Apple II convention – July 16–21, 2024
From Martin Haye. Super-Mon is a set of fancy extensions to the Apple II system monitor. This fairly technical session will follow the creation of a small but interesting assembly language program that demonstrates the concepts and capabilities of Super-Mon.
Check out other’s hardware, software and computers. Get help with yours, explore Internet, explore Kansas City, and enjoy some Krispy Kreme doughnuts, courtesy Ryan Suenaga.
Before there was the first-person shooter, there was the second-person thinker. Come watch a one-hour cut of Jason Scott?s two-DVD documentary, GET LAMP, that covers the history, impact, programmers, and gamers of text adventures and interactive fiction.
Don’t miss Mike Maginnis. An overview of the Apple III, and a look at all those nasty rumors about its allegedly poor design and engineering.
From Dagen Brock. This session will deal with using modern development tools and languages to create code and assets for use in Apple II software, including definitions and comparisons of off-platform and cross-platform development; creating build pipelines; using modern tools to create audio and visual assets; and tying it all together, as well as conjecturing …
From Tony Diaz From a collectors point of view, we will cover the aspects of restoring the “new” look to various Apple II related products, and the pros and cons of various methods avail able and show some samples of work done and in addition cover what makes a system “complete” with regards to collect-ability, and …
Don’t miss Martin Haye. NakedOS is a new Disk II operating system for the entire Apple II line of computers. In this session, its creator covers the project’s rationale, design goals, API, disk format, Super-Mon integration and finally a few decision points and caveats for programmers considering NakedOS for their projects.
The incredibly open nature of the Apple II for development, down to the inclusion of schematics in every box, encouraged a generation of users who were also program mers. By contrast, today we have the walled garden of iPhone OS, where Apple judges all. Between these polar positions is the Macintosh. How have Apple ? …