TashTalk USB

[iigs123]

Notice that the packet in your screenshot is a NBP Broadcast directed to a router (at least the LC thinks it should be one) at node 129, not a NBP Lookup to the broadcast address. In this case, the router at node 129 should be re-transmitting those packets at NBP Lookups to the broadcast address.

Without knowing @iigs123 's network configuration, its hard to know what is going on here.

Plus there are multiple problems. This example appears to be a non-responsive router. while the issue in the other two packet captures with TailTalk is that it isn't handling being on a routed network correctly, which causes problems with NBP lookups.

On non-extended networks, TailTalk needs to listen to RTMP broadcast traffic to glean the network number and node number of the router, then issue a ZIP query to the router to get the zone name.

On extended networks, TailTalk needs to broadcast a ZipGetNetInfo request, get the correct network range, node number of the router, and default zone, issue a new AARP Probe inside that network range, followed by a ZIP query to the router to retrieve the rest of the zone list.

I replicated the capture - the network is ImageWriter -> LC II -> TashTalk alone on phonenet.

 

[MindWalker]

I tested the new "Emulate a LaserWriter printer" option. Works, I don't know why I think this is so fun I've never had printer on a classic Mac so perhaps it's just it. Thanks for adding this!

On my System 8 machine, which I happened to have at hand, I used the built-in Laserwriter 8 driver. Not knowing any better, I picked 'Color Laserwriter 12/600' and 'Generic' as the PPD File, seems to work just fine.

On my modern Mac I used 'brew install ghostscript' as instructed and it installed ok (and I can run 'gs') but TailTalk still doesn't allow me to select the 'Convert to PDF' option: it says it Ghostscript still isn't found. I tried rebooting, but still no, do I need to do something else to enable it?

Here are some prints from my OS8 machine (converted to PDF from the PS files on my modern Mac) in the meanwhile:

 

[iantm]

Something to consider for a future version: I would love an option to keep the host Mac awake while TailTalk is running. I'm always forgetting about it, it falls asleep, and the share gets lost.

 

[Bolacore]

I tested the new "Emulate a LaserWriter printer" option. Works, I don't know why I think this is so fun I've never had printer on a classic Mac so perhaps it's just it. Thanks for adding this!

On my System 8 machine, which I happened to have at hand, I used the built-in Laserwriter 8 driver. Not knowing any better, I picked 'Color Laserwriter 12/600' and 'Generic' as the PPD File, seems to work just fine.

On my modern Mac I used 'brew install ghostscript' as instructed and it installed ok (and I can run 'gs') but TailTalk still doesn't allow me to select the 'Convert to PDF' option: it says it Ghostscript still isn't found. I tried rebooting, but still no, do I need to do something else to enable it?

Here are some prints from my OS8 machine (converted to PDF from the PS files on my modern Mac) in the meanwhile:

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Missed this earlier sorry! That _should_ be the only thing you need to do - TailTalk just tries to run "gs --version" at start up and if that succeeds it considers it present. If you do "gs --version" in a shell, what does it return?

Something to consider for a future version: I would love an option to keep the host Mac awake while TailTalk is running. I'm always forgetting about it, it falls asleep, and the share gets lost.

Ooo I'll have a look at how to do this in macOS, that would be a handy option I agree.

 

[iantm]

Ooo I'll have a look at how to do this in macOS, that would be a handy option I agree.

Nice! It could be as straightforward as a toggle "Keep Mac Awake" (indefinitely) but v2.0 might have some preference of an upper threshold of time. That way one could override the system's temporary short duration (mine is 2 minute sleep on battery) for say, an hour, and not keep it on forever.

 

[Bolacore]

I replicated the capture - the network is ImageWriter -> LC II -> TashTalk alone on phonenet.

My ImageWriter showed up today, and I have a LocalTalk board from @defor arriving soon. Hopefully I can replicate this and we can get it working - thanks again for your patience

Nice! It could be as straightforward as a toggle "Keep Mac Awake" (indefinitely) but v2.0 might have some preference of an upper threshold of time. That way one could override the system's temporary short duration (mine is 2 minute sleep on battery) for say, an hour, and not keep it on forever.

It looks like it's pretty trivial to do a simple "Keep Awake" button. For the first true 1.0 version I want to make a little config menu as I think the main window will start getting pretty big with all the things.

 

[iantm]

For the first true 1.0 version I want to make a little config menu

That works great. No need to organize all the functionality until you start to coalesce on a core set.

 

[Bolacore]

@MindWalker found it! I did not realise $PATH doesn't contain Brew's path when run as an app, whoops. Fix going in now.

@iantm will have the keep awake button too - seems to be working well in my first test

 

[Bolacore]

0.8.1 building now: https://github.com/FeralFirmware/TailTalk/releases/tag/0.8.1