Re: Getting files from a IIGS to a Mac OS X Mac (G5)... how can you do it?

[pitz <pitz.wong@gmail.com>]

I've read somewhere that there is still an option to enable AppleTalk
on OS X.  The IIgs (GS/OS) can be set up as an AppleTalk client and
mount an exported folder from OS X.  What I've read could be merely
enabling some form of AppleShare/IP, but IIRC, it was AppleTalk over
Ethernet (sometimes referred to as EtherTalk).

If so, you could buy one of those LocalTalk-Ethernet bridges so you
could hook up your IIgs (which only has a LocalTalk port) to your
Ethernet hub, where your OS X system is also connected to.  The
protocol going over the wire is AppleTalk and not TCP/IP.  I've
successfully tested this with an older Mac LC475 running OS 7.6.1 --
had an Ethernet card on the Mac, connected to the Ethernet hub using
standard twisted-pair wiring.  Exported shares from the LC475 can be
seen, read, and written to by GS/OS.

Off-topic:  I've got several of these LocalTalk-Ethernet bridges that
I'd sell for about $20 each plus shipping.

/Peter

On Aug 1, 5:13 am, bloomer_au <bloo...@iprimus.com.au> wrote:
> Hi all. I am the owner of a IIGS and in macdom, a G5.
>
> Back when I had a powermac 7500/100, both the Mac and IIGS were able
> to read and write to the same physical floppy disks, so getting games
> and files outta my IIGS and over to my mac was easy. And getting games
> off the internet and over to my IIGS was also easy (and rather
> miraculous-seeming). But then Macs stopped supporting floppies. Years
> passed, and as far as I can see, the Mac and the IIGS are almost
> strangers to each other now.
>
> I've read about null modem cables, but most posts on this topic
> archived on the net seem to be pretty ld. I'm asking in the here and
> now - is there a way to use a cable or two to literally connect a G5
> to a IIGS and have them swap files somehow? That's what I'd love to
> do.
>
> Off topic - I wrote an arcadey game for the apple 2 called Dragon, in
> 1995, at least one long level of it. I just put up a playthrough video
> of it on Youtube today. If anyone's interested in seeing an
> essentially unseen apple 2 game, have a look. I think it's decent ;)
>
> http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=icGZ467p2IU
>
> And thanks for any help on the IIGS-Mac issue.
> - Wade