I was messing around with my network today and spotted something funny - the Ubiquiti UniFi dashboard will actually by default classify Apple Internet Router/AURP in it’s traffic logs and even has a little custom icon for it!
Just have to sort Termination and the Q605 should be ready to go for Summer of #MARCHintosh. It's got a re-capped PSU, I personally recapped the Mobo, 128Megs and 1Meg video. Ready for #Globalgame all summer long.
Strange but the Q605's SCSI totally rejected BlueScsi2 no matter what I did. It accepts SCSI2SD however.
Hey "The Worlds Fastest ImageWriter" just got a print job from #globaltalk! Thanks! #MARCHintosh lives all summer here. VCF East is done and so I'm finishing unpacking and turning back to the Mac, esp since I have a color 040 machine to play with now.
New #Insentricity post: Transforming Apple Internet Router into a Linux daemon.
It took until the middle of April, but with the help of several people I was able to put together a Docker container image that can be used as a sort of Apple Internet Router daemon. The config can be passed in entirely from outside the container and no pointy/clicky is required inside the emulated Macintosh.
So I finally filled the form to get connected #GlobalTalk . Sure a bit late for #MarchinTosh but it was on my list for a while. My Mac SE isn't alive at the moment but hopefully I can get into the fun with my Basilisk VM
This has truly been a #marchintosh to remember! #GlobalTalk truly transformed my relationship to vintage Mac tinkering by directly connecting me to so many folks doing creative and interesting things (my zone watcher counted SEVENTY NINE zones!)
Thank you to everyone who sent print jobs, shared files, played games and came up with interesting technical solutions for this anachronistic, weird network we built.
So #marchintosh is ending, but as you all know, we celebrate 24/7/365 in this house!
This year has been super fun thanks to so many folks' efforts to make #globaltalk a thing! I'm going to stay online for the foreseeable future, but probably swap in an LC as router once I do a meanwell PSU swap.
And since mid-Feb, I've recapped ~10 Macs. Here is today's latest success, a real fighter: The Power Macintosh 6100/60! 😊
By the skin of my teeth, and JUST for the end of #marchintosh, I'm releasing libmui which is a Linux UI interface library heavily inspired by MacOS classic (and GS/OS!). https://github.com/buserror/libmui
Other things I have tried so far
PRAM reset
Cleaning PDS slot on the C650 & The upgrade card
Re-Seating it very firmly
Pulling out other NuBus cards
booting into OS 8.1 and reinstalling 7.6.1
Inspected card for damage under magnifying lamp & didn't find anything suspect
#marchintosh when you find a Mac game box you thought was lost to the ages at your parents' house, including a manually made backup of the code wheel (Ishido, Accolade, 1990)
Last day of #MARCHintosh this year, and this has been the best one so far!
Previous years have been loads of folk doing interesting stuff and sharing what they've been up to, which was pretty incredible.
This year, we've had that plus#GlobalTalk to share files and calling cards and printers and whatnot. It's been so silly and so fun having that type of community interactivity.
So a massive thanks to all you guys and gals and folk in between for making it happen! The future is now :D
Somehow I doubt that any of those #MARCHintosh folks setting up AppleTalk routers are going to hit all those bugs in the rev E Ethernet card that we suffered through back in the day. (ProTip: DDP checksums are important.)
@alexr If you are using AppleShare (AFP), you should use the AppleShare client that shipped with Mac OS 9.2.2. It was the last thing I worked on for Mac OS 9 and I fixed lots of performance issues. That AppleShare client should work back to Mac OS 7.6 (disclaimer, it wasn’t tested that far back but the changes I made were not OS version specific). #marchintosh
Ran across this old pro-Mac comic called “Hey, Stuff This!”. Downloaded all the strips from 1995-1998 that the wayback machine had and put on Blackbird in BaroNet on #GlobalTalk so you can get your yuks on 1996-style
About a week ago I posted about NewtHack, a Roguelike for Apple Newton that only lets you play level 1 unless you buy a key. I was complaining how so many of these old games/softwares were soft-locked now by asking for codes we can no longer provide.
Someone here sent me a code for an earlier version to try. But now that reply is GONE, apparently deleted. Are you still here, anonymous kind soul? Can you send it to me again?