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An Onipa'a Software Production       Vol. 10, No. 8 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Publisher................................Ryan M. Suenaga, M.S.W., L.S.W. Editor.....................................................Lyle Syverson Internet Email, Publisher.........................thelamp@sheppyware.net Internet Email, Editor...............lutefisk at grex.cyberspace dot org ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::                            TABLE OF CONTENTS                            ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~                             August 15, 2007HIGH ABOVE THE ROCK RIVER---------------------------------------------[OPN]     The Life of a HoboA2 BULLETIN BOARD at A2Central.com DISTILLATIONS----------------------[DAA]     //c IDE/ram card?------------------------------------------------[IRC]     Experimental Apple II Music--------------------------------------[EAM]     Upgrade a Franklin Ace 100 to a Real ][?-------------------------[UFA]     What Clone Did You Have?-----------------------------------------[CYH]SPECIAL---------------------------------------------------------------[SPC]     Why a IIgs Really Flies with an Ethernet Card--------------------[RFE]LETTERS TO THE EDITOR-------------------------------------------------[LTE]     The Apple II and Time     Radio Clock Thoughts (Again)     An InvitationKFEST 2007------------------------------------------------------------[KF7]     KansasFest 2007--------------------------------------------------[KFS]     An Open Letter to KFest 2007 Attendees---------------------------[LKA]     KFest 07 Day 1 by Kirk Mitchell----------------------------------[K71]     KFest 07 Day 2 by Kirk Mitchell----------------------------------[K72]     KFest 07 Day 2 by Bruce Baker------------------------------------[K7B]     KFest 07 Day 3 by Kirk Mitchell----------------------------------[K73]     KFest 07 Day 4 by Kirk Mitchell----------------------------------[K74]     KFest 07 Day 5 by Kirk Mitchell----------------------------------[K75]     KFest 07 Day 6 by Kirk Mitchell----------------------------------[K76]     GShisen Final Rounds---------------------------------------------[GSH]     Return of the Geoff-i--------------------------------------------[RTG]KFEST 2008------------------------------------------------------------[KF8]     KansasFest 2008--------------------------------------------------[KFE]EXTRA INNINGS     About The Lamp! ------------------------------------------------ [INN]                                [*] [*] [*]READING THE LAMP!   The index system used by The Lamp! is designed to make"""""""""""""""""   your reading easier.  To use this system, load thisissue into any word processor or text editor.  In the index you will findsomething like:EXTRA INNINGS     About The Lamp! ------------------------------------------------ [INN]To read this article, simply use your search or find command to locate[INN].  There is a similar tag at the end of each article: [EOA].[OPN]-------------------------------         HIGH ABOVE THE ROCK RIVER |------------------------------------From The Editor"""""""""""""""by Lyle Syverson  email: lutefisk at grex.cyberspace dot org                            The Life of a Hobo                            ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~     Years ago, while growing up on the farm, we had regular visits fromHobos.  These people traveled from one part of the country to another bycatching rides in open railroad box cars... not very elegant... but veryinexpensive.     They would drop by the farm individually and ask for a meal,permission to stay overnight in the hay mow, old clothes, old shoes and soon.  They would offer to do some work to pay for their request.  There werealways various tasks waiting to be done on the farm so we could set them upsplitting wood, pulling weeds, removing manure from the hog house, etc.     They had a series of symbols they would carve on a tree or fence postindicating a farm that had good meals, a dog to watch out for, reasonableor unreasonable requests for work, etc.     Every so often one would balk at the suggested work and head down theroad.  A quick call to the next farm indicated a Hobo was on the way, whathe asked for, and the work he refused... if he was hungry enough by thetime he reached the next farm he might accept the same terms he had justrefused.     