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

When I say I rushed itโ€ฆ 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!

@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!)

@smallsco It came through beautifully!!
@kalleboo AWESOME! This was such a pain but I'm glad it's finally working hahaha ๐Ÿ˜‚
@smallsco โ€œThis was such a pain but I'm glad it's finally working" should be the #MARCHintosh motto
@kalleboo Bug report! @billgoats โ€™s ImageFaker doesn't show up in TalkCrawler (even after a rescan).
@smallsco @kalleboo ImageFaker is a funny one that lives across zones. Is it showing up in syntax error?
@billgoats @kalleboo Ah, you're right, it shows up under "syntax errorโ€ in TalkCrawler, but under "billgoats" in the Chooser. Weird. False alarm I guess?
@smallsco @kalleboo should be in both in the chooser :-}
@billgoats @kalleboo Ah, youโ€™re right, it's showing up there too ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