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 Mac/Linux/Windows machine via the software stack I've been developing here: https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/fun-with-userspace-appletalk.51616/. It should also work with any existing TashTalk software as well since it uses an unmodified TashTalk firmware.
The schematics and board files are available on GitHub here: https://github.com/FeralFirmware/TailTalk/tree/main/TashTalkUSB, along with the software I am making for it.
I have a little GUI for controlling the server now that is just about ready for trials for Linux and Mac users too. Windows will come a bit later as well. It can serve up an AFP 1.0 - 2.1 compatible file share via EtherTalk or LocalTalk via TashTalk based on a chosen folder of your machine.
I have one more board run I need to do for the final version as I had a silly mistake on this first run (It works, but required some trace cutting and bodges since I failed to check the DIN-8 pinout properly), but the first 10 I will be fixing up and handing out for people to try. Let me know if you are interested!
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 Mac/Linux/Windows machine via the software stack I've been developing here: https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/fun-with-userspace-appletalk.51616/. It should also work with any existing TashTalk software as well since it uses an unmodified TashTalk firmware.
The schematics and board files are available on GitHub here: https://github.com/FeralFirmware/TailTalk/tree/main/TashTalkUSB, along with the software I am making for it.
I have a little GUI for controlling the server now that is just about ready for trials for Linux and Mac users too. Windows will come a bit later as well. It can serve up an AFP 1.0 - 2.1 compatible file share via EtherTalk or LocalTalk via TashTalk based on a chosen folder of your machine.
I have one more board run I need to do for the final version as I had a silly mistake on this first run (It works, but required some trace cutting and bodges since I failed to check the DIN-8 pinout properly), but the first 10 I will be fixing up and handing out for people to try. Let me know if you are interested!
