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1 Emulation / Re: Mendelson's Classic emulators.
February 28, 2026, 01:59
Quote from: wove
I would have thought the 68k processor would be easier to emulate than PPC hardware.

I would have thought so, too, since intel and the 68K are both CISC chips.
2 Development / Re: VesperNet question
February 27, 2026, 17:16 		I wish I still had a working landline.
3 Development / Re: VesperNet question
February 27, 2026, 05:38 		That's awesome! Are we allowed to comment on it? I don't want to spoil it for anyone hehe ;)

Also, I use that network number on my AppleTalk network. I don't think it was default, either. So that's a coincidence that our 16-bit network number is the same lol.
4 Off Topic Discussion / Re: who here uses MacDomain
February 26, 2026, 02:54 		I recently found that macdomain is down. Is that permanent, or just temporary?
5 Development / VesperNet question
February 25, 2026, 12:12 		I set my DNS and HTTP proxy and went to the domains.com site to sign up, but I have a question first. In the email address field, is that an email address on the public internet, or an email address on VesperNet? Just trying to figure out what I should use, because I don't have email set up on my 7200.

Another question is what search engines are on VN? I saw a thread on PPP, but I thought there was another one for VesperNet.
6 Development / Re: Experiments with Realbasic
February 17, 2026, 01:27 		I never messed with Realbasic, but I learned to program in BASIC on the VTech PreComputer 1000, and in high school, I took a class on Programming in True BASIC in the Macintosh keyboarding lab.

I've honestly forgotten so much about BASIC. Is there much difference between Realbasic and True BASIC?

Also, is Realbasic 2 the recommended version to make the most compatible programs for all of classic Mac OS?
7 Software / Re: Set up Crypto Ancienne as a TLS proxy on Linux
February 17, 2026, 01:22 		@wove Thanks, but honestly I'm just sharing my personal config baseline that works. I take no credit in any of it. Feel free to copy and/or save it XD
8 Software / Re: Set up Crypto Ancienne as a TLS proxy on Linux
February 16, 2026, 07:23 		I had used this for a few months, running on my RaspPi. I don't remember why I stopped using it.

Anyway, I just set it back up last night and today, running on a Debian headless server under VirtualBox, using 512 MB RAM. It probably doesn't even need that much. I set it up to be text-only. To become root on Debian is the short command "su", without the quotes.

In case it helps others, I'll give the main things I learned because I had to do a little research once again this time, as I set this back up for the second time. You should have compiled the software according to the instructions found in the documentation that came with Crypto Ancienne.

This is not an optimized setup. It was just the first settings I tried when I got it working. Keep in mind ClassillaHasClass mentioned that the carl configuration file given as an example in the first post listens on all interfaces. I plan on binding it to a specific interface, just on the occasion the VM becomes self-aware and spawns endless interfaces :P These were just the steps I took that got it working.

Good references
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Crypto Ancienne: TLS for the Internet of Old Things (modern browser needed)
TLS 1.3 support for Classilla 9.3.4b
The README.md file in the cryanc directory
Howto: configure xinetd service under Linux or UNIX systems (modern browser needed)

Main points
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1. In no way do I claim to to know more than the lay computer user about networking, so don't rely on my particular settings!
1.5 In no way do I claim that my GNU/Linux knowledge is above average.
2. I compiled carl using my regular GNU/Linux user account privileges.
3. With root privileges, I copied the carl program to /usr/local/bin.
4. With root privileges, I created a service configuration file in the /etc/xinetd.d/ directory, naming it carl.

I use VIM. Sorry nano or emacs guys :) I tried them in college, didn't like them, and have used VIM for 20 years, and have totally forgotten how to use them. VIM isn't installed by default, but the predecessor to VIM, vi, is installed.

But anyway, I created the file below:

# vi /etc/xinetd.d/carl

Here are the contents of what knezzen provided for the /etc/xinetd.d/carl file:
service carl
{
        disable         = no
        socket_type     = stream
        protocol        = tcp
        port            = 8765
        wait            = no
        user            = root
        server          = /usr/local/bin/carl
        server_args     = -p -t
}

5. (Optional?)
Here are the contents of my /etc/xinetd.conf file:
(Note: the lines after the last comment line, but before the ending bracket are what I added. These lines were not there by default on my installation. I read the article (last reference I listed), which is where I kinda copy-pasted-edited in my config lines here. These are most likely not optimal, but I thought something was better than nothing, and can be changed at any time.)

# Simple configuration file for xinetd
#
# Some defaults, and include /etc/xinetd.d/

defaults
{

# Please note that you need a log_type line to be able to use log_on_success
# and log_on_failure. The default is the following :
# log_type = SYSLOG daemon info

        instances               = 60
        log_type                = SYSLOG authpriv
        log_on_success          = HOST PID
        log_on_failure          = HOST
        cps                     = 25 30
}

6. With root privileges, I added the line:

carl 8765/tcp

to the /etc/services file. I put it in the proper place, numerically (not sure what would happen if it was out of order).

