Search results

Can you post the contents of the check-maciprpi.sh script? Its likely assuming the printer is a LaserWriter.

Quadras are going to get a bit of a boost in transfer speeds as they have newer SCSI chips along with SCSI Manager 4.3 drivers.

This isn't going to work with Ethernet. The IIe card software likely only has support for LocalTalk. AppleTalk is a two part system on the Apple II. One part of the stack is resident in ROM (or the IIe card software in this case) and supports all the lower level protocols, while the OS loads...

Its likely MAC locked, looking for the Apple OUI (MAC starts with 00:05:02 in the example above). Looking at OUI registration dates, it could also be 00:10:FA too.

Quite possibly the second most generic 10/100 card out there, one of many based on the DEC "Tulip" chip. Its likely Apple's driver has limited PCI device IDs programmed into it... on purpose.

Netatalk 2.x supports this. Support was removed from Netatalk 3.0 to simplify the codebase.

This might have been a side effect of the fixes made for RTMP or the ImageWriter LocalTalk card. Watching actual traffic from AppleTalk routers, the only packets that must always use Short DDP packets are the RTMP broadcasts from the router itself. Everything else uses Long DDP packets on a...

The pinout is documented in the ImageWriter LQ technical reference.

The GEM screenshot is actually 640x200 stretched to 640x400 to correct the aspect ratio. The ST did support 640x400, but only with a monochrome monitor. All three of the 16-bit micros offered GUIs running on 640x200 (hence why I mentioned the IIgs as a "what if" situation), so it was a...

Yes, you can using the PAP backend for CUPS, which now ships with Netatalk. The biggest limitation with ImageWriters is that they only have black and white support, but a color driver is in the works.

As I've said before, I'm surprised Apple equipped a 600dpi PostScript printer with only 2MB of RAM. The 4MP came with 6MB stock with 2xSIMM sockets to add up to 16MB more. They are very versatile printers, one reason why my 4MP is still on my desk... albeit a paperweight at the moment since it...

The Canon PX engine is rated for a whopping 4 pages per minute. I have a LaserJet 4MP with the RAM maxed out to 22MB and its still slow.

Resource forks should be stored in AppleDouble format. Use the OS X standard (._Filename) which specifies an entry for FinderInfo and the Resource Fork (in that order). It works with Netatalk out of the box and macOS should handle it as well. Also... you could port Adlib Tracker 2. :P

Manually specifying the printer name via papd.conf circumvents the name mangling and truncation that the CUPS support does automatically via cupsautoadd. Basically, if your CUPS queue had that long name already, papd would have cut it off at 31 characters.

That would do it. The parsing of papd.conf is based on ancient code that was used to parse printcap files back in the day. They used the same formatting to ease administration in the pre-CUPS age. Note, I don't think you actually need to specify a PPD file for CUPS printer queues. They are...

The Linux kernel used to support the PAS16: https://git.samba.org/?p=jlayton/linux.git;a=blob;f=sound/oss/pas2_mixer.c;h=a0bcb85c39046a8c4878b6367e6bd2cc938e2140;hb=c3c9897c63ebb0b93b7f78724e38d6ee1da04041...

Heh, talk about a lazy design. They seem to have told someone "Take this ISA card and make it work on Nubus". Some x86 ASM samples for the mixer can be found in this zip: http://www.symphoniae.com/soundcard/MediaVision/SDK/PASSDK_201.zip check the PAS\SUBS\MIXER directory.

Passing packets doesn't require the kernel to have DDP support, even then its the AARP packets that get mangled. Kernel support is only needed if file or printer sharing services are running on the device itself.

The Airport Extreme might be too new to have any AppleTalk support since it was released after Apple dropped DDP from OS X. The onboard file and printer sharing would be the only functions that would need such support.