Apple II convention – July 16–21, 2024
We are thrilled to announce that Jordan Mechner will join us remotely for a chat on Thursday, July 18, to kick off the main sessions at KansasFest 2024. Not only does KansasFest 2024 mark the 40th anniversary of the Apple //c, it also marks the 40th anniversary of Karateka, Jordan Mechner’s much-beloved and groundbreaking game. …
The Raspberry Pi is a popular, inexpensive single board computer. What does this have to do with the Apple II? Who would be crazy enough to interface a Raspberry Pi with an Apple II? Ivan Drucker, David Schmenk, and Charles Mangin have done just that. Ivan turned his Raspberry Pi into an AppleTalk file server …
Daniel Kruszyna and Melissa Barron will teach attendees how to cut, fold, and glue their own 5.25? floppy sleeves. The session will start with a short instructional section and then continue with a workshop. They will provide tools for attendees to share and some basic card stock and other materials. It’s not necessary to bring …
The prizes are pretty awesome and will help make you the envy of the neighborhood.
Rumor has it we may get a look at the new Apple IIGS laptop, among other announcements.
Tony Diaz shows us how to keep them spinning. Keeping those disks ‘a spinnin’…How to make your 5.25″ and 3.5″ disk drives work like they never have before, and then some. See how to disassemble and reassemble like a pro.
Don’t miss Ryan Suenaga. Creator of the popular FishNDA, Ryan proves that he doesn?t suck, live from Hawaii.
By Ivan Drucker. Wouldn’t it be great if you could put whatever machine language you wanted into a standard Applesoft program with practically no performance, dependency, or stability issues? With Slammer, you can! Slammer is a new method for installing and executing machine language routines, at machine language speed, using 100% legal Applesoft. This presentation will …