A2 News and Notes
February 2001

INDEX

* Delphi Divides
* Art Coughlin's X10 goodies on the 'Net
* KansasFest 2001 Registration opens
* GTE beta 2 out the door
* Apple IIs being rescued
* A2Central.com: new server, new IPs

* Delphi Divides

Further distancing itself from the center of the Apple II universe, the
Delphi online service is now two seperate entities: the text side, and the
web side.  In the past, a message posted on one side would (eventually)
migrate to the other side and also be posted there.  This no longer will
happen; webside messages are visible on the web, and text messages are
visible on the textside.  In the meantime, A2Central.com engineers work on
integrating a web interface ot its Apple II friendly text interface.

* Art Coughlin's X10 goodies on the 'Net

In a message on Delphi, Art Coughlin announced that he has a World Wide Web
page up with information on using the well-known X-10 interface to automate
your house.  Some of his Apple II software for using the X-10 hardware is
available there.  The site is:

http://www.concentric.net/~artcough/

* KansasFest 2001 Registration opens

Steve Gozdziewski, the Grand Gouda of KansasFest, announced that KansasFest
2001 registration is now open.  KFest 2001 will be held at Avila College in
Kansas City, Missouri, from July 25 through July 29, with special early
arrival events on July 24 at the same great prices as 2000.  InTrec
Software, Inc. is once again the sponsor of the most important Apple II
event of the year.  Be there and don't suck.  For more information, see the
KansasFest World Wide Web site at:

http://www.kfest.org/

* GTE beta 2 out the door

Apple IIgs programmer Lucas Scharenbroich has updated the beta version of
his graphics library, the Generic Tile Engine.  See his web page at:

http://www.d.umn.edu/~lscharen/

for more information.

* Apple IIs being rescued

A2Central.com seems to be the place for Apple IIs to be found in more ways
than one.  In Texas and Wisconsin, large Apple II collections--one by a
school, one by the widow of a collector--are up for grabs to folks who want
to provide them a good home.  For more information, see:

http://www.a2central.com/

* A2Central.com: new server, new IPs

Finally, in a bit of A2Central.com news, a new, much faster server and new
IP addresses (a result of a move to a new, more reliable Internet backbone)
are all part of the constant improvement in the Apple II specific online
service.

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