GENEVE ABASIC and CALL SAY appears broken

[jenorton]

Hi:

 

I was playing with ABASIC using the Geneve emulation, and I discovered that CALL SAY doesn't seem to work.  For every letter, the synth just says "uhoh".  So, for example, if I do CALL SAY("HELLO"), the synth just says "uhoh" five times.

 

Am I doing something wrong, or is CALL SAY not working correctly?

 

Thanks

[+dhe]

I think for proper help, you'll need to list the version of ABasic and MDOS your currently using.

Also, if it's not a big deal, try moving the speech synthesizer to a 4a console and give it a try, as it's possible the speech ROM went bad.

[+mizapf]

CALL SAY("HELLO") works for me (MAME 0.218, GeneveOS 6.5, MYBASIC 3.00). You did not write 'CALL SAY("hello")', did you?

[jenorton]

It was MYBASIC 4.04001.

 

I wrote everything in upper case.

 

I will try a couple variations and see if anything changes.

 

[jenorton]

Ah!

 

Found the problem.

 

I had the memex peripheral installed. When I removed it, CALL SAY worked as expected.

 

Now, anyone figured a way to get the text-to-speech program working in ABASIC?

 

[+mizapf]

Hmm, my (emulated) Geneve also works with MEMEX in "MYBASIC 4.04DDI". Are you using MAME 0.218? The DIP switches are set to "Lock out all BA mirrors" (SW2), "Enable pages ..." (SW3-SW8).

[+9640News]

For the Rave Speech, it needs page >BC decoding to work.  If the Rave Speech card is not modified and you are using it with a Memex system, you need to pull the Rave Speech card and not use it.  Otherwise, any code/program/data ever loaded onto that page is subject to being modified.  This could be something as simple as a one byte change to a program to a program, etc. during a file copy process.

 

There is a chance the later versions of MDOS may have mapped out page >BC so this may not be an issue.  As I think about it, I think Tim did commit that change.  If you run the MEMTEST program from a fresh Boot with no Ramdisk installed, you should not see a page >BC mapped as an eligible memory page.

 

Beery