TashTalk USB

[iigs123]

Notice that the packet in your screenshot is a NBP Broadcast directed to a router (at least the LC thinks it should be one) at node 129, not a NBP Lookup to the broadcast address. In this case, the router at node 129 should be re-transmitting those packets at NBP Lookups to the broadcast address.

Without knowing @iigs123 's network configuration, its hard to know what is going on here.

Plus there are multiple problems. This example appears to be a non-responsive router. while the issue in the other two packet captures with TailTalk is that it isn't handling being on a routed network correctly, which causes problems with NBP lookups.

On non-extended networks, TailTalk needs to listen to RTMP broadcast traffic to glean the network number and node number of the router, then issue a ZIP query to the router to get the zone name.

On extended networks, TailTalk needs to broadcast a ZipGetNetInfo request, get the correct network range, node number of the router, and default zone, issue a new AARP Probe inside that network range, followed by a ZIP query to the router to retrieve the rest of the zone list.

I replicated the capture - the network is ImageWriter -> LC II -> TashTalk alone on phonenet.

 

[MindWalker]

I tested the new "Emulate a LaserWriter printer" option. Works, I don't know why I think this is so fun I've never had printer on a classic Mac so perhaps it's just it. Thanks for adding this!

On my System 8 machine, which I happened to have at hand, I used the built-in Laserwriter 8 driver. Not knowing any better, I picked 'Color Laserwriter 12/600' and 'Generic' as the PPD File, seems to work just fine.

On my modern Mac I used 'brew install ghostscript' as instructed and it installed ok (and I can run 'gs') but TailTalk still doesn't allow me to select the 'Convert to PDF' option: it says it Ghostscript still isn't found. I tried rebooting, but still no, do I need to do something else to enable it?

Here are some prints from my OS8 machine (converted to PDF from the PS files on my modern Mac) in the meanwhile: