HackFest is an Apple II programming competition held over the course of KansasFest every year and open to all attendees. The following archive of past HackFest entries serves as an example of the creativity and methods this competition inspires among KansasFest attendees. The rules under which they were created are here.
| Year | Author | Title | Place | Format | Alternative |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Michael Hackett | WordWorks Pro pop-up blocker | 1st | ||
| 1998 | Pim Blokland | Finder desktop color changer | 2nd | ||
| 1998 | Ken Gagne | GSoft BASIC Boggled | 3rd | ||
| 1998 | Geoff Weiss | ||||
| 1999 | Ken Gagne | Spectrum address book | 1st | ||
| 1999 | Shawn Beattie | GSoft BASIC countdown to Y][KFest | 2nd | ||
| 1999 | Richard Bennett | Erratic iMac-like mouse behavior | 3rd | ||
| 1999 | Jeff Blakeney | File compression utility | 4th | ||
| 1999 | Cindy Adams | Simple Spectrum script | 5th | ||
| 2000 | Geoff Weiss | Taipan | 1st | ||
| 2000 | Ken Gagne | Maxster | 2nd | BXY | |
| 2000 | Margaret Anderson | AppleWorks macro | 3rd | ||
| 2000 | Jeff Blakeney | Spectrum Checkers | 4th | ||
| 2000 | Jamie Hodges | Applesoft dice-rolling | 5th | ||
| 2001 | Margaret Anderson | 1st | |||
| 2001 | Ken Gagne | KISS | 2nd | BXY | |
| 2001 | Geoff Weiss | Spectrum tar | 3rd | ||
| 2001 | Jamie Hodges | 4th | |||
| 2003 | Margaret Anderson | HyperCard-based driving time estimator to local restaurant | 1st | ||
| 2003 | Andrew Roughan | Specification for a Marinetti debugging tool | |||
| 2004 | Eric Shepherd | SideClick | 1st | ||
| 2004 | Geoff Weiss | LanceHack | 2nd | ||
| 2004 | Hans Franke | HELLO WORLD for Replica-1 | 3rd | ||
| 2006 | Margaret Anderson | Sudoku solver | 1st | ||
| 2006 | Eric Shepherd | Finder icon Space Invaders | 2nd | ||
| 2006 | Matthew Schock | BASIC RPG | 3rd | ||
| 2006 | Stavros Karatsoridis | KFest trivia | 4th | ||
| 2006 | Geoff Weiss | Bejeweled | 5th | ||
| 2007 | Michael J Mahon | Nada.Pong | 1st | SDK | |
| 2007 | Andrew Roughan | ShareClip | 2nd | ||
| 2008 | Ryan Suenaga | Bitly CDA | 1st | ||
| 2008 | Margaret Anderson | Game launcher | 2nd | ||
| 2009 | Peter Neubauer | Conway's Game of Life | 1st | SHK | |
| 2009 | Martin Haye | VROOM | 2nd | PO | PNG |
| 2009 | Margaret Anderson | HyperCard-based disk cataloging utility | 3rd | ||
| 2009 | Ryan Suenaga | IPData Reporter CDA 1.0 | 4th | BXY | |
| 2010 | Martin Haye | Wizardry deprotected | 1st | ||
| 2010 | Peter Neubauer | KansasFest Trivia with Complete Pascal and Pegasoft Draw Tools | 2nd | SHK | |
| 2011 | Daniel Kruszyna | Squares | 1st | BXY | PO |
| 2011 | Peter Neubauer | Terrapin & DoubleTalk demo | 2nd | DSK | |
| 2011 | Martin Haye | Haiku-Bot | 3rd | DSK | |
| 2012 | Jeremy Rand | CurtaSim | 1st | DSK | source code |
| 2012 | Jeff Blakeney | Colourfill game | 2nd | ||
| 2012 | Ivan Drucker | Magic GOSUB | 3rd | DSK | BXY |
| 2012 | Scott Miller | A formula for drawing the word KFest | 4th | ||
| 2012 | Martin Haye | Apple /// crack screen | DSK | ||
| 2012 | Peter Neubauer | Lissajous curve plotter | DSK | ||
| 2012 | Mike Maginnis | Apple III piano | |||
| 2013 | Margaret Anderson | Eamon mapper | 1st | ||
| 2013 | Geoff Weiss | Teach bug fix and Time control panel update | 2nd | SHK SHK | |
| 2013 | Kay Savetz | Automatic Structris player | 3rd | ZIP (with DSK and TXT) | |
| 2013 | Jeremy Rand | RPN calculator | 4th | ZIP SHK 2MG | Latest release |
| 2013 | Kelvin Sherlock | KansasFest banner INIT and ORCA/C binary literal support | 5th | Patch | HTTP |
