godden@GMR.CSNET (Kurt Godden) (02/04/86)
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-relayhedden@atux01.UUCP (D. Hedden) (02/10/86)
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 ..."
ramsay@kcl-cs.UUCP (02/12/86)
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...>