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From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: MIDIMAZE/other uses..was RE: Amiga and MIDI
Keywords: MIDI Amiga Atari ST
Message-ID: <4694@well.UUCP>
Date: 11 Dec 87 00:19:14 GMT
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In article <275@stag.UUCP> trb@stag.UUCP ( Todd Burkey ) writes:
>In any case, I would say that there
>are two other very good uses for midi on the ST right now. One is as
>a cheap LAN (which is available from several companies already on the
>ST, not sure about on the Amiga), and also for things like MIDIMAZE
>(which, if it ever comes out on the Amiga will probably sell more midi
>adapters than midi keyboards will). The Midimaze craze, if you haven't heard,
>is where you get up to 15 other people to haul their ST's over to your
>house, string midi cables from room to room connecting all the
>machines, and then waste an entire afternoon (and evening) wearing out
>your palms and firing button fingers (and lungs) wandering through
>mazes shooting at other players.  [ ... ]

	Our local software store has five Ataris set up to play MidiMaze.
Since I've wanted MazeWar on the Amiga ever since I first saw it, I
investigated the MidiMaze setup.

	The cabling between the systems seems to indicate a ring network.
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?

P.S:	MazeWar is Yet Another game I'd like to work on......

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