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by snvzz 1147 days ago
And yet, it was successfully used for serious MIDI work. It's simple: Don't use the serial port for MIDI.

Peripherals (via expansion port) can trigger level 2 and level 6 interrupts[0].

Notably, level 6 is the highest priority level in 68000, short of the NMI (level 7).

I have to agree with the parent, adding a MIDI port to the Amiga would have been trivial.

0. https://sites.google.com/one-n.co.uk/amiga-guides/amiga-inte...