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SUCCESS! Finally got the Macintosh 512Ke on #GlobalTalk ! I couldn't find a Phone Net box with a DB9 connector, and my attempts to bodge one together weren't working. Picked up a DB9 LocalTalk connector for less than $10. Now I'm ready for next year's #MARCHintosh , or #Apriltosh , or maybe #AprilApples (though I think LocalTalk only worked on the IIgs.)
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I blame @kalleboo!
Custom icon for my Airaga Share on GlobalTalk – it’s the graphic from the front cover of the Apple Internet Router Administrator’s Guide.
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GlobalTalk admins using non-standard Ethernet interfaces in System 7.1...
Can you please PM a screenshot of your Network and MacTCP settings (first screen only for MacTCP, examples attached) – 1 bit B/W preferred.
I'm wanting to make my AIR manual addendum, and GlobalTalk setup instructions and files more generic.
I'd also be interested in which Ethernet drivers were necessary to get your interface to work with AIR under System 7.1.
Lastly, I'm interested in having a chat with users of Snow, mini vMac, Basilisk II, and other non-QEMU emulators about GlobalTalk connection requirements and setup in System 7.1.
I will credit contributions, of course!
Thank you, and boosts appreciated!
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#GlobalTalk Pro Tip:
You know that progress dialog that shows up when you try to connect to some hosts? That’s it trying to use AppleShare IP to connect to the host over TCP/IP instead of AppleTalk, which will not work over GlobalTalk. Hit cancel and it will drop back to AppleTalk instantly.
Or BETTER YET, install AppleShare Client Setup, and change the TCP Lookup to 1 second and you’ll never see the dialog again. You might want to raise it back up if you connect to OS X Macs on your LAN.
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#GlobalTalk Pro Tip:
You know that progress dialog that shows up when you try to connect to some hosts? That’s it trying to use AppleShare IP to connect to the host over TCP/IP instead of AppleTalk, which will not work over GlobalTalk. Hit cancel and it will drop back to AppleTalk instantly.
Or BETTER YET, install AppleShare Client Setup, and change the TCP Lookup to 1 second and you’ll never see the dialog again. You might want to raise it back up if you connect to OS X Macs on your LAN.
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#GlobalTalk Pro Tip:
You know that progress dialog that shows up when you try to connect to some hosts? That’s it trying to use AppleShare IP to connect to the host over TCP/IP instead of AppleTalk, which will not work over GlobalTalk. Hit cancel and it will drop back to AppleTalk instantly.
Or BETTER YET, install AppleShare Client Setup, and change the TCP Lookup to 1 second and you’ll never see the dialog again. You might want to raise it back up if you connect to OS X Macs on your LAN.
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#GlobalTalk Pro Tip:
You know that progress dialog that shows up when you try to connect to some hosts? That’s it trying to use AppleShare IP to connect to the host over TCP/IP instead of AppleTalk, which will not work over GlobalTalk. Hit cancel and it will drop back to AppleTalk instantly.
Or BETTER YET, install AppleShare Client Setup, and change the TCP Lookup to 1 second and you’ll never see the dialog again. You might want to raise it back up if you connect to OS X Macs on your LAN.
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#GlobalTalk Pro Tip:
You know that progress dialog that shows up when you try to connect to some hosts? That’s it trying to use AppleShare IP to connect to the host over TCP/IP instead of AppleTalk, which will not work over GlobalTalk. Hit cancel and it will drop back to AppleTalk instantly.
Or BETTER YET, install AppleShare Client Setup, and change the TCP Lookup to 1 second and you’ll never see the dialog again. You might want to raise it back up if you connect to OS X Macs on your LAN.
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Could this be the first battery-powered, fully-wireless ImageWriter II in history? Well, it might at least be the first one on #GlobalTalk!
Just in time for the end of #MARCHintosh, a cheap Farallon AirDock showed up on Yahoo Auctions, and since I already had one, I had to try this stunt - adding an IRTalk node to GlobalTalk.
