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Introducing (and interest check) AirTalk: Wireless plug-and-play LocalTalk dongles

tashtari

PIC Whisperer
At some point it'd be great to work with someone with a 6100 to put a bus analyzer on the port and try to figure out what's going wrong. This may be a TashTalk problem, and that worries me...
 

daanvdl

Well-known member
Just going to link here to @daanvdl's new thread for the AirTalks they're building: https://68kmla.org/bb/index.php?thr...-and-play-localtalk-dongle.43838/#post-478876

Now that they've successfully built some and beta-tested the files for me, I'm officially making some noise that this is open hardware under the CERN-OHL-S-2.0. The hardware files are at https://github.com/cheesestraws/airtalk/tree/main/hardware but you might be well advised to wait for @daanvdl 's instructions, which are less perfunctory than mine. Go forth and build some! :)
Thank you cheesestraws!
I decided to publish the 'AirTalk support' website in kinda pre-production state.
There may still be minor imperfections, but I'll update the instructions as soon as I find an error, if any.

https://www.airtalk.support

Cheers,
Daan
 

Iesca

Well-known member
Is this the correct sort of cable required? I tried using the 8-pin to 8-pin cable that went with my Apple MIDI Interface, but that doesn't seem to work.


EDIT: Doesn't seem like it.
 

daanvdl

Well-known member
Is this the correct sort of cable required? I tried using the 8-pin to 8-pin cable that went with my Apple MIDI Interface, but that doesn't seem to work.


EDIT: Doesn't seem like it.
No, You will need a crosscable: https://airtalk.shop/?product=apple-modem-cable
 

Phipli

Well-known member
All DIN serial cables are crossovers. The cable from the tone module should work. Strange it doesn't.
 

Skate323k137

Well-known member
All DIN serial cables are crossovers. The cable from the tone module should work. Strange it doesn't.
I have straight thru ones but I have them clearly labelled as such.

I use the same cable for an imagewriter II, airtalk, and MIDI module; a crossover.
 

Phipli

Well-known member
I have straight thru ones but I have them clearly labelled as such.

I use the same cable for an imagewriter II, airtalk, and MIDI module; a crossover.
The straight through ones aren't for using as serial though are they? Or am I being daft 😆
 

Phipli

Well-known member
I've seen straight through ones sold as serial, irritatingly. My only theory is that some samplers use it or something?
Oh, anything that uses a din cable that isn't a RS422 cable could be wired differently. But any mac serial cable should be compatible.
 

mdeverhart

Well-known member
I've seen straight through ones sold as serial, irritatingly. My only theory is that some samplers use it or something?
My (flimsy) recollection is that modems used the straight through cables, consistent with the (annoying in my opinion) DTE (computer) vs. DCE (peripheral) designations. Printers and many other peripherals used crossover cables. Point-to-point LocalTalk between two Macs also can use a crossover cable.
 

Iesca

Well-known member
All is well. I acquired an Apple 590-0552-A printer cable and it works! My 2010 iMac is talking to my Macintosh Plus. :) Now, with just about 18k taking a couple minutes to transfer, there may be some kinks left to work out...
 
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