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Bluetooth keyboard and mouse
Pair any Bluetooth keyboard and mouse. The bridge speaks ADB to the SE and later, and the original keyboard and mouse protocols to the 128K, 512K and Plus. Or type straight from your computer.
For every Macintosh from 1984 to 2001
Your classic Mac,
cut loose.
Platinum Bridge plugs into the back of your Mac and connects it to the modern world: a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse, the Mac on your WiFi, and files and screen over the air from your computer. No soldering, no opening the Mac.
One little box. Everything your Mac was missing.
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Your Mac on WiFi
The bridge answers your Mac like a modem and puts it on your network. MacTCP and Open Transport get an IP address with the software of the day: browse, FTP, or mount a share from your NAS.
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Files over the air
Send apps and documents from your computer straight into the Mac, resource forks and all, with the free Platinum Agent. No floppies to shuffle.
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See the Mac’s screen
Watch and control the real Mac’s screen from your computer, and debug your own programs on real hardware with a live log and memory inspector.
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A screen that tells you how things are
The 0.96" display shows a happy Mac when everything’s talking, and the five-way joystick gets you to WiFi, Bluetooth and settings without a computer.
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One cable per Mac
A single connector on the bridge and a short adapter cable for your Mac family. It runs from the Mac’s own power, or from USB-C.
Looks like it was always there.
Designed as a tiny compact Mac, in platinum grey. The light on the front glows in any colour to show what the bridge is doing, and the slot where a compact Mac has its floppy drive takes a microSD card. Everything else plugs in at the back: the Mac cable, USB-C and a pinhole reset.
- 60 × 58 × 49 mm small enough to sit beside the Mac
- Weighted base with rubber feet, so it stays put
- Designed in Barcelona by NukeWorks
Which cable for your Mac
Choose your Mac when you order and the right adapter comes in the box.
ADB Macs
SE, SE/30, II family, Classic, LC, Quadra, Performa, Power Macintosh
ADB for keyboard and mouse, and the Modem port for serial and networking. On Macs with a power key, the bridge can switch the Mac on.
Macintosh Plus
Plus
The keyboard and mouse ports, and the round Modem port.
Macintosh 128K and 512K
128K, 512K, 512Ke
The keyboard and mouse ports, and the original 9-pin serial port.
Comes with Platinum. Free and open source.
Platinum is the app for Windows, macOS and Linux that drives the bridge. It also emulates every Mac OS from System 1 to 9.2.2, opens and edits HFS disk images, and builds Platinum Agent for your Mac. It’s free software, and it works with the do-it-yourself bridge too.
See Platinum on GitHub
Specifications
- Size
- 60 × 58 × 49 mm
- Processor
- ESP32-S3, dual core, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n and Bluetooth LE 5
- Display
- 0.96" OLED, 128 × 64
- Controls
- Five-way joystick, pinhole reset
- Status light
- RGB, behind a clear light pipe
- Card slot
- microSD, push-push
- Mac connection
- One connector at the back, with an adapter cable for your Mac family
- Computer connection
- USB-C, WiFi or Bluetooth LE
- Power
- From the Mac (ADB or keyboard port) or USB-C
- Software
- Platinum app (Windows, macOS, Linux) and Platinum Agent for System 6.0.8 to Mac OS 9, free and open source
Questions
Do I need to open my Mac?
No. The bridge plugs into the ports on the back of your Mac with the adapter cable for its family.
Does it replace a FloppyEmu or a BlueSCSI?
No, it complements them. Those emulate drives; Platinum Bridge gives your Mac a keyboard, a mouse, a network and a link to your computer. Many people will use both.
How fast is the network and file transfer?
It goes through the Mac’s serial port, which runs at 57.6 kbit/s on most Macs: about 5 KB/s. That’s plenty for apps, documents, text browsing and FTP, and it’s how these Macs went online in their day.
Is the software really free?
Yes. The Platinum app, the bridge firmware and Platinum Agent are free software under the GPL. You can also build your own bridge from the guide on GitHub.
When can I get one?
The first batch is being prototyped and tested on real Macs now. Join the waitlist and you’ll hear first when it’s ready, along with the price.
Be first in line.
Leave your email and the Mac you’d use it with. One email when the first batch is ready, nothing else.
NukeWorks (Barcelona) keeps your email and your Mac only to tell you when the bridge is ready, on Cloudflare’s servers, and never shares them. Reply to that email and we’ll delete them.