this post was submitted on 12 Aug 2025

1224 points (99.0% liked)

Programmer Humor

25699 readers

1560 users here now

Welcome to Programmer Humor!

This is a place where you can post jokes, memes, humor, etc. related to programming!

For sharing awful code theres also Programming Horror.

Rules

Keep content in english
No advertisements
Posts must be related to programming or programmer topics

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

anzo@programming.dev

Feyter@programming.dev

BurningTurtle@programming.dev

pylapp@programming.dev

1224

Vintage (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago by ekZepp@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

257 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 day ago

Somewhere in my giant box of cables I have an adapter for attaching MIDI cables to the joystick port. When I actually used a MIDI keyboard with it, I had... variable success.

The first time I had a MIDI keyboard that just worked, it used USB as transport. (And it has worked great since. I think it's the only USB Mini plug device device I still regularly use.)

Crazy thing is, MIDI is absolutely ancient. You'd imagine it'd work fine on the gameports, but nope. Legacy PC ports are cursed. Except audio jacks and serial ports, and VGA if you're really into screwing things in place.