[DECtalk] dectalk in windows 10?

Alex H. linuxx64.bashsh at gmail.com
Fri Jun 19 13:52:48 EDT 2015


Pretty much. If anyone even uses Dectalk SAPI5 stuff anymore, I don't
know of them. I love direct drivers.

Alex

On 6/17/15, Carlos Fernandez via Dectalk <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
> Very little code won't continue to run, no matter how old it is. Only
> code that was specifically compiled for 16-bit versions will fail at
> this time, and dectalk, while being mostly written in the 16-bit era,
> was maintained well into the 32-bit era not to mention being ported to
> other operating systems. Sometimes, programs won't work that well if a
> system component has changed, but the dectalk software doesn't really
> use anything because it isn't sapi compliant and is basically
> self-contained. It might be possible that some version of dectalk
> access32 might fail in a new version, but as far as I can tell, no one
> even uses this system anymore having been displaced by dedicated drivers.
>
> Carlos
> On 6/17/2015 12:10, Mohamed via Dectalk wrote:
>> Yay! Considering how old it is, I'm amazed that it still actually
>> runs, even in something like windows 8.1.
>>
>> On 06/17/15 12:03 PM, Alex H. via Dectalk wrote:
>>> I think the demo programs should work just fine, any 32-bit DLL/EXE
>>> should work as normal. Unless sapi5 is different in win10 which I
>>> doubt, all should continue to work just fine.
>>>
>>> Alex
>>>
>>> On 6/17/15, Mohamed via Dectalk <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi guys, so, I'm wondering. Dectalk still runs in windows 8.1. Has
>>>> anyone used a preview of windows 10 and if so, does DECtalk run on it?
>>>> Thanks.
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