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« on: August 26, 2013, 04:55:06 am »
Normally I'd recommend the 1200, because it uses the latest chipset and has a harddrive. But since you are good with soldering, you shouldn't have too much trouble upgrading another model with some sort of IDE interfacing. So get a 500, they're by far the cheapest. Check on German ebay, occasionally you can get one for a budget price.
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« on: August 25, 2013, 05:16:21 am »
Yes, the 500 is very common. Over a million were sold in Germany alone.
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« on: August 24, 2013, 07:46:28 pm »
Amiga? Expensive??? But why? I mean I can understand it as far as 1200s are concerned, but 500s going for 50 EUR on the Bay is just insane.
Keoni, if you're ever in Berlin, let me know early in advance, and I may be able to help you (well, assuming that you're going to do some cool stuff with it). Unfortunately I gave away most of my 500s last year, but it'll be ok to ask if I can have one of them back.
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« on: August 21, 2013, 12:06:42 pm »
hmmmdammit I can't sent the .73k file to tilem2.
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« on: August 15, 2013, 04:02:04 am »
Hmm, no idea why WabbitEmu can't handle this. I've given up on that emu tbh. Btw you need DoorsCS or some other Ion compatible shell to run the 8xp version (even though no ROM/Shell routines are used iirc, so it could probably be compiled as stub also). To use it, you need to change the message string in test.asm and recompile the thing. Sorry 
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« on: August 13, 2013, 05:24:23 am »
Thanks guys. No doubt the "speech" is fairly unintelligible  @AssemblyBandit: Sure! I don't need it myself, but I'll include it with the download. @thepenguin77: I had longer sample data before but it doesn't help much. I simply need better data I have some ideas for the future though: One would be to use looped formants, which would allow for a significant decrease in size. The other one would be to implement actual formant synthesis using 3-tier pulse interleaving. This has never been done in 1-bit though, and I'll have to read some more theory on that. Not sure if it would actually work at all. Binary output simply isn't suited very well for speech synthesis. Certain letters like b,g,m,n are almost impossible to do. Btw those are in fact actual sound samples, they're just pulse-width encoded to make playback easier.
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« on: August 12, 2013, 06:30:45 am »
Hi folx, Recently I made a speech synthesizer for ZX Spectrum, because I always wanted to make one. So I figured, why not make it available for TI calcs, too. Alright, here it is. It's nothing special really, just outputs consonant and vowel samples, and sounds crap like all of them. Well, maybe someone will still find it useful. It should work on TI82/83/83+/84+. There's just the bare bones routine, I don't think it's really worth making an interface for it. But maybe I'll include it in Houston Tracker at some point. Download (asm source + doc + 82/83/8XP examples included)
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« on: August 10, 2013, 09:01:29 pm »
Can someone please come up with something truly revolutionary? The last decade we have just been inproving on old concepts and combining them to make mediocre products.
The last two decades, actually. But well, mass market cyber glasses are around the corner. Google Glass will remain somewhat of a curiosity (just like early laptops), but otherwise, that's the general direction for the next decade (unlike tablets, which are a dead end of technological evolution imo). And the decade after that will be the age of direct-to-brain interfacing, combined with "intelligent" clothing. The question of course being, if that's the future we want. I suppose it's unavoidable though. We'll become cyborgs eventually, because that's the only possibility of survival in the ruined environment of the future. Btw, ever thought about why the name Google resembles the term "goggles"? The path has been laid out... Will probably get cyber/Google Glasses once they are available for a reasonable price, just to be able to understand the technology (and to hack it, of course).
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« on: August 10, 2013, 07:58:59 am »
Umm, interesting, but too minimal for my taste. Also I noticed YT has only crap songs by Simian, so I'm not surprised you didn't like them
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« on: August 10, 2013, 07:57:17 am »
Keoni, you nailed it.
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« on: August 10, 2013, 07:55:28 am »
According to some research I read recently, tablets are almost exclusively used to check mails and post on facebook. And therefore, they are entirely useless in my book, thanks to lack of a proper keyboard. Maybe that will change when tablets with flexible softscreens that can form keys are introduced next year. But until then, they're just overpriced gadgets that people buy because of peer pressure and advertisement hype.
Also, the point about them having more processing power is kinda invalid, thanks to tablet OSes being bloated and inefficient. Heck, when the Ipad came out it couldn't even multitask. How ridiculous.
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« on: August 09, 2013, 03:42:13 am »
Cornelius!!!!!<3<3<3
If you like him, you should check out Simian.
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« on: August 07, 2013, 01:28:03 pm »
Z80 computer? I recommend you the latest technology of our glorious GDR: the KC85!Nah, just kidding, it's total crap (except for the fact that the OS is called CAOS). I'd recommend the ZX Spectrum - it's easy and straigthforward to program, and, unlike certain other 8-bit communities, the Speccy community is really friendly, cooperative, and active. You can load stuff directly from your PC via soundcard, no fancy datasette required. Plus, modern peripherals (IDE interfacing) are much cheaper than eg. for Commodore. Also the Speccy is probably the closest to a TI calc that you'll find in the 8-bit world. Commodores - I have a ton of them, but 6502 assembly is just not my cup of tea. If you can look beyond that, then Atari 8-bit computers are also great, if you can find one.
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« on: August 03, 2013, 12:19:43 pm »
Hey Keoni, what's that machine below the tv, next to the c64+floppy? Is that one of those old educational/kit computers?
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« on: July 31, 2013, 10:47:56 am »
What you likely read was me saying I would be attempting to write a Mallard-compatible Flash application equivalent shell for the 73 tonight on HCWP, which would be much easier to use and more compatible with everything than Mallard itself.
Did that thing go online? I'd be highly interested 
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