It is currently live on GlobalTalk if you want to try it, I'll probably leave it up until either the battery runs out or I deem it too much of a tripping hazard.
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Could this be the first battery-powered, fully-wireless ImageWriter II in history? Well, it might at least be the first one on #GlobalTalk!
Just in time for the end of #MARCHintosh, a cheap Farallon AirDock showed up on Yahoo Auctions, and since I already had one, I had to try this stunt - adding an IRTalk node to GlobalTalk.
It is currently live on GlobalTalk if you want to try it, I'll probably leave it up until either the battery runs out or I deem it too much of a tripping hazard.
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Could this be the first battery-powered, fully-wireless ImageWriter II in history? Well, it might at least be the first one on #GlobalTalk!
Just in time for the end of #MARCHintosh, a cheap Farallon AirDock showed up on Yahoo Auctions, and since I already had one, I had to try this stunt - adding an IRTalk node to GlobalTalk.
It is currently live on GlobalTalk if you want to try it, I'll probably leave it up until either the battery runs out or I deem it too much of a tripping hazard.
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Could this be the first battery-powered, fully-wireless ImageWriter II in history? Well, it might at least be the first one on #GlobalTalk!
Just in time for the end of #MARCHintosh, a cheap Farallon AirDock showed up on Yahoo Auctions, and since I already had one, I had to try this stunt - adding an IRTalk node to GlobalTalk.
It is currently live on GlobalTalk if you want to try it, I'll probably leave it up until either the battery runs out or I deem it too much of a tripping hazard.
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Could this be the first battery-powered, fully-wireless ImageWriter II in history? Well, it might at least be the first one on #GlobalTalk!
Just in time for the end of #MARCHintosh, a cheap Farallon AirDock showed up on Yahoo Auctions, and since I already had one, I had to try this stunt - adding an IRTalk node to GlobalTalk.
It is currently live on GlobalTalk if you want to try it, I'll probably leave it up until either the battery runs out or I deem it too much of a tripping hazard.
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And it’s time for my fourth and final #MARCHintosh project for 2026, TalkCrawler AD. It’s an After Dark Module for TalkCrawler that will let you watch #GlobalTalk leisurely scroll past in one of two different styles
There is a standalone version as well if you don't want to install After Dark
Note you will need to run a re-scan in TalkCrawler Lite 1.4 (just released) before it can show anything
Available on landisk/Blackbird on BaroNet. Video in first reply.
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And it’s time for my fourth and final #MARCHintosh project for 2026, TalkCrawler AD. It’s an After Dark Module for TalkCrawler that will let you watch #GlobalTalk leisurely scroll past in one of two different styles
There is a standalone version as well if you don't want to install After Dark
Note you will need to run a re-scan in TalkCrawler Lite 1.4 (just released) before it can show anything
Available on landisk/Blackbird on BaroNet. Video in first reply.
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My #MARCHintosh is not complete without at least some level of corroded trace repair, even if it’s just a Classic! Will of course hook it up to #GlobalTalk for final testing. #leavenomacbehind #vintagemac
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Announcing my third #MARCHintosh 2026 project - the MARCHintosh Canvas!
If you're familiar with Reddit's /r/place, pxls space, or Wplace, you’ll know what this is - a shared canvas anyone can place pixels onto in real-time.
Only this time, it's over the venerable AppleTalk protocol, with the public server accessible to anyone on #GlobalTalk :)
Feel free to drop by and leave your mark - available in the usual places (landisk, Blackbird) on BaroNet
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More prints this time from @theirongiant
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I got bored of trying to make AppleTalk sing and dance on Windows NT and 2000 so I switched to an OS with a good native implementation: IRIX. :sgi:
#GlobalTalk #MARCHintosh #SiliconGraphics #SGI #IRIX #AppleTalk #AUNIXSystemIKnowThis -
Here's my second #MARCHintosh project for 2026 - TalkCrawler Lite! A little program to keep track of which #GlobalTalk printers and shares you've visited or left a greeting on!
I rushed this one out so I can get to using it, so it's less polished than Chat, and might not work so hot on 68k Macs. I'm not sure why opening files is so damn slow.
