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It's been a while since I immersed myself in TashRouter or AppleTalk networking and I've forgotten some things, but I had the perception that bridges were inherently incompatible with routers... and now I can't remember why (or if) that is true. Stupid brain. Does anyone remember/know?

Cool! I hope this'll be useful to Apple II fans. Need to give it a try myself with the old IIgs sometime, too... Thanks, added this change to the example in the README.

Made up some kits for this, now available in my ko-fi store!

Sure, I just mean to run TashRouter, specifically. I'm not super interested in writing a whole new router, that's why this thread is about the question of whether to work on evangelizing/adapting TashRouter or whether to write a bridge. I know that others exist, it's just that those are the...

Well, whichever bridge it is, it's still a bridge, and that comes with the same set of caveats (mainly, won't play nice with an actual AppleTalk router). I'm still interested in making a TashTalk that provides its own clock to the serial port if anyone's interested in writing me a driver that...

In writing TashRouter, I denigrated AsantéTalk and LocalTalk/EtherTalk bridges in general as being hackish solutions replete with protocol violations... which they are, but they remain popular and regularly fetch $100+ on ebay. I'm realizing that's at least partially because they're pretty much...

Interesting! I didn't know they were open collector. It's a definite "maybe" as to whether it'll work on the IIc. The X and Y "interrupt" outputs and the button output on the PIC are all push-pull, but the X and Y "quadrature" outputs are a little more complicated because of the use of the...

Unfortunately, without a substantial rewrite, this is probably only good for single-button applications - all the pins on the 8-pin PIC12F1501 are used (including the reset pin, which isn't even supposed to be an output!). I don't know how much the Amiga and ST rely on the second button, but...

I don't know if quadrature mice are as hard/expensive to come by as Plus/512k/128k keyboards are, but in case you need one on the cheap, I've made some PIC firmware for a PS/2 mouse converter. Like the Plus/512k/128k keyboard converter I made, I'm sure this has been done before somewhere, but I...

Got a PCB! It makes a pretty neat and tidy little dongle once covered in heatshrink. I'll make up some kits for sale if anyone finds this interesting.

Ah, yeah, I've RE'd the Firebird joystick, though I don't know if mine is the same as the Firebird 2. It looks similar except for the color scheme (mine has green buttons and red levers)...

Not familiar with that one, looks like it's a cut-down version of the Firebird? I only see the PC version on ebay, did Gravis ever make an ADB version?

It's doable, yeah, though as you say, the mapping would be highly awkward... part of the appeal of making a SNES controller emulate the GamePad is the straightforwardness of the button mapping. From a firmware perspective, it's not very difficult to make a SNES controller emulate a...

Though... in that case you'd also have to feed the "line clock" line 50 or 60 Hz from somewhere.

Code posted on Github (firmware is now using 1023 words out of 1024, hah.) https://github.com/lampmerchant/tashpower For anyone like me who's not up to dealing with mains current, it's also possible to use this in an ATX conversion, just connect +5VSB to the PIC (and the PS/2 keyboard if...

I wrote some PIC firmware! (Who's surprised?) The firmware emulates the PowerKey Classic (PK-1), controlling a single relay with a clock signal extracted from the mains AC waveform, and includes a PS/2 keyboard protocol converter so not only can you make your non-soft-power Mac soft-power, you...

A device for sound input (over the serial port) that predates the introduction of native sound input capability on Macs, capable of delivering 8-bit samples at 22 kHz.

Possibly! I'd put a watch on the TashRecorder thread - if @demik or I are selling kits, we'll announce there.

That's at least most of what it does. I think someone experienced in such things could write a driver for it for the IIgs without too much trouble (does the IIgs have a Shut Down command like the Mac does?). The PowerKey will close the relay when the power key is pressed, and an ADB Listen...

Thinking about this again... I'd really like to make something that duplicates the PowerKey Classic's functionality, but the problem is tricksy due to matters of power and isolation. The microcontroller in the device needs to be powered full-time so it can power the Mac up on a schedule, plus...