I got some amazing stuff on my printers this year over the course of #MARCHintosh! Thanks to everyone who participated in #GlobalTalk this year, and extra special thanks to @polpo.org for the ImageScribber (which you can pick up here: jcm-1.com/product/imag...)
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Here's a list of my #MARCHintosh projects (for profile pinning)
2024
• GlobalTalk Chat Stack https://bitbang.social/@kalleboo/112059315186753487
• AppleWideWeb https://bitbang.social/@kalleboo/112095584815721576
• AIRConfig https://bitbang.social/@kalleboo/112162667211632715
2025
• TalkCrawler […]
I've uploaded a video of the full TalkCrawler AD screensaver showing all the zones I saw on #GlobalTalk during #MARCHintosh this year, in case anyone was not able to check it out themselves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik-sJPcIqY0
A blank page coming out of a dot matrix printer with tractor feed paper
Received a blank page today. Good metaphor for April.
#MARCHintosh #GlobalTalk
Post- #MARCHintosh , I thought it would be nice to contribute the game demos from my #GlobalTalk game demo library to Macintosh Garden, in any cases where I have something they don't.
After uploading the first three games, I'm blocked. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
A Macintosh System 7 folder window showing greetings and notes dropped into a #GlobalTalk dropbox.
A Macintosh System 7 finder window labeled "Finds" showing a list of files that I picked up while exploring #GlobalTalk this year.
By the end of my first #GlobalTalk #MARCHintosh , visitors had dropped off 25 greetings, I discovered a dozen or so new retrocomputing folks to follow on Mastodon, and I picked up a little over 100 little icon packs, games, and utilities that people were sharing in their zones. [1/2]
A screenshot of MacOS 9 with two windows named “Free-for-all-space” and “Dropbox” with a bunch of various files in then named things like greeting, hello, happy marchintosh, etc
Thank you everyone for your #MARCHintosh 2026 greetings left over #GlobalTalk. I've gone through all of them and looked, so much creativity on display! I always love to see it.
Thank you to everyone who participated in this year's #MARCHintosh event celebrating all things Macintosh! Consider leaving your #GlobalTalk servers up for a few more days to capture any remaining greetings, and keep the spirit of community and innovation in your heart the whole year round!
And here it is, the #MARCHintosh #GlobalTalk Canvas timelapse. Thank you to everyone who participated, it was lots of fun to host!
6 printouts on dot matrix tractor feed paper, with marchintosh greetings from various people
Possibly the last batch of #MARCHintosh #GlobalTalk printouts
If there's someone who has contributed to #MARCHintosh and #GlobalTalk in maybe an unexpected but exciting way, it's this week's guest - and his company's amazing printer driver MacPalette II! youtu.be/7RDXNCgyrdA
To be fair to all timezones, I'm ending the #MARCHintosh Canvas on #GlobalTalk at the end of March 31st in the latest timezone I can find in my iPhones world clock, so it will be stopped 24 hours from now.
#MARCHintosh 2026 on #GlobalTalk! @acn128@oldbytes.space is sending greetings to all you cool GlobalTalk people out there! It's insanely great to see this cool network running and thriving! Thank you to everyone to make this happen! And thank you for all the cool and creative documents to my printer! Now I have to start browsing all zones and shares before the month is over: Best regards, Anna
Scanning for viruses... Happy #MARCHintosh 2026! - Fifi and Sam (@sci@masrodon social) ar PurrTopia (hopefully no paper jams this time :))
Last minute 1.4.2 update to TalkCrawler for those of us checking up we haven’t missed anything on #GlobalTalk before #MARCHintosh ends…
• Fixes the “File shares without read mark” filter that didn’t work.
• “Show only available” now also applies to the zone-level summaries so offline machines […]
AppleShare Client Setup with “TCP Lookup Timeout” set to 20 seconds
#GlobalTalk Pro Tip:
You know that progress dialog that shows up when you try to connect to some hosts? That’s it trying to use AppleShare IP to connect to the host over TCP/IP instead of AppleTalk, which will not work over GlobalTalk. Hit cancel and it will […]
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Womp womp
Secret communications from Apple about HyperCard shenanigans.
#MARCHintosh 2026 Greetings from Horningsea A small village on the River Cam just outside Cambridge, UK @tergycool@mastodonsocial - https://scolgate.org - Globaltalk: scotgate
“I’m not creepy” Um, yes, this is very creepy.
A screenshot of MacOS now showing a chat, pixel canvas, and a printer
We're heading into the final weekend of #MARCHintosh... All of you who have been putting it off or just spectating from afar, now is your last chance to dive in! Even if you don't have an old Mac, it’s easy to just install an emulator to have fun!
If you're […]
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There is something really cool about having a YouTube release schedule send to my computer on #GlobalTalk for #Marchintosh
@ronscompvids.bsky.social has been knocking the MARCHintosh content out of the park this year!
Screenshot of a macintosh screen with lots of small collaborative drawings
The absolute highlight of this year's #Marchintosh is Canvas, another fantastic program by @kalleboo.bsky.social
Canvas let's folks on #GlobalTalk write and draw on a shared canvas, one pixel at a time.
It requires patience and FatBits skill, but it's lots of fun. Can you find my drawing?
This Apple User Group video that @RonsCompVids posted to YouTube yesterday contains some vintage footage of the Apple Internet Router in use #GlobalTalk www.youtube.com/watch
7 dot matrix printouts
Catching up on posting the #GlobalTalk prints I’ve received during #MARCHintosh ! Thank you everyone, love waking up to seeing what showed up!
First I tried connecting the AirDock straight it to my AsanteTalk, but for whatever reason that didnt work (the AsanteTalk is picky enough with a wired setup…), so right now my IIcx is running a bog-standard install of LocalTalk Bridge to get the printer onto #GlobalTalk
An ImageWriter II on the floor with an IR receiver pointed at another IR receiver. Two tractor feed prints have come out of it
Congratulations to @danieltufvesson and @mroach as the first ones to print to my ImageWriter through IRTalk over GlobalTalk!
Could this be the first battery-powered, fully-wireless ImageWriter II in history? Well, it might at least be the first one on #GlobalTalk!
Just in time for the end of #MARCHintosh, a cheap Farallon AirDock showed up on Yahoo Auctions, and since I already had […]
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#MARCHintosh Canvas 1.0.1 is out, fixing crashes on connect on Macs with 68000 processors and Macs without Color QuickDraw (two specs which handily happen to have a perfect overlap…)
#GlobalTalk
a community whiteboard effort, called Canvas by Karl Barron, for MARCHintosh / GlobalTalk. everyone over globaltalk can draw on it, it is getting a little full but there is plenty of room for more!
This is awesome @kalleboo #globaltalk #MARCHintosh