These people would be out of touch with family for months at a time.Quite a contrast to those who have to be in constant contact with othersvia cell phones or instant messaging.[EOA]ASCII ART BEGINS_________  _                     _                                      _|__   __| | |                   | |                                    | |   | |    | |                   | |                                    | |   | |    | |___     ____       | |       _____   __ ___ _   _ _____   | |   | |    | ___ \   / __ \      | |      /____ \  | v   v | | v ___ \  | |   | |    | |  | | | /__\ \     | |       ____| | | /\ /\ | |  /   \ \ | |   | |    | |  | | | _____|     | |      / ___  | | || || | | |    | | |_|   | |    | |  | | | |_____     | |____  | |__| | | || || | |  \___/ /  _   |_|    |_|  |_| \______|     |______| \____^_| |_||_||_| | |\____/  |_|                                                            | |                                                            | |                                                            |_|ASCII ART ENDS[EOA][DAA]-------------------------------------------------------DISTILLATIONS FROM The A2 Bulletin Board at A2Central.com  |------------------------------------------------------------by Lyle Syverson  email: lutefisk at grex.cyberspace dot org[IRC]//c IDE/ram card?"""""""""""""""""Hello all,I read over on the other side of a2central that someone was working on aram and IDE card for the //c and //c+. Is there any more info out thereabout this project?I would love to have a flash based setup for the ][ but I need to keep theportability of the //c. /lThanks!(CrAlt, a2c.general_chat, Jul 22 2007)>>>>>"""""No info except what has been disclosed is available at this time. As soonas the card goes into testing or is released, we will be sure to post it.Sean FaheySysOp(sfahey, a2c.general_chat, Jul 23 2007)[EOA][EAM]Experimental Apple II Music"""""""""""""""""""""""""""Here's my latest Apple II noise project:http://www.archive.org/details/MICRO.MUSICI had the idea to put an LP's worth of music on a single 5.25" floppy. Themusic is sequenced from sets of 16 samples which are mixed two at a time"on the fly". At some point in the project I got a bit loopy and decidednot to compose music in any traditional manner, but rather to use arbitrarysections of data as the score. This came about after I was viewing audiosample data in the monitor and noticed the byte sequences of the waveformscontained regular patterns with small variations which I thought wouldtranslate well into music. Personally, I find the results ratherinteresting, but as always YMMV.-s._____.|[LD8]! ====== 8-BIT SOUND & FURY ======|  o. | APPLE ][ AUDIO & MUSIC RESOURCES!__!__! http://8bitsoundandfury.ld8.org/(Luddite, a2c.music_multimedia, Jul 18 2007)[EOA][UFA]Upgrade a Franklin Ace 100 to a Real ][?""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""Hello,I have a Franklin Ace 100 (not 1000) computer.  Can I upgrade this systemto a normal ][ by taking the rom chips from a REAL apple2 and putting themin the franklin board? My little Ace has 6 rom chips.  If I am able to swapchips then do I need them from a ][ or from a ][plus?Thanks!-chris(CrAlt, a2c.hardware, Jul 13 2007)>>>>>"""""Moved the message to a2c.hardwareiirc, no - you can't.  The 100 is one of the hardest to find Franklinmodels, btw - wouldn't you want to keep it original?Maybe Tony Diaz will add to this thread.Sean FaheySysOp(sfahey, a2c.hardware, Jul 13 2007)>>>>>"""""Ok,There are 6 rom chips on the main board just like a real ][. They are onsockets so the upgrade could be undone with no problem.PS: Thanks for running this bbs system. I am typing this on my old //c thatis hooked to my OSX machine.... I just wish I could find a term app thatlet me do color ansi :-/PPS: To "The Lamp" dude that emailed me. You have my permission to use anyof my posts you want.  I lost the email somehow and don't know your emailaddress.thanks!(CrAlt, a2c.hardware, Jul 15 2007)>>>>>"""""The //c doesn't have the hardware capable of doing 80x24 text with 16colors.  The only option I am aware of is Spectrum with the Second SightCard on a IIgs (or was Ms. Scarlet with the revolver in the Kitchen :).Geoff(geoff, a2c.hardware, Jul 15 2007)[EOA][CYH]What Clone Did You Have?""""""""""""""""""""""""A Triton (I think. The label fell off long ago). It seems to be a ][+clone. I say this because it has upper and lowercase characters in ROM.  