Category: Events
Four hours of selling, buying, trading, showing off and community discussion completely free of charge thanks to generous donations from Frank Linares of Retro Rewind, Martin Jenkins, Peter Bartusek as well as the continued support of the Commodore Chronicles’ Fast Load Collective (Petzel, Pones, Nelson, BeardedSonOfNel and Nagel). Retro Rewind will be in attendance, offering their incredible products surrounding the Commodore 64, 128, Plus 4, C16 and Amiga computers as well as the Tandy COCO line of computers. See https://www.retrorewind.ca…
From the europlus zone blog: Hot on the heels of WOzFest 18 I’m very happy to announce the date for the next WOzFest: WOzFest 19 will be held on Saturday 1 May 2021, starting at midday Sydney time (UTC+10:00). The theme for WOzFest 19 is “Freedom” – a good friend and frequent WOzFest attendee retires the day before, so I thought what better way to celebrate than to get together with Apple ][ enthusiasts?! I’ll leave it to attendees to interpret the theme as they see fit….
From the europlus zone blog: I’m very happy to announce the date for the next WOzFest: WOzFest 18 will be held on Saturday 20 March 2021, starting at midday Sydney time (UTC+11:00). The theme for WOzFest 18 is “Community Service” – I’m asking attendees to bring something to upload to the Internet, to update an online resource, to do some Applesauce imaging on the night, to do some scanning, to interview a luminary via Skype…anything which contributes back to the retrocomputing community (it doesn’t even have to…
The Great Oz Retro-Fest, (GORF) is a multi-day event celebrating the personal computing platforms of the 1970s, 80s and 90s including the Apple, Microbee, Commodore, Atari, Sinclair and other 8- and 16-bit computer lines. GORF is being produced by Teaching Electronics and Computing History (TECH) Inc. which is an Australian not-for-profit association. GORF is happening from April 24th-28th 2019 at Urban Camp in Melbourne, Australia. Similar to KansasFest there is bunk-style accommodation provided on-site and participants are encouraged to live-in for the…
UPDATE: Due to unforeseen circumstances, I unfortunately have to postpone WOzFest 12:00 – the new date is Saturday 25 May 2019, all other details remain the same. Steve in Brisbane has decided to also postpone QFest 12 to the same date. From the europlus zone blog: From our Northern Apple ][ Compadres comes the following announcement: I am very happy to announce QFest 12, to be held in Brisbane on Saturday 27 April 2019, concurrent with WOzFest 12:00 and GORF, starting around midday Brisbane time (UTC+10:00). As with previous QFests, there…
The 2018/04 RetroChallenge is now taking entries for their event. RetroChallenge is an bi-annual event sponsored by John W. Linville in an effort to further the retro computing hobby. Entry rules pretty much sum up the feeling of the event: it is a bit like the opposite of Global Thermonuclear War — the only way to lose is not to play… The contest allows entries which are for any computer system which is older than 10 years and in the…
For those of you who write adventure games or interactive fiction, there is another contest out there. The Spring Thing was announced and run by Aaron Reed and the entry deadline is 1 March 2018. Initially held in 2002, The Spring Thing is intended to be an event which brings interactive fiction writers together. This Main Festival Games need to comply with the following forms: New: your game should be unreleased at the time the festival opens. Finished: the game…
WWDC 2015, the 26th edition of Apple, Inc.’s World Wide Developer Conference kicked off in San Francisco with Tim Cook and the Apple Team delivering a number of items to the Developers in Attendance. The annually held WWDC event gives developers around the globe a chance to rub elbows with the Apple Team and to meet other developers. For those of you who were not able to watch the Keynote live, it is now available online at Apple’s website at:…
Apples long announced Apple Watch looks to be coming on March 9th. Apple has an announcement event planned for that day at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco at 10am PDT. Apple also will be live streaming the event over the Internet as they have done with all of their events since Tim Cook took the reins of the company. You can view the live stream using Safari or Apple TV on the day of…
Apple has announced that they will be streaming the Scheduled September 9th live over the Internet. The event which is expected to announce the availability of the iPhone and iWatch among other things will be held in Cupertino at 10am that day. The announcement for the live stream appears on the main Apple website, allowing users to add the calendar item to their calendar app. This is a marked separation from the Steve Jobs era in Apple’s current habit of…
Apple has announced an event on September 9th at the Flint Center for the Performing Arts in Cupertino, Ca. The event which has been long expected by those following the iPhone 6. The schedule currently has the event beginning at 10am PST. Also expected to be introduced are a number of other related products including a new version of iTunes, iOS 8, and the iWatch among others. While the iTunes and iOS 8 are pretty much a foregone conclusion due…
The annual World Wide Developers Conference keynote for the 2014 rendition of WWDC will be broadcast live. Breaking with past years, the past several keynotes have been broadcast over the Internet, making it available to more people, especially in light of the popularity of the tickets for the event. WWDC is held each year at Muscone Center in San Francisco and is a week long chance for developers to rub elbows with the developers at Apple. It is also a…
Apple has sent invitations to their next event at the Buena Yerba Center in San Francisco. The event scheduled for 10am on the 22nd of October, is expected by most media outlets to be the announcement by CEO Tim Cook of the release of the iPad 5 as well as the iPad Mini 2.
Apple has announced that their Worldwide Developers Conference keynote, scheduled for 10am PDT today will be streamed live on Apple TV as well as the Apple WWDC 2013 App. For several years now, many developers and those in the Apple community have complained about a lack of live streaming of the Apple events. With the record sellout time of the tickets for the 2013 rendition of the WWDC event, Apple was forced to cover those who were unable to get…
Apple Inc. has released an iOS App for the iPhone and iPad which will give all registered Apple developers access to the event. The 2013 edition of the WorldWide Developers Conference in San Francisco sold out in a record 71 seconds this year leaving many developers in the dark so to speak. Apparently, Apple has heard the cries of anguish from those developers who figured they would be able to get a ticket and were not so lucky. The WWDC…
WWDC, Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference, has sold out their entire allotment of tickets in a matter of two minutes. In previous years, tickets were still available until a few weeks before the conference, however, as the popularity of the Mac has increased, the conference has been a more desirable destination. This record sellout is not likely to change next year either unless Apple increases the number of available tickets. For more information about WWDC or the availability of the…
The event video from the 23 October launch of the iPad mini is now available on the Apple event website. Initially, the video was only viewable in safari but it is now available for all browsers. The october 23rd event saw the introduction of a slew of new products including: new iMac new Mac Mini with 16gb Ram new Mac book pro 13 inch with retina display iPad 4 iPad mini Also introduced in the event was iBooks 3 with…
Apple, Inc. sent out invitations to an October 23rd announcement event. The event, scheduled to be held at the 1122 seat California Theatre in San Jose, has long been expected to be the introduction of the rumored iPad Mini. Another rumor floating around is that Apple will introduce a smaller MacBook Pro at the event as well.
Tim Cook, in an invitation only event in Sanfrancisco, introduced the iPhone 5 this morning. The event which was held at the Beuna Yerba Center had a bevy of new announcements in regard to the iPhone / iPod series including the iPod Touch, iPod Nano and the iPhone 5. Apple has posted the event in its entirety on its website here: http://www.apple.com/apple-events/september-2012/
Apple has finally put an end to months of speculation concerning the iPhone 5. With many different rumors and fake images swirling, Apple has announced that they will hold an event on the 12th of September. The event will take place at 10am PST at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. This has been the location of all of the recent Apple events outside of the Education event held in New York. While apple generally does…
