MIDIMaze

MIDI Maze on the #Fujinet

The #FujiNet is also able to simulate a MIDIMate device, for the purpose of playing multiplayer games of "MIDI Maze".

MIDIMate backstory

MIDIMate, produced by Hybrid-Arts, and first released in 1985, was one of a number of Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) devices created for the Atari 8-bit. MIDI itself is a technical standard that describes a communications protocol, digital interface, and electrical connectors that connect a wide variety of electronic musical instruments, computers, and related audio devices for playing, editing and recording music. (See Wikipedia's entry on MIDI)

Today (2020s) there are a few MIDIMate compatible devices out there, but we won't discuss it here in detail, since the focus of this page is how #FujiNet emulates a MIDIMate, for the purpose of playing multiplayer games, like "MIDI Maze"...

MIDI Maze backstory

"MIDI Maze" was a well-known 3D first-person shooter deathmatch game for the Atari ST, developed by Xanth Software F/X and released in 1987 by Hybrid Arts. Ports of this game were released, as "Faceball 2000", for a variety of platforms in the early 1990s, including Game Boy, Super Nintendo, and Game Gear. (See Wikipedia's entry on MIDI Maze)

The Atari ST version of the game supported up to 16 computers networked together via a "MIDI Ring", daisy-chaining MIDI ports, which were built into Atari ST computers.

An Atari 8-bit port of the game, for use with the MIDIMate, was also created by Xanth in 1989, to be published by Atari Corp., but was not released. A prototype was eventually released. You can learn more at AtariMania's entry for MIDI-Maze, and Michael St. Pierre ('mytek')'s extensive "MIDI - Music and MultiPlayer Gaming on your Atari" page.