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[Aaron Howell]

You might be able to comment then,
What was the latest version of  Textalker GS ever released,
and do you have a copy?
I'd be extremely appreciative of an image of the system and manual disks for anything above 1.1.
(Yes, I've tried to buy these from APH and they won't sell them to me).
I have a legitimate 1.1, and the textalker binaries of 1.2.
Was there anything later than that,
or, is there a full copy of 1.2 floating around anywhere?
Regards
Aaron
On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 06:53:29AM -0700, GUI Access wrote:
> >Hi.  At last, someone who might have information on something I had 
> >been wondering.  I'm addressing the comments about the different 
> >versions of Textalker.  I can comment a little on 1.3 since I have 
> >that disk image, but information on other versions would be 
> >appreciated.  On the 1.3 disk, you have three different versions. 
> >One is simply TEXTALKER.  One is TEXTALKER.RAM.  One is 
> >TEXTALKER.BLIND.  I assume that textalker.ram is the RAM card 
> >version.  I am not sure about the other two, but I know one of them 
> >doesn't have a review mode.  I used a version once which made the 
> >Echo shound very strange.  It gave it a lower pitch than usual.  It 
> >had no review mode so I don't know what version it was.
> >
> >I also know that the 3.1 versions were from APH.  I found and 
> >confirmed a 3.1.3 or possibly 3.1.4 for DOS.  I know there was such 
> >a ProDOS version as at least 3.1.3 because I used to have it and it 
> >credited Rob Meredith as author.  I don't know about copyright info 
> >and I don't know if there was a DOS 3.3 version.  Does anyone know 
> >about the 2.x or 3.0 series?  Does anyone have a Textalker older 
> >than 1.3?
> 
> 
> Yes, somewhere in my array of floppies I have a disk that contains 
> Textalker 1.2.  The pitch of the voice when using it sounds OK but 
> the quality of the speech is really bad.  Its impossible to explain 
> this in words--you have to hear it.
> 
> Here is a list of all of the 3.x releases of ProDOS 8 Textalker up to 
> and including what I think is/was the last version ever produced:
> 
> 3.1
> 3.1.1
> 3.1.2
> 3.1.3
> 3.1.4
> 3.3
> 3.4
> 3.5
> 3.6
> 
> I may have missed a few but I definitely have all of the ones listed 
> above.  Textalker 3.6 was released in 1993.  Come to think of it, 
> there may have also been a 3.2 version but it was nearly identical to 
> the 3.1.4 version.  The 3.1.4 version as far as I can tell never had 
> an official release but was shipped on the APH Scientific Calculator 
> disk.
> 
> GUI Access
> 
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