Ithad a Videx 80 column clone, a Microsoft Z80 softcard, an Epson APLparallel card, a RAM expansion by Australian Video Productions, and a greatfloppy controller card that supported and auto detected both numbers ofdisk sectors.  Unfortunately a dodgy power supply ravaged it.  When somecards arrive in the mail I'm going to restart its repair/restoration. Ilove its gargantuan case!  It's just begging for extra hardware.(Tristan, a2c.apple_clones, Jul 23 2007)[EOA][SPC]-------------------------------                           SPECIAL |------------------------------------[RFE]Why a IIgs Really Flies with an Ethernet Card"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""I have heard of all kinds of ways people have managed to get their IIgsconnected to the outside world, but if you have an Ethernet LAN, then a NATrouter will allow you to share as many computers as you like on that LAN,and a IIgs really flies with an Ethernet card such as the Uthernet card. Ifanyone wants them, I can explain the technical reasons why this is so.(Ewen Wannop, KFest-Talk mailing list)>>>>>"""""(Yes, please do.)>>>>>"""""OK, here goes...With the traditional interfaces to the IIgs, based on the serial port, youare at the mercy of the Interrupt system when capturing incoming data. Itis up to the efficiency of the software routines of an application tohandle and store that data, so there is no corruption of the data flow. Ifthe incoming data cannot be handled as it arrives, it will be lost forever.Depending on the speed of your IIgs, which in turn depends on the speed ofany accelerator you may have installed, you may well get data loss orcorruption at speeds in excess of 9600 baud. Each persons experience willbe slightly different.I can only speak for the Uthernet card and the Marinetti interface, but theway this works is quite different, as the card has its own onboard databuffer, and does not use the interrupt system of the IIgs at all. Marinettiis polled frequently by the calling application, and will retrieve anywaiting data from the card storing it in its own buffer. The applicationthen calls Marinetti for data whenever it is expecting it, and as Marinettihandles the integrity of packets of data, only clean data will be returnedto the calling application, with bad packets being re-requestedautomatically. This saves on application code, as the application does nothave to check the data integrity itself.The process of retrieving incoming data with an Ethernet card is more orless a lossless system, and on my own 12.49Mhz IIgs, when transferringfiles with FTP from a computer on the LAN, I am receiving data at the fullspeed of the 10-Base Ethernet connection.As others will attest, an Uthernet card and Marinetti, transforms a IIgsinto a very fast machine indeed. For instance, I can't remember the exacttime it took, but using SNAP, I was able to retrieve, process and store,the list of 106,000 news groups from Giganews in under 7 minutes. Theresulting text file is 2.3Mb in size. File transfers with FTP go evenfaster.Cheers - Ewen(Ewen Wannop, KFest-Talk mailing list, Jul 17 2007)[EOA][LTE]-------------------------------             LETTERS TO THE EDITOR |------------------------------------The Apple II and Time"""""""""""""""""""""I liked your mini-editorial piece in a recent "The Lamp!" issue about usingthe II in a time-related way. I think that something that listened to oneof the RF clocks and then rebroadcast (or just displayed) the time would bepretty cool. I have seen plenty of clock tools for MS-Windows and Linuxthat take time from a NIST server via the internet and (re)display it;something that runs on the IIGS, but uses RF-based time would be reallyunique.(Steve, via email, Jul 16 2007)>>>>>"""""Radio Clock Thoughts (Again)""""""""""""""""""""""""""""I have thought about this some more, and there are GPS receivers withserial-port connectors that a II might be able to read and thereforedisplay accurate time. I'm looking around for something that just feedsASCII....(Steve, via email, Jul 19 2007)[EOA]AN INVITATION~~~~~~~~~~~~~Express your opinions about the comings and goings in the world of theApple II computers.Send your comments to Lyle Syverson, lutefisk at grex.cyberspace dot orgThe Editor reserves the right to edit any material submitted.The Editor reserves the right to reject any material he considersunsuitable for publication in _The Lamp!