[Coco] SSC

[Roger Taylor]

At 04:30 PM 7/21/2004, you wrote:
>I have a general question for everyone. I never owned a speech or orchestra
>pak. How did it work? Could you use it in conjunction with a multipak and
>other rompaks or is that not workable- don't laugh at my ignorance, I am
>trying to learn :)

The Speech Sound cartridge got very little support.  Some Radio Shack games 
were made to talk, like The Interbank Incident, but the pak's speech cannot 
be fine-tuned or manipulated much at all.  It basically sounds like a slow 
monotone robot.  The music is multi-voice but the synchronization can get 
off especially if you're POKEing the code in from a BASIC program.  ML code 
works better.  Sometimes a voice can just get off-track slightly if the pak 
is busy while you're POKEing more note commands.  You have to wait until 
the pak is ready before you can send more commands.  There's also a noise 
generator that I've used to create percussion and explosion effects in some 
of my old experimental games.


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Roger Taylor