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<p>The MacHax(tm) Group announces the results from the<br />
Twelfth Annual Best Hack Contest at MacHack '98.</p>
<p>In its thirteenth year, MacHack convened one minute after midnight on June<br />
20 for another solid 72 hours of hacking, networking, and other worthy<br />
endeavors (often with little or no sleep). The conference opened at<br />
midnight with a keynote by Chris Espinosa, whose 21 year career at Apple<br />
started when he was 14. Very little hacking was observed during Chris'<br />
three hour talk, but it was observed shortly afterwards, and continued even<br />
past midnight two nights later as the Hack Show began.</p>
<p>Interesting, unusual, unexpected, and often entertaining software written<br />
by MacHack attendees are shown by their authors, usually over the course of<br />
several hours. This year's Hack Show lasted about four hours.</p>
<p>After each show, the contest sponsors stay up the rest of the night to put<br />
together a ballot for voting a few hours later at lunch. After tabulation<br />
and a quick trip to Duke's Hardware for prizes, awards are handed out at an<br />
awards ceremony. This year's ballot listed dozens of hacks.</p>
<p>A number of hacks drew special mention, including Fire-IR, Switcher 98 (an<br />
updated version of Andy Hertzfeld's original Switcher), Strategy Du Jour,<br />
They Killed Kenny, iMacOS, Mozetta, and Where've you been lately?</p>
<p>This year we enjoyed the hacking participation of three ten-year-olds, all<br />
of whom have four-letter first names.</p>
<p>Extremely popular, and winning a coveted brick from Duke's, was<br />
"BrickPoint." This Macsbug extension allows one to play BrickOut while in<br />
Apple's low-level debugger. No wonder software deadlines slip! BrickPoint<br />
was written by Andy Bachorski and Nat McCully.</p>
<p>Now to the awards...</p>
<p>Fifth place went to "Spotlight Hack." This hack creates a "hole" in the<br />
Finder's windows so you can see the desktop and icons that are on it. The<br />
hole is a circle that moves with the mouse. It was written by David<br />
Kamholz.</p>
<p>Two hacks tied for third. One was "180 Years of Hack" by P.D. Magnus. This<br />
was P.D.'s first MacHack. P.D. picked up on a printing error and ran with<br />
it. Each of this year's MacHack attendees received a commemorative mug at<br />
registration. Fortuitously, the mugs read "MacHack 1818-1998." P.D.'s hack,<br />
"180 Years of Hack", comes as a set of web pages celebrating (with doctored<br />
photographs and woodcuts) what MacHack and the Best Hack Contest looked<br />
like over the span of the last couple of centuries.</p>
<p>Also taking third place was "PhaseShift" by Ed Wynne and Matt Slot. Ed and<br />
Matt gave some popular screen saver patterns a new twist by running them on<br />
the desktop all of the time instead of across the whole screen when your<br />
machine is idle. PhaseShift also won a special award for Best Color Hack.</p>
<p>Taking second place was "OFPong" by Marcus Jager and Quinn "The Eskimo!".<br />
OFPong is an implementation of the classic "Pong" game, written entirely in<br />
Open Firmware, the Macintosh boot-strap environment. As your machine is<br />
booting you can take a break for a quick game and then continue booting up.</p>
<p>The title of "Best Hack" and the coveted Victor A-Trap trophy went to<br />
"asciiMac", the hands-down favorite hack. Written by a team of first-time<br />
MacHackers, Alexandra Ellwood and Miro Jurisic's hack wowwed and amazed the<br />
late night crowd. This retro-hack renders the entire screen in ASCII art in<br />
real time. The crowd thrilled to demonstrations of the hack's artistic<br />
prowess as it ASCII-converted running QuickTime movies and Windows 95 under<br />
PC emulation.</p>
<p>Some of the previous winners include NetBunny, RearWindow, VideoBeep,<br />
ColorFinder, IRMan, Oscar the Grouch, BillBoot, Practical Joke Protocol,<br />
and Fez. Several of these have gone on to become products, features in<br />
products, or the targets of threats from various large organizations over<br />
things like trademark or copyright infringement.</p>
<p>Many of the hacks will be on the MacHack '98 conference CD. For more<br />
information on the CD and the MacHack conference, please contact<br />
<a href="mailto:expotech@aol.com">expotech@aol.com</a> or visit <a href="http://www.machack.com" title="http://www.machack.com">http://www.machack.com</a>. For more information on<br />
the Best Hack contest, please attend next year's conference :-)</p>
<p>About MacHack and Expotech<br />
--------------------------<br />
In 1986, some folks at the Computer Aided Engineering Network of the<br />
University of Michigan thought the brand new Macintosh technology would be<br />
a good thing to know more about. They planned an academic conference<br />
related to Macintosh system management issues. They gathered content and<br />
speakers, then faced with the logistics of managing the conference, asked<br />
Expotech to run it. The first MacHack was quite successful. U-M decided<br />
they would rather not run such a conference again, even though those who<br />
attended it wanted more. So it came to pass that the rights to the name<br />
MacHack was transferred to Expotech, who have run all MacHack conferences<br />
since. Expotech is a conference management company, incorporated in 1986.<br />
While Expotech staff has aggregated more than 55 years' experience running<br />
conferences of all types and sizes, the company specializes in technical<br />
conferences.</p>
<p>The MacHax Group has been a purveyor of high techology products and<br />
productions since 1985.</p>
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