MacTCP Done Right

After many months of dancing with MacTCP again (first round was decades ago of course) I decided to do it Right and get to the latest most patchiest version to see if it would help with some issues I’m having. What issues do I have with MacTCP in 2024? And why am I using it?…

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https://github.com/tenox7/micropolis?tab=readme-ov-file

Play SimCity unlocked on IRIX

SDKMAN

This may be the easiest jdk installation I’ve ever done on mac. Now attempting installation… Looking for a previous installation of SDKMAN… Looking for unzip… Looking for zip… Looking for curl… Looking for sed… Installing SDKMAN scripts… Create distribution directories… Getting available candidates… Prime platform file… Prime the config file… Installing script cli archive… *…

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Brydge M3 Dock

I’ve enjoyed using Brydge MacBookPro stands for my older Intel MBPs and when I found out they have a M3 stand and dock I decided to go ahead and purchase this for my 14″ M3 MacBookPro. I didn’t have a dock yet for my MBP and so it was sitting in an old stand with…

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Apple IP Gatekeeping in 2024

To continue on from the last post, which discussed AppleTalk, Ethertalk, and how routing between different Apple Internet Routers (AIR) is happening for #MARCHintosh, this post will be about IP Gatekeeping and how Apple provided software to help. After joining up and getting my SE/30 online with #GlobalTalk (it has an ethernet card) I realized…

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Apple Internet Routing in 2024

Being an AppleTalk Network Admin is hard work in 2024. This hopefully helps level some of the rough edges that are out there. I’ll be updating it with more info and corrections as time permits. The guide that started it is here: https://biosrhythm.com/?p=2767 My download with all the software, tested on a real mac is…

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AppleTalk 2024 MARCHintosh Project

Update 3 (March 8): The Quadra800 as AIR is totally stable, I’m enjoying all the fun things on other sites (using a SE/30 as workstation) and playing with getting screenshots converted back and forth. My ImageWriter Network card should be arriving to day and so I will have print sharing up and available. Looking for…

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Subtext BBS version 4

Subtext is an amazing, modern, retro application for System 6 (and 7.1) Macs. It is written and maintained by Joshua Stein. It implements a full BBS with telnet, serial (modem), fsxNet (fidoMail/Boards), uploads/downloads, IP geolookup and now as of version 4, syslog. You can download Subtext 4 at Joshua’s site: https://jcs.org/2024/02/19/subtext4 I’ve been running SubText…

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