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A new "feature" release of netatalk 2 is available: 2.3.0 And by "feature" I mean that I cut out a handful of long-obsoleted and bitrotted code. These are effectively breaking changes, which I wanted to signify with a full +0.1 version number bump. For those of you who have been following...

The last few weeks I've been working hard on getting the 20-year-old Webmin module up to shape and compatible with the latest Netatalk 2.2 and Webmin 2.0. For most current Netatalk users this is probably more of a novelty, but I was thinking that it might lower the bar of entry for new users...

To continue the barrage of Netatalk topics, I just wanted to share that you are now able run an AFP server on macOS, if you're bummed out that Apple deprecated their AFP server with 10.9 Mavericks. The release of Netatalk 3.1.15 marks the culmination of 2 years of hard work by dgsga, originally...

I'm proud to present Netatalk 2.2.9, the latest release in the venerable Netatalk branch that maintains AppleTalk support. Find the release tarballs on GitHub: https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk/releases/tag/netatalk-2-2-9 Notably, this version fixes one security vulnerability and one papd...

As a quick introduction, the Retro Chip Tester Pro is a device created by German engineer Stephan Slabihoud which is designed to test a very broad range of vintage chips with an emphasis on 80s tech. It is an actively developed product at the time of writing, with support for more chips added...

If you have looked inside many a 90s PC, you will probably have spotted one of a range of Dallas manufactured RTC chips. These are integrated circuits that handle the real time clock, as well as containing an internal lithium battery to drive the CMOS circuitry. When these ICs run out of juice...

Netatalk 2.2.8 is now available! It is a bugfix and documentation release. All users of Netatalk 2.2.x are advised to upgrade. I spent some time overhauling man pages and the html manual, so these should be accurate and up to date to use as reference. One of my favorite updates in this...

I recently acquired a Korean MSX2 (Daewoo CPC-400) and learned pretty quickly that little non-Korean floppy disk software is compatible with this machine. As per msx.org, it has its own proprietary MSX1 backwards compatibility circuitry rather than the industry-standard MSX-Engine IC. So I went...

Five and a half years in the making: We finally have an official upstream Netatalk 2.2.7 release. Since 2.2.6 was completely broken on Linux, this is the first properly useful Netatalk release for 68k Macs since 2013. Note that the Github changelog isn't complete. Please see NEWS for the full...

Earlier this year, a friend mentioned to me that he has had an Apple Lisa 2 in storage for many years, a machine that he acquired in the early 90s that had never worked properly for him. The symptoms, as he remembered them, was that the computer would turn on and run for a few minutes, and then...

I was recently given a 386 for free that had been used as a phone and fax switch at a local theater for decades, but had been decommissioned at some point and was gathering dust in a corner. It's a late-era 'industrial' 386 with IC date codes from 1995, and I was able to extract the PMOS...

My fairly recently acquired Macintosh II had 8 functional 30-pin RAM sockets of the SIMM kind when I first got it, and it ran happily with 1 x 8 MB sticks for a few months. However, the other day it started suddenly death chiming on startup, and removing the B Bank sticks is the only way to...

TL;DR; There is a new fork called Netatalk 2.x that integrates all the community patches since the 2.2.6 release, which works out of the box on modern distros. Grab the latest stable release from GitHub. While researching Netatalk integration with RaSCSI it struck me just how painful it was to...

My IIc's keyboard comes with this dual layer of rubbery sheets inbetween the keycaps and switches. A lot of the 'mushy' feel of typing on the keyboard was due to this thing, and removing it made the tactile response from the switches significantly better in my opinion. Do you all keep the spill...

Do you all have experience running HTTP proxy and transcoders to get modern web content into a shape that vintage web browsers can handle? After some cursory research, I found two active open source projects: WebOne and Browservice. The latter uses full on backend rendering, and passing images...