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Well as it turns out, AppleTalk CAN be decoded neatly in Wireshark. Someone wrote a LUA plugin for it about two years ago. A guy named Jaap Keuter happened to be hanging out on the Wikipedia Discord and knew exactly what I needed: https://github.com/bytex64/aurp-dissector

Since we're on the topic of AppleTalk / DDP, I have been doing some Wireshark captures from said virtual router to get a better understanding of AppleTalk. The packets are just raw data on UDP port 387 (port resolves as "aurp"). It appears, at first glance, that Wireshark supports...

Bumping this topic... if anyone hasn't already, add the Asus RT-AX88U (Pro) to the list of routers that handles AppleTalk (DDP) over Wi-Fi. I suspect this will include a wide range of Asus routers in that family. Asus routers run on Linux, of course. I installed the Asuswrt-Merlin alternate...

During #Marcintosh 2025, I was live broadcasting a RealAudio server with on-demand content, plus live streams of 3 separate sources: two vintage iPods, and one iPhone SE 2015 playing internet radio. Each source was encoded in 3 different bitrates: 14.4kbps Mono, 28.8kbps Mono, and 80kbps...

Does the personality card require a video source to be plugged in before the source is exposed in software? Or am I just missing an extension? I also have a Connectix (Logitech) QuickCam VC Color USB installed. The video capture apps can see the webcam just fine.

Hi all, There was an absurdly-priced eBay listing for this card ($170). After waiting two months, I finally talked the seller down to $55, which is a lot closer to what examples have sold for in the last 12 months (between $40-80). What are some OS 8-9 apps that support video capture from...

+1 for the Mac Sync-inator. It was a day-1 purchase when announced. Very handy thing.

I have a Macintosh SE FDHD and am attempting to play some older games off the floppy disks. The built-in 40 MB hard drive has System 7.1, but I can also boot from a floppy disk. One game that works perfectly is The Fool's Errand, which comes on two disks. The Game disk has a modified System...

I have recently acquired a 6100 that came with an HPV and the metal shield, but the stock riser card is gone. I'm guessing the previous owner used a G3 accelerator. I got my own Sonnet Crescendo G3 233 MHz card for this computer. Technically it works, and the HPV card produces a fine...

I appreciate this! Thanks! Even if it's a breaking change, it's a good one. I wonder if these guys ever figured out what was wrong with their papd.conf file 25 years ago.

Well, that was quick. I got a response from the developer already:

Update: yes, I have determined that papd fails to start if the printer name is longer than 31 characters. At least in this case it gives a somewhat-helpful error that the printer could not be published. I'm going to file an issue on the netatalk github describing the unusual behavior, and ask...

The auto-generated name combines the printer description and the hostname. In my case, that was "O Brother Where Art Thou pihole" which was too long. In the Chooser window, this caused the text to be compressed. Does papd truncate print queue names to 31 characters? They have to be short...

Thanks. I'd tried that earlier and it wrote the following: papd: Set syslog logging to level: debug papd: restart (4.2.0dev) papd: CUPS support enabled (2.4) Bad termcap entry Bad papcap entry The error "bad termcap entry" shows up in many searches relating to things other than PAPD. The...

I'm pulling my hair out over here trying to expose my printer to AppleTalk. It worked exactly once with the cupsautoadd parameter ... but I wanted to customize the way the printer name appears in Chooser. So I tried adjusting the papd.conf file according to the manual, and now papd absolutely...