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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi Kyle:</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The Filer and Convert on the image I put together works, at least if you run from Davex, and I’m pretty sure, if you load Textalker from within BASIC.SYSTEM, you can then do -filer and it will continue to work.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I got these off the prowords/braille/term disks on Jayson’s Web site.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sent from <a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986">Mail</a> for Windows</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:blindapple@bluegrasspals.com">Kyle via BlindApple</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Wednesday, August 11, 2021 8:40 PM<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:blindapple@bluegrasspals.com">Blind Apple Discussions</a><br><b>Cc: </b><a href="mailto:kyle@free2.ml">Kyle</a><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [Blindapple] How to make ProDOS system programs talk</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>No progress on this front yet, but I do remember having the ProDOS </p><p class=MsoNormal>user's disk when I was in school using one of these Apple //e computers, </p><p class=MsoNormal>and I remember the utilities speaking at some point. I have upgraded my </p><p class=MsoNormal>MAME ROM for the Apple //e and now use the platinum edition with the </p><p class=MsoNormal>number pad, but the utilities on this disk are still not speaking. This </p><p class=MsoNormal>is with the latest Textalker for ProDOS, version 3.1.3 according to the </p><p class=MsoNormal>copyright and version notice displayed if I brun it while it is already </p><p class=MsoNormal>running, along with a copy of the ProDOS user's disk I downloaded from </p><p class=MsoNormal>the Internet Archive. I should mention that I have tried running both </p><p class=MsoNormal>filer and convert from an already talking Davex shell running on a hard </p><p class=MsoNormal>disk image, from basic.system on the same hard disk, and also from </p><p class=MsoNormal>basic.system booted from the Textalker disk itself, and in all cases I </p><p class=MsoNormal>have no speech once the program is running. Was there a ProDOS user's </p><p class=MsoNormal>disk that was modified somehow so that the filer and convert utilities </p><p class=MsoNormal>would speak, or was there something I did to make it work, a different </p><p class=MsoNormal>ProDOS version, an earlier Textalker, something even more crazy? Funny </p><p class=MsoNormal>thing, although this was a long time ago, I seem to recall these </p><p class=MsoNormal>utilities not initially speaking, but I don't recall what I had to do to </p><p class=MsoNormal>make them speak.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>~Kyle</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________</p><p class=MsoNormal>BlindApple mailing list</p><p class=MsoNormal>BlindApple@bluegrasspals.com</p><p class=MsoNormal>https://bluegrasspals.com/mailman/listinfo/blindapple</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>