Kansas Fest - Dates & Milestones

Dates & Milestones

Event Dates Speaker Keynote Title/Topic Important Events
1st Jul 21-22, 1989 Bill Mensch Beyond The 65816 Called "A2-Central Summer Developer Conference"; formation of Apple II Developer Association
2nd Jul 20-21, 1990 Fern Bachman, Jim Merritt, Jim Mensch, and Greg Blanche from Apple Apple IIGS System Software Update Called "A2-Central Summer Conference"
3rd Jul 16-21, 1991 Roger Wagner "Why The Apple IIGS Is Such A Freakin' Great Machine" First time it was referred to as "KansasFest". Held at the NOMDA conference center, with housing and meals at Avila. System 6.0, HyperCard IIGS v1.1, Ethernet card, and SuperDrive card announced.
4th Jul 21-26, 1992 Tim Swihart The Apple II Continuation Engineering Group 15th anniversary of Apple II. Sessions at NOMDA, housing at Avila. Resource Central takes over APDA (Apple Programmers and Developers Association) materials.
5th Jul 22-24, 1993 Mike Westerfield "Amateur Programming for Fun and Profit" Apple II's "Sweet Sixteen" party. First year of "Bite the Bag" and Tie One On contest.
6th Jul 21-23, 1994 Randy Brandt "Confessions of a Primordial Programmer" Called "ICONference"; held entirely at Avila.
7th Jul 27-29, 1995 Roger Wagner The Impact of Computers on Education / Personal History With The Apple II First post-Resource Central event.
8th Jul 17-21, 1996 Gary Utter The Future Of The Apple II Community Gary Utter's Declaration of Independence from Apple, Genie, and any other company, that it was time for Apple II users to take control of their own destiny. Demo of Gus Apple IIGS emulator, and Wolfenstein 3D for the IIGS
9th Jul 30-Aug 3, 1997 David Kerwood Apple II and Telecommunications First demonstration of Richard Bennett's Marinetti TCP/IP CDev for the Apple IIGS. Early demo of Apple IIGS emulator Bernie ]
10th Jul 22-26, 1998 Mike Westerfield Origins to ORCA First Hackfest and first door sign contest, and Wolfenstein 3D Shootout.
11th Jul 21-25, 1999 Max Jones Past, Present, and Future of the Apple II First release of Silvern Castle, and first visit to Sean Fahey's garage o' Apple II stuff.
12th Jul 26-30, 2000 Ryan Suenaga The Community and The Apple II "Y ]
13th Jul 25-29, 2001 Eric Shepherd A Call To Arms To Support The Apple II Community First demo of Syndicomm Online, the planned transfer of Juiced.GS to Syndicomm, and release of several CD-ROM collections.
14th Jul 23-28, 2002 Tony Diaz Tour of KFest Past First KFest Kookout, first Krispy Kreme donut night. First demo of Rich Dreher's CFFA card.
15th Jul 22-27, 2003 Steve Wozniak Stories by Woz Tiger Learning Computer demo, Jeri Ellsworth's "AnyCard".
16th Jul 20-25, 2004 Steve Weyhrich The Classic Car That Is The Apple II Final year at Avila University.
17th Jul 18-23, 2005 Ray Merlin Mainframes And Micros First year at Rockhurst University.
18th Jul 17-22, 2006 Eric Shepherd The Need To Re-energize The Apple II Community Introduction of Sweet16 Apple IIGS emulator for Mac OS X, and of the Apple II podcast A2Unplugged.
19th Jul 22-27, 2007 David Szetela From Nibble To Apple First demo of Michael Mahon's AppleCrate parallel processing machine.
20th Jul 22-27, 2008 Lane Roathe Programming Games For Fun And Profit The return of AppleCrate, now with 17 motherboard processing power.
21st Jul 21-26, 2009 Jason Scott Preserving Our Digital Past
22nd Jul 20-25, 2010 Mark Simonsen TimeOut For Beagle Bros First presentation of "Apple ]
23rd Jul 19-24, 2011 Bob Bishop Apple-Vision Of The Past
24th Jul 17-22, 2012 John Romero The Apple II Was About Games

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