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by Z0rb
Mon Jun 17, 2013 6:57 pm
Forum: Hardware and Tech
Topic: Recreate the Votrax Type & Talk?
Replies: 91
Views: 19168

Yet another improvement

I got the power supply a little more stable and attempted to get some flow control with the Vic. I am hooking the pin that goes high when speaking is taking place and hooking it up to CTS. I am still getting a few words at the end cut off at times. I will have to work on this, but other then that it...
by Z0rb
Sun Jun 16, 2013 3:25 pm
Forum: Hardware and Tech
Topic: Recreate the Votrax Type & Talk?
Replies: 91
Views: 19168

Also the raspberry pi solution is a great one since your not having to deal with chips, reset lines and amplifiers. I think in the end that is the route to go for the hobbyist solution. The voice also sounds less robotic.

In the end I just wanted to prove that the Little Speakjet Could :D
by Z0rb
Sun Jun 16, 2013 3:22 pm
Forum: Hardware and Tech
Topic: Recreate the Votrax Type & Talk?
Replies: 91
Views: 19168

The bps was the issue on my end as well. I got everything together and made a little video of mine working as well. I still need to tweak the Arduino code a bit but other then that it does work. I also need to put a stereo jack on it so the voice sounds a little better. :) Good job. I gave up on Sp...
by Z0rb
Sun Jun 16, 2013 2:14 pm
Forum: Hardware and Tech
Topic: Recreate the Votrax Type & Talk?
Replies: 91
Views: 19168

What do you hear? I hear the Adventure Land game working as I would expect it to work with a Votrax Type 'N Talk, but with a little better voice quality than a TNT. Below is the link to the video (if YouTube ever finishes processing it). The video is only about 4 minutes in length, so I don't know ...
by Z0rb
Sun Jun 16, 2013 11:49 am
Forum: Hardware and Tech
Topic: Recreate the Votrax Type & Talk?
Replies: 91
Views: 19168

SWEET!! 2400 did the trick for me as well, HOWEVER I have a host of problems to sort out. I do see text coming in but I need to set up some flow control and add a carriage return and line feed to the end of my transmission so the text to speech knows to start talking. I also need to add some filteri...
by Z0rb
Sat Jun 15, 2013 7:33 pm
Forum: Hardware and Tech
Topic: Recreate the Votrax Type & Talk?
Replies: 91
Views: 19168

I get the same thing here

The adventure manuals state either the RS-232 cart could be used or a special Commodore cable from Votrax. I wonder what their cable did? I'm wondering the same thing. I shot off a couple of emails. One to a guy that ripped apart and mapped out his Votrax Type and Talk, a fella named Kevin Horton. ...
by Z0rb
Sat Jun 15, 2013 2:39 pm
Forum: Hardware and Tech
Topic: Recreate the Votrax Type & Talk?
Replies: 91
Views: 19168

The only thing I see when I look at what is coming out of the user port when playing Adventure Land at 1200,8,N,1 is what I would consider garbage.
by Z0rb
Sat Jun 15, 2013 7:46 am
Forum: Hardware and Tech
Topic: Recreate the Votrax Type & Talk?
Replies: 91
Views: 19168

In parallel, I'll working in Perl on the PETSCII to ASCII Can you elaborate a bit on this issue I think I might be have a similar issue in the Speakjet approach. Also what sort of data are you seeing coming out of the Scott Adams game. At 1200,8,N,1 I am seeing characters above CHR$(127) and I do n...
by Z0rb
Sun Jun 09, 2013 8:09 am
Forum: Hardware and Tech
Topic: Recreate the Votrax Type & Talk?
Replies: 91
Views: 19168

1200,N,8,1 is correct. There is more there than printable ASCII. Escape and phoneme codes are made more complicated by PETSCII. Hello All, I combed through a copy of the ROM for Pirate's Cove and could not find any standard use of Votrax phoneme delimiters( "~" and "?"). My hex ...
by Z0rb
Sat Jun 08, 2013 8:34 pm
Forum: Hardware and Tech
Topic: Recreate the Votrax Type & Talk?
Replies: 91
Views: 19168

1200,N,8,1 is correct. There is more there than printable ASCII. Escape and phoneme codes are made more complicated by PETSCII. Hmmm I suppose I can try and get the Arduino to take whatever is coming out of the user port and then display the ASCII decimal values on my serial monitor. I read the use...
by Z0rb
Sat Jun 08, 2013 4:05 pm
Forum: Hardware and Tech
Topic: Recreate the Votrax Type & Talk?
Replies: 91
Views: 19168

Just got my Adventure Land cart in the mail. I see a bunch of garbage coming out of the user-port when I enable speech in the game. Can anyone out there confirm the come port settings for the games. I read 1200, but is it 1200 8,N,1? Also the games are designed for text to speech correct? In that I ...
by Z0rb
Sat Jun 08, 2013 7:58 am
Forum: Hardware and Tech
Topic: Recreate the Votrax Type & Talk?
Replies: 91
Views: 19168

Got the Speakjet hooked up to the Vic

Hello All, I figure I would throw my hat into the Type N Talk ring and see what I could get working. Below is a small you tube video I just threw together that shows the basic setup. Really I am using an Arduino as a baud rate converter to pass serial data from the Vic to the text to speech chip at ...
by Z0rb
Thu May 30, 2013 4:43 am
Forum: General Topics
Topic: What do you on your VIC?
Replies: 23
Views: 3576

Thanks! Looks nice & straightforward. But my favourite die, D12, is missing! If my old Android tablet would run the VIC emulator Pallas made, I would probably use it during games. Heh you can always remote desktop to a machine running VICE like I did here. Its a bit like getting out of a car th...
by Z0rb
Fri May 24, 2013 1:00 pm
Forum: Hardware and Tech
Topic: Recreate the Votrax Type & Talk?
Replies: 91
Views: 19168

Making a little progress

https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/579321_649607688388311_1794167227_n.jpg Well progress is slow but I am making it. I am at point now where I can talk to the arduino and then have it talk back to the VIC. Right now its merely a baud rate converter taking 300 bps and then sendin...
by Z0rb
Thu May 23, 2013 12:59 pm
Forum: Programming
Topic: Saving Machine Language to tape
Replies: 12
Views: 1860

Mike wrote:There's a nice sticky thread here in the Programming Section about ROM calls and other tricks.
Wow, I definitely have some reading to do.

thanks