S.A.M. and Speedscript 3.0

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4 total messages Started by Kurt Godden Tue, 04 Feb 1986 14:39

#2397

Author: Kurt Godden
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 1986 14:39

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1.  Before I order back issues of ANTIC with S.A.M. programs in them:
    Is S.A.M (software automatic mouth) a published program in ANTIC,
    or is it commercial only, and the ANTIC programs just utilities?

2.  I am going to type in (!!!) Speedscript 3.0 from May 85 Compute!
    and would like to know if there were any corrections or updates in
    later issues of Compute!  Also, does anyone know if back issues are
    available?  I looked through the mag, but didn't see anything about it.

Thanks.

-Kurt Godden
godden.gmr@csnet-relay

Re: S.A.M. and Speedscript 3.0

#2435

Author: D. Hedden
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1986 18:52

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In article <8602051021.AA08835@ucbvax.berkeley.edu>, godden@GMR.CSNET (Kurt Godden) writes:
> 1.  Before I order back issues of ANTIC with S.A.M. programs in them:
>     Is S.A.M (software automatic mouth) a published program in ANTIC,
>     or is it commercial only, and the ANTIC programs just utilities?
> 
> 2.  I am going to type in (!!!) Speedscript 3.0 from May 85 Compute!

S.A.M. is a commercial product, and I don't believe it was ever
published in ANTIC.  I have seen several S.A.M. utilities appear
in ANTIC over the last 3-4 years.  I did purchase S.A.M. a few
years ago and would like to give you this warning.  It comes on
a highly protected boot disc; you use it by booting S.A.M. and 
then running your BASIC program that writes via S.A.M., thus 
producing voice. I bought it so that I could produce software
for my young daughter to use even though she could not yet 
read.  When I got it and found out she would have to boot the
system with one disc, swap discs, and enter a command(s) to
run my program I knew S.A.M. would not meet my needs.  It has 
sat in my cabinet mostly unused since then.  There was a utility
in ANTIC that enabled you have S.A.M. read a program to you.
This has been useful when I have typed programs in from magazine
listings, in that it makes it fairly easy to check my typing.

With regard to typing in Speedscript - I have just replaced
LETTER PERFECT with PAPER CLIP.  It is available under $30 from
discounters and seems to be a very good word processor.

Sorry for the length of this.

  "The moving hand writes ..."

Re: S.A.M. and Speedscript 3.0

#2491

Author: ramsay
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1986 12:45

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Two things here - 1. I have, after some hacking, managed to turn SAM into an
AUTORUN.SYS file. For my next trick, I'm going to try making it work in ACTION!
(Why couldn't they pass the address of the string to the USR routine?) This is
obviously because ACTION! beats the solids out of BASIC (& everything else on
400/800/XL/XE) but - you should be able to copy SAM. Lemme see. Find MEMLO.
Find where DOS finishes. Go to DOS and save memory between these points as
AUTORUN.SYS. Add a small .OBJ program to keep MEMLO where SAM thinks it should
be (just append it on) and it should work. If anyone wants details I'll be
happy to mail.

-- 

				R.Ramsay
				ukc!kcl-cs!ramsay@neon.uucp

<And sneaking along last...>

How do I subscribe to INFO-ATARI16 ?

#2504

Author: Peter Espen
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1986 23:31

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	Could someone please send me send mail or post a reply explaining
how I can get access to the INFO-ATARI16 stuff.
	Thanks!
	Peter Espen

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