_.[EOA][KF7]------------------------------                       KFest 2007 |-----------------------------------[KFU]KansasFest 2007"""""""""""""""was held July 17-22, 2007 at Rockhurst University in Kansas City.[EOA][LKA]An Open Letter to KFest 2007 Attendees""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""An open letter to KFest 2007 attendees.In 1992 I was fortunate enough to attend KFest in its heyday when it wasstill run by Tom Weishaar at Avila College, with Apple people such as DaveLyons, Tim Swihart, etc. still attending, not to mention so many of the"ordinary" people who made - and still make - the Apple II so"extraordinary".Unfortunately I haven't been able to make it back since, what with theairfares from Australia, a wife and family and job and ... well, I thinkyou get the idea. But every year I read all the plans and wish I could wina lottery so I could attend, and then I read people's reports and look atthe online snapshots, and I remember back to the fun and camaraderie andlack of sleep, and in some small way I feel like I share the experienceagain.Today that vicarious KFest experience came a little closer and a littleless "imaginary" when a postcard from Kansas City arrived in the mail. Myfirst thought was that it was from Ken Gagne (who I keep in contact with)as it is the sort of thing I could picture him doing. Then I read thegreetings from many of the other attendees at KFest as well, and I canhonestly say I was touched. Heck, "blown away" might be a betterdescription!I'd just like to say "Thank you!" to the people who took the time to signthe card. It would have taken seconds of your time, but it's created amemory for me that will last much, much longer!The Apple II was and is a special computer partly because of the peoplethat were attracted to it, and who stayed. I've seen another example ofthose people today.Apple II Forever!Peter Watson-- Write to MS-DOS disks on the Apple IIgs?-- Impossible!  ;-)(peterw, a2c.general_chat, Jul 25 2007)[EOA][K71]KFest 07 Day 1 by Kirk Mitchell"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""Hey, all...Your intrepid reporter here with yet another running commentary on thecurrent KFest.I'll try not to talk about food so much this year.  B-{)I left the small town of Moscow, KS to drive to KFest and 7 hours later,pulled into the parking lot of XL, the dorm we're at.  I really need totake more pit stops on trips like this.  I'm old enough that my joint'slock up.  Duh!Registration was fast, and I had lots of help from folks already here tohelp me unload my treasures.  Ryan Suenaga needed my GS for his session, soit got out of the house for the first time in a few years.Got here around 2:00 pm, and by 3:00 pm, a bunch of us decided to go outfor lunch.  Geoff Weiss suggested Sonic.  I'm never going to listen toGeoff's suggestions again.  Waiting for food in a hot car is just no fun.That and they shorted us an order of fries. The B@stards..Shortly afterwards, more folks started arriving, and we met folks wehaven't seen in 5-12 years, like Max Jones, Cindy Adam, and Tim Kellers...Also, KFest newbies, Jamie, Anthony, and Henry.  All much younger lookingthan I'd anticipated.  Sweet!  The Apple II kept alive by the youngergeneration.  B-{)Dinner time finally came around, and we raced to Sweet Tomatoes, a soup andsalad joint that's become a tradition. I won.  I don't think the otherswere aware that we were racing, or that'd the excuse they're using.   I ateplenty of rabbit food, but made sure to finish off with lots of soft serveice cream on hot fudge brownies.  My Dr. would be so proud.  B-{)Oh.  Food.  Sorry.  Sheesh, I'm obsessed!After Dinner, Ryan and I drove to Costco to buy supplies for the KookOuttomorrow.  It's a lot for 40+ folks.  Since I have to bake outside grillingthis stuff, I made sure to get a case of my favorite barley beverage.  B-{)You can't buy small quantities of anything at Costco though, so we had tosearch for a Price Choppers to get the rest of the stuff we needed.Sheesh...  I live in the boonies.  I have to drive 35 miles to get to aWalMart...  One way.  Seems like you have to do the same in a big city, butyou have to do it at 35 mph, and mess with stoplights.  We got everything,and.... had absolutely no help hauling it to our room.  I'm a bit miffed atthat.Now we have folks settling into their rooms, playing a Wii on the bigscreen TV in the lobby, coding, visiting, and generally introducingthemselves to each other.  