From: Marko Mäkelä (marko.makela_at_hut.fi)
Date: 2003-10-05 22:04:58
On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 11:43:13AM +0200, Daniel Kahlin wrote:
> This page:
> http://www.robotprojects.com/voice/voice.htm
>
> Lists the Currah Speech 64 as using a SP0256-AL2, which is a speechsynth
> by General Instruments, later Microchip. You give it the number of an
> allophone, and it will speak it.
This one has two bigger chips and some logic glue. The ROM is stamped
"9316B-4E92/CURRAH 104/GI 8315 CEA", and the speech chip is indeed a
SP0256-AL2, also stamped AEC 1 and GI 8315 CKA.
> SP0256-AL2 datasheet:
> http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~concuss/concussor/words.pdf
Funny that they call it SPO256 much of the time.
Thanks for the links!
Larry Anderson's suggestions didn't work. INIT and SAY are not recognised
as commands. I didn't find any keywords with a quick look at the ROM either.
Someone got another Vic-20 speech cartridge recently and asked for information
on the comp.sys.cbm newsgroup. I'll probably have a look at that cartridge
in a couple of weeks. I don't know if the case of that one can be opened,
though. The one I got had been broken open violently.
Marko
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