If you are participating in #marchintosh and #globaltalk and like text adventure games, the demo release of Adventure! my mostly text #hypercard adventure game is available for download from my Eric’s Edge zone. Including a PDF draft of the game manual.
big challenges smoking the boof on system 7
og artwork is here i take no credit https://bsky.app/profile/squeakitties.bsky.social/post/3ljx7teytms2i
A #MARCHintosh greeting card and prize stickers arrived form @billgoats! Thanks!!
One of these stickers is instantly going on my laptop!
The RetroHoosk Hangout is now LIVE on Twitch!
Kai is Streaming: An ancient network spanning the web? Forsaking TCP/IP? Being gay? Yes, It's GlobalTalk! #MARCHintosh
Watch LIVE @ https://www.twitch.tv/retrohoosk
https://www.scotgate.org/2025/03/18/my-laserwriter-4-600-ps-adventure/
People who complain about how "USB-C is so complicated" have never tried to configure a serial port/modem
@europlus@europlus.zoneA blog post is forthcoming on the why, and the final how, of the heartbeat. #GlobalTalk #MARCHintosh
Something about playing the classics without emulation or wrappers just hits different. #MARCHintosh
@tech10@bitbang.socialDoes anyone know some good resources to learn REALbasic? I'd like to start making some programs for classic macs. #marchintosh #macintosh #realbasic
@europlus@europlus.zoneAIR heartbeat system is now set up.
Curl in host OS checks every 2 mins if the basic AppleScript web server is running on the Airaga AIR guest OS.
[Why 2 mins? Because it takes >1min to restart everything to checkable state.]
If it doesn’t respond within 10s, qemu-system-m68k is killall’ed, then QEMU .command file is rerun and the reload is logged (logging is a new addition).
It’s restarted at least twice today.
Added back external check.
We have Wi-Fi! Supposedly this thing can also work with AppleTalk (and I think I got it into that mode) but I haven't started looking into that yet. #MARCHintosh
So I'm still having trouble actually accessing this AppleShare on a Lisa.
I'm using AppleShare File Server 2.0.1. The Lisa is visible in Chooser, but after putting in credentials the client hangs. There's no evidence on the Lisa of a connection being attempted. Anyone has any experience with AppleShare File Server? I'm running it on System 6.0.3 which is the highest version I've been able to run on MacWorks 1.1
Another #GlobalTalk print from @kalleboo, this time to my beloved ImageWriter II. So glad I got a color ribbon for this year!
#GlobalTalk chat 0.9 is out on BaroNet:Blackbird now!
I would number it 1.0 from a features/UI point of view but I want more people to test it and find the rough edges before I do that.
Last year I gave up on developing it further due to the horrible lag/freezes caused by the built-in networking support in HyperCard I was using, but with the new XCMD networking I’m feeling more confident so I’ve finished polishing it up!
Will soon disable support for 0.2 clients on the server.
I don't remember if I already did this at some point, but I'm pretty sure I'm still the only person to run Yugoslav System 4 on an Apple Lisa
@europlus@europlus.zone::snort, shudder:: Oh shoot! I was dreaming of pots and rainbows – I looked in one, it was a Finder folder with greets in it! I woke with a start at my #WOzFest HQ #GlobalTalk Print Shop desk, realised I hadn’t checked the DropBox since yesterday, andI woke what elves I could – they report two items in our DropBox…
First, an application from @ahihi! And a very pretty and mesmerising one – I almost dozed back to sleep! Thank you!
And remember, trans rights are human rights!
This year for #MARCHintosh I upgraded my printing setup with a color ribbon for my ImageWriter II.
This is a test print I made from GraphicConverter 3.0 to try out the MacPalette II ImageWriter II driver and I think it turned out pretty well! Printing speed is a bit slow, but the results are impressive for 1985 printer technology!
Also, the Mac OS 8 platinum theme 
@europlus@europlus.zoneMDN is now being delivered automatically to the MARCHintosh Daily News folder in the WOzFest HQ Files share – thanks for your efforts on this, @dillera!*
At the moment it has a prefix in the name of “<jobnumber>-“ – I’m hoping to stop that (currently removing manually), but it’s pretty obvious which is that latest issue.
Feel free to grab a copy of the latest issue, I won’t keep announcing daily, but will post occasional reminders!
*thanks for the DTP shoutout, too!
Wow! I set up the ImageWriter, go out of town for the weekend, and come back to 17 feet of mail! Thank you to all!
(Cat for scale)
The technical reason for this is probably related to RFC 1035 (Nov 1987) and RFC 1123 (Oct 1989), which define rules for domain names. The first one required domains to start with a letter, while the amended rules in 1989 allowed them to start with a number. Unfortunately it is still up to the software vendors to include those new rules. System 7.1 likely doesn't include RFC 1123. I knew that RealPlayer 3 didn't support it, but not System 7.1 / MacTCP 1.1.1. #globaltalk #marchintosh
