rofl 16k? woooololol! I was thinking 16 there and I was well not so bad, I've used one with 16mb ram, windows 95, jaws 5.0, you know, thins happened, but then I figured out you said k, not m, blinks, suppose that was the day that the 5mb hard drive was wicked, and it was 5.5 inch, or even bigger. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dakotah Rickard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Gamers Discussion list'" <gamers@audyssey.org> Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 11:59 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Prefered Sapi voice for games?
> You know what, I'll never forget the day I played space invaders for > something like three hours straight. That was the most single awesome game > back then. Think my final score was like 50000...not bad, if I remember > right. > > The apple 2e with I think a whopping 16k RAM. > > Signed: > Dakotah Rickard > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Bryan > Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 16:22 > To: Gamers Discussion list > Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Prefered Sapi voice for games? > > Ah yes, I also remember those days. I'll be twenty-eight this June and I > remember well the days of running a BNS through a computer for use with > JFD. > > I also remember the Echo. It's funny, but while that was probably some of > the worst speech ever it was still some of the coolest. I remember those > text games that used to be available from the same company that made the > Echo. There was that Dragon Maze game and that weird Space Invaders game. > Good times. I've had a lot of trouble finding voice clips of the Echo > synthesizer, but hearing it sure brings back memories. > Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org> > Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 1:37 PM > Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Prefered Sapi voice for games? > > >> Hi Stefen, >> All I can say is I go way back before Jaws for Dos was even invented. My >> first speech synth was an echo for an Apple 2-E, and the text games of >> the mid 80's era were fun. >> Anyway, I can remember the days when I had to use Jaws without such a >> thing as a software synth. In high school I had to carry around a 486 >> laptop with a dectalk express in my backpack which I plugged in after I >> got the laptop all setup on a table in the class room, and it was not a >> very portible setup. In fact, most of the time rather than bringing my >> Dectalk to school I turned on my Braille N Speak and ran it through >> speechbox mode with JFD and JFW 1.x. That was aweful speech! >> >> Stefen Hudson wrote: >>> Wow. 3.2? I started with 3.5. The funny thing about that version of >>> Eloquence was it sounded like it had a sinus problem compared to the >>> newer >>> versions. I've tried using the real speech voices that came with JAWS9 >>> and >>> had some trouble understanding them. They do sound a bit more natural, >>> but >>> sometimes they have this warble effect when they say certain words or >>> phraises, and sometimes they don't say the entire word. >>> >> >> >> --- >> Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org >> If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at >> http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. >> All messages are archived and can be searched and read at >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the >> list, >> please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the > list, > please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the > list, > please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
