[DECtalk] DecTalk emulator

Brandon Tyson brandongold98 at gmail.com
Tue Jul 30 13:29:26 EDT 2019


Hello,

Yes, I read that message. On my linux system, the executable is just
called mame. So I typed
mame dectalk
like he said and it didn't load. Am I still missing something?

Thanks,

Brandon

On 7/30/19, Don <Text_to_Speech at gmx.com> wrote:
> On 7/30/2019 12:06 AM, Brandon Tyson wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> So how do I get it running in Mame?
>
> Have you read
> <http://bluegrasspals.com/pipermail/dectalk/2017-October/004871.html>?
>
>> I did
>> mame 23-031e5.e18 and it said that it was an unknown system.
>
> Note my comments:
>
> "The original DECtalk product was implemented with a Motorola MC68000
> microprocessor accompanied by sixteen 16KB ROMs"
>
> "The ZIP file mentioned is just the contents of the ROMs -- two different
> versions.  The "suffix" on each file determines which physical ROM chip
> gets the contents of that file.  So, "e18" is an actual chip designation
> on the circuit board."
>
> There's nothing special about "23-031e5.e18" to suggest that IT -- and it
> alone -- would be representative of the entire DECtalk application.
>
>
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