[Blindapple] Hello

Brandon Cross bcross3286 at gmail.com
Fri Jul 7 17:07:10 EDT 2017


right, so I'll have to see if I can read the print when it says to save and
where and all that, the dos that echo words comes on I think is prodos, but
I could be wrong, I never actually played around with it outside the editor
as the echo wasn't working.

On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 4:58 PM, Jeff Weiss <jeff-weiss at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> As I recall, unless something came out later, Echo Words is designed for
> dos 3.3.
> I don’t know that I ever used it with ProDos, but there is a demo of Echo
> Words in one of the issues of A Talk (formerly called Apple Talk.)
> Also, at that time, for those of you using a real Apple computer, Echo
> Words would not work with the Cricket external synthesizer.
>
> hth,
> Jeff Weiss
>
>
> *From:* Brandon Cross <bcross3286 at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Friday, July 07, 2017 12:17 PM
> *To:* Blind Apple Discussions <blindapple at bluegrasspals.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [Blindapple] Hello
>
> OK, so the echo words diskette isn't accessible, I can't switch disks
> either, what  I did try to do is boot up the ProDOS disk with the latest
> textalker on it, so in the emu, I put that in drive one, then I put echo
> word edit in drive two, once textalker started up, I cataloged disk two and
> ran the startup file on disk 2. It fails to load I am guessing because
> textalker is occupying memory blocks that echo words edit needs in order to
> function properly.
>
> Anyway, if I've reached the wrong conclusion, please tell me, as I'd love
> to work this out. I do have some sight, so I may be able to use it still. I
> for instance, have been able to place words in the editor, and have the
> female voice speak them, but I need to save the wordlist, and copy that,
> and the way program to my disk, which, hopefully that would work because my
> disk is not ProDOS, its dos 3.3.
>
> I'm very much new to this scene, my only previous experience being using
> the II GS in elementary school, and that at a very beginner level, not
> trying to program it, and copy stuff from disk to disk, etc. Mainly just
> playing games and writing in word processors.
>
> I do have the speaker program set up to give you an introductory message,
> and you can now type quit to leave it, when doing it that way, it reverts
> your echo back to both mode, because if you simply interrupt the program
> with a control C, it does not do this, and you're still in output mode, and
> you can pr#0 all you want, and its not fixing the issue because echo is
> still in output, so you would manually need to enter a control E, B. This
> way, if you quit properly, it does that part for you. I need to do the same
> thing with phmaker. Then I'll distribute the disk, I didn't think anyone
> outside of me would be interested in it, to be honest.
>
> On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 7:01 AM, Blake Roberts <beroberts at hughes.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Welcome to Blind-Apple. The disk you which want to improve sounds
>> interesting. I hope you will share it in the future.
>>
>> Blake
>>
>>
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>> *From:* BlindApple [mailto:blindapple-bounces at bluegrasspals.com] *On
>> Behalf Of *Brandon Cross
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, July 04, 2017 8:46 PM
>> *To:* blindapple at bluegrasspals.com
>> *Subject:* [Blindapple] Hello
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi, I'm Brandon and am new to the list. I'm messing around with this
>> stuff later in life, although I had limited experience with the apple IIGS
>> with the echo II in elementary school. I have created a disk with the
>> programs from the manual which I want to improve upon. The programs are
>> called speaker and phmaker. They're pretty self explanatory, in that
>> speaker just allows you to input a string and have it repeated back,and
>> phmaker allows you to do the same with the phoneme mode.  If any of you
>> would like this disk, let me know. Hopefully I will be making improvements,
>> including using the female speech to indicate that the loading has been
>> completed, and read phonemes from text files, with a program that asks you
>> for lines to read.
>>
>>
>>
>> I'm not very good with programming, so we'll see how far this actually
>> gets.
>>
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