First post, by shock__
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Just a short write-up:
The original idea for this was spawned over at dosforum.de if it would be possible to design an 8bit ISA card that's readily available/simply enough to be DIY which supports Roland's intelligent mode for midi devices. Since a quick google turned up with no schematics using off the shelf parts, I decided to check a little into existing solutions and found the midiman mm-401 to be quite suitable. It uses off the shelf components easily/cheaply available which would allow replicas to be made for roughly $40 (of which $25 would be for the board itself, $15 for the components).
I have some knowledge of cloning double sided PCBs, PCB applications and producing PCBs, therefore I'd happily take over the technical side of things.
Only problem: you guessed it, the copyright is still valid for at least 48 years and midiman still around. Considering the card is long out of print/"rare" and occasionally reaches horrendous prices on eBay, what are your opinions on a clone? Therefore: would anyone of you be interested in approaching midiman about the copy-/replication-/distribution rights? If not I know I can save myself the time (feedback was quite ambivalent on dosforum).
As a small encouragement, I've recently done something similar for a project originally released/published in november 1993 and got a green light by the copyright holder, as well as support from one of the original devs.