Demo video in the first reply. Available on Blackbird or landisk on the BaroNet share.
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GlobalTalk Chat looks slick with the CDE theme.
#MARCHintosh #GlobalTalk #SunMicrosystems #CDE -
Happy #MARCHintosh to all who celebrate! It's cool to read about all the projects and things going on in the retro Mac world!
My #GlobalTalk zone BabCom is still online :-)
And for all users who joined last year: The #FirstClass server is still alive and the accounts should still work.
I will have a late start this year as I'm recovering from being badly sick the last days... -
Happy #MARCHintosh to all who celebrate! It's cool to read about all the projects and things going on in the retro Mac world!
My #GlobalTalk zone BabCom is still online :-)
And for all users who joined last year: The #FirstClass server is still alive and the accounts should still work.
I will have a late start this year as I'm recovering from being badly sick the last days... -
Happy #MARCHintosh to all who celebrate! It's cool to read about all the projects and things going on in the retro Mac world!
My #GlobalTalk zone BabCom is still online :-)
And for all users who joined last year: The #FirstClass server is still alive and the accounts should still work.
I will have a late start this year as I'm recovering from being badly sick the last days... -
Happy #MARCHintosh to all who celebrate! It's cool to read about all the projects and things going on in the retro Mac world!
My #GlobalTalk zone BabCom is still online :-)
And for all users who joined last year: The #FirstClass server is still alive and the accounts should still work.
I will have a late start this year as I'm recovering from being badly sick the last days... -
Happy #MARCHintosh to all who celebrate! It's cool to read about all the projects and things going on in the retro Mac world!
My #GlobalTalk zone BabCom is still online :-)
And for all users who joined last year: The #FirstClass server is still alive and the accounts should still work.
I will have a late start this year as I'm recovering from being badly sick the last days... -
Introducing my first #MARCHintosh project - #GlobalTalk Chat 1.0! The AppleTalk-native (no TCP/IP) chat system, now re-written from the ground-up as a native Mac Toolbox application in C.
You can get it NOW on “Blackbird” or “landisk” in the “BaroNet” zone on GlobalTalk.
#RetroComputing #VintageApple #mb (1/3)
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#trump #iran #donaldtrump #epstein #israel #war #usa #america #uspol #politics #worldaffairs #globaltalk
Yes, Iran could do with a regime change, but then again so could America. I guess attacking Iran’s one way of detracting from testifying in front of a congressional panel if you have dubious links to Epstein. -
#Netatalk experts: any idea why, as of late, my AFP #GlobalTalk shares have been showing up with generic document icons on Mac OS 7.x? But the icons look just fine on Mac OS 9?
This started happening around the time I migrated my shares from my NAS over to a Raspberry Pi, and upgraded to Netatalk 4.3.2.
I've confirmed that the share folder permissions are the same on both systems, as well as the permissions on the hidden “.Icon$\r” files at the root of the shares. However the Finder does not allow me to change the icons via the Get Info screen (on both Mac OS 7 and 9), which seems to imply that there _is_ a permissions issue of some kind. Yet, folks can read and write to the shares just fine.
I tried deleting the hidden icon files, which made no difference (other than causing the default Netatalk icon to show on Mac OS 9, since I removed the custom icon). Changing the "legacy icon" option in the Netatalk config also makes no difference, other than making a different Netatalk icon show on Mac OS 9.
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Still debugging the Soft Serve ImageWriter virtual printer, trying to make it "well behaved." If you're on #GlobalTalk and have a moment to test, send me a test print at Biosrhythm zone.
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First successful ImageWriter II print to my Soft Serve ImageWriter spooler over #GlobalTalk! Thanks to @billgoats for helping me test it!
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Great work by @jcs.org for a HUGE improvement to #BlueSCSI Wi-Fi Speed- will be in the next release but did a quick pre-release build with his branch if you want to try it out today!
