[Blindapple] Hello

Brandon Cross bcross3286 at gmail.com
Fri Jul 7 21:45:35 EDT 2017


Hmm, I don't suppose you have the image? If not, no biggy, as I said, its
more a novelty thing than actually something that's needed.

On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 9:33 PM, Tom Brennan <g_brennantg at titan.sfasu.edu>
wrote:

> Jeff, there is a version of Echo Words that works with the external
> Cricket --
> it came on my disk.
>
> Tom
>
>
> Tom Brennan  KD5VIJ, CCC-A/SLP
> web page http://titan.sfasu.edu/~g_brennantg/sonicpage.html
>
> On Fri, 7 Jul 2017, Jeff Weiss 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
> > Sent: Friday, July 07, 2017 12:17 PM
> > To: Blind Apple Discussions
> > 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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