Wanna connect Claude Code to your SE/30 over serial cable?

[!Beaker]

I wrote a Claude Code (don't know, maybe Codex also works) connector for Mac68k (Real Macintosh hardware, Basilisk and SheepShaver).
Source code on Github: https://github.com/LoetLuemmel/AppleBridge

Installer? Lookie here: AppleBridge

Are you serious: Just serial cable? - Nope.
MacTCP and OpenTransport also work over Ethernet.
Slirp support OK.
Ethertalker works, but configuration is more demanding.

Projects:

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o IP and AppleTalk Scanner somewhat like IP-Runner for Windows (https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/macnetscan)​

o myHeli, Macintosh port of Steve Hales' all-time genius 'Fort Apocalypse' (URL to be announced, when I find the right spot for it)​

o Bootstrap: AppleBridge built itself out of a Macintosh Proxy Server project​

Get creative!

 

[PappaDF]

Looks like an interesting project, thanks for sharing it! Could you clarify what license AppleBridge repo is released under?

 

[!Beaker]

Uoopsie! The license topic was on my brain's flipchart last week and there was a decision towards MIT.

Thanks for kickin' my cage! - Terms were updated on GitHub.

 

[PappaDF]

Just brainstorming; if an emulator had a host-side apple talk stack with all protocol layers up to and including the ppc toolbox, wouldn't that mean we could have an mcp module that exposes all kinds of apple events, for all applications, to the ai model? I.e., a claude cowork for old Macs, even without any target-side module at all?

 

[!Beaker]

Exactly that incorporates AppleBridge. - Lookie here: https://github.com/LoetLuemmel/AppleBridge

Please check the communication diagrams, if this matches your train of thought.

You find AppleEvents in here and if you plug in Unix style MPW and ToolServer, you can talk to the whole AppleToolbox.
That being thought, you can build with Claude Code and AppleBridge's 30 MCP tools (already implemented) nearly anything you can imagine.

 

[cheesestraws]

In future, please don't create multiple threads for a single project.

 

[!Beaker]

Yes, sorry. - Got too exited.

 

[PappaDF]

Please check the communication diagrams, if this matches your train of thought.

My thinking was perhaps this; if emulators could have built in apple talk stacks (with ppc-toolbox support), then you could allow your mcp module to interact with apple events directly, even without a guest side "daemon".

 

[!Beaker]

You are right, that would be much better, than the daemon.
The AIX of Apple Network Server had a unix native AppleTalk stack.

I am mostly System 7 centric and don't know about System 8 or OS9 specific possibilities.
There should be also enough potential for mcp connectivity.