Matt Jenkins was in here earlier, and we had anice relaxed conversation about Australia, and IT, and a range of otherstuff.  Meeting new cool people is what this is all about.  B-{)I brought an external USB Hard drive with all 11 seasons of MST3K to sharewith Ken and any other Misties here.  Since it takes 3 hours to copy over,it could keep him busy.  B-{)Oh, it took a while before Rockhurst IT got their act together, andactivated the account we were to use.  They gave us the username andpassword, but the service wasn't activated.  We've working on gettingcertain ports opened now.I'm going to do a walkabout to see if anything else is happening...Talked to Andrew Roughan a bit...  The lobby full of folks playing WiiBowling...  Or just sitting there with laptops on laps engrossed in geekystuff.  This is truly a summer camp for geeks.  B-{)I got a few folks to sample my homemade wine, but they must be frightenedof Jesuits, since this is supposed to be a dry school.  I haven't seensecurity yet, and I'm discrete.  B-{)I'm sure more will happen, but I'm off to visit some more.  I hope otherparticipants feel free to add to the thread with their takes on whathappens here.   We have a lot of new folks, and their viewpoints can alwaysopen fossilized eyes.  B-{)Kirk(Kirk Mitchell, comp.sys.apple2, July 18 2007)[EOA][K72]KFest 07 Day 2 by Kirk Mitchell"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""Day 2, first official day of KFest...We stayed up to a little after 3 AM, and woke up at 7:30 AM to shower andget ready for breakfast.  Same fare as last year.Nothing much happened until I started the charcoal at 11:15 AM to start theKFest Kookout.  The Rockhurst staff had even brought the grill over to thedorm, and set up tables and chairs, but most folks decided to eat with airconditioning.Everything went well, and I only suffered a few 1st degree burns, and theloss of some hair on my fingers.  B-{)  No one has reported to the nursefor food poisoning either, so it was a success!Dave Szetela gave a great Keynote address where he regaled us with hisApple II experiences, including stories from inside Apple Inc.  Also hisexperienced while with Nibble and many other stories that are familiar toanyone else who's ever fallen in love with the Apple II.  Good times!Ed Eastman gave a session on Soldering 101, but I was already nursing minorburns and didn't want to press my luck.  B-{)Instead, Ryan Suenaga, my roomie, needed a ride to Radio Shack, so off wewent.  The first one we went to didn't have his item in stock, so theycalled another store that did have it, so off we went to explore NorthKansas City.I hadn't been to that area, so it was an adventure.  The prostitutesweren't that bad looking, and the gang colors appeared to be mostly yellow,but we were on a mission and didn't stop until we'd got his frigging mixer.Only took us an hour and a half.  B-{PWe got back with 15 mins to spare for dinner.  Food was good, but I'llspare you the menu.After dinner, Ken Gagne showed some of the "BBS: The Documentary".  I'dalready seen this so I didn't go to it, but I do recommend this to anyonewho remembers the squawk of a modem, and the thrill of accessing your firstBBS.Instead, I hung out in a2central's chat room, where you'll find manycurrent KFesters saying absolutely nothing because they're busy runningaround.  Still, you can also find them chatting away during sessions, sincenearly everyone is taking advantage of the college wifi, and chatting withsomeone across the room from them, or even across the table.  B-{)If you're using Firefox or a Mozilla browser, get Chatzilla.  Then byclicking on:irc://a2central.com/a2c.chatyou can join us vicariously while things are happening.  You'll probablyend up bored though, because we're running around though.  B-{)The last activity of the evening was the pizza party put on by thepublishers of Juiced.GS.  Thanks, Sheppy!Wandering around the rooms lets you discover really neat things, too.Across the hall in James Littlejohn and Matt Jenkin's room, Jamie Steffinswas demonstrating a VGA converter that does a great job of upscaling a GS'svideo signal to VGA!  Sorta steep at $300 though.The Wii continues to impress the geeks here, tying up the bigscreen TV mostof the time, so there's been no movies shown, or karaoke sung...  B-{(Oh... Carrington Vanston finally puttered into town on his Vespa, but a bitlate for Kookout.  