[DECtalk] DECTalk 4.2 Alpha (fwd)

Karen Lewellen klewellen at shellworld.net
Sat Aug 13 11:57:41 EDT 2022 

I am curious just what that means in terms of hardware.
For example, and forgive my innocent question, is the infrastructure 
seeking certain ports?  is it looking for specific irq settings?  why only 
wind 95, and not say wind 3.11or 98?
Does it use a sound card for the speech or something else?
Part of why I am asking is, as i noted before, those involved with the 
current development of freedos often have these extras around.
I can ask for an emulator, but need to know for what I am asking exactly.
Oh, and could you not just install say wind95 to a partition?
again, sorry if the question seems odd, but it seems strange that such an 
os specific  edition of the dec would have been made when so many others 
existed from the same time span.
Best,
Karen



On Sat, 13 Aug 2022, Jake Gross wrote:

> 
> This speak window was compiled for the DEC Alpha architecture. In other
> words, It won’t run on modern computers unless a DEC Alpha emulator Is
> used.
>
> 
> 
> From: jake mcmahan
> Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2022 2:06 AM
> To: DECtalk; Brandon Tyson
> Subject: Re: [DECtalk] DECTalk 4.2 Alpha (fwd)
>
> 
>
>     Here is the link.  However, I misread the readme file and it only
> 
> works on windows NT.  In order to even get this thing working we have to
> 
> have a windows NT virtual machine with sound on it.  I am still looking
> 
> for one. Even if we did the possibility of it still not working exists.
> 
>    Here's the speak window.
>
> 
> 
> https://archive.org/details/ALPHADT_ZIP
>
> 
> 
> On 8/13/2022 4:24 AM, Brandon Tyson wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> 
> > 
> 
> > Unless I missed it, I didn't see a link to the speak window in the
> message.
> 
> > 
> 
> > I was wondering if anyone has the link to this by chance?
> 
> > 
> 
> > Thanks,
> 
> > 
> 
> > Brandon
> 
> > 
> 
> > Sent from my iPhone
> 
> > 
> 
> >> On Aug 12, 2022, at 9:19 PM, Karen Lewellen <klewellen at shellworld.net>
> wrote:
> 
> >> 
> 
> >> clearly intended for the list.  especially since the plan explains
> why other   tests are failing.
> 
> >> 
> 
> >> 
> 
> >> 
> 
> >> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> 
> >> Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2022 19:47:48 -0400
> 
> >> From: jake mcmahan <mcmahan.jake at gmail.com>
> 
> >> To: Karen Lewellen <klewellen at shellworld.net>
> 
> >> Subject: Re: [DECtalk] DECTalk 4.2 Alpha
> 
> >> 
> 
> >> Hello:
> 
> >> 
> 
> >> This is a 16bit version of a Dectalk speak window that is only made
> for windows95 or NT.  I am doing my best to get a hold of Jake Grosses
> Virtual machine of win95.  Then I will mount the iso file I created of
> the speak window to the virtual machine as a drive, and finally run it
> through the windows95 operating system from there.  Anything other than
> windows95 or NT will not run the software.
> 
> >> 
> 
> >> Jake M
> 
> >> 
> 
> >>> On 8/12/2022 7:14 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote:
> 
> >>> When I followed the link I recall noting the date as 1996.
> 
> >>> Exactly how are you attempting to run this program?
> 
> >>> curious how it would work in a freedos environment.
> 
> >>> dare say would work fine in a pure dos one.
> 
> >>> Kare
> 
> >>> 
> 
> >>> On Fri, 12 Aug 2022, Aksel Leo Christoffersen wrote:
> 
> >>>>   Hi,
> 
> >>>>>>>   I’ve also just tried running it in a Windows XP virtual
> machine, which >  can run 16 bit applications, and it can’t run it
> either. So, that must >  mean that it’s indeed not dessigned for
> Windows. I would also just like >  to point out that this is the
> original version 4.2, and not the famed >  version 4.2CD, which runs on
> most DECtalk Express units. Version 4.2CD was >  released in 1996, but
> these files were apparently created in october 1994, >  which matches
> well with the DECtalk Express firmware files for the >  original version
> 4.2. Just to make things clear.
> 
> >>>>>>>   Kind regards:
> 
> >>>>>   Aksel Christoffersen
> 
> >>>>> 
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