Kansasfest 2015 Schedule KEY: CF - CAFETERIA - MASSMAN HALL Breakfast at Rockhurst CR - CORCORAN HALL KC - KANSAS CITY AIRPORT 0900-1100 KS - KANSAS CITY CR Wind up the air conditioning, stock the ================ coolers, set up your Apple II gear, settle in and meet your neighbors. Decorate your Tuesday, July 14 door for the door contest! ================ 0900-0930 CR 0800- Juiced.GS Staff Photo KC Peikop Endropov – airport ride sharing If you are on the staff of Juiced.GS, - Carl Knoblock, chief taxi coordinator please meet in the Corcoran Lobby and be wearing a black shirt (ideally this year’s 1200-1600 KansasFest shirt, if you’ve ordered one). CR Registration 1100-1300 CR Stop by the Corcoran Lobby to check in and Sean’s Garage at KFest pick up your registration packet and name - Sean Fahey with help from James badge. Littlejohn 1630-2000 One never knows what goodies Sean will Dinner Outing disperse at KFest. Transportation of goods provided by James Littlejohn in “The Big Jack Stack (BBQ), Lidia’s (Italian), Cafe Green Truck”. Please leave a donation to Gratitude (Vegan). Gather in the Corcoran help defray the many expenses Sean has in Lobby and we will all make the trek storing, acquiring and transporting the together. We will need drivers, so if you stash. have a car please offer a ride to your fellow KFest attendees. 1200-1300 CR ================== The Great KFest Kookout - Kirk Mitchell, head kook Wednesday, July 15 Enjoy the BBQ and get to know your fellow ================== Apple II nuts. Kirk could use assistance, so step up and offer him a hand. 0700- CR 1300-1330 HackFest 2015 Begins CR Late Registration at Corcoran Hall 0730-0830 CF 1 1330-1345 1830-1930 CR CR Welcome to KFest Session - Today in iOS Introduction of committee members; tips and - Rob Walch tricks for having a fantastic week. Rob Walch of Today in iOS podcast joins us 1345-1545 for a look at tips, tricks, and the latest CR in Apple’s iOS and related hardware. KansasFest 2015 Keynote - Rebecca “Burger Becky” Heineman 1945-2130 CR Heineman learned programming at age 16 and Workshop - Happle Trees! Programming low- gained fame in 1980 as the first National res graphics in Applesoft BASIC Space Invaders Champion with a score of - Sarah Walkowiak 165,200. Her career soon blossomed with credits in over 250 games including classics Have you dreamed of bringing your Applesoft such as Tass Times in Tonetown, Dragon Wars, BASIC programming skills into ANOTHER Crystal Quest, The Bard’s Tale III: The DIMENSION? If so, then this workshop is for Thief of Fate, Battle Chess, and Wolfenstein you! Be DAZZLED by stunning graphics, 3D. She developed numerous titles for the created by YOU in a full rainbow of sixteen Apple IIgs, other contemporary platforms LUMINOUS colors* with an UNPRECEDENTED such as the Macintosh and Super Nintendo, resolution of forty by forty rectangular and modern platforms such as the Xbox 360 pixels! and Playstation 4. She has founded or co- founded multiple game companies, including This workshop will cover: the venerable Interplay Entertainment, and • Designing low-res graphics for the Apple worked for many more. Heineman continues to II work in the game industry, and her company • Creating and programming Applesoft BASIC Olde Sküül recently announced a new RPG, graphics in low-res mode Dragons of the Rip. In addition, Olde Sküül • Adding simple animation to your graphics was recently contracted by inXile (time permitting) Entertainment to make the original three Bard’s Tale games run natively on Macintosh Requirements: and PC! • An Apple II** computer or computer/laptop running your favorite Apple II emulator 1615-1645 • For participants using Apple II CR computers: a floppy disk, formatted for Session - UltimateApple2 and ReActiveMicro saving Applesoft BASIC programs or - Launch of New Brand: UltimateMicro disk/storage media with space to save a - Henry Courbis & Anthony Martino program (optional, but highly recommended!) • A version of Applesoft BASIC that can Announcements direct from UltimateApple2 support low-res graphics mode, preferably and ReActiveMicro about the new brand: on disk/disk image to allow for saving your UltimateMicro. Related projects, possible programs demos, and Q&A. Graph paper, sample images and colored 1700-1800 pencils will be provided for designing CF graphics. If you do not have a computer Dinner at Rockhurst with you, you are welcome to attend and sketch out graphics to try out later on your own after the workshop. 