| 2013 | Charles Mangin | KansasFest themed Bard's Tale characters | 6th | DSK | |
| 2013 | Forrest Lowe | Boot tracing tools | 7th | DOC DSK | |
| 2014 | Jeremy Rand | Apple 2048 game | 1st | DSK | Git |
| 2014 | Ivan Hogan | Trig Function Plotter | 2nd | DSK TXT | HTTP |
| 2014 | John Lane | Thorin's Charge Card (Wizardy 4 de-protect) | 3rd | TXT | DSK Notes on DSK |
| 2014 | Charles Mangin | Biofeedback Game | ZIP | ||
| 2015 | Carrington Vanston | Tic-Tac-Toe Game | 1st | ZIP with disk image and source | |
| 2015 | Martin Haye | Apple III Assembler/Disassembler | 2nd | ||
| 2015 | Jeremy Rand | A2Sudoku | 3rd | DSK v1.0 Source ZIP | Github DSK v1.2 (enhanced after HackFest) |
| 2015 | Kay Savetz | Little Red Google Car (Lit’l Red Bug Autoplayer) | ZIP | ||
| 2015 | Kay Savetz | Archive.org Disk Image Data Extractor | Shell script | ||
| 2015 | John Leake | OMG Zombies | |||
| 2015 | Forrest Lowe | "3-Sided Record" Disk (multiple sector 0s) | |||
| 2015 | Charles Mangin | Disk Imager | Source on Github | ||
| 2015 | Sarah W | Olympic Decathlon fix | PNG screenshot | ||
| 2016 | Kay Savetz | Kaverns of KFest | 1st | DSK | GitHub |
| 2016 | Jeremy Rand | Bejeweled | 2nd | DSK | GitHub |
| 2016 | Rob McMullen | Apple II support in Omnivore | 3rd | Web | GitHub |
| 2016 | Paul Hagstrom | Wavy Dots | DSK | GitHub | |
| 2017 | Martin Haye | Apple III Satan Mode | DSK | ||
| 2017 | Ivan Hogan | Crossline | DSK TXT (source+directions) | TXT (version 2) TXT (version 3) |
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| 2017 | Jeremy Rand | ColourGo | DSK (improved v1.5) DSK (HackFest entry) | GitHub | |
| 2017 | Russ Ross | 2048 | |||
| 2017 | Rob McMullen | Fujirun | 1st | DSK | GitHub |
| 2017 | Alain Zanchetta | Sargon II hack | 3rd | ||
| 2017 | Charles Mangin | You are a Grue | 2nd | ||
| 2017 | Alex French | Super Hi-Res Particles | |||
| 2017 | Kay Savetz | Simon Sez | BAS DSK | ||
| 2019 | Adrian Bedard | 8 Bit Man | 1st | Website | |
| 2019 | Charles Mangin | Octopede | 2nd | DSK | GitHub |
| 2019 | Melissa Rand | Hot Dice | 3rd | DSK | GitHub |
| 2019 | Sarah W | Coveted Mirror Name Generator | 4th | DSK | Website Archive.org |
| 2019 | Mike Goodell | Keyboard Tester | |||
| 2019 | Alain Zanchetta | SCART Video Modes | |||
| 2019 | Kris Kennaway | Hires Shades of Gray | |||
| 2019 | Forrest Lowe | 6502 multiply/divide routines | |||
| 2019 | Margaret Anderson | Eamon Mapper | DSK | ||
| 2020 | Melissa Rand | Using an Apple ][ through Discord | 1st | GitHub | |
| 2020 | Charles Mangin | Canyon | 2nd | DSK | |
| 2020 | Sellam Abraham | Mesmerizer Exorciser | 3rd | YouTube | |
| 2020 | Micah Cowan | Fnord | 4th | DSK | YouTube |
| 2020 | Ben Smith | Etch | 5th | DSK | YouTube |
| 2020 | Matteo Trevisan | VISUAL APPLE II OS | DSK | YouTube | |
| 2020 | Scott Lawrence | Video Switcher for the Apple ][c "Rollercoaster" LaserDisc Game | YouTube | ||
| 2020 | Andrew Roughan | Patch Mockingboard speech titles to use SAM software speech | GitHub | ||
| 2021 | Peter Ferrie | TextBoot | 1st | HTML | |
| 2021 | Jeremy Rand | ListenerGS | 2nd | SHK | |
| 2022 | Micah Cowan | a2vimode | 1st | GitHub | |
| 2023 | Oleg Kobchenko | Efficient Terrain Generator for Apple II | 1st | GitHub | |
| 2023 | Jeremy Rand | EightBitBlast | 2nd | GitHub | |
| 2023 | Dennis Kovacich | Applesoft floating point bug | 3rd | ||
| 2024 | Kevin Powers | Garage Giveaway Simulator | 1st | DSK | |
| 2024 | Chris Rupnik | TRAG: Joystick Tester | 2nd | DSK | |
| 2024 | Jeremy Rand | Wordle Solver NDA | 3rd | SHK | GitHub |
