Apple II Forever Awards
Starting in 2010, the KansasFest Committee began to award members of the Apple II community who had made significant contributions to the Apple II, either in promoting or developing for the platform during its active years, or in helping to advance or preserve the Apple II since its production had been discontinued.
Year | Recipient | Contribution | Significance |
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2010 | Mark Simonsen | Involved in Beagle Bros and founding of Software Touch | Helped take Beagle Bros out of the hobbyist arena and into productivity software, with enhancements to AppleWorks and the upgrade to AppleWorks 3.0. |
2010 | Tom Weishaar | Writer, programmer, publisher | Wrote software for Beagle Bros, an early slide display program called Frame-Up and a DOS speed up package called ProntoDOS. Took over the DOSTalk column in Softalk magazine after Bert Kersey concluded his run with it. After the fall of Softalk magazine, he started the very influential Open-Apple and A2-Central newsletters, as well as several disk-based publications for the Apple II under the name Resource Central. His work focused on the intermediate and advanced Apple II user. He helped enhance the management of the A2 and A2Pro Roundtables on the online service GEnie starting in 1988. Promoted developer interaction and synergy through the A2-Central Developer's Conference beginning in 1989. This event ultimately developed into KansasFest. |
2010 | Tom Vanderpool | Apple II user group leader, Resource Central | Open-Apple and A2-Central contributing author, helped with many aspects of Resource Central product sales. |
2010 | Dennis Doms | Writer, editor with Resource Central | Open-Apple and A2-Central contributing author, helped with many aspects of Resource Central efforts. |
2010 | Ellen Rosenberg | Editor with Resource Central | Editor at A2-Central, Managing editor at II Alive. |
2010 | Ken Gagne | Editor Juiced.GS, blogger, Open Apple podcast, KansasFest public relations and committee member | Writer, blogger; editor of Juiced.GS magazine from 2006 until the present; co-host of Open Apple podcast from 2011 until the present; KansasFest committee member and public relations director. Responsible for helping keep Apple II topics current and relevant. |
2011 | Bob Bishop | Programmer, Apple R&D co-founder | Wrote some of the first Apple II hi-res graphics games (ROCKET PILOT, STAR WARS, SAUCER INVASION, and SPACE MAZE), and the first Apple II program to generate human speech (APPLE-TALKER) and record speech (APPLE-LISTENER). Wrote software that controlled nine Apple II computers used in the game show Tic-Tac-Dough when it returned to television in 1978. Together with Steve Wozniak, he helped form the first research and development department at Apple Computer. |
2011 | Ryan Suenaga | Writer, programmer, KansasFest committee | Writer, contributing articles to many Apple II publications. Editor of GEnieLamp A2, The Lamp!, Juiced.GS from 2002 through 2006, and A2 News and Notes. Started one of the earliest Apple II podcasts, A2 Unplugged. Tireless promoter of KansasFest and related Apple II activities. Contributed several software programs to the Apple II community. |
2011 | Eric Shepherd | Programmer, writer, operator of Syndicomm Online, publisher | Programmer with multiple utilities to his credit, as well as some major efforts including the port of Wolfenstein 3D to the Apple IIGS, and the port of the Apple IIGS emulator Bernie ][ The Rescue to Mac OS X (renamed as Sweet16). Writer of articles about the Apple II. Was a major part of the creation of Syndicomm Online, which maintained a point of direct online access for Apple II computers during much of the first decade of the new century. Part owner of Syndicomm, which provided a source of hardware and software for the Apple II long after most other businesses had abandoned it. Through Syndicomm, published Juiced.GS magazine from 2002 through 2009. |
2011 | Tony Diaz | Expert on Apple II hardware, hardware hacker and collector, KansasFest Committee | Has the benefit of many years of experience in using, repairing, and hacking Apple II computers and peripherals, and is one of the most knowledgeable hardware people about the Apple II in the world today. Has also been an avid collector of anything and everything Apple II, including several prototypes for the platform produced at Apple during the Apple II era. Significant contributor to the KansasFest committee, with the benefit of attendance since the event started in 1989. |
2011 | Steven Weyhrich | Writer, author, blogger | Writer, blogger, author and compiler of the Apple II History (apple2history.org). Responsible for written preservation of details of the Apple II and its place in the history of Apple, Inc. |
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