<html><head><style> body {height: 100%; color:#000000; font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman;}</style></head><body><br>Hi,<br><span>I am also having difficulty figuring out how to use the Dectalk emulator from archive.org. I remember that a couple of years ago a Dectalk emulator was generated which has Dectalk 2.0 and 1.8 available. Digging through the list archives (thanks Google!), I found the 2017 message from Jake Gross containing regarding Dectalk emulator download link on his site and instructions on loading Dectalk 2.0 and 1.8 emulation in Mame. I can confirm that the download link which Jake provided still functions, as I just downloaded his emulator.</span><br><span>Here is a link to the archived message.</span><br><a href="http://bluegrasspals.com/pipermail/dectalk/2017-October/004871.html">http://bluegrasspals.com/pipermail/dectalk/2017-October/004871.html</a><br><span> I don't know if the Dectalk emulator on archive.org uses a different version of Dectalk. Maybe the archive.org zip is the same emulator without Mame...</span><br><span>Blake</span><br><br><span> </span>----- Original Message -----<br>From: Brandon Tyson <brandongold98@gmail.com><br>To: DECtalk <dectalk@bluegrasspals.com><br>Sent: Sun, 28 Jul 2019 22:37:34 -0400 (EDT)<br>Subject: Re: [DECtalk] DecTalk PC Video<br><br>Hello,<br><br>How do I get the emulator?<br><br>I'm on Linux, in case that helps.<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Brandon<br><br>On 7/28/19, Don <Text_to_Speech@gmx.com> wrote:<br>> Hi Brandon,<br>><br>> On 7/28/2019 6:48 PM, Brandon Tyson wrote:<br>>> I decided to take a look at the emulator stuff, which I thought I found<br>>> at:<br>>> https://archive.org/details/dectalk<br>>> However, I get a lot of files with odd names and I'm not sure how to<br>>> use them. I downloaded the zip file called dectalk.zip.<br>><br>> That's a collection of two versions of the ROMs (Read Only Memories)<br>> that were installed in the DTC-01 synthesizer. Their contents<br>> will be of no use to you as they represent the software that the<br>> 68000 microprocessor in the DTC-01 ran -- the original DECtalk<br>> "hardware".<br>><br>> The emulator pretends that it is a 68000 microprocessor and "runs"<br>> the program that is embodied in those chips.<br>><br>> --don<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Dectalk mailing list<br>> Dectalk@bluegrasspals.com<br>> http://bluegrasspals.com/mailman/listinfo/dectalk<br>><br><br><br>-- <br>“Be what you are. This is the first step towards becoming better than you are.”<br>– J. C. Hare & A. W. Hare<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Dectalk mailing list<br>Dectalk@bluegrasspals.com<br>http://bluegrasspals.com/mailman/listinfo/dectalk<br></body></html>