[NTLK] Exchanging info with Newton / emate

[Alan Fleming]

Thanks Mattias -  NCX’s limitations (sync, backup, restore, install) is why I’m looking for other recommendations. You can’t get anything *out* of NCX into the Mac.

I’ve an OS9 machine I’m using, but getting things into it to get onto the eMate / MP2100 is a pain in the neck. Can anyone point me at a .sit of all the network drivers? Any I download from unna on my OSX laptop lose the resource forks and NCU doesn’t recognise them. 

> On 24 Jun 2025, at 11:32, Matthias Melcher <m.melcher at robowerk.de> wrote:
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>> On 21. Jun 2025, at 11:44, Alan Fleming via NewtonTalk <newtontalk at newtontalk.net> wrote:
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>> Hi there everyone. Slowly getting back into the MP2100 / eMate game here and looking at tools to synchronise information between devices and computers.
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>> I can see that NCU 2 can import/export individual notes and NewtonWorks documents, and that the eMate classroom software can do that plus some format translation. However that’s all limited to Classic OS, and I’m not even having much fun running NCU in Classic mode under OSX 10.3.7. 
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>> Are there any OSX-compatible synching apps that can exchange data with MP2100s/eMates? Ideally something that I can use over an Appletalk or TCP/IP connection?
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>> (I was a Windows syncher back in the day so Classic OS is all new to me!)
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>> Many thanks,
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>> Alan Fleming.
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> Hi Alan,
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> probably the standard tool for exchanging information on modern MacOS is NCX, It does support TCP/IP Network connections: https://newtonresearch.org/connection/
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> Thanks to BasiliskII, you can run MacOS Classic and connect to your Newton with all the tools that were available back then.

Best Wishes,

Alan Fleming.