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3rd Party Projects, a.k.a. Friends of Netatalk
Other free and open source projects for old-school Mac and Apple II
networking that make great Netatalk companions.
Network applications
| Project |
Description |
Relationship |
| A2SERVER |
Plug’n’play distribution for Apple II file sharing and netbooting |
Bundles Netatalk |
| afp-perl |
AFP client written in Perl |
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| afpfs-ng |
Cross-platform AFP client (FUSE and CLI) |
This project has an improved fork called Netatalk Client |
| atalk-perl |
AppleTalk transport and base protocols written in Perl |
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| atalk-proxy |
Stand-alone AppleTalk proxy |
|
| atalkvpn |
VPN tunnel for AppleTalk phase 1 |
Depends on Netatalk |
| AURP Dissector |
AppleTalk network traffic dissector for Wireshark |
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| Columbia AppleTalk Package |
AppleTalk network stack and AFP implementation for *NIX-like systems |
Inspired the creation of Netatalk |
| GlobalTalk |
AppleTalk networking community over the Internet |
Uses Netatalk for printer sharing |
| kea-mboot |
Kea DHCP server hooks that enables Macintosh NetBoot 1.0 |
Depends on Netatalk |
| lpstyl |
*NIX StyleWriter driver with optional AppleTalk support |
Depends on Netatalk |
| macipgw |
MacIP bridge for LocalTalk-only Macs |
Bundled with Netatalk as of v4.0 |
| MacIPRpi |
OS image for Raspberry Pi bundled with pre-configured vintage Mac networking software |
Bundles Netatalk |
| RetroNAS |
NAS software distribution that specializes in retro networking |
Bundles Netatalk |
| TashRouter |
AppleTalk router for LocalTalk and EtherTalk written in Python |
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| TailTalk |
Userland AppleTalk stack and AFP server |
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Network hardware devices
| Project |
Description |
Relationship |
| BlueSCSI |
SCSI emulator device that can provide EtherTalk interface emulation |
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| PiSCSI |
SCSI device emulator hat for Raspberry Pi that can provide EtherTalk interface emulation |
Bundles Netatalk |
| TashTalk |
LocalTalk interface for low-powered microcontrollers |
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File format tools
| Project |
Description |
Relationship |
| macutils |
toolsuite for managing classic Mac file formats |
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| NuLib |
Archiver utility that can handle Apple II compression formats like ShrinkIt |
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| sit |
Create StuffIt archives on Unix systems |
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| stuffit-rs |
Classic StuffIt encoding/decoding library and tool, written in Rust |
Library used by Netatalk’s nad |
| unar |
Archiver utility that can handle Mac formats like StuffIt and MacBinary |
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Software for old Macs and Apple IIs
| Project |
Description |
Relationship |
| AFPBridge |
Let an Apple IIGS use AFP-over-TCP instead of AppleTalk |
Compatible with Netatalk AFP servers |
| MG’s davex utils |
Apple II toolsuite that includes a ProDOS tardis client |
Compatible with Netatalk’s timelord time server |
| mDNSResponder extension |
DNS Service Discovery (Zeroconf) extension for Mac OS 9 |
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| PGPuam |
Classic Mac OS AppleShare UAM that uses PGP encryption |
The inspiration for Netatalk’s now-defunct uams_pgp.so UAM |
| tardis/Timelord |
Classic Mac OS time client/server |
Tardis client is compatible with Netatalk’s timelord time server |
Retrocomputing and historical resources
