[CDG5] LocalTalk thoughts

[Jason Duerstock]

The AppleTalk resource bits are already compiled and are in
https://github.com/elliotnunn/mac-rom/blob/master/Misc/AppleTalk.rsrc

Did you get anywhere with the NetBOOT?  It wasn't really clear to me
from the source how the boot server was supposed to work.

Jason

On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 8:58 PM Elliot Nunn <elliotnunn at fastmail.com> wrote:
>
> Very cool project! I second what Daniel said: consider giving it enough protocol stack to support LToUDP.
>
> I don’t think I’ve ever touched the ltlk resources. IIRC they were build separately from the rest of the System, and I’ve never seen the AppleTalk source tree. I will check at home.
>
> BTW something related that I hacked on last night: trying to get the Classic’s NetBOOT driver to work inside Mini vMac.
>
> > On 19 Jun 2020, at 7:05 am, Jason Duerstock <evilmoo at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > So a friend and I have been taking a stab at trying to figure out how
> > to make a LocalTalk bridge with the least hardware and fewest
> > soldering burns.  After learning all the sordid details of the Z8530
> > chip, FM0 encoding, SDLC, RS-422 and a lot of other voodoo, it
> > occurred to me that a lot of this pain could be saved if I accepted
> > that my connection was going to be a short cable and that it was going
> > to be a point-to-point connection.  Which leads me to my question to
> > you all:
> >
> > Have any of you looked at any of the "ltlk" resources and any of the
> > code involved?
> >
> > Jason
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