Kabootie computey!

I’m glad to live in a world where some guy in Ontario doesn’t have buyer’s remorse about his CD ROM drive.

That stack of Macworld CDs is all uploaded to Internet Archive now. 85 discs resulting in 68 new pages, after removing duplicates and combining multiple discs onto single pages where it made sense. Enjoy! https://archive.org/details/@jcgraybill/lists/7/feb-2026-macworld-cd-contributions

Drop by and visit me on #GlobalTalk! I've added 300 or so game demos to shared folders to grab and play, and I'll hopefully add more over the course of #MARCHintosh

Some #GlobalTalk zones I've visited have impressively robust setups backed by modern Linux software. I'm sure I'll eventually do something similar. But for now it's fun to connect a physical Quadra to the network and use classic Mac OS built-in file sharing, with the achingly slow performance that entails.

With my #GlobalTalk Mac running on an isolated network, getting a screenshot onto Mastodon took some creative problem solving. A floppy disk was involved.

@icm@mastodon.sdf.org lol there's me in one of those shots! As an attendee, #VCFPNW felt like a total success of an event. Kudos to the organizers and volunteers for pulling off a magical weekend.

@typolad@babka.social You bet! My GlobalTalk zone is named (maybe predictably), "Kabootie!". Join your old Macintosh or emulator to GlobalTalk using the guide at https://marchintosh.com/globaltalk.html then you'll be directed to really good guides for finding & connecting to a specific zone.