Karl BaronMar 8

Here's my second #MARCHintosh project for 2026 - TalkCrawler Lite! A little program to keep track of which #GlobalTalk printers and shares you've visited or left a greeting on!

I rushed this one out so I can get to using it, so it's less polished than Chat, and might not work so hot on 68k Macs. I'm not sure why opening files is so damn slow.

Demo video in the first reply. Available on Blackbird or landisk on the BaroNet share.

#VintageApple #RetroComputing #mb

Show threadKarl BaronMar 8

When I say I rushed it… The file creation date on TalkCrawler.c is Mar 4, 11 PM, and I posted the release toot on Mar 8, 10 PM. And on the weekdays I had work!

I planned to release it yesterday so today I could leisurely work on a print/calling card & have fun browsing #GlobalTalk, but stayed up until 2 AM trying to nail down a memory corruption bug and just gave up.

Adding another day worked out well because I had the time to add this animation, making it all worth it!

Show threadScott Small 🇨🇦Mar 8

@kalleboo This is great! So much nicer to work with an app than a plain text file :)

(BTW, sending you my newly ImageWriter-optimized print now, please let me know if it comes through okay!)

Show threadKarl Baron
@smallsco It came through beautifully!!
Mar 8 at 3:48pmWeb
Show threadScott Small 🇨🇦Mar 8
@kalleboo AWESOME! This was such a pain but I'm glad it's finally working hahaha 😂
Show threadKarl BaronMar 8
@smallsco “This was such a pain but I'm glad it's finally working" should be the #MARCHintosh motto
Show threadScott Small 🇨🇦Mar 8
@kalleboo Bug report! @billgoats ’s ImageFaker doesn't show up in TalkCrawler (even after a rescan).
Show threaddan 💾Mar 8
@smallsco @kalleboo ImageFaker is a funny one that lives across zones. Is it showing up in syntax error?
Show threadScott Small 🇨🇦Mar 8
@billgoats @kalleboo Ah, you're right, it shows up under "syntax error” in TalkCrawler, but under "billgoats" in the Chooser. Weird. False alarm I guess?
Show threaddan 💾Mar 8
@smallsco @kalleboo should be in both in the chooser :-}
Show threadKarl BaronMar 8

@billgoats @smallsco ooh really interesting edge case

AppleTalk is... uh... fun!

Show threaddan 💾Mar 8
@kalleboo @smallsco Super-extreme edge case. No idea how or why or what, but here we are :D
Show threadScott Small 🇨🇦Mar 8
@billgoats @kalleboo Ah, you’re right, it's showing up there too 🤷‍♂️
Show threadScott Small 🇨🇦Mar 8

@kalleboo Okay, _actual_ bug report this time. After finishing off all my ImageWriter print jobs and marking them off with TalkCrawler, I attempted to save the file, and got a dialog saying that TalkCrawler was out of memory and had to exit, and that I should increase the memory allocation.

So I bumped it up to 4 MB, re-launched TalkCrawler, tried to open my saved file and it froze.

Works fine after a reboot though, and it did appear to save the file correctly.

Show threadKarl BaronMar 9
@smallsco I just released 1.0.1 that fixes a bunch of memory leaks (including where saving leaked, leading to 4 saves -> crash), please give that a go
Show threadScott Small 🇨🇦Mar 9
@kalleboo Much more stable now, thanks!
Show threadScott Small 🇨🇦Mar 8
@kalleboo And a feature request, I'd like to be able to tag a zone or item with a note (i.e. your quicksilver server has the Kaleidoscope scheme archive on it, so I don’t have to go hunting for it again later).