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thinkchip 
Recent experience with classic Amiga MIDI hardware
Posted on 21-Feb-2018 15:40:01
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Recently I've become interested in experimenting with MIDI hardware on classic Amiga systems. I did a lot with it in the past. I dug my Amiga 2000 out of the basement and hooked it up. It's got to be at least 30 years old. The old A2000's were built like a German tank. I've used Music-X a lot. At the time it came out it claimed to be a "professional" package. I don't know what that means exactly, but I've had a lot of fun with it. I've used a GVP 68030 accelerator with 12 MB RAM for years. Recently it has begun to act flaky and it's usefulness appears to be at an end. I also have a Dataflyer hard drive card and Hydra network card. In the course of the testing of the GVP accelerator, I removed it and was left with less than 700 KB of free chip RAM. I can still load up Music-X and load up a song and play it. In these days of gigabytes and terabytes, this is absolutely amazing. I know Amiga software always used a lot of built-in libraries in ROM. I have a 2.0 ROM. I don't know the size, probably a MB of ROM. It's still amazing what they could do with less than 2 MB's of memory. Of course there are the custom chips which also contributed to running programs.

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Re: Recent experience with classic Amiga MIDI hardware
Posted on 25-Feb-2018 0:31:22
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@thinkchip

I hope you can find the issue with the GVP - real/classic accelerators are becoming rarer as things break or get thrown out by those who don't know any better ;)

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