A mistake of mine at the naming step here was messing me up, until I caught it after I was sure I had thought of everything :P

I originally named the service "tlsproxy", and since that doesn't match "carl" (the name of the service in /etc/xinetd.d/), it just wouldn't work. I spent hours trying to figure out why it wouldn't work.

But anyway, after 2, 3, 4, 5?, and 6 were done, I restarted xinetd, using the command (as root):

systemctl restart xinetd

I also restarted, using the command (as root):

shutdown -r now

This is the configuration I am using right now, and it works. Hopefully it helps others.

Some useful commands I used to help troubleshoot my setup:
1. netstat -an | grep LISTEN (to see all ports listening for connections)
2. netstat -lnp | grep xinet (to see what all is running under xinetd)
3. systemctl restart xinetd (restarts xinetd)
9 Hardware / Re: SCSI hard drives
February 12, 2026, 04:55 		I tried Lido 7.56, when I had them both installed, which results in multiple warnings/errors:

Inquiry and request auxiliary sense commands failed!
Unable to read drive's capacity!
OSErr = 5 Bad SCSI Command: phase error.
OSErr = 5 Bad SCSI Command: phase error.

Oh well, Finding out that two out of four are good isn't a bad surprise haha.
10 Hardware / SCSI hard drives
February 10, 2026, 06:06 		The hard disk that came in my LC III, I found out just now, is still good. I had updated the disk driver, and then my LC III could no longer see the disk. I didn't know that would happen. I thought "updating" it would be good, since it usually is for most things.

The only thing that would make sense is that, for God knows why, I took it out of the LC III and put it into my 7200. Maybe there was some problem with it, and I wasn't able to fix it on the LC. Anyway, it still has the files that the previous owner had.

The LC III doesn't see the disk in Apple HD SC Setup. It just says no SCSI devices/drives found.

Since I already bought another hard disk for the LC III, I wonder if this can be used in my Macintosh SE.

Is it possible to downgrade the driver on the disk? I know from using Apple HD SC Setup in the past, that there is a small partition for the driver.

However, this one only had one partition, Macintosh HFS.
11 Hardware / Re: Apple parts
February 08, 2026, 23:18 		Thanks wove. I knew I saw a page like that before. I don't know why I have such a hard time finding what I want. It's bookmarked now. It's like google knows exactly what I'm looking for, but shows me EVERYTHING else. Even typing in quoted search terms doesn't help, There have been a handful of situations in which I was trying to find a page I had accessed before, so I type in quoted text that I KNOW is on the page, so it should pop up with the exact page, but it shows me everything except the one I'm looking for.

Back during the old web, I never had trouble finding what I wanted based on my search terms. But after the web started changing and becoming more dynamic and less usable, is when I started noticing the difficulty in finding what I want increased.

I think nowadays, they just push what is trending. The majority of the results are for just a few sites, like Facepalm, amazon, ebay, the worthless classified websites that have a list of text just to get their page noticed, but has no relevant info on the page, etc.

Even putting in exclusions like -amazon don't help. I feel like the modern web is useless.
12 Hardware / Apple parts
February 08, 2026, 01:20 		I have several Apple memory modules, and I was looking them up to find detailed information about them.

Using this search criteria for this part, I wasn't able to find much:

"333-0178" "Apple" -amazon

I also tried -phone in place of the amazon exclusion, but that reduced the results down to a few. I don't believe there is nothing on the internet about that part number. The most relevant result I found was this one (modern browser needed).

But I was really looking for primary sources by Apple, or at least, quoted or mirrored documentation/lists from trusted secondary sources. I don't like taking random websites' words for truth.

It would be nice to have a complete table of what parts work in which Macs.

Also, I've seen parts that are called different things. For example:

341-0741

This post here says it's ROM. This page (modern browser needed) says it's cache. This post here doesn't say what it is, but says it's compatible with PM 6/7/8100.

It's insanity.
13 Development / Re: The "I've been programming lately and ..." thread
February 08, 2026, 00:55 		Regarding programming, I'm just trying a general-purpose app in 68K C in MWCW5 Gold, so that I can get used to the API. But I haven't had much time to work on it, since I've been doing more hardware stuff lately.

I would love a chat in which the programmers (and aspiring Mac programming newbs like me) can all chat openly about programming on classic Mac OS.
14 Operating System / Re: Finally! 7.6.1 in my native language on my 8600.
February 07, 2026, 01:43 		Just curious, but what didn't you like about the Quicksilver, wove?

eelco, yes. I just installed a fresh Mac OS 8.0 on a blank partition, and it did not have an enabler by default. But if they were on the system, they'd be in the System Folder.
15 Operating System / Re: Finally! 7.6.1 in my native language on my 8600.
February 05, 2026, 05:31 		I know what you mean about having to jump through so many hoops. I don't like that some things MUST be accessed in every difficult way possible. What I DO like, is BEING ABLE to find ways to make things work that would make MacGuyver proud.
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