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Originally Posted by hap
Do you know the TSI Speech+? It's a talking calculator for the blind, it has the same speech chip as in Berzerk(arcade game).
see: http://www.vintagecalculators.com/html/speech-.html
*TMC1007 TMS1000 1976, TSI Speech+ (S14002-A)
*MP0057 TMS1000 1978, APH Student Speech+ (same ROM contents as TSI Speech+?)

Think I have one! smile


EDIT: Damn kevtris beat me to it smile I only got this one. Its very precious to me.

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@kevtris TR606 dumped, great smile

plgDavid by the way, I pulled the German and French speech data from your Fidelity Excellence dump and added them to Fidelity VCC. Works fine.

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Originally Posted by hap
plgDavid by the way, I pulled the German and French speech data from your Fidelity Excellence dump and added them to Fidelity VCC. Works fine.

Yeah I added French and German chess digi render from a real TSI
chip in my product.

Here are my Fidelity Voice rom dump notes (if you didnt have them)

Rom seems split by chunks of 2k (16 unique chunks)

Dip Switches set ROM A13 and ROM A14

ROM A12 is tied to S14001A's A11 (yuck)
ROM A11 is however tied to the CPU's XYZ

Trivia: After listening to all "reconstructed" 4KB blocks,
it appears two were needed for each of the 3 new languages, and that
no new re-encoding was made for the english side, as the Bridge challenger voice
had all extra bits smile

spanish
0000_07FF
0800_0FFF
1000_17FF
1800_1FFF

french
2000_27FF
2800_2FFF
3000_3FFF
3800_3FFF

german
4000_47FF
4800_4FFF
5000_57FF
5800_5FFF

english
6000_67FF vcc-engl.bin (first half)
6800_6FFF Bridge Challenger (First HALF!)
7000_77FF vcc-engl.bin (second half)
7800_7FFF Bridge Challenger (Second HALF!)


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Yeah, LN forwarded the notes when he sent me the romset. I'm currently refactoring the Fidelity chess emulation drivers. If you have roms for them that aren't in MAME yet, I'm interested.

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Originally Posted by hap
Yeah, LN forwarded the notes when he sent me the romset. I'm currently refactoring the Fidelity chess emulation drivers. If you have roms for them that aren't in MAME yet, I'm interested.

The only thing left I have would be a physical Fidelity Cribbage, I didn't bother dumping it since it has no speech smile But it would go into fidelz80

http://po.st/oxGaiR

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Ah smile looks like same hardware as the Bridge Challenger(sans speech), with the weird barcode playcard scanner.

Cowering also has a couple of Fidelity boards in his collection that he plans to dump roms from.

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Originally Posted by plgDavid
The only thing left I have would be a physical Fidelity Cribbage, I didn't bother dumping it since it has no speech smile But it would go into fidelz80

http://po.st/oxGaiR

Ooh, that looks like it uses the same 8-character NEC FIP8A5AR VFD that the speak & spell does, so we can just reuse the vectorization from that.

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Note: Speak and Spell Compact vs Speak and Write use different speech chips!

see:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/79094972/snspellc_pcb.jpg
vs
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/79094972/snspellcuk_pcb.jpg

The Speak and Write chip is odd, since its CD2801A, not CD2801!
PlgDavid: do you want to borrow it for dumping the tables via promout?

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Interesting! Would have to remember how to do that PROMOUT again.
I did all the other chips in one weekend and it was a complicated setup.

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Actually I think we might be ok and not need it read out; Our decap of the CD2801 has a '2801A' marking on the die.

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