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cballero
1024 MB  Posts: 1179 System 7, today and forever 
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on: February 21, 2024, 09:12
So I have a just a couple of go-to LAN-based tools that make my life easier for my real and unreal Macs, but I'd thought and ask what we all like using outside of, or in conjunction with, our Mac tools either online or just on your LAN? I'll start with one of my personal favorites: 1. Rejetto's cool Win HTTP server (runs in Linux/Wine and Parallels/macOS (modern link) https://www.rejetto.com/hfs Outside of the obvious, mainly uploading files and archives from my Mac to my other devices on my LAN, HFS has another cool additional side-effect: While (hopefully!) a WebDAV client is being actively worked on more for PowerPC with Lauland's programming prowess (yay!!) even now, I'm actually able to access OneDrive, Google Drive, DropBox, Box and similar cloud storage services that can add local, physical folders to my modern computer desktop, which is especially helpful for QEMU and Real Macs that don't have mountable host volumes like Basilisk II or Sheep Shaver. Years ago it was (almost) child's play to setup a shared folder between a Classic OS and OS X up to Tiger (and possibly Leopard and maybe a little higher up as well?) but the degree of separation is more than likely too great now to easily share folders between Classic Macs and modern OSes like we could before, but I'm totally open to hearing anything new on this front and be proven wrong in case I'm missing something there!  well, I know that FTP has been around for a good while too of course and can do this very thing!  So this little browser-based file server gives me easy, two-way communication to any local or cloud-based folders on my modern devices. I've also mentioned before that I've successfully tested m3u playlists using this server to stream mp3s to my 68k Macs using MPEGDEC and I'll be testing PPC audio apps on my Beige Desktop next!  I'd love to hear how all of you are connecting your Macs to your LAN or Internet, outside of playing with, sleek new toys like Knez's Sound Pirate! 'Aaaarrrrgggghhhh! Ahoy there mateys! These be perilous waters for landlubbers.. Shiver me timbers, what treasures ye scallywags be hidin' in the Jolly Roger's brig fer yeselves?' I just couldn't help myself with the Pirate-speak.. c'mon, lol!
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Last Edit: February 21, 2024, 09:16 by cballero
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68040
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512 MB Posts: 950 68k - thy kingdom come, thy will be done !
Reply #1 on: February 21, 2024, 09:42
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Fetch, Fetch, Fetch Its faaaast - and stable. The browser's are nice, too, but these days of only limited use. Ah and yes, Eudora Pro - my all time fav e-mail program. Better than anything I can get elsewhere these days.
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Bolkonskij
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Administrator 1024 MB  Posts: 2024
Reply #2 on: February 21, 2024, 11:04
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Well, I for one always enjoyed Transmit way more than Fetch but both do their job very well. I usually stream web radio with SoundJam MP, which works excellent. All my chatting is handled via either an IRC client with bitlebee or by using the Mac Garden Jabber server (Jabbernaut being the client of choice here; despite being rather buggy) ZTerm is probably the best terminal for any 7.1 68k Macintosh - using it extensively for some BBS and MUD action. MT-Newswatcher for accessing / posting on Usenet. Whew...the list gets longer and longer, probably missing quit some stuff as well. Luckily, my Synology NAS still supports AFP (not going to update it ) and thus I can access it from the Chooser - meaning I can access the same files from both a modern computer and my retro Macs!
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cballero
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1024 MB Posts: 1179 System 7, today and forever
Reply #3 on: February 21, 2024, 16:00
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@Bolkonskij: so AFP, while essential for early networking on the Mac, what extra goodies does it offer that TCP/IP couldn't handle? I know using the serial port for networking, so built-in hardware usage maybe? I mean, I'm all for it for sure as a Mac-specific protocol over physical Serial ports, Ethernet and Wi-Fi! (just wondering some of the applications that can take specific advantage of AFP, that's all)
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68040
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512 MB Posts: 950 68k - thy kingdom come, thy will be done !
Reply #4 on: February 21, 2024, 17:23
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TCP/IP is almost limitless scalable and is not bound to proprietary hardware. That made it the technology of choice for a network aiming to cover the world.
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Knezzen
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Administrator 512 MB Posts: 608 Village idiot
Reply #5 on: February 21, 2024, 17:45
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AFP over TCP/IP has been a thing since the mid 90's, so it's not one or the other, it's both AFP = built in sharing panel in Mac OS since the early 90's.
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cballero
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1024 MB Posts: 1179 System 7, today and forever
Reply #6 on: February 21, 2024, 18:14
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Gotcha! And that's it, it allows Apple's File Sharing, perfect!
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snes1423
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256 MB Posts: 458 A Man born of Mechina
Reply #7 on: February 21, 2024, 22:31
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Fetch Netscape 3.0.1 IE 3.0 (for certain web pages) Adobe PageMill 2.0 vMac 0.19 etc.,
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