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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi,</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">If the sources exist on a modern
system like Windows, he could use CiderPress to put them on disk
images, then boot up an emulated GS under MAME to compile them,
probably. If they're on physical Apple disks, the best thing
would almost certainly be to image those disks, not only to make
compilation easier, but to preserve the data itself. I'd be
happy to image such disks since I live in the area, and have a
CFFA3000 which, as anyone else who has one knows, is wonderful
for imaging disks.</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Do you know if he has sources or
binaries for other versions of Textalker like those for ProDOS or
DOS 3.3?</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Thanks,</div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Jayson</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/6/2020 10:55 PM, Joseph Norton
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<div>Hi Jason:</div>
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<div>Rob is talking about possibly trying to re-compile the source
for example for the talk.init file because it is not something
that is currently available in binary format.</div>
<div>But he doesn’t have a system that he can do that on so it’s
unclear how soon that will happen or if it will happen.</div>
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<div>Another thing is that he is not sure that the source can be
released due to copyright issues I guess.</div>
<div>He did mention that he had heard that Merlin 16 was available
in the public domain and that’s what they used to compile it
originally.</div>
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<div>The funny thing is that he is puzzled that the basic.system
file doesn’t speak when you run it.</div>
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<div>He seems to think it should speak along with some of the
other things that are talking such as Davex.</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi,</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Thanks. I'll download this.
Just for kicks, do you know if he has any source code or
other interesting historical stuff?</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Thanks,</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/3/2020 7:32 PM, <a
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi all:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have been in communication with
Rob Meredith at APH, who did most of the work on
TexTalker GS and he has no problem with releasing it
to the group.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">His words were:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Yes, please release
Textalker-GS 1.4 to the Blind Apple Group. Of
course, the lack of talk.init is not good for some.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>The “TALK.INIT” file is used
by GSOS to launch TexTalker gs from within the
system/system.setup folder. However, he did give me
binaries of “TALK” which he said should be type
“SYS” under ProDOS. This, in turn, loads up
“TALK.0” the other component of TexTalker gs, and
should be in the same folder as the “TALK” file.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Here is a link to a Shrinkit
archive with the files we have, so far.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>He thinks it might be
possible to recompile “TALK.INIT”, but, is not sure.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>There are several things TTGS
is still not doing, and, I don’t know if those are
emulation issues, or something else.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Anyway, here is a link to the
Shrinkit archive containing these 2 files:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span><a
href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/piovob4c8h7lsj1/TTGS14.SHK?dl=1"
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>See the included README for
some very sparse information.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>You can use Ciderpress to
extract the files, look at them or inser them into a
disk image.</span></p>
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