Any MIDI games besides U5?

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Any MIDI games besides U5?

I came across an original Passport MIDI card for $30 and figured, why not? Got it hooked up in my IIe to my MT32 pi (for anyone not familiar, that is a raspberry pi based Roland mt32 emulator) and gave the only software I know of that uses it (Ultima V) a try. Worked and sounded great.

 

Were there any other games that utilized MIDI at all? Or any playback software? I'm not finding anything outside of U5 in my searches. 

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Passport MIDI manual

Passport didn't include a disk with the original card -- just a manual and two MIDI cables.  (I got mine at a discount because it was missing the MIDI cables!)  The only other software I can remember was a a BASIC sample program in the manual.

 

Here's a scan of the manual, in case you don't have it.  It also describes the theory behind the interface and the technical details of the circuits.

https://www.applefritter.com/files/2024/09/12/Passport%20Designs%20MIDI%20for%20Apple%20II.pdf

 

NB: The documentation is rudimentary and sometimes obsolete!  This Passport MIDI interface pre-dates General MIDI by almost a decade, so there's lots of discussion of attaching non-MIDI equipment that already existed at that time.  It doesn't seem to anticipate standalone tone generators like the MT-32, which just didn't exist yet.

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Maybe this is of interest to

Maybe this is of interest to you:

 

https://www.muzines.co.uk/articles/passport-midi-4-plus-and-midi-8-plus/9094

 

https://archive.org/details/MIDI8Plus_v12_4amCrack

 

http://www.apple-iigs.info/doc/fichiers/Passport%20MIDI%20-%20User%20s%20Manual.pdf

 

 

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