KansasFest 2010 Early Bird registration expires soon

[Ken Gagne <kgagne@gamebits.net>]

A reminder that this weekend is the last opportunity to get the Early
Bird discount for KansasFest 2010!  After May 31st, registration rates
go up by at least $55.  Prices include conference admission and room
and board.  Sign up today at

http://www.kansasfest.org/register/

KansasFest 2010 is being held at Rockhurst University in Kansas City,
Missouri, USA, July 20-25.  Besides being the world's largest
gathering of Apple II users, KansasFest is also an excellent
opportunity to bone up on your retrocomputing skills.  The growing
schedule of sessions and presentations current includes the following:

* A keynote speech by Mark Simonsen of Beagle Bros
* A tutorial of Structured Applesoft, Ivan Drucker's approach to BASIC
programming
* Floppy disk drive maintenance and hardware color restoration with
Tony Diaz
* Ken Gagne's review of Macintosh games inspired by the Apple II
* Programming in Macrosoft with Peter Neubauer
* A closer look at the Apple III by Mike Maginnis
* Martin Haye's introduction to his Super-Mon utility and NakedOS
* The latest on the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad by Rob Walch of the
Today in iPhone podcast
* HackFest, an annual programming challenge open to hackers of all
skill levels
* Stavros Karatsoridis will describe how to set up an Apple II to act
as a "dumb terminal" for the Terminal application in Mac OS X.
* Ivan Drucker will debut his original programming utility: Slammer,
which allows machine language to be inserted into a standard Applesoft
program with practically no performance, dependency, or stability
issues.
* Sometime this summer, KansasFest 2009 keynote speaker Jason Scott
will be releasing GET LAMP, his two-disc documentary of text
adventures. A special one-hour cut of this film, made exclusively for
convention audiences, will be screened at KansasFest.
* Eric Shepherd, who in 2008 gave a presentation on iPhone
programming, will this year introduce us to iPad programming. More
than just "a giant iPhone", the iPad is a unique development
environment, and Sheppy will review the differences between writing
apps for the two devices.
* Ken Gagne of quarterly magazine Juiced.GS will make several
announcements about the past, present, and future of the world's
longest-running Apple II publication.

We hope to see you there!