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Fun fact: several computer games in the late 80s used MIDI to support cross computer multiplayer. At the time Ethernet/LAN cards on home PCs were rare, but if y
by billyhoffman 4y ago
Fun fact: several computer games in the late 80s used MIDI to support cross computer multiplayer. At the time Ethernet/LAN cards on home PCs were rare, but if you played games you mostly likely had a sound card/MIDI card!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIDI_Maze https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIDI_Maze
- TacticalCoder 4y agoCrazy that I missed that. Neighbours had an Atari ST and a friend would sometimes come with his MOOG synthesizer and we'd hook it to the ST but we didn't know about MIDI hacks to play multiplayer games. Now by default these home computers often had two joystick ports and to be able to play I-don't-remember-which-game we hacked some additional dual-port thinggy on a little PCB we'd hook into the ST's parallel port. This allowed us to play four players at the same time, each with our own joystick, on a single ST / monitor.
- alar44 4y agoVery cool. Makes sense too. At it's heart, it's an event signaler. Doesn't necessarily have to be music based which is the case for lights and other stage production gadgets.