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#Miracle Piano

    19-Oct-94 23:17:41
Sb: #Miracle Piano
Fm: Stuart Jewell 73670,1673
To: JIM WALLIS 73641,360
I called Software Tool Works and the technician of course informed me that the Miracle Piano is no longer supported for Amiga and the software archives have been exported entirely to UK. He didn't seem to have a problem with copying of old Amiga releases of this software. I asked him about cable compatibility with buying the PC version of the Miracle Piano and driving it with Amiga Software. I was under the impression that both systems plugged into the Serial ports. He mentioned however that the PC cable is special and that the configuration has been modified so that it is not used in the standard serial fashion. Do you think it may be possible to determine how the configuration is modified and readapt a PC miracle piano to an Amiga configuration to be driven with Amiga software? The only odd thing I can make of this is that the techinician mentioned that the company which actually produces the piano made the cable configuration proprietary and that he did not know what the actual differences were. What seems strange is wouldn't the Software Tool Works developers need to know the differences in order to access the port properly? Does this further to say that even if the cable was reconfigured for the Amiga, the Amiga software would not be able to drive the port? Big Question. What could possibly be reconfigured on a standard serial port? Bottem line, I do not want to buy a PC just to use the miracle piano. Do you know if there are any used Amiga Miracle Piano's and software for sale?