[Coco] Radio Shack Speech-Sound Pak

[Salvador Garcia]

Hi Andrew, what chip are you referring to? Is it the TMS-7040 or the SP0256? Thanks! Salvador



On Monday, August 21, 2017, 9:48:31 PM CDT, Andrew <keeper63 at cox.net> wrote:

Ray, don't forget about the other half of that hardware!

It has some pretty amazing sound capabilities as well, though I don't 
think there were many (or any?) commercial software (games etc) that 
used it. Honestly, the chip that was in that thing should have been 
incorporated into the CoCo 3 (but Tandy didn't want to overshadow the 
Tandy 1000, which is a pity).

Still, it's a fun piece to experiment and play with!

If you get a multi-pak for it, I seem to recall that you were supposed 
to put the floppy-drive pak in either slot 1 or slot 4 (?) and set the 
switch to that (for bootup), but other cartridges could be put in the 
other slots (at one time, I had the floppy controller, the SS pak, the 
RS-232 pak, and a DS-69B all connected on mine as a kid). My memory may 
be faulty tho...

Have fun!

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Andrew L. Ayers
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