[Coco] SSP with NitrOS9

[Willard Goosey]

On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 07:08:11PM -0700, Ed Orbea wrote:
> I remember seeing a web page about making changes to a Tandy Speech 
> Sound Pack so that it would run under OS9 Level II or NitrOS9, but I 
> can't remember which or where I found the info.

I think you're looking for
http://www.geocities.com/theother_bob/coco_page.html

The SSP needs a hardware upgrade to run at 2MHz.

> My question is two-fold:
> (1) Do I need to make any (hardware, jumper, etc) changes to the SSP in 
> order to make it work

For OS9, Yup.

> (2) To use it, can I just redirect text or output a text file to the SSP 
> driver

Yep.  But the SSP driver only does speech, not the YM sound chip.

Willard
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