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ASP isn't exactly a fast and efficient protocol. As you noted, the payload size per packet is limited. AFP over TCP is much faster.

What model is your old printer? HP's old LaserJets are pretty serviceable. Many are impossible to kill, only being EOLed by lack of toner cartridge replacements. OS X 10.4+ is guaranteed to work with a printer that supports PCL or PostScript. Auto discovery via Bonjour/mDNS should work as well.

Just as long as its running OS 9. AFP 3.0 has a ton of changes that could complicate things in a trace with an older client.

The malformed packets may be a problem... or not. Gotta love the lack of error handling in classic MacOS though. When trying to root out bugs in Netatalk, I've found it helpful to do packet traces using one of Apple's AFP servers to see how the communication should progress. The built-in file...

You need to return error -5018 for ObjectNotFound. -5012 is for ItemNotFound.

The Japanese D-Terminal component video socket uses the same connector and plug. The EIA-J specification document has the dimensions of both. Looks like the 3M MDR socket is a match per the datasheet...

I've seen this type of desktop icon corruption appear in Basilisk II as well. I don't know what graphics system that emulator targets, but maybe its the same? It could also be various bugs that emulator is famous for as well.

This connector wasn't exclusive to Apple products. At least two IBM (!) MicroChannel network card used AAUI. https://www.ardent-tool.com/NIC/ES32.html#C14_Connector https://www.ardent-tool.com/NIC/LAN_A.html#AAUI

The Rage II+ or Pro on the beige G3 has 2MB onboard and supports a 4MB upgrade module. 8MB is likely possible by swapping out the RAM on the logic board from 2 to 4MB.

I'll have to dig out the Powerbook 180c and run this.... when I have time.

The problem is macOS doesn't support AppleTalk at all. You are limited to TCP/IP file sharing with Netatalk 4. The issue of resource fork and FinderInfo storage has thankfully been solved though.

There used to be much more in the way of optical-based imaging and burning tools for MacOS X from the 00s, but I suspect none of them made the leap to Intel, let alone ARM based versions. Imgburn on Windows exists because there is a strong community of folks who archive and burn optical media...

The Classic environment is notorious for having issues with timing sensitive operations, hence why so many people want machines that can natively boot OS 9.

I guess the PowerMac G5 still retained the SCC core for interfacing with the modem? The developer's notes don't mention this at all. I don't see much of a point of a stealth serial port vs using a KeySpan USB adapter though. Mac OS X doesn't support LocalTalk, which is pretty much the only...

Do these cards have compatibility with newer SATA 300 and 600 devices? I know back in the day these VIA6421 cards hated newer drives and you have to force the drive to 150Mbit mode (via jumper) for it to work on these cards. Later SATA drives dropped the SATA-150 mode jumpers and won't work at...