Fun guy!Well, that's it for the official day.  I'll wait before posting this, atleast until it's a bit later.  Google Groups appears to be having problems.I posted yesterdays report from there, and it never showed on Google, butdid on other news servers.  I'll paste this on to yesterdays news to see ifboth show up on Google.Still going strong, but I'm posting it anyway....Kirk(Kirk Mitchell, comp.sys.apple2, July 18 2007)[EOA][K7B]KFest 07 Day 2 by Bruce Baker"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""Kfest is official this afternoon with the Keynote Address given by DavidSzetela of Nibble Magazine fame.We have quite a few people who have not been here in a while.  It is greatto see them back.Perhaps the most startling thing so far, and it is not much, is thatsomeone (please identify yourself) is driving a full size school busrepainted in an old dark green color.  Some have called it olive drab.  Insome places the paint has come off giving it a camouflage feel.The bus made it easy to move people to Sweet Tomatoes last night for theunofficial kick off of Kfest 2007.Lots of other have different impressions I'm sure.A few extras took the time to drive this year brings more gear.  Tony Diazdrove from somewhere in sunny California. Eric and Sarah Shepherd came fromthe other direction (Kentucky?).  We have drivers from Ohio, Chicago area,and my wife and I from Houston.  This is why Kansas was picked in the firstplace, it is so centrally located.The game boxes have been used quite a bit on the big screen TV in thecentral room.  I'm seen an xbox and a wii.  Michael Kent seems to be themaster at wii bowling.(Bruce Baker, comp.sys.apple2, July 18 2007)[EOA][K73]KFest 07 Day 3 by Kirk Mitchell"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""Day 3...Only made it to 2:30 am last night.  Still got up at 7:30 am though.Breakfast menu hasn't changed, but I doubled up on coffee.First session was Andrew Roughan's on the Marinetti Open Source Project.Andrew picked up the pieces when Richard abandoned efforts on bug huntingand documentation corrections.  He deserved, and got a big hand.  Whichinterrupted my fervent meditation of the insides of my eyelids.  Damn neargot whiplash!  B-{)Austin Phelps (famous for being the only person struck by a flung floppydisk during KFest 2005's Diskcathalon competition) gave a session onMedical Images and OsiriX.  I wish I could tell you what it was about.  Iwent back to my room to rest my eyes.Tony Diaz presented a CBC documentary on Spam.  I missed that too.  I'mpretty much an expert on Spam, after recieving hundreds of gigabytes of theinedible stuff.Lunch was good.  I didn't miss that, and it shows.  B--{)Eric Shepherd did several nifty sessions on ORCA.  Big hint, use ORCA on afast emulator to speed development.  Word is that the folks in the back ofthe room were so overwhelmed that they passed out.  B-{)Ryan Suenaga gathered guests Carrington Vanston and Andrew Malloy for alive session of A2 Unplugged - LIVE.  It was quite humorous as these guyscrossed wits and set off sparks.  You'll have an opportunity to hear megiving a big "WhooHoo!" during the audience introduction.  B-{)Michael Mahon gave a technical and interesting session on "Real Sound for 8bit Apple II's".  Much of it went over my head, but I stayed awake...focused the entire time!  It was great seeing what he could make an old //edo soundwise! ...err.... hearing.Dinner was fine.Our last session of the day was from Rob Walsh, KC native and podcaster forPodCast411 and Today in iPhone.  He focused on the strengths and weaknessof this interesting device, and pointed us to places where we could go tohack the things.  B-{)Shortly after that, we made a run to the Apple Store where I enriched thestockholders of Apple Inc.  Most of the other folks were just Looky Loo's.Finally, Ryan and I went in search of the great steaming Krispy Kreme donutin an attempt to bring home dozens of the rascals to KFest participants.Alas, Ryan had spent valuable time yapping with others and by the time wegot there, only the maddening odor of the damn things lingered in theparking lot of the closed store.  Yet another hour and a half wasteddriving the streets of KC.  I'm a country boy, and driving in a "big city"is beginning to wear on me.  Still, I do what I can to contribute.  So Ishould shut up and think happy thoughts.  B-{) ....  still, we came backwithout donuts.   sniff..Wii is still big..  