I thought I'd create a thread about AirTalk as I haven't noticed it mentioned on this forum yet.
There's a new device called AirTalk which is a really neat way of hooking up Macs together via LocalTalk over WiFi. I wasn't involved in the creation of it, but I've been using two of these devices recently, to talk between Macs and you can also use them to transfer files between a Mac and mini vMac on a modern machine.
Here's what the devices look like:
The setup process is really easy. With just one AirTalk, you can link an old Mac to mini vMac running on another computer. With more than one AirTalk, you can create your own LocalTalk network between old Macs over WiFi.
Each device has two ADB ports, so you can use them as a passthrough if the old Macs you're using them with only have 1 ADB port. Each device also has a LocalTalk port, so you use that to connect each device to each old Mac in the network you are creating.
There is a little Chooser extension, which you install on an old Mac if you want to configure the AirTalk directly from the old Mac. The other way is to configure it from a web browser on a modern device. Either way, it's really simple. When things are working, the file share will show under AppleShare in the Chooser as normal.
Here's the thread with details if anyone's interested in how it works or what it does: https://68kmla.org/bb/index.php?thr...-and-play-localtalk-dongles.39661/post-447531
There's a new device called AirTalk which is a really neat way of hooking up Macs together via LocalTalk over WiFi. I wasn't involved in the creation of it, but I've been using two of these devices recently, to talk between Macs and you can also use them to transfer files between a Mac and mini vMac on a modern machine.
Here's what the devices look like:
The setup process is really easy. With just one AirTalk, you can link an old Mac to mini vMac running on another computer. With more than one AirTalk, you can create your own LocalTalk network between old Macs over WiFi.
Each device has two ADB ports, so you can use them as a passthrough if the old Macs you're using them with only have 1 ADB port. Each device also has a LocalTalk port, so you use that to connect each device to each old Mac in the network you are creating.
There is a little Chooser extension, which you install on an old Mac if you want to configure the AirTalk directly from the old Mac. The other way is to configure it from a web browser on a modern device. Either way, it's really simple. When things are working, the file share will show under AppleShare in the Chooser as normal.
Here's the thread with details if anyone's interested in how it works or what it does: https://68kmla.org/bb/index.php?thr...-and-play-localtalk-dongles.39661/post-447531
