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Looks like its an external clock to speed up SCC transfers. The SCC allows for external devices to provide their own clock (pin 2 of the mini-DIN 8 serial port).

NOS toner can degrade, particularly the wiper for the drum that scraps waste toner off. Look at the drum after printing and see if it is completely clear of toner. If it has streaks/residue, the wiper is failing. It could also be a bad drum as well. With the Canon PX engine printers, it takes...

Just use a MicroSD card at that point. The Pi4 doesn't have an actual M.2 slot on it making this difficult. Weirdly enough, the one PCIe riser/splitter I have uses a cable with USB 3.0 type-A plugs (wire protocol is still PCIe) between the x1 piece that goes into the board and the riser itself.

NVMe will be faster then USB. Also helps that that NVMe storage devices are actually designed to boot and run computers. I am disappointed in the I/O selection. No onboard LocalTalk? :p

It should. How well, I don't know as I haven't attempted to use QEMU to emulate a PPC machine on a Pi4. QEMU emulating a Quadra 800 running System 7.1 works fine however.

There shouldn't be any need to define the local hostname in /etc/hosts, it gets it from /etc/hostname. Also, Netatalk 4 bases the server's name off of the system host name by default. ;)

With regards to AFP and AppleShare, those "file flags" are defined as file attributes in the AFP protocol and can be retrieved and changed with the FPGetFileParams/FPSetFileParams calls. One of the changes made between AFP1.1 and AFP2.0 are these flags. From Inside AppleTalk page 13-20: AFP2.0...

I can't believe Apple shipped that printer with only 2MB stock. The LaserJet 4P (PCL only) came with 2MB, while the 4MP (Postscript and PCL) came with 6MB standard. Even with the full 22MB in my 4MP, its a dog when printing with PostScript as PCL5e is MUCH faster. Printing via CUPS is worse...

The dbd utility can convert the old AppleDouble v2 format to the new extended attributes format in one shot. The way forward to print to an ancient printer is to write a printer application, or just manually push the jobs using the command line pap utility.... which is what the backend script...

It shouldn't take 5-10 minutes to boot MS-DOS. Give UNISOUND a shot in configuring the PnP soundcard.

CUPS 3.0 has been delayed quite a bit. The first distro to switch will likely be Ubuntu. Thankfully Debian tends to be very conservative and likely won't switch any time soon. This won't mean the end of printing from your classic Mac though as papd will eventually be updated to support CUPS 3.0...

Apple shipped a DVD player with a software decoder in MacOS 9, so QuickTime should have MPEG2 support via a plug-in.

I can confirm it works, but you have to manually add the printer's URL under "Add Printer" in the CUPS web interface. The "Find New Printers" option no longer works for 3rd party back ends. To get the URL, you have to manually run the pap back end script, which will list URLs of all found...

The pap backend file is only if you want to print to a pap only LaserWriter from Linux.

OK, problem solved, go ahead and install. Stupid Debian and its multiple ways of configuring a network interface.....

I'm running into regressions with Netatalk 4.1.0 with systemd..... UGH. You will have to manually start the services after a reboot with "netatalk-restart" until its fixed.

If you want to give a development version of A2SERVER a spin, copy the following into a terminal: export A2SERVER_SCRIPT_URL=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NJRoadfan/a2server/cicpoffs-testing/ export A2SERVER_BINARY_URL=https://appleii.ivanx.com/a2server/files wget -O setup...

The zero K on disk is normal. The AppleShare clients in question support AFP2.2, which has extended disk size and free space commands to report over 2GB/4GB of disk space free or used. Older versions of Finder only allocated a 32-bit value for these values (later unsigned), and would overflow on...

The legacy volume size option is only needed in limited situations. Generally with pre-System 7.5 Finder running later (and unsupported) versions of AppleShare Client.

...or, given that the machine has an AppleTalk connection, just use Netatalk's AFP server to transfer the files.