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Looking at the IWM datasheet, I'm starting to feel like one would really need full-on programmable logic to duplicate its functionality to the Mac... it does some rather weird things with the address lines. Maybe the PIOs that I've heard so much about (but haven't yet dug into) could handle it...

The thought has entered my head a few times... it's a definite maybe, with a microcontroller that has a peripheral designed for interfacing with a microprocessor based system like a parallel slave port. Then, though, you have to get a soldering iron involved and you lose the convenience of...

I would love this. TashKM has been stalled for a long time on the nonexistence of a way to do absolute positioning... though, honestly, it seems you're doing or plan to do most of what I was planning to do anyway, so I'm happy to leave this one to you.

New developments! MicroPython seems to have one deficiency that keeps it from interfacing with the backend I created, its UART interface can't handle inbound break characters. Frustrating, that would have been a great path to rapid prototyping of a frontend on the Pico or ESP32. It does seem...

@demik did an EU group buy but I think it's done now. If there's sufficient interest, I can do something similar. In the absence of that, if anyone wants to do a build on their own, I can provide programmed PIC12F1501s, at least.

Nice! Hopefully that recording is after some effects were applied...

Well, it's been almost two years since I last posted on this project, and over three years since I started trying to spear the white whale that is a full-featured open-source Mac floppy drive emulator. Here's what's been going on and where things stand now. By way of background, one of the...

Should be soon, I've got the PCBs and I've ordered parts, so maybe a week from now. Will post in this thread when they're available again.

Look, I get it. I wish the whole world was open source, too. But regardless of what you may think, this is someone's work, something into which they put considerable time and effort, and how and even if they decide to make it available is their decision and no one else's. Making the case for...

These are really exciting developments! Not sure if I can do anything of value but cheer from the sidelines, but I'm happy to do that, at least.

I have some of those miniDIN-5s, and not only do they look like a pain to solder, I don't think they fit in the recessed connector on the PK Pro 200. You could make a reasonable cable, I think, by taking a good S-video cable (one with four separate wires in it) and yanking out the key on one...

The 5-pin DIN is only seen on the PowerKey Pro 200, as far as I know. I believe the PowerKey Classic's Y cable just tees the 4-pin DIN straight. Yeah, I got my hands on one of these recently, only to find it's not actually a device on the ADB bus, it just pulls the ADB power-on line low when...

Interest check time! I'm considering putting together some TashPad kits for the US audience. I haven't priced out such an endeavor but I assume it'd wind up being similar to @demik 's EU group buy, that is, somewhere in the neighborhood of $30 for the PCB, parts, the case, and the case front...

ADBDB kits are back in stock over at my Ko-fi shop!

I've made up some kits for new DE-9 PhoneNet dongles and put them up for sale on my Ko-fi shop.

Interesting, the specs on page 11 are the same as those given in Appendix A of Inside AppleTalk, and the specs on page 4 are similiar but slightly more permissive... Like @cheesestraws said, though, it has an odor of "this is what we used" rather than "this is what is required" about it. The...

Looking into it more, MicroPython's threading support is "highly experimental", which is a problem, TashRouter depends heavily on threads. I like the idea of using MicroPython, though, I hope they get that together soon.

The idea of using MicroPython is an interesting one that I might have to dig into more - the prospect of not having to rewrite the whole affair is very appealing... Interesting stuff, thanks for the tips.

One sort of runs into the problems of price and complexity in trying to make a standalone device that fits that description. A Raspberry Pi plus a preloaded SD card and a TashTalk hat could form a plug-and-play solution, but a Raspberry Pi is a full fledged computer and can do much more than...