#Miracle Piano
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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?
I have the Amiga version of the miracle piano and a friend of mine has the PC
version. When I moved the cable got lost (somewhere) and now I can't used it
since Software Toolworks would not sell me a cable or tell me how to make one.
I tried the PC cable, after connecting a DB-9 to DB-25 converter to it, and it
does not work. To check I pluged the same setup (including converter) to a PC
and work OK. Now I have a nifty MIDI keyboard but I can not use the software
for lack of cable. I hope someone out there can come up with a way of creating
the cable. I heard that all it is is pin 2 and 3 crossed but I tried that and
no luck. Yes my serial still works. I can use a modem and the PC to Amiga
serial transfer programs.
Do you think you friend would be willing to open his miracle piano and
maybe you open yours and compare notes to see if the wiring/component
configuration is different. Things to check for would be items such
as miracle port wiring and the driver chip/hardware that drives the
miracle port and see how it differs. Again Software Tool Works must
know something of the differences because the software would have to be
programmed to access the port properly (one would think). If not, the
changes would have to be entirely hardware oriented. Here's another
thought. See if your friends PC will drive your Amiga miracle piano.