Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences Still waiting for the recordings I requested. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=270013#p270013 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences Still waiting on guilevi's bns an eureka a4 versions of there are 7 days. How are they coming? URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=265560#p265560 ___ Audiogames

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences @guilevi, how are the recordings (both the system sounds and the bns version of there are 7 days, plus the eureka A4 backing track) coming? URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=261034#p261034

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences still waiting on those recordings, guilevi. by the way are you the guy who got jaws to sing those spannish songs? I included that version of cioledo lindo on my tts preschool album, since it's somewhat commin to teach that song

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences @guilevihow are the recordings going? URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=257516#p257516 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences how are the recordings going along. do you think the system sounds and the eureka a4 and bns versions of there are 7 days will be ready intime for my birthday on 4/10? URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=255530

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences how re he ecordings going long? do ou think ther ar 7 day and the system ounds will e eady for my birthday n /10? URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=255530#p255530

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences Hi,I haven't had a chance to set up the Eureka in a while, but yesterday I finally got it booted again. I have been recording the various system sounds and sampling it's music  synthesizer, and sometime this weekend I will make

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences thanks! May I have the system sounds? URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=254166#p254166 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin

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Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences I would be interested in the system sounds as well. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=254289#p254289 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences still waiting for the eurica a4 and bns versions of there are 7 days for inclusion on the tts preschool album. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=253994#p253994

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences OH, I'd also be interested in a doubletalk version of that song as well, possibly with the tone generator providing a backing track. I know doubletalk can sing because patrick perdue got it to sing a gateway vs aptiva parody

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences OH, votrax's sound mode...I guess that explains jeff's version of unterlanders heimwa. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=250717#p250717 ___ Audiogames-reflector

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Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences thanks, could you do a bns version of there are 7 days when you get the chance? URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=250574#p250574 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences I haven't been able to set up the A4 for now, but I will do it this weekend and send it to you. The way Jeff made the BNS sing was by changing the pitch and making it say simple syllables.There is a small chance that we might

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences by the way, I know for certain that the bns could sing, because jeff redousky got it to sing twinkle twinkle little star, and i almost included that version on the tts preschool album, but that was when I was following a &q

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences Technically, the RC8650 chip that  the DoubleTalk and Millennium note takers used had more configuration options - there was pitch, volume and frequency like with the Votrax SC02/artek SSI263 chip of the older blazie note takers

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences the talking dosbox includes this archive. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=250388#p250388 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences Rather interesting. I used to use a BNS but I didn't know it had a BASIC compiler. I wonder if the BASIC archive can be found on the wayback machine? The Dan Z Games website is archived there. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences I once had a rare version of the bns that had doubletalk. I got it from my computer teacher at perkins school for the blind. I also had access to one of the votrax based versions there. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences I have no problem with doubletalk, but the millenium strayed from Votrax and used doubletalk, and it didn't have nearly as much speech parameters as the Votrax did. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=250336#p250336

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences it was on braillesoft's website. I'd give you a link but I heard a roomer that the site went down and I don't want to take chances and give you a dead link. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=250329#p250329

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences Maybe I'm strange, but I'd rather listen to the BNS synth over the original Book Port any day. How anyone could actually read a book using that thing is beyond me. I did like its design, though. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences The only BNS or Braille I had access to was the one that the tennessee school for the blind had. I think you can make the BNS sing, but that is a big if. The only way I can think of doing is via basic and the major draw back

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences Is that archive still available? I'd like to take a look at it. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=250302#p250302 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences high, @guilevi, did you look at the link in the last post?as for old bns programs on other systems, porting between the bns and other old computers should be easy, since bns appears to run on a clone of gwbasic. Most bns programs

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences I don't own a Eureka A4 unfortunately, and even if I did, I never was good enough with it to get it to sing.My school use to have one and I mostly used it for games and the acasional bit of word processing.Someone else managed

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences I do still have the A4. I can't make it sing, but I know how to operate the music composer. Sadly I have the A4 standard. I wish I had the Pro, since that apparently had a Yamaha FM sythesizer. That would have been really cool

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences @guilevi here is your song I requested.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s478ivT … 478ivTjFLA URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=250031#p250031 ___ Audiogames

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences Great. As soon as I have a good recording software and a decent mic, I'll let you know; the macbook's builtin mic doesn't sound very professional, and I don't know anything about using Garage Band. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences thanks! URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=250037#p250037 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences @blindncool, I'd be interested in them. @cool_turk, would you be interested in getting the eureka a4 to sing there are 7 days? URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=249954#p249954