The crowds waiting their turns are engrossed.And laughter is wafting down the hall, calling to me.  Gotta check thisout.  B-{)Wish you were here!(Kirk Mitchell, comp.sys.apple2, July 20 2007)[EOA][K74]KFest 07 Day 4 by Kirk Mitchell"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""Day 4,Well, I got involved on the Wii last night and didn't tear myself awayuntil 5 AM.  My roomie failed to wake me until it was 9 AM and too late forbreakfast.  The rat.  B-{)First session was Michael Mahon's NadaNet session, where he gave a detailedtechnical presentation on networking and how he built his NadaNet fromscratch.  It was very interesting, and the demonstration was intriguing.And I didn't fall asleep!  His AppleCrate is something to see as well!Bruce Baker gave the next session where he chose a number of games from theSoftdisk 8 bit collection (a real gold mine of neat programs...  Hundredsof them!).  I bought the collection last KFest but haven't really sortedthrough the 166 disk issues to find the real gems myself.  Bruce found someneat ones.Tony Diaz was supposed to give a session, but I don't know what happened toit.Lunch was especially fine since I'd missed breakfast.  B-{)Ed Eastman had another soldering session which I missed.Geoff Weiss's session was System 6.0.1 for Dummies, and he went through theSystem Folder describing what almost each file did.Tim Kellers gave a session on an Introduction to FreeBSD, which forms thebase of Mac OS X.  Interesting, but the Center was having network problems.We had the fancy dinner next, then proceeded to reroast past roastees andwatch slide shows.  Lots of humor.  B-{)  Contest winners collected theirbooty and a good time was had by all.A small group took of this evening to a Celtic Folk music concert, anothergroup headed out for the movies, Ryan and I finally got the Krispy Kremesback to the dorm and almost lost limbs as we were rushed by human donutpiranhas...  B-{)So, it's been a slow night.  There have been quite a few new faces ona2central's chat.  I hope they haven't been terribly disappointed by theconversations.  When everyone gets back from movies and concert, we'llprobably get back to ignoring the chat.  B-{)The night's still young, although I don't think I'll be staying up so latethis time.I'll be finishing up my report tomorrow when KFest 2007 comes to a happyconclusion.Kirk(Kirk Mitchell, comp.sys.apple2, July 21 2007)[EOA][K75]KFest 07 Day 5 by Kirk Mitchell"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""Day 5,I got to bed at a decent hour last night.  Of course, the half dozen folkswho went to Denny's didn't bet back until around 4 AM.  I'd already beenasleep for an hour.  B-{)Got up at 7:30 am, and made it to breakfast and coffee.  Lots of coffee.  Ihelped Ryan haul my GS to the Student Center where he prepared for hissession "Suck Free Zone".  If a GS programmer doesn't have a program forKFest, tradition is that he/she sucks.  Ryan didn't suck.  His programallowed you to send SMS text messages to cell phones.  Interesting!Andrew Roughan did a quick demo of his HackFest program.  He'd finally gotit working last night.  Ryan and I thought he was moving in with us becausehe wouldn't leave off debugging his work on my GS.  B-{)  It's calledShareClip and allows you to share or receive the contents of the GS'sclipboard with Macs, Windows, or other GS's which are also running aprogram called ShareClip.  That would be useful during my chat sessions ona2central.com, since it's difficult to get folks posting long URL's to takethem to tinyurl.com first, since I chat on my GS, but surf on a G5 and hateto have to retype those URL's on the G5 to see the sites.Carrington Vanston gave an interesting session on recording audio forpodcasting or other purposes.  Ryan should take a hint, but he says hisstandards aren't that high.  B-{)Next came lunch, followed shortly by another A2unplugged LIVE session.  Youshould find that distributed pretty shortly.  I whoohooed again, but I'mgetting weaker as KFest finishes up...  B-{(HackFest awards were given, and Michael Mahon walked away with an Apple//c+ in an Apple carrying case for his program demonstrating a bouncingball travelling between two computers running NadaNet.  Nifty!We moved back to the dorm to have the swap meet/vendor fair, and I droppeda few more bills on Apple II stuff.Then it was off to KC Masterpiece for some excellent BBQ.  I'm glad Idecided to get the half slab of ribs rather than the full one.  