> The result of all that debugging is a 691% speed-up in #EtherTalk speed when going over BlueSCSI Wi-Fi - via jcs
Oh and @twvd already merged these fixes into SnowEmu for a much faster experience there as well!
https://github.com/BlueSCSI/BlueSCSI-v2/releases/tag/jcs-wifi-speed-test
#opensource #retrocomputing #daynaport #vintagemac #globaltalk
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The LocalTalk option card has been installed, and the printer seems ready to go! Next task - set up the LocalTalk network and test. #ImageWriterII #GlobalTalk
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Another late-night #Bolo game set up in my #GlobalTalk zone... can anybody actually connect that isn't just these four brains? ;)
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Any online #GlobalTalk DropBoxes today I could connect to received two greets via the #ACMS AppleTalk network.
One was from me testing out the freeware (black and white) version of Kid Pix from the Classic Mac Survival Kit (which I grabbed from that share on the WOzFest HQ zone), the other was an earlier text-only one from a couple of young visitors to the Museum.
Ben and Lucas, probably about 14-15yo, were suitably impressed (or at least pleasantly polite enough to appear suitably impressed) as I described just what #GlobalTalk was about, and the geographical spread of nodes online today.
I hadn’t yet located Kid Pix and due to time limitations and networking stability issues due to power circuit tripping while they were there, they only got to drop their greet in @billgoats’s Founding Node’s DropBox, so when everything was more settled later in the day after they’d left, I dropped their greet along with mine in any available DropBoxes, which they had intended to do.
They very generously donated $20 between them to the ACMS and promised to visit again. Lucas already has a Windows 9x PC he was gifted by a relative he is looking forward to getting working on, so it’s nice to see yet another generation engaging with old tech.
Speaking of Windows 9x, someone vandalised the running Acer Windows machine not far from the Macs I was working on – investigations continue to identify the perpetrator 🥸
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Closed off the day at the #ACMS with an iMac making a dialup connection to a Shiva LanRover and just seeing #GlobalTalk network.
I still find it amazing that a single AppleTalk network number for each of Ethernet and LocalTalk serves so many various connection technologies seamlessly (and so topologically economically)!
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First #GlobalTalk greet for #ACMS (Australian Computer Museum Society) from @nygl in Queensland!
Thanks Nigel!
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Late night #GlobalTalk #Bolo, anybody? I've got a game running in my zone for a few minutes…
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Shutting down at 05:30 UTC (about 20 minutes) #GlobalTalk #ACMS
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#GlobalTalk nerds, printing and DropBox should now be functional on the #ACMS network, IP address in the spreadsheet (second last line, I think).
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And new (hopefully working) DropBox set up #GlobalTalk #ACMS
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More recent node list imported, port forwarding done (see spreadsheet), now to get the date right… #GlobalTalk #ACMS
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Hey, any #GlobalTalk nerds awake for the next few hours, the #ACMS AIR node is online for a few hours. Drop greets in the DropBox or on the printer.
Let me know if you can connect (I’m having issues, even though I can see the zone and file server – achtung! it’s crashing the 7.1.1 machines attempting to connect for me).
I still have to:
• setup port forwarding (so it’s likely you’ll only see it if it knows about your node)
• put in the patch for later years in Date & Time (no PRAM battery, either), and
• grab a recent list of nodes.I have some other work I need to do here, first, though.
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#MARCHintosh is approaching! Here’s some of my prep. #AppleTalk #GlobalTalk
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#MARCHintosh is approaching! Here’s some of my prep. #AppleTalk #GlobalTalk youtu.be/J4uWCmDMxHg?...
AsantePrint for MARCHintosh -
Oh, and that’s VNCing into the LC II, which was only slightly less cumbersome than trying to do stuff in the increasingly short bursts of time the monitor would show an image before blinking out and needing to be left off for a while. #GlobalTalk #ACMS
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So, outcome of the #GlobalTalk “fun” at the Australian Computer Museum Society yesterday was a configured node successfully bridging LocalTalk and EtherTalk to the wider network.
However, this can’t yet be a full time node, that’s my next project.
Their colour laser appeared, so I’ll let y’all know when we’re back online so you can send greets.