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences by the way, my friend syntheritity (a.k.a. ultimate doomer) recently made a soundfont out of the default arl bank on the turtle beach montego2, which was the sb live's largest competitor. ARL banks, according to him, were tecnicly

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences As for old computers, the first computer I remember playing any kind of computer game on was an apple 2EE and now I am posting to this topic on an apple mac book pro fifteen inch. The times has changed a lot. Having my computer

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences I agree with you cw. speaking of bns, would it be possible to get your bns to sing there are 7 days? URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=249978#p249978 ___ Audiogames

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences If I had one, I'd gladly submit some backing tracks. Would you be interested in guitar backing tracks? I might be able to do that. I'm not sure, though; I don't have high quality mics or recording software; still looking for a free

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences if classic braillenote software could be made to run in an emulator and if you tell it to be a speech synth in the emulator then maybe pyserial and com0com could be used to bridge it and with an NVDA addon we could have keynote

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences hey i wonder if you could rip the OS out of your braillenote classic and run it in a windows CE emulator under windows10 or run it in some sort of vm or emulator? then i would at least have my favorite keynote gold voices back

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences The Eureka A4 runs CP/M, doesn't it? I don't know much about that OS, except that it was the precursor to DOS. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=249571#p249571

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences Oh, the sound chip on this thing is nice! I'd deffinatly take that over the ay-3-8910 chip, or the beeper used for sound effects on the bns. I really want one now.to anyone with a eureka a4, Would you be interested in doing backing

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences It can sing, not sure how they did it though.But I think it had a limited range.I've only heard it do 2 octives. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=249592#p249592

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences I actually have the game aliens, but I don't know how it works. The problem is that the eureka that I have is running a version of the software which had Spanish speech, so it's even harder to understand what the damn thing

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences I was going to get mine off ebay. I was also thinking of building a retro computer running ms dos or windows 95 with an artic215, which was basicly an internal version of the votrax sc02 chip found on the braille n speak. URL

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences Where can I get a Sonobraille or a Eureka? Sounds interesting. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=249465#p249465 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences Ah the Eureka A4, I remember playing space invaders on that thing, although they called it aliens.It was quite creative how they implemented the ships, using musical notes.you'd have to match the correct notes before firing

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences Hi.well while I know this will not be exactly like the  real deal if you get coolsoft vertual midi synthand then go to synthfont.com, you can get a lot of fonts.personalcoppy.net has some and there is a server called lisater

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences Hi,I will be starting a webpage with resources for people wo are interested in getting into this sort of stuff. I already have part of it written and all I have to do is figure out a name for the project and publish it. Of course

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences I was going to start something similar myself. I was going to get an accent SA, and maybe talk to my friend lisa about borrowing her doubletalk lt, which she has no use for since all her IRQs were taken by other components

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences sorry to double post, but may I have a recording of the eureka A4, before you return it? URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=249299#p249299 ___ Audiogames-reflector

Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences

Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences Hi all,As you may have heard if you follow my posts on here or know me outside this forum, lately I have been collecting vintage technology from the 80s/90s that I can use. It's not nostalgia, because I definitely wasn't around back

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences [[wow]], I'm glad you made a thread about this. I'm wondering if it might be possible to get a speak and spell anywhere, I'd love one of those, or if you might be able to get one ourself just for the fun of it. URL: http

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences My VoiceNote QT can actually be hooked up to a computer and used as a KNG. I've tried it before and I can even use it with NVDA.The Eureka is running a modified version of CP/M 2.2, I'm not sure how much I could mess

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences Hi.gilevy.[[wow]] another guy after my own cpu.I used to like old tech in the day.I actually have an old keynote gold 386 t1850 here but its broken the backs a bit smashed the hard drive is dead, the floppy drive is dead

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences On the other hand, it was a kid's learning toy, so kids of that day probably weren't used to the QWERTY keyboard at that age. I know I wasn't. I learned how to type at age eight or nine, and I got a Speak 'n Spell at age six

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences Yep, I know about MESS. It can actually emulate a bunch of systems apart from the Apple.The Apple II was the first system where I actually learned BASIC. Typing in MESS is kind of annoying, but it's still doable. URL: http

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences

Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences @Aaron: I don't think it's too hard to get a Speak 'n Spell on Ebay or something like that. I know I've found a few for as little as about $50, which is not too bad for something like this. The problem is that they had an ABC