zimpenfish 2 days ago

Doing this on an Atari ST was our "introduction to 68000 assembly" back in 92-93 (probably because the MIDI port was convenient and also it was either an ST or some variety of Sun <=3.) Was one of the better courses in my first year of CS (the competition was formal methods, Oracle-in-Pascal, Prolog, or hardware.)

  • LennyHenrysNuts 2 days ago

    I was on my way here to bring up the Atari ST and it's inbuilt MIDI ports but you beat me to it.

  • kristianp a day ago

    Unusual to have access to Oracle in a first year CS course.

    • zimpenfish a day ago

      To be fair, in '92, there weren't many options for teaching databases.

rasz a day ago

Very convenient for Amiga since not a single model came with Midi port ... :)

AfterHIA 2 days ago

This is the kind of thing I've always thought, "man you could totally do this if you needed to" and you did and here take your damned upvote. Rock on doener.

empressplay 2 days ago

We have the how, but now we need to discover the why?

  • bogantech a day ago

    Especially since you could just use the serial port

  • aduty 2 days ago

    Because some people want to watch the world burn.