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.
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!
(I have to admit I've had an obsession with progress animations ever since this guy battled his way through our family Mac Classic hard disk back in like 1992)
@kalleboo these were so good. Thanks for firing up the memory machine, what a flashback.
Here's a more "modern" one. They kept at it and it was glorious.
(Attaching the screen recording here of the video found on Facebook, which I don't want to impose on you, hence the recording, by Geoffrey Klempner – here's the original link: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=566411537637527&vanity=geoffreyklempner)
Karl Baron
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