With my #GlobalTalk Mac running on an isolated network, getting a screenshot onto Mastodon took some creative problem solving. A floppy disk was involved.
With some editorial decisions and BlueSCSCI shenanigans, I was able to make my entire library of 422 commercial game demos for Classic Macintosh systems available via #GlobalTalk . Come grab one!

When I first laid out this chat window I seriously thought to myself “I need to figure out how to hide the scroll bar in the List Manager since that user list scroll bar will never be needed and is just taking up space”. But here we are with nearly 20 users online!

All with no timeouts or any lag. I think with the HyperCard version last year we peaked at like… 5?.. users and it was completely falling apart.

#GlobalTalk #MARCHintosh #VintageApple #RetroComputing

Day 2 is over and there’s been a bunch more activity!

Are the Windows users taking over? Will the Mac fight back!?? Stay tuned on #GlobalTalk

#MARCHintosh

TalkCrawler Lite 1.2 is now available, adding filters to narrow down to only show printers/shares you haven’t checked off yet, and a “news report” after each re-scan of what new items were found.

#MARCHintosh #GlobalTalk

Hey #GlobalTalk type, can anybody see my zone?

#GlobalTalk #MARCHintosh
Investigating an issue going on with ImageWriters. If you are the owner of any of these ImageWriters, please respond to this post with the ImageWriter II model (power and serial plugs to the back or the newer with plugs to the sides).

ImageWriter go brrrrr:ImageWriter - retrolab
ImageWriter II:ImageWriter - Pikes Peak
WOzFest HQ Virtual IW:ImageWriter - WOzFest HQ
Daniel's ImageWriter I:ImageWriter - Daniel's Lab
Ken's ImageWriter II:ImageWriter - Cloudbusting

Time to catch up with all the superb #Globaltalk prints sent to my Imagewriter II in the “Server shed”. First off these two anonymous ones. I may have to track down the second to make a claim if my printer breaks! (plus the Server Shed with the long Localtalk cable!).

I’m afraid I’m going to have to pause my greets and prints thank you catchup megathread – each message is taking about 5 minutes to craft between tagging, alt text, grabbing the images, etc.

I’ll attack it in the coming days.

#GlobalTalk #MARCHintosh

I received a purported 1994 message from John Sculley to Apple Evangelists next. Rather disappointingly (?) the promised portrait of John failed to materialise.

As I don’t have John’s Mastodon handle, this message will also have to be celebrated without the sender’s awareness.

#GlobalTalk #Marchintosh