edit: the server is now closed and the site has been moved to a static page.
thank you all #globaltalk'ers for your user_image drops to https://globaltalk.network
in a few hours i will be shutting down the LC475, and then rendering the page as a static site on a web host. so if you plan on uploading something and would like to have it immortalized, now's the time. 🙏
EDIT: It's taken. #Free to a good home! One Kensington TurboMouse ADB trackball without a ball. The left button is broken, but the switch still works. It just wobbles a bit. #Marchintosh#Macintosh#RetroComputing
while i was goofing around with #globalTalk, I ended up searching for some old Simpsons icons for my classic Macintosh (an LC 475), and stumbled upon an entry on the garden called Banned Simpsons Icons. (Who could resist downloading something with a title like that?)
They were called the "Banned Simpsons Icons" because Fox once sent the artist - Jeanette Foshee - a cease & desist letter for her uncannily perfect renderings of the copyrighted characters. they planned on suing her for every penny she made ($0.00) on them. this was back in 1995.
i thought - hell, what a wild story. why don't I get a hold of the artist - jeanette - and find out more about her banned icon set?
what i stumbled upon broke my heart, and i ended up spending a week digitally preserving what i could find.
every 5 seconds, a hypercard stack scans dialup cafe's "user_images" folder and emits every image in that folder to a static web page.
that web page is served on the same LC475 (running WebSTAR httpd) to the entire world at https://globaltalk.network
want to add something to the web page? drag and drop a .jpg, .gif, or .png into "user_images" on the dialup cafe's AppleTalk share. the only rules are: filenames can't contain spaces or the usual !$%&'" characters, and must be in a browser-compatible format.
yes. i know. this is truly a bad idea. the world is full of those.
i can't believe that i had to search for over an hour to find out that XCMDs have to be installed via..... ResEdit (!?) into a stack just to call their functions?
One of my really good friends surprised me with a neon-like Apple-cursive style “hello” signs I can wall mount.
It’s so neat bc it has a remote control to change it from countless settings. From rainbow to animated lights, it’s there are so many light styles and light shows!!! 🤓
well that’s kinda embarrassing. after admiring all of the #globalTalk imagewriters I was sad that I didn’t have one to hook up to the LC
today I went into the archive to pull some Macintosh stuff out for repair, and there was a brand new IW2 sitting in an Apple // crate 😅
I’ve never used one of these in my life. It has a mini-DIN port on the back. any tips on finding the right cable? I noticed my localtalk cables don’t match the pin configuration.
update: sadly has no Apple/Localtalk option card installed. back to the Apple // heap ye go!