[DECtalk] DecTalk emulator

Brandon Tyson brandongold98 at gmail.com
Tue Jul 30 14:18:28 EDT 2019


Hi,

I don't know if it works like that in Linux.

I installed mame from the repository.

I'll look to see if there's a roms folder somewhere.

Thanks,

Brandon

On 7/30/19, Aksel Leo Christoffersen <aksel at blindsigtmail.dk> wrote:
> Have you downloaded the mame archive, and placed the dectalk.zip in the
> "roms" folder?
>
> Best regards:
> Aksel Christoffersen
>
> -----Oprindelig meddelelse-----
> Fra: Dectalk [mailto:dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com] På vegne af Brandon
> Tyson
> Sendt: 30. juli 2019 19:29
> Til: DECtalk
> Emne: Re: [DECtalk] DecTalk emulator
>
> 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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