Paul Westphal Posted March 8, 2019 Share Posted March 8, 2019 Hi Ya'all! I have the Midi Mate and Midi Maze Prototype on cart for the 800xl. 4mb STe with Midi Maze on floppy ( on the Lotharek SD Drive as well ) Plenty of Midi cables. Has anyone tried this? and if so, how many Computers will it handle? I have two Midi Mates so I could link up at least three computers at once.. Thanks, PAul Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leech Posted March 8, 2019 Share Posted March 8, 2019 Huh, give it a shot. I didn't know MIDI Maze was released at all on the 8bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari_Falcon Posted March 9, 2019 Share Posted March 9, 2019 Afaik that won't work We tried it at an Atari meeting a while back. But would be awesome if situation has changed... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tillek Posted March 9, 2019 Share Posted March 9, 2019 Apparently, it does. There is a post about someone who did it. http://atariage.com/forums/topic/245109-midi-maze-850/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fletch Posted March 9, 2019 Share Posted March 9, 2019 It works. The key for me is to have the 8-bit host though. If I host on an ST the connection seems to drop like mad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Westphal Posted March 10, 2019 Author Share Posted March 10, 2019 When I fired up the STe with the midi floppy, it was set as a slave. Ill get to it this week and report back. Looking forward to it! Thanks for the replies guys? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lynxpro Posted March 11, 2019 Share Posted March 11, 2019 It works. The key for me is to have the 8-bit host though. If I host on an ST the connection seems to drop like mad. I wonder if the problem is SIO-to-MIDI on the Atari 8-bits is too slow. Maybe they should use a 6551 or 6850 mod to run MIDI to improve performance.... of course, they'd have to hack A8 MIDI Maze to support that... Then again, MIDI transfer doesn't seem to be a problem with the newer project 1088XEL and 1088XLD homebrew motherboards: But more importantly, why isn't MIDI Maze on the Lynx yet??? Or the Jag? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Westphal Posted March 12, 2019 Author Share Posted March 12, 2019 That's friggon' Awesome! Thanks for the reply! Now I'm wondering if they could do an ST port to the Jaguar and code it for the Jaglink. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lynxpro Posted March 15, 2019 Share Posted March 15, 2019 (edited) That's friggon' Awesome! Thanks for the reply! Now I'm wondering if they could do an ST port to the Jaguar and code it for the Jaglink. They could if they had permission from the author. That's been mentioned as an issue over in the Jaguar area of this site. But then again, has anyone made a JagLink - or CatBox Link - to MIDI cable? So the Jag could be hooked up to a MIDI Maze ring of STs and A8s? Apparently, there's a controller chip in the modern A8 MIDI adapters that does the transfer processing so there's no need for a Motorola 6850 or MOS/Synertek/Rockwell 6551 to assist/improve upon the MIDI/serial transfer duties... Notice the 1088XLD is installed inside that 1050 Disk Drive case... Edited March 15, 2019 by Lynxpro Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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