yeh, did you hear elequents may be out and scansoft maybe difault? No good! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Andy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2008 9:08 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Dos Games was RS Games
> Hi Andy, > Several years ago during the Windows 95 and 98 era Humanware and Pulse > Data created their own text to speech engine called Keynote Gold > Multimedia. It sounded like a Keynote SA, had the same built in > multilingual abilities, and I used it at Wright State for doing my > foreign language courses. Keep in mind this was back in the days when > you had to buy Eloquence, Dectalk Access, etc as an additional add on to > Jaws and Window eyes. In the Jaws 2.0 and 3.0 days Jaws didn't come with > any text to speech engines. You had to get a synth as an additional > purchase. > Well, when I was at WSU my parents got me a laptop, but carrying around > a Dectalk Express, Keynote SA, etc was totally impractical. Not to > mention a very expensive investement. Since I had to take some > multilingual courses as part of my degree I wanted a software TTS system > that could do multilingual speech. Eloquence was like $300 which was out > of my price range. Plus they charged extra for every additional foreign > language you wanted. Humanware sold Keynote Gold for something like $250 > with all foreign languages so I purchased the cheaper TTS engine. > Surprisingly I really liked it. > As you might guess after Windows 98 came out Henter-Joice released Jaws > 3.2. As a added bonus for upgrading from 3.0 to 3.2 Henter-Joice tossed > in Eloquence with all foreign languages for free. How nice of them to do > that after it was no longer necessary for me. Since then they have > continued tossing in Eloquence as a free add on, and since Jaws 8 they > toss in the Scansoft voices for free as well. Now, the rest is history. > > > > > Andy wrote: >> Hi what is keynote multimedia? >> >> >> On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 10:43:39 -0400, Thomas Ward wrote: >> >> >>> Hi Shaun, >>> Yeah, I know what you mean about not being able to run some of the older >>> Dos games. After my parents got our first IBM compatible system, an IBM >>> I386, I got several Dos games. A lot of those games won't run on >>> anything higher than a I486 running Windows 95. I actually held onto an >>> I486 with Windows 95 for several years running a Dectalk PC and Jaws >>> just for gaming purposes. Though, when my wife and I moved last year I >>> had to scrap most of my older computers. >>> Some of my games like Duke Nukem II, Over Kill, etc work pretty well >>> using the Dos emulator for Linux. However, I have my share of Dos games >>> that won't run on anything but on an I386 system with true Dos. >>> I have this one game, Wheel of Fortune for Dos, that goes totally nuts >>> on a Pentium IV system. When you run wheel.exe the PC speaker begins >>> playing the Wheel of Fortune music at super fast speed, like 1000 times >>> faster than it should, and it sounds totally hilarious. As soon as the >>> music stops the computer solves all the puzzles, like in under a second, >>> and you get the game over screen. It is extremely funny. >>> I have some pinball games for Dos that do similar weird things. You hit >>> the spacebar to launch the ball and it bounces around the screen hitting >>> bumpers like a laser beam, and then you lose the ball in less than a >>> second. it moves the ball so fast a sighted player can't really see it >>> on the screen before it passes the flippers and gets lost. Again it is >>> sort of funny in a weird sort of way. >>> One of my favorite games for Dos was 688. In that game you played the >>> part of a U.S. 688 submarine commander. While on a training mission you >>> end up getting into a shooting war with a Soviet Alpha-Class attack >>> submarine. I guess it was the forerunner for Silent Steel which came out >>> a couple years later for Windows 95. >>> As for the keynote SA that was a really cool multilingual synth. In >>> college I really wanted one of those. I knew someone who did, and I >>> liked it as it handled French and German extremely well. Synths like >>> Eloquence though made such external synths like the Keynote SA units >>> unnecessary. Hmmm... I wonder if they still have the keynote Multimedia >>> Software around. >>> >>> >>> shaun everiss wrote: >>>> yeah mine was an 386sx, running toshiba dos 5.0, I got it in 1993. >>>> I didn't discover games till 1996 and then the system survived till >>>> 2003 when >>>> it finally died. >>>> I have never been able to emulate all the old style games nicely. >>>> One of the major drawbacks is that I can't get the back of my sa synth >>>> to >>>> change the batteries. >>>> And another to have the keynote software work I need a 386 thats >>>> either a >>>> straight 86 or an sx running msdos 5 or 6. >>>> I tried to get a laptop that was like this but never did. >>>> saying that if ever anyone on here does have one in working condition >>>> they >>>> don't want I may be interested. >>>> or even another old system that still has a few years good life in it. >>>> Idealy I'd like several that I can just change parts out of. >>>> I doubt that will happen but I'd still like to run all the old stuff >>>> again >>>> Now if I could get something to run with a screenreader in dos using >>>> the >>>> soundcard and switch to my notepad file with hints should I like to >>>> then yeah >>>> I'd probably do it. >>>> another thing is though I have no real desk space now, so who knows. >>> >>> --- >>> Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] >>> If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at >>> http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. >>> All messages are archived and can be searched and read at >>> http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the >>> list, >>> please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> --- >> Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] >> If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at >> http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. >> All messages are archived and can be searched and read at >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the >> list, >> please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the > list, > please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > __________ NOD32 3188 (20080615) Information __________ > > This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. > http://www.eset.com > > --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. 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