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Re: KFest 2006 report
HACKFEST PRESENTATIONS & AWARDS
30 minutes ago @ KFest
Hackfest is the annual programming contest at KFest. Programming can't
start until the beginning of the conference and the contest concludes
on the last full day of KFest. Participants are judged on the
completeness of their entry, programming experience, and by the quality
of their program. The top entries at KFest 2006 were (in no particular
order):
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Geoff Weiss - Applesoft - Bejeweled
Geoff wrote this Bejeweled clone in Applesoft using Low Rez graphics.
It looked pretty darn good for being Low Rez. Rather than detailed
"jewels" he just used different colored rectangles. Mouse capability
was included.
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Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd - C - Icon Invaders
Eric created a game which icons drop down the screen at different rates
and you have to shoot them ala Space Invaders style. Pretty cool
looking. The game pulls the icons out of the GSOS icons folder, both
small and large.
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Stavros Karatsoridis - SUPERPILOT - Kfest Trivia
Sven crated a Kfest Trivia game using SUPERPILOT. This was one of 2
entries which was 100% complete at presentation time.
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Margaret Anderson - Applesoft - Soduku Problem Helper
This text was the other 100% complete Hackfest entry. It displays 9
Soduku problems on the screen and helps you solve them, offering
suggestions for possible solutions if you would like. The program used
keyboard onscreen editing with a side menu.
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Matthew Schock - Applesoft - RPG Game
Matthew wrote a text based Samurai Role Playing Game with ASCII
graphics and animation, animated stick figures included.
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The winners were:
1st Place: Margaret Anderson
2nd Place: Eric "Sheppy" Shephard
3rd Place: Matthew Schock
- Paul
Kirk Mitchell wrote:
> Day Four! And it was a busy one!
>
> Breakfast was standard fare.
>
> Ryan Suenaga gave a presentation where he gave a brief history of
> podcasting, then announced that he planned to start one called
> "A2unplugged", which would focus specifically on Apple II's. This
> should be interesting!
>
> Eric Shepherd gave a session on Intel Mac tips and tricks where he
> demonstrated Sheepshaver, a method of running Classic on the Intel Mac,
> Parallels, which will run about every x86 OS out there as a window on
> Mac OS X, and Boot Camp, which allows Winblows XP to run on a partition
> on an Intel Mac. He also demoed some fun things like MacSabre, and
> other fun programs.
>
> Lunch was...hmm... I forget.
>
> Sean Fahey demonstrated the SVD, a device that makes it easier to save
> images to a PC, but allow you to use them on an Apple. See:
>
> http://thesvd.com
>
> Austin Phelps gave an interesting session on how to build a RAID array,
> with a short lesson on the differerent types, and their advantages and
> disadvantages. He shared how he built his 1.2 TB array. Sweet! (and
> I didn't fall asleep!)
>
> Margaret Anderson did a session on IF adventure games. I remember
> those fondly. She provided lots of sources for new and old adventures.
>
> Andy Malloy demonstrated Skype. Very tempting, seeing how it's free
> until Dec... I'll have to give it a try!
>
> The dinner wasn't a banquet like it had been in years past. Somewhat
> confusing, but this allowed us to hurry to the Roast of the Roasts
> where Ken Gagne did a great job as MC, and allowed him to dig into tha
> archives and find embarrassing photo's and videos of Apple II folks.
> It was a hoot!
>
> Jeri set up a Playstation where we competed at singing Karoke. We have
> some fine voices in our crowd. I shocked folks by kicking some butt
> singing "Sweet Home Alabama". B-{)
>
> All that made us hungry, so about 16 of us decided to go to IHOP. 14
> of us arrived. Neglect lost us the company of two fine folk. They
> found their way back to the dorm. IHOP was so frigging slow getting us
> seated that we went to Denny's instead. No problems with seating at
> all, and we got our food fast. So, since I've already had breakfast, I
> intend to sleep in tomorrow. B-{)
>
> I condensed this report pretty drastically. Like I forgot to mention
> that we had a cloudburst in the morning that only the couragious braved
> to get to breakfast, or that the temperature was wonderful, and that it
> was a grinfest from dawn to nearly dawn... You folks just have to
> experience this! B-{)
>
> Kirk