Re: Teleport use of Votrax speech synthesizer - how to get it to work?

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"Hot Rod" <hotrod.apple2@gmail.com> wrote in message news:
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On Sunday, November 11, 2012 12:37:54 PM UTC-6, Hot Rod wrote:
>>
>> I found an image up on Asimov.  Just need time to dig into things
>> (might take a while...).
>
> Interestingly, side 2 of the Mockingboard disk has a demo game called
> "Battle Cruiser", written by Eric Hammond.  It uses speech at the 
> beginning
> to say 'BATTLE CRUISER', so there's likely a good example.  But the 
> interesting
> thing is that the original version of this game was called 'Night Flight' 
> (the fiels are
> still named 'NF').

AFAIK, 'BATTLE CRUISER' doesn't use the SSI-263 at all.  It is synthesized 
and
then played through the AY-89xx.  I could be mistaken, as it's been a while 
since
I've played with the Mockingboard, but I'm pretty sure that I'm right about 
this.

Bill Garber
http://www.sepa-electronics.com/