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Development / Re: Wait.. there's something called Netatalk?
November 04, 2024, 20:55 |
It's actively happening now! It's called #GlobalTalk - uses Apple Internet Router to route your localtalk network to anyone in the world who is also on GlobalTalk. It is most active during March-in-tosh (in March) - but there's tons of guides there to get setup with real hardware, or emulators, or whatever you like. I had my printer on it and got random prints through march from random mac users around the world. I'll have something new this year (but I'll keep that to myself till around march  Modern link: https://tinkerdifferent.com/threads/globaltalk-global-appletalk-network-for-marchintosh-2024-and-beyond.3392/ Also it's not secure by modern standards (and wont be) - just do it for fun - don't file your taxes over it. |
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Development / Re: Wait.. there's something called Netatalk?
November 04, 2024, 20:25 |
Right, netatalk is very actively maintained! If you're handy enough to run a docker container you can ignore all those complex configuration and have a netatalk server that serves files to a Plus all the way to macOS 15 - also Resource Forks work across it as well so you can unstuff on your M4 MacBookPro - copy it to netatalk - copy it to your Mac Plus and everything will work. If you have a piscsi the installer has an option to set up netatalk as well. |
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Hardware / Re: My 7500 got recapped ...
October 27, 2024, 16:36 |
10MB/sec is "Fast SCSI" - and you'll get no faster on a stock PowerMac with built in SCSI. @Wove - have to be careful in your transfer comparisons - eg: 10baseT is 10 mega bits per second - which is 8x slower than 10 mega bytes per second. I also think floppy's were much faster than a 14.4 modem - which is why we always used sneakernet back in the day
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Hardware / Re: My 7500 got recapped ...
October 25, 2024, 15:06 |
> BlueSCSI rather cater to 68k hardware BlueSCSI v2 will max out that 10MB/sec bus if you use FWB Hard Disk Toolkit's drivers with it. Another option if you're just looking for raw speed is to grab a $6 SATA card, flash a Mac bios to it, and get near 40MB/sec with a modern HDD. HTH, -Eric |
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Hardware / Re: How do you find the SCSI version?
October 14, 2024, 15:52 |
Apple published a KB article (TA29470) which is archived https://web.archive.org/web/20230126014951/https://support.apple.com/kb/TA29470?locale=en_US that lists all the SCSI chipsets and speeds and any notes. When you are asking about "SCSI version" are you meaning "SCSI protocol version" (eg 1, 2)? Those don't matter very much on the Mac as early Macs used NCR 53C80 - a SCSI-1 chip but SCSI-2 drives work fine (many drives talked SCSI-2 by then (as well as SCSI-1)). |
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Hardware / Re: BlueSCSI getting WiFi (now beta)
July 09, 2024, 17:15 |
I've started a retro compatible site for BlueSCSI related links/files/etc here: http://retro.bluescsi.com/ Has a web (http), ftp, gopher (though I need to adjust the layout, mirror the web for now), links to many retro sites (such as this one). It's just a start for now - let me know if there's any other things I should include or if there's something needing fixing (I'm sure there is) I'll need to adjust the styling for the docs but it is automatically mirrored now for your http viewing pleasure. |
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Hardware / Re: BlueSCSI getting WiFi (now beta)
May 23, 2024, 17:02 |
We do provide a .hda image file with the driver (actually not a file, it places some resources in the System file) and it does have the WiFi DA on it as well. You can't please everyone, some want fresh installs, some want just base installs, some want everything installed. Happy medium is we provide a "full install" of an OS and other drives with things they might need to bootstrap or setup wifi, or whatever they wish to do. Note full installs sometimes have things like A/ROSE which can cause some machines to crash on boot. (or contain PPC things on 68k, or vice versa) BlueSCSI sellers are just tinkerers like you and me - adding setting up and testing SD cards to the mix adds time, which we all don't have enough of. I'll say too that based on how many people come to support, and how many BlueSCSI's we ship a week, this issue is very minor (1-2% if that?) People usually don't post when everything works - but some do and we really appreciate it! Now a mostly joking aside --- If you got a BlueSCSI it was probably via a modern computer - if you manufactured them from JLCPCB or got them from a seller - you used ssl/tls and a credit card online - maybe your friend had an extra one and gave it to you, but then you can bug them for the docs  It's fun to draw a line and say "I'm only using system 7!" but.. why not System 6? or prodos? or a PDP11? We're all just doing things for fun with retro computers, some take it further, some not. Who'm I to judge what you do with them That said if I had some easy to publish too (eg works in my modern automation flow) ftp site I could host and publish the docs there too, they are just plain html. Maybe retro.bluescsi.com I (personally) enjoy the progress of technology and new things - some here don't, but we can all agree that it's pretty fun to use old Macs - so lets agree and have some fun. |
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Hardware / Re: BlueSCSI getting WiFi (now beta)
May 20, 2024, 20:44 |
As I do a majority of the support for BlueSCSI I can sum up 98% of BlueSCSI issues in 2 categories - 1) Bad SD Card/Card format or 2) Bad termination/power. Looking through this thread I'd suspect we could work together could get most of the issues fixed, or even just going through our Trouble Shooting[0] page in the docs. I don't frequent this site (though do have an RSS feed setup) so not the best place to troubleshoot. OneGeekArmy is adamant about reducing waste, hence why there is no printed instructions, and our docs are the most up to date anyways. OneGeekArmy is also the author of Disk Jockey[1], which if you've not looked at in a while has a ton of great features added) If you have any suggestions on how to make WiFi plug and play please let us know. Since the networking is handled in MacOS - besides making an image with the daynaport drivers already installed and the BlueSCSI WiFi DA - I don't think there's more we could do. It's pretty straight forward though, let us know if you have any issues, happy to help. https://diskjockey.onegeekarmy.eu/ |
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Hardware / Re: BlueSCSI getting WiFi (now beta)
September 19, 2023, 17:16 |
> Do you have any estimate yet for when a pre-assembled version will be available? Yes, all sellers on bluescsi.com have that option for wifi. > How do you power it inside a classic desktop Mac? Via the SCSI cable alone or via the floppy power cable? Either/Both - depends on how stable your 5v power is. Note on a compact mac the 5v line of the termpower on the scsi bus and the hdd connector are many times the same, so if it's very low it still wouldnt help. (only a PSU recap would, or power it externally) > Since we got a lot of Europeans here... any plans for distribution in Europe or will it be the usual parcel from the U.S.? OneGeekArmy is in the EU and can ship to any EU country (and non-EU) for resonable (see his shipping FAQ) - Flamelilly is in the UK. Both have been around for quite a while and are great people! |
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Hardware / Re: BlueSCSI getting WiFi (now beta)
September 17, 2023, 16:37 |
For sure you can place these inside a PowerBook - we offer a PB board just for this scenario! Since I'm doing dev and testing I usually just use the external port with a DB25 version (note you'd need to power it via USB in this case as the Powerbook does not provide termpower) RE: Price - the Pico-W is only $2 more than the Pico (non-WiFi) so we just charge $2 more. You can always order the PCB's & build them yourself too. |
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