MoofTCP – A modern replacement for MacTCP on 68k Macs

As someone that also has a fondness for the old Macs, I absolutely love seeing projects like this. I love seeing an active, vibrant classic Mac community and new software for ancient machines. This is great!

I remember dealing with MacTCP back in the mid 90s. It was a bit finicky and crash-prone.

On newer Power Macs it was replaced with a new architecture called Open Transport. That was a huge relief: it worked much better.

I might the only person on the planet who feels this way, but I miss being able to use a slider to set the netmask:

https://tidbits.com/resources/iskm3html/pt4/ch17/ch17.html#a...

(the separate net, subnet, and node entries not so much)

I built Flynn (well Claude did) and that's awesome you tested MoofTCP with it.

Coincidentally a couple of weeks ago I got annoyed my 512Ke couldn't go online and had Claude build talkip[1] which was fun and works surprisingly well.

1. https://github.com/ecliptik/talkip

Looking at LLMisms in text on screen of some vintage computing device feels bizzare

BTW, the story behind "moof" and how it relates to old Macs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogcow

So disappointing to see no direct numeric comparisons with the original.