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What else differed?  I really want to know, and no I don't ever 
recall seeing this info on this list but it may have been posted 
before I subscribed.

Those of us with Real A2s could of course make the disks and use them 
so its not a total lost cause.

I'd rather you not sell off your A2 stuff at least until you've 
salvaged this stuff.  It'd be nice to have a quasi-permanent home for 
all this old talking A2 stuff.  I'd certainly contribute what I have 
since its quite a lot.

The 'Talking Disk' I have has a version of Textalker that is older 
than dirt on it.  The 'Talking Riddles' disk has a slightly newer 
version of Textalker so its very possible that they updated the 
'Talking Disk' and fixed other problems as well.  Again, I'd love to 
know what they changed.

On yet another note, its amazing how many different versions of DOS 
Textalker there were.  I once gave a lot of time to trying to catalog 
all the different versions but gave up.

I did manage to put together a ProDOS 8 disk with all the ProDOS 
versions on it but there were too many different DOS 3.3 versions.  I 
think there were even multiple versions which shared the same version 
number, thus making it virtually impossible to categorize them.  I 
guess there were some versions that loaded into the Language Card 
area, some that loaded into the lower 48 KB, etc.  As I said, never 
figured it out.

Then there was the Echo program that shipped with the Echo+.  It was 
not Textalker but rather a program that used BASIC's & vector to add 
commands for speaking.  I.e.

&talk "Hello"
&say "Hello"
&play "C4/4"

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>Hi.  No, I don't mean this.  I meant exactly what I said.  I have at 
>least two different versions, maybe three.  One used a different 
>version of Textalker.  One seems to be the oldest and one seems to 
>have bug fixes.  Space Invaders is mostly unchanged between the 
>versions.  I listed the programs a long time ago, so I assure you 
>that they are different versions.  I know what I'm talking about. 
>If I ever get things out of storage, I don't mind mailing the disks. 
>The thing is that getting them is next to impossible and probably 
>won't happen any time soon.  In retrospect, I should have just sold 
>all my Apple stuff a few years ago.  Also, you realize that even if 
>I sent Jayson the disks and imaging was possible you wouldn't be 
>able to use it, right?  A2 doesn't support sound, and there is no 
>way to emulate an Echo.  You could look at the files but that's 
>about it.  I suppose you could port something to GW-BASIC but that 
>wouldn't help with the Echo.  I don't know, maybe I'll get back to 
>that stuff one of these days.
>
>At 07:33 PM 7/27/2005 -0400, you wrote:
>>I only know of the one version.  He probably means he's got a few copies of
>>the disk.  It's too bad they are in storage and not easily accessible.  I
>>could image some of the disks for him, but he'd have to mail them to me, and
>>with items like this, insurance against loss or damage is pretty much
>>useless since if they get lost/damaged in the mail, all the money in the
>>world couldn't replace some of these disks.
>>Jayson.
>
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