@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 of Classic Mac OS Toolbox C programming - walking through what the framework does, and then showing 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.
Spent some time playing with #netatalk and #globaltalk and built out some more Prometheus metrics to track zones, devices, AFP shares, and printers.
Also as a bonus see the migration of jrouter versions on the network.
@mroach but can you get it on #GlobalTalk?
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
@mroach If you want to play with AppleTalk Cisco stuff, you should have a chat with @danieltufvesson - he has some crazy Cisco setup on #GlobalTalk , and last year for a week or so I had my zone online through a GRE tunnel to @foo8ar, with my end running on a Cisco emulator on a raspberry pi!
Ended up going back to AIR since the latency to Sweden where he is was too high but might work better to Denmark
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
@europlus I’m thinking a fun #MARCHintosh project for next year could be to set up a basic Mac app with a window or two, make a tutorial on setting up CodeWarrior and some basic Toolbox coding (make a button show a dialog), and then open up a code base for anyone to make check in changes to to make a collaborative app over #GlobalTalk
@mroach I see you!
But I have no idea how to configure the ODBC SQL Server 6 plugin in Office 98 to connect, I'm not sure what goes in the "Server" vs "Network Address" fields, tried a bunch of combinations of Zone vs Machine name in each field or together with a colon between them. Anyone have any ideas?
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 $70 each(!!) for them
@mike
I may be interested if no one else wants it? I'm in Adelaide
and have a LC, SE FDHD, and a mac plus I'd like to network together for next years Marchintosh
@mos_8502 I know it’s a tad out of scope but have you considered bundling a wifi modem with the sentinel65x ? Basically a ESP32 super mini C3 you can get for 3$ on Ali these days .
The idea is that it could be very helpful in building a community — if this was on every board. Thinking of a serial-to-Internet thing so it would also be a terminal where Sentinel owners could exchange messages & data, in the spirit of #GlobalTalk but in text & byte arrays.
