@mroach @kalleboo I managed to bring up a Microsoft Mail 3.0 server in the Digitopolis zone. The server is a faceless background extension; all configuration happens in the client by logging into the magic "Network Manager" account with a magic default password (which I changed, obviously.) When new mail comes in, you get a big notification alert.
Any QEMU #globaltalk users experience terrible mouse lag? It's nearly unusable. Doesn't seem to be an overall OS lag, but difficult to tell. #MARCHintosh
One thing I have in mind is keeping it simple enough to make a series of videos for next #MARCHintosh using it to introduce the very basics Classic Mac OS Toolbox C programming with some examples of adding buttons to windows that play sounds or show dialogs, and then opening up a Projector (version control system) database (repository) on #GlobalTalk for anyone else to add stuff in a collaborative project.
This weekend I made a lot of progress on my Classic Mac OS app template in C!
I have ideas for tools I want to make (mainly for #GlobalTalk), but need a foundation to build on. AIRConfig was built on of some very basic sample code included with MPW and really not suitable for extending even as far as I went with AIRConfig
There are also full-blown frameworks like MacApp and PowerPlant, but they seem like quite a lot of complexity to learn just for small tools
I've setup a public read-only Grafana instance for #globaltalk and my stats dashboard:
I'll add in more stats over time, once I start expanding my scraping scripts.
Okay, it's super hacky-janky, but I've got it set up a HyperCard stack so that you can remotely grab a live image of what's happening in front of the oldsk00l QuickCam. #GlobalTalk
Checked in on my #globaltalk setup that was working fine yesterday, but this morning is completely borked. Globaltalk Zones disappeared in Chooser and no file servers in local Zones in Chooser on my Mac Plus.
Restarting jrouter, netatalk, tashtalk (in that order) had GlobalTalk zones come back, and while my EtherTalk zone (Vermilion Sands) showed up in Chooser, my LocalTalk zone (Vermilion Sands LT) does not.
Looking at the jrouter and tashtalk logs there are errors which seem to point to a physical layer problem if checksums aren't matching?
Timing is jrouter got an unmarshaling error (15:19), tashtalk then gives a invalid long DDP header (15:21), then jrouter drops stale buffered packets (15:22).
tashtalk:
2025-04-16 16:21:51,014 DEBUG: tap0 failed to parse AppleTalk datagram from EtherTalk frame: invalid long DDP header, checksum is 0xD42F but should be 0xD22
A
jrouter:
jrouter-1 | Apr 16 15:19:50.440 ERR ZIP: Couldn't handle packet device=br0 error="ZIP GetNetInfo Reply unmarshaling unimplemented"
jrouter-1 | Apr 16 15:22:08.728 WRN EtherTalk: dropping stale buffered packets device=br0 dst-net=1971 dst-node=135 drop=1
#localtalk #ethertalk #vintagemacintosh #retrocomputing #jrouter #livelaughlocaltalk
Making some progress here getting Windows 2000 and SQL Server 200 onto AppleTalk and eventually GlobalTalk thanks to jrouter.
This is new and exciting networking activity.
A pair of neat #AppleTalk posters are up on Mercari, a shame they want $70 each(!!) for them
I have this and I don't know why I have it. Does anyone out there with a retro Mac network setup want it? It's opened, but unused and (I believe) complete so if you like old Mac stuff in boxes, you might enjoy it! Even has the original twist tie around the cable for you to untwist!
Probably easiest to get to someone in Australia but if you're super, super keen and geographically challenged we can talk. 
It's still on my list to get a SQL Server 2000 instance hooked-up to GlobalTalk. More yak shaving got in the way of that. At least now I have a logo for that project.
I'm installing SQL Server 2000 and I noticed an interesting option: it supports AppleTalk.
Do I need to be setting up a GlobalTalk router and adding SQL Server 2000 to the mix? It's so enterprise.
netatalk provides a `getzones` command as well as a `macusers` command. This comes in handy for monitoring the #GlobalTalk network and AFP users in the tmux status bar.
Many thanks to NJRoadFan and @dmark for investigating and merging a fix to the Netatalk issue I filed where StuffIt Expander causes disconnects with AppleShare 3.7.x.
Turns out that you can install a later version of AppleShare that does not send malformed data to the server, but it's great to see a workaround since affected versions of AppleShare are included with Mac OS 8 and 8.1.
It’s great to see a steady stream of commits to netatalk!
the interior of the cisco 2500 series is particularly interesting as it’s full of 90s era hardware. those are two 8mb and one 16mb 72-pin simms
rarely mentioned is the cpu that powers this little mighty mite: a motorola mc68ec030 - a 25 mhz embedded variant of the mc68030 cpu in a preponderance of macintosh 68k systems in the 90s.
this router is effectively more powerful than my mac LC 475
i picked this particular router for one reason: it supports AppleTalk right out of the box!
Even though #MARCHintosh is over, I'm planning to keep my Zone online for the foreseeable future.
It runs on two RaspberryPis (netatalk, jrouter, tashtalk and QEMU) that are relatively low upkeep and I like seeing all the other zones in Chooser when using my Mac Plus and Basilik VMs.
#globaltalk #raspberrypi #retrocomputing