2 * All colors not available on monochrome Breakfast at Rockhurst monitors 0900-0945 ** Workshop programs will be tested on an CR Enhanced Apple IIe, AppleWin (PC) and Session - Firmware on EPROMS: A Key to Virtual ][ (mac), [Apple II GS users are Apple II Forever welcome, assuming they can access - Stephen Buggie BASIC/ProDOS] Most computer equipment contain EPROMs on 2130-2230 their circuits: CPUs, printers, interface CR cards, or peripherals. The EPROM chips Workshop - Apple II Xcode contain firmware code to control operation - Jeremy Rand of the device. An EPROM looks like a large IC chip: It is wide, with 24 to 40 pins. Come with a Mac OS X laptop running 10.9 or There is a small round window in the center 10.10 and leave with all the tools of the upper side of the chip, with a installed and setup so you can write your microlattice of fine metal wires visible own Apple // programs in C or assembly through the clear quartz-glass window. The using Xcode. Build the sample project and EPROM chips can be erased and reconfigured learn a tiny bit of C as your launch pad by hours of exposure to ultraviolet light, for creating your own projects. followed by software-controlled "burning" of fresh code. The use of EPROMs allows the 2230-0000 periodic upgrading of firmware. In my CR presentation, EPROMs and related hardware Bite the Bag - a time-honored KFest classic will be shown and discussed. Knowledge - Geoff Weiss about EPROM technology should be shared among Apple II devotees because the EPROMs How low can you go? You don't have to be can go bad after years of service. The Bilbo Baggins to play this game. This is firmware code can be stored on floppy something that you can really sink your disks, and then used to rejuvenate EPROMs teeth in. Pick up a paper bag with only one that have gone bad. In the long run, limb on the ground. The bag gets shorter and spanning future decades, Apple II equipment shorter in every round. Who will be crowned will survive only if the firmware code on champion? Who will sing the soggy paper bag the EPROMs has been preserved on disks; blues? Who will faceplant? Don’t miss the once on disk, the code on could be fun. Prize awarded. preserved for indefinite archiving by recopying it to other long-lasting media 2300-? such as CD-ROMs or flash drives. Apple II Late Night Run to Steak & Shake, Jack in users should learn EPROM-burning skills, the Box, etc. with the needed hardware, to create fresh Why sleep? May occur on this night or any copies of the firmware code for themselves other. and to be shared widely with others. ================= 1000-1030 CR Thursday, July 16 Session - Mouse Programming - Quinn Dunki ================= Mouse programming on the Apple II is a 0730-0830 fascinating mix of old and new software CF paradigms. It's old fashioned ROM-entry- 3 point style programming, but with slight why we can expect many more crashes in the nods towards modern API design and future. relocatable driver code. I spent some time working out all the gotchas in this, and 1500-1530 will share that hard-earned knowledge with CR you. You'll leave the session with a basic Session - Apple II SuperMegaSplodaGanza mouse driver that you can tweak and use in - Dagen Brock your own programs. Eminent Apple IIgs enthusiast Dagen Brock 1045-1145 will give 30 slides in 30 minutes on why CR his Apple II's are having the best year Session - Pascal as my second language ever. Hold on to your seats and buckle your - Jay Graham face as he exposes an immense set of events and details that will forever change your This session will briefly cover the Pascal view of computing and the human condition. operating system and compare the various Pascal compilers and interpreters for the 1545-1615 Apple II. It give an overview of the Pascal CR language itself, provide a useful guide to Session - E7 E7 E7 EE: the story of the learning Pascal and then compare and greatest copy protection ever invented contrast the available Pascal programming - Mark Pilgrim environments for the Apple II series of computers. This session is perfect for Learn the secret behind the bitstream that those of you who have mastered BASIC and revolutionized Apple II copy protection: a want to delve into structured programming runtime routine that could determine if it languages. No knowledge of programming will was running on an original disk. be required, but it is certainly a plus. 1615-1645 1200-1300 CR CF Session - M0100 - Great Apple Mouse, or Lunch at Rockhurst Greatest Apple Mouse Ever? - Charles Mangin 1330-1415 CR A deep dive into the Apple M0100 Mouse, the Session - LCD Conversions Apple II mouse interface, and updating them - Javier Rivera for the modern era. Javier explains his techniques and tricks 1700-1800 to convert Apple monitors to LCD. He will CF show his LCD conversion and also a small Dinner at Rockhurst "show and tell" of past conversions and techniques. 1830-1845 CR 1430-1500 Session - Lawless Legends update CR - Martin Haye Session - 5 Apple Crashes - Jason Scott Quick demo of game engine and artwork developments during the past year for Jason Scott describes five times he has had Lawless Legends, the 8-bit wild-west RPG.