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A wire-faithful, browser-based re-creation of the Atari ST game MIDI Maze

A browser-based, wire-faithful re-creation of the classic Atari ST game MIDI Maze is available on GitHub. The project uses modern web technologies to faithfully replicate the original game's mechanics and networking over MIDI.

Background

MIDI Maze was a pioneering networked first-person shooter released in 1987 for the Atari ST, notable for being one of the first multiplayer deathmatch games — predating id Software's networked Doom by several years. It used the MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) ports on the back of Atari ST computers to daisy-chain up to 16 machines together, enabling LAN-style multiplayer with no special network hardware. This browser-based re-creation reproduces the original game's behavior faithfully at the wire protocol level: it emulates the actual MIDI communication between machines, not just the gameplay. For retro computing enthusiasts and game historians, this matters because it preserves the exact technical experience of how the original game worked, including the quirks of the real-time MIDI networking layer that made the game possible.

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