Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga:1222 comp.sys.atari.st:6320 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!lll-lcc!well!ewhac 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 References: <447@nuchat.UUCP> <32160@auc.UUCP> <528@otto.COM> <4567@pyr.gatech.EDU> <3813@trwrb.UUCP> <2094@crash.cts.com> <275@stag.UUCP> Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) Organization: Wonka Reality Factory Lines: 32 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...... _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ Leo L. Schwab -- The Guy in The Cape ihnp4!ptsfa -\ \_ -_ Recumbent Bikes: dual ---> !{well,unicom}!ewhac O----^o The Only Way To Fly. hplabs / (pronounced "AE-wack") "Work FOR? I don't work FOR anybody! I'm just having fun." -- The Doctor