I'm stillstuffed!Back at the dorm, we held the finals of the GShisen contest, where GeoffWeiss claimed the prize.  $50 off of anything in Syndicomm's library ofgoods.The Wii got packed away, so now folks are playing other board games andcards...  How refreshing!As for me, I'll be up a little longer, but since I have a long drivetomorrow, I won't be staying up too late.  It'll be breakfast tomorrow,then packing to leave yet another great KFest!  It was great meeting oldfriends and new faces of folks who share an interest in the Apple II!Hope to see you here in 2008!Kirk(Kirk Mitchell, comp.sys.apple2, July 21 2007)[EOA][K76]KFest 07 Day 6 by Kirk Mitchell"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""Day 6,Usually I stop reporting on Saturday.  But even Sunday was exceptional.I went to bed at 1 am, to be fresh for the drive home.  Up at 7:30 toshower and shave (the wife doesn't like me scruffy....  She may not like meunscruffy too, but she hides that well.  B-{)  )I stoked up on coffee none the less, and loaded the van all jittery andsweaty.  phew..Michael Mahon asked for a ride to Wichita earlier on the kfest mailinglist, but I wasn't planning to go that route.  Until my wife called andsaid I may have to pick up my bother-in-law there on the way back.  Iremembered Michael, and brought him on board.  Of course, my BIL wouldchange plans afterwards, but he did me a favor.  B-{)That three hour drive was one of the quickest I've ever experienced, wechatted so much, and I was totally engrossed the entire time... (when Iwasn't checking the map to make sure I wasn't effing up...).  At KFest,you'll meet folks way smarter than you, but they'll be kind and good folks.Generous with their knowledge, and the stuff they bring to the vendor fairbut don't want to take back too.  You may pay a bunch to get here, but thegiveaway treasures earned through contests or chance are worth taking home.Unless you wouldn't like an Apple //c+...  I scored one last year.  Michaelgot one this year.  Lots of //e's changed hands.. Monitors.  Software...I'm not religious, but I can see why some folks value a Hajj.  Get at leastone KFest under your belt, and you'll be a better person, and you'll makesome damned fine friends, and your acne will finally clear.  B-{)Kirk(Kirk Mitchell, comp.sys.apple2, July 23, 2007)[EOA][GSH]GShisen Final Rounds""""""""""""""""""""Geoff Weiss set the world on fire in the championship round of the GShisenContest with a blistering time of 2:53 to claim the 2007 title. He neededthat kind of performance to defeat Margaret Anderson, who also turned in animpressive time of 3:26. (The GShisen game number played in thechampionship round was 9197.)Geoff's victory earned him a $50 product discount on any title in theSyndicomm software arsenal. The second-place prize for Margaret was a 2008subscription to Juiced.GS.Earlier in the day, Margaret had won the second round of the contest,followed by Geoff. Placing third in the second round was Sarah Shepherd,followed by Bruce Baker and Carl Knoblock (a former champion).Congrats to the winners and all the participants in this year's contest.-- Max(Max Jones, KFest Mailing List, July 21, 2007)[EOA][RTG]Return of the Geoff-i"""""""""""""""""""""I got home safely after KansasFest.  Dain was really worried that he wasgoing to make a wrong turn and end up in Kansas before getting me to theairport.  I told him that the only way I was to end up in Kansas is if theplane I was one would fly over that state.  And sure enough, the plane tookoff over Kansas before turning southeast.Geoff(geoff, a2c.general_chat, Jul 22 2007)[EOA][KF8]------------------------------                       KFest 2008 |-----------------------------------[KFE]KansasFest 2008"""""""""""""""KansasFest 2008 is scheduled for July 22 through 27, 2008.This will be the 20th anniversary KFest.Go to <http://www.kfest.org> regularly to watch for details as theydevelop.[EOA][INN]------------------------------                    EXTRA INNINGS |-----------------------------------About The Lamp!   The Lamp! is published on the fifteenth of every month on"""""""""""""""   the WEB at:   http://lamp.a2central.com/This publication produced entirely with real or emulated Apple II computersusing Appleworks 5.1 and Hermes.  Apple II Forever!     * The Lamp! is (c) copyright 2007 by Ryan M. Suenaga, M.S.W.  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