RE: Introduction & Question

Well, I should have kept reading the whole thread. ;-)

Any chance you want to sell that briefcase?! J Or better yet... trade
it?

From: owner-vectorlist@vectorlist.org
[mailto:owner-vectorlist@vectorlist.org] On Behalf Of Clay Cowgill
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2012 12:04 PM
To: vectorlist@vectorlist.org
Subject: RE: VECTOR: Introduction & Question

> Dave had either acquired or knew where the original hardware was to
record sound samples for the TI chips,

> as it was a special device that TI kept tight wraps on since they were
programming all the Speak and Spells

> at the time along with anything else that used the speech chip. IIRC
TI charges $1000 per word to record samples.

You know-- I have one of those. ;-) I confess that I've never quite had
the courage/motivation to fire it up. (For fear of, well, fire. ;-)
It's cool looking though. Aluminum 'briefcase" about twice as wide as
normal with a complete multi-board computer inside. Has it's own
built-in EPROM burner too.

I had reasonable luck generating sound files for the 5220 using the old
quadrovox tools. (Can't recall if they were Win 3.1 based, or even DOS
still.) The LPC is just *really* fussy about the quality of the input
sample. *any* sort of background noise, music, hiss, etc. and it just
goes batshit crazy and you get really messed up encodings. For
voice-only content though (especially with the benefit of the computer
based preprocessing we can easily do now) it works really well.

> if anyone knows how to contact Dave from ram controls that would most
likely be your best bet to find the ROTJ information.

Just as a datapoint-- of all the old Atari stuff I've gone through, I've
never seen a shred of anything that looks like a ROTJ vector project. I
never recall Curt or Scott mentioning anything about it either. Not
saying it's *impossible*, but I have my doubts...

-Clay

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