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    Bolacore replied to the thread Fun with userspace AppleTalk.
    Well for reasons I do not fully understand with a working battery the transfer now works great and I'm at ~70MiB of 515 copied without...
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    In the process of rebuilding my PDQ’s battery and found that even with fresh cells I had zero volts at the output terminals. Battery...
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    Bolacore replied to the thread Fun with userspace AppleTalk.
    And now write support works! Ferris the Crab was able to make a round trip from my tablet to the PB and back again and still have the...
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    Bolacore replied to the thread Fun with userspace AppleTalk.
    Hm interestingly on long file transfers I’m seeing my PowerBook just hard lock again. Gets about 30MiB in to a file copy then just halts...
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    Bolacore replied to the thread Fun with userspace AppleTalk.
    Success! After implementing far more AFP commands than I ever thought I'd need to, I have Linux to Mac OS file copying working with AFP...
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    Bolacore replied to the thread Fun with userspace AppleTalk.
    Just tried booting Mac OS 9.2 on the PowerBook and it gets much farther, before exploding because I have yet to implement the rest of...
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    Bolacore replied to the thread Fun with userspace AppleTalk.
    At this point I dont _think_ I have any malformed ones left. The only one I am unsure about is FPGetSrvrMsg - Even though that should...
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    Bolacore replied to the thread Fun with userspace AppleTalk.
    I didn’t see one called that, but I did try turning off a bunch of extensions including one called Foreign File Exchange. Now the...
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    Bolacore replied to the thread Fun with userspace AppleTalk.
    Ah good catch, I thought Wireshark was just being quirky there. Unfortunately even after fixing that error code it still exhibits the...
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    Bolacore replied to the thread Fun with userspace AppleTalk.
    The more I have messed with a homebrew AFP implementation the more I've come to realise just how brittle classic Mac OS really is 🫠 I...
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    Bolacore replied to the thread Fun with userspace AppleTalk.
    I can’t speak for Windows as I never really use it, and there’s virtually no chance it would disappear on Linux. For macOS I’d be...
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    Bolacore replied to the thread Fun with userspace AppleTalk.
    Hah I think you can guess why I was excited to get that Pi hat then. And of course! Sounds like our goals are/were pretty much the same...
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    Bolacore replied to the thread Fun with userspace AppleTalk.
    If you're up for staring at Rust code I'd love more eyes on it. I hope to publish it soon on GitHub once the API is a little less crazy...
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    I've been really wanting to write software to speak AppleTalk to my various LocalTalk (and sometimes EtherTalk) systems. I've found the...
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