[Coco] SSC discussion

[Brian Blake]

Shain,

Well, there is that feature, and I honestly don't know, but, how does it
compare to the Orchestra 90? Didn't someone say the SSC is CPU heavy?  I
like the idea Nick was taking about, but, until we get more coders working
on the CoCo again, I see little use in the effort. Nick's game is about the
only thing being advertised right now.

Even though I'm in it for a total of four CoCoSDC units, I'd certainly buy
one with extended features - I'm all for that. But who's going to take
advantage of those features? Not trying to be a buzz kill or anything, just
looking at it from what i feel is a realistic point of view.

If you build it, it may be sold; but who will develop for it?

Brian

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On Oct 10, 2014 9:22 PM, "S Klammer" <sklammer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> ... oh, and the SSC did have the much more useful 3 voice, waveform
> adjustable sound...
>
> Shain
> On Oct 10, 2014 9:20 PM, "S Klammer" <sklammer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Couldn't agree more Brian.  The voice chip on the TI-99/4 series was
> > vastly better (they did do the Speak&Spell, etc) and I still enjoy
playing
> > Parsec (once upon a time, I programmed a CC2 clone I'd called
Distac7)...
> > but, it would only say words from its internal vocabulary and not use
the
> > phonetic creation that the SSC did (although there may have been a
> > subsequent revision which did).
> >
> > Shain
> > On Oct 10, 2014 8:48 PM, "Brian Blake" <random.rodder at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Way back when Cris Egger still had the CoCo Hut website going,  I was
> >> working on an article for the website and Mary's now defunct e-zine,
> >> comparing the Ti-99/4a to the CoCo line.
> >>
> >> It was a fairly in depth article that was starting to expand to a few
> >> other
> >> systems, when it came to comparing speech packs. The hardware I had on
> >> hand
> >> was the CoCo line and SSC, and the Ti and is speech adapter.
> >>
> >> The Ti speech pack soundly trounced the CoCo unit - badly - in the
> >> comparison. So much so, that I put the SSC back in its package and
played
> >> Parsec for a few days. The sampled voices on Sundog Systems Sinistaar
was
> >> far better than anything I could get out of the SSC.
> >>
> >> I've got a Real Talker cart I haven't been able to test yet, and I'd
like
> >> to see what some of the other CoCo speech carts can do. To me, the SSC
has
> >> its place - in a package on a collectors shelf, never to be duplicated
in
> >> new hardware.
> >>
> >> If course this might just be the ramblings of my cynical side....
> >>
> >> Brian
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