[DECtalk] sbtalker

Jim Hunt jhunt76 at ptd.net
Thu Jul 10 21:33:34 EDT 2014


Yes, very nice!  Works beautifully.


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[mailto:dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com] On Behalf Of Blake Roberts
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2014 9:18 PM
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I have the SBTalker emulator working now on my Windows 7 machine. Thanks for
the help. Carlos, you did a great job putting this together!
Blake

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[mailto:dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com] On Behalf Of Carlos Fernandez
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2014 9:02 PM
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Subject: Re: [DECtalk] sbtalker

Sorry for the confusion. You need to run dosbox.exe. I will make this
clearer in the next version. 

Carlos

> On Jul 10, 2014, at 19:56, "Blake Roberts" <beroberts at hughes.net> wrote:
> 
> sbtalk.bat is in the sbtalker zip but not Carlos's emulator. I'm still 
> confused on what file to run in the emulator folder.
> Blake
> 
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> [mailto:dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com] On Behalf Of Jim Hunt
> Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2014 8:37 PM
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> Subject: Re: [DECtalk] sbtalker
> 
> Sbtalk.bat
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com 
> [mailto:dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com] On Behalf Of Blake Roberts
> Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2014 8:14 PM
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> Subject: Re: [DECtalk] sbtalker
> 
> What file in the extracted SBTalker emulator folder do I launch to 
> start
it?
> Blake
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com 
> [mailto:dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com] On Behalf Of Carlos 
> Fernandez
> Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2014 6:32 PM
> To: DECtalk Discussions
> Subject: [DECtalk] sbtalker
> 
> I now have the files for sbtalker. It will run in any 32-bit windows, 
> but not on a 64-bit one. I have a solution. I have put together a 
> small
emulator
> for this program. So far, it works. This will emulate DOS running the 
> software. So far, this is a beta version (composed in twenty
> minutes) and I expect to make improvements in the next few days. This 
> is
why
> I haven't uploaded this anywhere. If you would like to try, you can
download
> it at 
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11231100/sbtalker_emulator.zip
> When this starts up, it will load the software into memory, which 
> means
you
> can jump directly to the read stage. You can type read and a string of
text.
> Then, you will hear that string. You could also write simply "read", 
> and
the
> program will read any text you enter from then on. 
> However, control+c does not work to close this, so the only way to end 
> it
is
> to end the process from the task manager. It is possible that I simply
don't
> know how to exit, but what works on more modern systems won't work.
> I understand that this is clunky, but I'll do my best to fix this in 
> the near future. Also, if you are reading this and the link is broken, 
> this means I've finished work on this and the final version will be in 
> the software folder of the archive.
> 
> Carlos
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