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Whats annoying is that I can't reliability reproduce the no icon bus error problem with Apple's clients. I know ASC 3.7.4 is a buggy mess (refuses to connect to a server with a FPGetSrvrInfo reply over 512 bytes), but this is the first I've read that ASC 3.8.3 crashes with no icon data. The AFP...

The G3 will stay connected via TCP/IP on Ethernet as that is controlled separately. If you want to bridge LocalTalk to Ethernet, install Apple's LocalTalk Bridge 2.1 control panel.

add the line legacy icon = sdcard under the Global section. One of the ASC revisions has a bug in it that causes a crash if no icon data is received. Remove the afp interfaces and legacy volume size option too. I don't think you can use the "path" option under the special Homes share. I would...

If you have a proper MiniDIN 8 Macintosh serial cable, connect the two machines via the printer port. On both machines, enable AppleTalk on the Printer Port. This can be found in the "AppleTalk" control panel on the G3. The IIci will have either the AppleTalk control panel (Open Transport) or...

Woz didn't have involvement in the SWIM chip as it came after he left the company. The original SWIM was two separate floppy controllers in one package. One being the IWM and the other being a clone of the NEC 765 MFM PC style controller. The later revisions further integrated and simplified the...

QuickDraw GX had vastly improved color ImageWriter II and LQ drivers. Its hard to call it over engineered when NeXT had Display PostScript!

8.4GB is the CHS sector addressing limit (16383/16/63). Its possible the firmware on the card can't handle drives that only support LBA addressing. While the spec says those drives could be accessed using CHS (albeit capped at 8.4GB), the reality is most drives long moved on. The PC BIOS of the...

I've never had any issue with LToUDP, just buggy routers with broken multicast. It is a nice solution for getting machines that only supported LocalTalk out of the box onto a network as you didn't have to emulate Ethernet hardware or convert LLAP packets to ELAP packets (like GSport does)...

Here it is in Stuff-It! 5 format (File type: SIT5 Creator: SIT!) . The ZIP was a standard OS X format AppleDouble containing a classic Mac OS application.

With more RAM downloaded, anything should be possible..... right? (Considering someone got a current m68k Debian working on a Wombat, its possible)

Given that the Print Manager basically went unchanged until the end of classic MacOS, I'm not surprised at the spaghetti code. One plus of this is that you can run the LaserWriter 7 driver on the earliest System software that supports AppleTalk printing. QuickDraw GX was supposed to solve all...

I don't need another TashTalk per se, but I could use one for development purposes for A2SERVER. Any dev info, like the type of device it appears as helps.

Netatalk + CUPS is what you are looking for. Seamlessly bridge the old with the new. Now if you want a "native" driver, you got your work cut out for you as you'll need: An mDNS/Bonjour stack: This is needed for printer discovery. An IPP 2.0 Port Driver: This is how AirPrint and other...

I wish Apple didn't insist on such confusing terminology with the drive select signals. PCs were weird in that the first drive was wired as DS1 as opposed to DS0. Some docs refer to DS1 as "Drive B".... not be be confused with DOS drive letters! Later PC motherboards (and maybe the beige G3?)...

Manual inject PC style floppy drives support auto mounting inserted disks by monitoring the "disk change" signal. Amigas use it to automount inserted disks.