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During my testing of Netatalk and various versions of MacOS, I came across a rather interesting bug. If the File Type for a given file is all null values (0x00), the Finder will refuse to update any of the Finder Information about the file. This includes information like the label color, icon...

This came up during my work on Netatalk. Officially, Netatalk 2.x allows one to display and create NBP entities and zone names in any supported character encoding (ex: MacHebrew, MacGreek, MacJapanese, etc.) The "official" documentation, Inside AppleTalk, is pretty quiet on this. It only...

Browsing the Internet Archive, I came across this: https://archive.org/details/apple-iigs-owners-guide A manual I didn't even know existed. Apple updated the IIgs Owner's Guide in 1992 and packed in System 6.0. This has to be pretty rare considering System 6.0 came out in roughly April-May...

See title. This was available thru APDA as part number C0144LL/A, but doesn't seem to have been archived. It covers nitty gritty AppleTalk networking details that aren't covered in "Inside AppleTalk" and is considered an addendum to that book. Apple's APDA listing says that IA 2nd Edition...

This is mostly for historical use and tinkering. No rational person would bother to run this protocol on their computers. Apple managed to mostly erase all traces of it once EtherTalk Phase 2 showed up in 1989. System Requirements: -You must be running classic networking. This will not work...

It is common knowledge that one can't natively use the AppleTalk protocol (also known as DDP) over WiFi. The notable exception is very early access points, particularly Apple's AirPort series, had special packet handling to allow it to work. When WiFi became popular, AppleTalk printers were...

The earliest copy of the driver I could find is LaserWriter 3.0 off of the "Printer Installation Disk" with System 3/Finder 5. This version was released in 1986, likely alongside the LaserWriter Plus upgrade. Going by the manuals, it looks like the original disk was called "LaserWriter...

Looking for something that can snoop DDP Appletalk over Ethernet. I have been trying to get the Apple IIgs LaserWriter driver (and likely older Mac LaserWriter drivers) to print to a netatalk box running papd with no luck (GS/OS dies before any job spools). I am at the point where I need to see...

Just ran across this from an Ars Technica post: https://sourceforge.net/p/libmwaw/wiki/Home/ Might be handy if you have old documents from a classic Mac but no software (or Mac Link Plus) to open them!

(not by me) Check it out here: http://www.tenox.net/docs/

Spotted this on ebay. Apparently they have a special lubricant for reducing friction in low power floppy drives. Ahhhhh marketing.

So the new SCSI2SD v5.0 is out and available. The new PCB now fits within the footprint of a traditional 2.5" notebook drive and claims the ability to be powered via TERM power alone. Thinking out loud, how hard would it be to build an adapter PCB to mount this new unit into 68k SCSI Powerbooks...

Any item why? I installed MacsBug 6.5.3 to test it out. The debugger installs on boot, but pressing the Programmer's Switch does nothing.

This is purely out of curiosity. I have had quite a few pre-G3 PCI Macs over the years and they all seem to boot up System 7.5.5 despite Apple saying that some later models require 7.6.x. The 8600/300 I have boots 7.5.5 without enablers which, according to the lists below, should be impossible...

Got my battery today. It appears to be charged. The charging circuit appears to be working without a problem with the stock AC adapter. Battery tests good with about 6.4v at the terminals. Strictly powered by said battery it appears I'm not getting enough voltage on the 12v line. The floppy...

Back in 2004 or so there was a short lived alpha quality port of the Mac-On-Linux virtual machine to Darwin platforms. I took a keen interest in it as my Aluminum Powerbook G4 could not natively run MacOS 9 and I had a program (Bernie ][ The Rescue, an Apple IIgs emulator) that wouldn't run...