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I have a bad habit of getting things 90% complete and then never finding the momentum for that last 10%. I did a presentation for the annual Apple II convention, KFest back in the summer of 2010. I also released a fairly buggy Apple IIgs game while I was there. I intended to fix some bugs in the game's code and add a bunch of extras to my presentation package and then my life kind of went pear shaped. Now, over a year (and a missed KFest) later I decided I need to just put this stuff out, and move on with my life, and start some new Apple II projects.

I've been doing hour long jogs in Kansas City's lovely 90+ degree, 100% humidity heat. I really needed some extra oomph in my headphones to push me past that hour mark. So here's 70 minutes of relentless tunes for your next sweat session. Take this mix and use it well.

It's another fine day on this blue planet but I still feel yellow. Now you can too!

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I finally got around to hammering out a little demo to keep me warm on these cold winter nights.

The code is a bit of a mess but it was mostly to see if I could do it and pull of a convincing version of the classic Fire Demo so prevalent in 1990's demos. It uses 16 bit registers and maybe a few 65816 opcodes but it should be pretty easy to port it to the IIe.

I just needed to play some records. It's a little on the eclectic side... but that's how I roll.



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For those who don't know (99.999% of the population) KFest is a yearly Apple Computer themed conference that takes place in Kansas City, Missouri. When I say Apple, I mean Apple II. There are the occasional Mac/Iphone topics but really who cares about that? I went in 1993 which was probably close to the last big one when Apple Computer was still sending employees.

I decided as a birthday present to myself that I would finally get an older Apple II computer. I have a couple of old IIgs'es I play with regularly these days as well a IIc that was missing the power brick. I did the whole "items wanted" thing on Craigslist in hopes that someone nearby would sell me one on the cheap.