I think this would be epic. I'll check in the warehouse as soon as I can, but I doubt we have more than 3 that could do this. I'm happy to offer up my personal 130XE, though! -Adam On Thu, Mar 3, 2022 at 2:41 PM Ethan O'Toole via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Hello,
An idea came to mind as a friend was repairing a bunch of Atari 8bit systems.
There is a game called MidiMaze, where you can network up to 16 Atari 8bit (and supposedly ST systems) together. It's a first person shooter with smiley faces. I can find talk of 11 station system being setup, but was thinking it would be cool to do a 16 player station @ VCF.
I am having PCBs made right now for all the carts, all of the midi interfaces, as well as fujinet boards for machines. I can definitely populate the carts and midi interfaces, will try to do Fujinets depending on ESP32 availability.
It requires XL or XE, 64K of RAM.
I have 3 machines, my friend has ~7. So we would be looking for the final systems to fill out this project.
I have a spreadsheet I will post once I get my counts and Reggies system count.
The current idea/dream is to run on physical Midi interfaces for the first half of VCF, then cut over to fujinet where the midi network is created over TCP/IP. We won't be loading the game from fujinet I don't think since we will have the carts and the fujinet version of the game requires a RAM expansion. Just easier to run carts. Will try to use an automated script to hit the web servers on the fujinet based on DHCP lease MAC address info and autoconfigure it all.
Thoughts? Hype? How many Atari XL/XE does VCF have?
- Ethan