Speaking of, has anyone else running their AIR router in QEMU managed to figure out remote control? I'm having trouble accessing the mouse inside QEMU with TeamViewer
I just had a terrible #MARCHintosh thought… I could hook the ADB I/O up to a machine that's linked in to #GlobalTalk, and y'all could use #HyperCard to make lights blink and motors turn and whatnot. Which I'd probably have to set up to livestream over Twitch or something, otherwise you'd just be pressing buttons and not knowing if anything was happening 💁
#globaltalk#MARCHintosh I added a BIG BUNCH of files in my shared folder in the 1Bit server.
MIDI: stuff from the band casiopea (funq, asayake), doom music ofc, windows classics (canyon, passport) and warcraft 2 (human2) etc.
started a C folder w/ a silent sing-along I coded (theme song: last unicorn) that runs in Sys6 and below.
Shared art I made of faces in the community in Mac-A-Mug, converted and finished in MacPaint.
If you run a #MacIPRpi on a Pi or VM and are using an AppleTalk router (AIR, tashrouter, etc) you can use the following command on the Pi to scan all zones for devices.
getzones | while read line ; do echo "$line zone:" ; nbplkup "@$line" ;done
Better still, put this in your .bash_aliases file as
alias scan='getzones | while read line ; do echo "$line zone:" ; nbplkup "@$line" ;done'
Ethernet killed the LocalTalk Star! 🎶
Here's a Farallon PhoneNET StarController, #free to a good home! Includes the AC adapter. #LocalTalk#GlobalTalk#Retrocomputing
There is a fanatastic little #GlobalTalk utility called 'Who's There’.
Drop it in your Extensions folder and you get a little guy in your Chooser that shows all the devices on the network, then if you click on a device, it tells you what it is.
Really handy to see what printers are available, etc. Kind of like what nbplkup lists with netatalk, but way friendly.
Grab a copy from Elsie's shared folder in my zone :D
Six #LocalTalk transceivers, #free to a good home. Five from Farallon and one from AESP that has activity lights. Two of them have terminators. #Marchintosh#GlobalTalk
And for today here is PageMaker 4 on a SE/30 chugging along trying to print something vai #globaltalk to a remote LaserWriter.
It's not printing correctly to my IW2 so I can't see what this looks like on a Laser.
Among other fascinating things, the #GlobalTalk craze really shows how far the Fediverse has come. And it makes sense! There's a lot of parallels in how we're building this hobby vintage network, and what we do on here in the "real world"
In another time it may have been kickstarted on Twitter - but so many of us have left that there's barely anything GlobalTalk related there
With the community spread out in disconnected FB groups, Discords, forums - makes sense that we built it on Mastodon!
Can’t wait to use the new, high-performance network software included with this Macintosh LC Ethernet card to get this Performa 400 online as my new #GlobalTalk router
Being a proper piece of network routing equipment, the Performa is now perched on top of the network rack. The polpo zone is now online 24/7 #GlobalTalk
every 5 seconds, a hypercard stack scans dialup cafe's "user_images" folder and emits every image in that folder to a static web page.
that web page is served on the same LC475 (running WebSTAR httpd) to the entire world at https://globaltalk.network
want to add something to the web page? drag and drop a .jpg, .gif, or .png into "user_images" on the dialup cafe's AppleTalk share. the only rules are: filenames can't contain spaces or the usual !$%&'" characters, and must be in a browser-compatible format.
yes. i know. this is truly a bad idea. the world is full of those.
I did this last night with the #GlobalTalk chat stack but at some point it broke and just started throwing “file not open” errors and breaking the server for everyone while I was asleep. I had to delete the file it was generating to make it work again, not sure what went wrong