18 Oct
2006
18 Oct
'06
2:47 p.m.
At 01:35 AM 10/18/2006, Chuck Guzis wrote:
My memory is really fuzzy--was it the Atari ST that had
the built-in-MIDI
port that gamers used tas a cheap network for multi-player games?
Yes, the Atari had it built-in. The Amiga also handled MIDI speeds
and only needed minor adaption. The very first piece of hardware I had
for my Amiga was a MIDI dongle from Amiga Corp. circa '85 that plugged into
the serial port. It was a handmade, bare, uncased prototype they sent
me as a developer interested in making MIDI software.
At the time I was working for a computer music software company that had
made one of the first MIDI editing packages for DOS PCs. I think I still
have a couple Roland MIDI adapters for the PC from that time period.
Maybe a rare Roland prototype for the C-64, too.
- John