KFest 2008: Coming July 22-27, 2008!
KansasFest 2007 was such an enormous success that we've already scheduled KansasFest 2008 for July 22nd through the 27th of 2008! Join us for all the fun, friendship, and learning opportunities KansasFest has to offer!
The days will consist of official events including informational sessions, the KFest Kookout, the HackFest programming challenge, and more. Friday night will feature a catered dinner during which some kind of entertaining presentation will be offered, before the convention officially concludes the following day with the annual Vendor Fair, at which attendees buy, sell, and trade new and used hardware and software.
KansasFest 2008 keynote to be given by Lane
Roathe
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KANSAS
CITY, MO - January 2, 2008 - Lane Roathe,
cofounder of Ideas From the Deep and former
managing editor at Softdisk, will be the
keynote speaker at KansasFest 2008. At
Softdisk, a monthly magazine of original
software for the Apple II, Mr. Roathe teamed
with John Romero and John Carmack to create the
internal gaming division, producing such hits
as Dangerous Dave, Catacombs, and Star Axe.
“When I found out KansasFest was still going and I hadn’t known, I could’ve kicked myself,” said Lane, who last attended KFest in 1991. “To be invited back — and as keynote speaker, at that! — is an honor and pleasure.”
Mr. Roathe begin his career as a programmer when he created Blue Mountain Micro where he wrote and distributed games and utilities, including the Disk Utility Program and Copy Protection Notebook, for the Apple II. Later, at Tristar Computer Solutions, he cut his teeth on Alpha Micro mini computers. He then moved to UpTime, where he wrote the shell that drove the monthly Apple IIe and IIgs disk magazines. At UpTime, he met John Romero, with whom he’d later formed Ideas From the Deep, a company that has worked on titles such as Dark Castle, Zappa Roidz, Write Away!, Bugdom, Nanosaur and more. He performed a similar function at Softdisk, where he met John Carmack. Carmack, Romero, and Roathe would later work together to create Commander Keen, id Software’s first title. Roathe’s career has continued to envelop all aspects of programming and management. His current position is Director of Technology for Method Solutions, a video game production company that develops exciting and exceptional video games on consoles, PCs and wireless phone handsets. Roathe also continues as president, cofounder, and lead developer for Ideas From the Deep, which provides software publishing, development and contracting services, and specializes in platform independent development titles and libraries.
KansasFest 2008 is set for Rockhurst University in Kansas City, Missouri, from July 22nd through July 27th.
KansasFest, the Apple II summer gathering also known as KFest, was originally hosted by Resource Central, has been brought to you by the KFest Committee since 1995. Any and all Apple II and Macintosh users, fans, and friends are invited to attend this year’s “summer camp for geeks”; you’ll be glad you did!
CONTACT: KansasFest 2008 kfest-help@kfest.org http://www.kansasfest.org/
“When I found out KansasFest was still going and I hadn’t known, I could’ve kicked myself,” said Lane, who last attended KFest in 1991. “To be invited back — and as keynote speaker, at that! — is an honor and pleasure.”
Mr. Roathe begin his career as a programmer when he created Blue Mountain Micro where he wrote and distributed games and utilities, including the Disk Utility Program and Copy Protection Notebook, for the Apple II. Later, at Tristar Computer Solutions, he cut his teeth on Alpha Micro mini computers. He then moved to UpTime, where he wrote the shell that drove the monthly Apple IIe and IIgs disk magazines. At UpTime, he met John Romero, with whom he’d later formed Ideas From the Deep, a company that has worked on titles such as Dark Castle, Zappa Roidz, Write Away!, Bugdom, Nanosaur and more. He performed a similar function at Softdisk, where he met John Carmack. Carmack, Romero, and Roathe would later work together to create Commander Keen, id Software’s first title. Roathe’s career has continued to envelop all aspects of programming and management. His current position is Director of Technology for Method Solutions, a video game production company that develops exciting and exceptional video games on consoles, PCs and wireless phone handsets. Roathe also continues as president, cofounder, and lead developer for Ideas From the Deep, which provides software publishing, development and contracting services, and specializes in platform independent development titles and libraries.
KansasFest 2008 is set for Rockhurst University in Kansas City, Missouri, from July 22nd through July 27th.
KansasFest, the Apple II summer gathering also known as KFest, was originally hosted by Resource Central, has been brought to you by the KFest Committee since 1995. Any and all Apple II and Macintosh users, fans, and friends are invited to attend this year’s “summer camp for geeks”; you’ll be glad you did!
CONTACT: KansasFest 2008 kfest-help@kfest.org http://www.kansasfest.org/
Download KansasFest 2007 wallpaper
February 16, 2007 @ 12:22 PM |
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Chris Lackey of Commareus, who has designed
our logos and advertising for the last
couple of years, offers us a nice desktop
wallpaper for your computer.