Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga:1351 comp.sys.atari.st:6361 Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!rosevax!ems!nis!stag!trb From: trb@stag.UUCP ( Todd Burkey ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: MIDIMAZE/other uses..was RE: Amiga and MIDI Message-ID: <281@stag.UUCP> Date: 12 Dec 87 23:02:41 GMT References: <447@nuchat.UUCP> <32160@auc.UUCP> <528@otto.COM> <4567@pyr.gatech.EDU> <3813@trwrb.UUCP> <2094@crash.cts.com> <275@stag.UUCP> <4694@well.UUCP> Reply-To: trb@stag.UUCP ( Todd Burkey ) Organization: Mindtools ST Access Group, Plymouth, MN Lines: 23 Keywords: MIDI Amiga Atari ST In article <4694@well.UUCP> ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes: >Packets are passed on to the next machine. It occurrs to me that all you >need for a ring network is an input port and an output port, and software to >interpret the data coming in. > > Sounds like all you need for this is a vanilla serial port. Am I >wrong about this? Nope, that is all you really need (and all that the midi port is for that matter...Think midi runs at around 32K Baud. On the ST it was used more 'because it was there'. Of course, in a ring LAN like this, you are always affected when one of the machines gets turned off or pulls out of the ring for some reason... > >P.S: MazeWar is Yet Another game I'd like to work on...... Yes, I was looking at the source for that the other day (Xwindow vers.), it wouldn't be too hard. I'm planning on proposing it as a group project at our next ST developers meeting here in the Twin Cities. Would be a nice winter project (plus gives us another reason to haul our computers around). Does anyone know if it has been ported to the AMIGA or IBM PC? -Todd Burkey trb@stag.UUCP