Re: Mockingboard any good?

[jesse@dino.gi.alaska.edu (Jesse P. Atencio)]

In article <3mvi2j$b84@cheyenne.iac.net>, Mark Fisher wrote:

> I couldn't resist - I saw a Mockingboard on sale at a flea market for
$12.50 so I snapped it up. 
> Trouble is, I got no docs or software, so I don't even know how to test
if the darn thing is any good. 
> Its got an empty socket, a 24-pin one in the lower, right-hand quadrant.
> 
> Am I missing a PAL or something? How should I install this thing? How
can I test it? It is even worth 
> the effort?

I would be glad to purchase it from you.  The mockingboard was supported
by a couple of my favorite apple // games.  It makes a nice game sound
enhancement.  The software that is for the mockingboard is for speech
synthesis.  So...unless you want to make it speak, you don't really need
it.  It was really a nice card for speech synthesis as you could teach it
phonemes and even give it accents.

Hope this info helps.  I might even still have the software for the one I
used to have.  The person I sold it to just needed it for games.