Hey #GlobalTalk nerds! I have my AIR machine back online with the fancy new connection, but it looks there's only 27 zones. Does that sound about right, or have I messed up my config somehow? #LiveLaughLocalTalk

Wonderful surprise from @billgoats. ☺️

I might have considered a coloured Dogcow sacrilege until I saw this! #LiveLaughLocaltalk

#LiveLaughLocalTalk

Ohhhh, maybe this is what's up with MAE. The archive dot org page has a comment saying that AppleTalk needs something older than Solaris 9. I'm running 9. Poopsicles. #LiveLaughLocalTalk

I *really* wish I were 1337 enough to get AppleTalk working in MAE... #LiveLaughLocalTalk

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

Think I finally cracked using jrouter, tashtalk and netatalk together to work with netatalk and #globaltalkk

- Separate systems for netatalk and tashtalk
- tashtalk and jrouter can be on the same system
- tashtalk and jrouter must use unique MAC addresses
- tashtalk uses tap interface on a network bridge
- jrouter uses network bridge
- netatalk uses network bridge
- netatalk atalkd.conf set to autodiscover on network bridge
- jrouter is a seed router, netatalk and tashtalk are non-seed routers
- Startup order is: jrouter, netatalk, tashtalk, clients

I tried many things to consolidate down to a single RaspberryPi, but even with adding a USB NIC for jrouter/tashtalk and netatalk on the internal NIC things still wouldn't work 100%.

Packets were somehow "eaten", which was odd because the AppleTalk zones would show up in Chooser, but the netatalk file server wouldn't, or when it did it could give an error when trying to connect to it.

#localtalk #livelaughlocaltalk #raspberrypi #retrocomputing #vintagemacs

My laser printer kept disconnecting from the network all through #MARCHintosh. But I've now got it plumbed directly in to the server (using the handy USB-over-cat5 thingamahoos) and it seems much happier. Poked around with papd a bit and it's set up with a nice little spool now that will collect AppleTalk print jobs when it's off and then release them when it's back on. Hopefully. Ideally. It seems to work for me, at least. #LiveLaughLocalTalk 🖨️

Finally got my hands on the elusive #LiveLaughLocalTalk stickers.

So shiny you can take a selfie off of them!

You know it’s official correspondance when it’s wax-sealed! Scottish mail from @billgoats!

Thank you! I must decide what to iron those on.

#VintageApple #LiveLaughLocalTalk

#LiveLaughLocalTalk stickers and properly improperly printed ImageWriter color #MarchIntosh images fresh from @billgoats! Thank you! 😁 Love the seal!

I think it’s the first time I see anything printed in color on an ImageWriter and it looks really nice.

I thought I'd try getting my Apple IIgs to boot from AppleTalk today.

So far, I have netatalk setup which gets the IIgs booted and am able to login to the share I created.

I copied the contents of a IIgs hard drive image I found to that share, hoping it will just boot from that. But I'm getting this error:

"Cannot load file Start.GS.OS Error=$0046"

Any ideas?

#AppleIIgs #RetroComputing #LiveLaughLocalTalk

26 March and the Hat-o-matic has selected @digitalkrampus to be the lucky winner of a stylish AppleTalk ImageWriter iron-on that was printed on an AppleTalk ImageWriter!

Congratulations 🎉

Drop me a message and we’ll get this and some shiny stickers on their way to you soon!

#MARCHintosh #LiveLaughLocalTalk

And here is the Hat-o-matic making its choice.

If you entered today, then you're automatically in for the upcoming draws. If you haven't entered today then get in there :D

#MARCHintosh #LiveLaughLocalTalk

25 March and it’s time for the first draw! Tonight’s winners is… @mattnews ! Congratulations 🎉

Your stylish prize is an ImageWriter-printed iron-on of the TeachText iron!

Drop me a line and we’ll get this and some stickers on their way to you :D

#MARCHintosh #LiveLaughLocalTalk

As we head into the tail end of #MARCHintosh, let's do a few giveaways in one!

On each of the 25, 26 and 27 March the Hat-o-matic will pick one person from the list of replies to win:

• some shiny #LiveLaughLocalTalk stickers
• a random stylish iron-on decal. Could be a dogcow, could be the ResEdit icon, could be all sorts of things... but iron it onto a shirt and it's guaranteed to make you the talk of the town

Reply to this toot with 'stylish’ to enter for all three draws! 💁

The quickcam works! And QuickTime Conferencing wants to work, but it needs a savvier connection that LocalTalk :,( #LiveLaughLocalTalk

No ethernet…:S
#LiveLaughLocalTalk

What the what, you guys! I can't upload the video of tonight's hat-o-matic operating, and I can't upload a screenshot of it either. Sorry about that. I'll try again a bit later, but for now you're just going to have to trust me here :/

The hat-o-matic has made its choice, and tonight's winners are...

@arroz
@Difegue
@paxswill

Congratulations! Drop me a line with how to get these stickers over to you and I'll send them on their way :D

#MARCHintosh #LiveLaughLocalTalk

The @billgoats #LiveLaughLocalTalk stickers are awesome, and he’s also awesome for giving them away! 😁 I know the four of them survived my move but couldn’t find the other two yet. 😅 About time I start sticking them to things!
https://bitbang.social/@billgoats/114190456719227733