1100-1145 influence is strong, fueled by nostalgia CR but with a unique spin. Each modern game Session - The Big Apple Round-up will be available for PC, Mac, and Linux - Jason Scott via Steam, the largest online computer game marketplace. Earlier this year, Jason put out a public call for Apple II floppies to image and 1630-1715 bring online, and the results have been CR spectacular. Jason will cover how it's all Session - An Apple II Build Pipeline for gone, the arguments for and against such an Inform effort, and how to break out of the usual - Michael Sternberg suspects into some true deep floppy archaeology. Inform is a compiler that targets the Z- machine used by Infocom text adventures. In 1200-1300 a previous year's session, C. Vanston CF discussed the syntax for Inform story Lunch at Rockhurst files. This session continues from there to show what tools are necessary to compile 1315-1415 your homespun story files straight to a CR disk image for immediate play-testing in an Session - Sprite Compiling for Apple Hi-Res Apple II emulator. Also, a brief survey of - Quinn Dunki the different Z-machine versions that were implemented on the Apple II will be What's the theoretical maximum performance covered. 1730-1830 0845-0915 CF CR Dinner at Rockhurst Session - Parallel Printing Enhances the Apple II 1845-1945 - Dr. Stephen Buggie CR Lightning Talks Computer printers from the Apple II era were of either of two technologies: serial Rapid-fire, five-minute talks on a variety and parallel. Apple's Imagewriter printers of Apple II topics. We have slots for 12 are serial, while most PC and clone talks--look for the sign-up sheet in the computers are parallel. Most Apple II users Corcoran lobby.