Recent content by Bolacore

They are here and finally ready for sale! Just posted a thread here: https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/tashtalk-usb.52299/. For everyone who expressed interest here I have reserved ones for each of you and will be DM'ing you in the morning to see if you are still wanting one. Thanks again!

New revision should be here Thursday! Still have 4 prototype ones that are free to a good home (just asking for shipping). First handful of devices are in the wild now too. Working through the feedback from the first testers, and have releases up here...

Round 2 just finished up at the fab! Should be here mid next week and fingers crossed is all good. Have 40 of them on order so should be plenty to go around.

Finally tracked it down based on a capture from your software (Thanks again!) It turns out I was off by 2 on the volume name offset in FPOpenVol response (I was setting the offset two past what it really was). What was bizarre is that did not seem to actually break anything until the unmount, I...

Interesting, I don’t see the close vol either but I do see it try and find Temporary Items which I don’t see it creating 🤔 Thank you, that gives me a good lead!

Is anyone familiar with what Mac OS _should_ do when it unmounts a volume? I noticed that any time the Mac tries to unmount the volume (Be it during a shutdown/restart, or just dragging it to the trash) the Mac freezes. Happening on both my 68K Macs and the PowerBook so doesn't seem to be a...

Slowly getting through the list of people and patching a few more up this weekend. Got the stack tested and working on a MacBook Neo as well - still need to package it as an app and get it approved/signed, but for the first few people I can give developer builds. Kinda fun seeing the brand new...

Sorry for the delay to all who messaged me - Lost a well loved pet at the start of the week so haven't come back to this til now. Fixed revision should be going off to fab tomorrow and is looking to be closer to $14 at cost for a run of 30 which is quite a nice drop in price. Will be getting the...

The full schematics are available here if you were curious: https://github.com/FeralFirmware/TailTalk/tree/main/TashTalkUSB But it uses a CP2102N so should appear like a regular serial port on every OS (I think all the major ones have support for it OOTB). Only note is it needs CTS enabled just...

Whoa, glad to see the interest! The first run was ~$36 per board at cost, so I’m hoping with a bigger run of 20-30 and some better component choices I can get it closer to $25. Probably 2-ish weeks for them to come in.

First 3 modded ones are tested and ready to go in the post. Shoot me a DM if you’re up for the prototype ones! Will be ordering the next (bodge free) round this week as well.

Perfect then! I should have most of the boards modded this weekend and ready for the post next week, for those who dont mind a bit of bodge wire and hot glue on their Rev 0 boards :) And will be doing another run here after these ones run out.

Hah I just saw yours today too! Kinda funny how we both ended up doing almost the same thing. It's actually a really helpful comparison as well

Based on Tashtari's Pi Hat I've put together a USB-to-TashTalk board based on a CP2102N and a full-duplex transceiver so it works with or without a LocalTalk dongle. The goal of this is to make it trivial to plug in and transfer files between any classic Mac with a LocalTalk port and a modern...

I think I've finally fixed large file transfers - Managed to transfer twice a 515MiB toast image of Unreal Tournament without any issues. I've designed a USB to TashTalk board as well that _hopefully_ should allow a direct PC to LocalTalk connection for file sharing / printing / other...