From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jgevaryahu@hotmail.com (Jonathan Gevaryahu) Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 19:34:59 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] speak.c, or sometimes the bits are under your nose In-Reply-To: <20111208230820.GA8547@minnie.tuhs.org> References: <20111208230820.GA8547@minnie.tuhs.org> Message-ID: On 12/8/2011 6:08 PM, Warren Toomey wrote: Here's a few extras so far: An excel spreadsheet used to verify the contents while restoring the table, and the un-fixed NUL-padded speak.c file as present on disk. The missing sector is filled with NULs. The votrax sc-01 datasheet i used to fill in the excel sheet can be found at http://www.redcedar.com/sc01/sc01.pdf I'm working on restoring speak.v right now, and am also looking at that new image Al Kossow sent. Doug Mcilroy sent me a copy of speak.v from a later non-votrax (apl-based?) synthesizer and the words/rules seem to be in the same order as in the original votrax version. I don't know if I can distribute it. One thing I didn't mention if you're diving into the disk image with a hex editor: for some reason, I'm not exactly sure why, the file is stored spread all over the place but (almost?) always generally in reverse sector order. So if each letter represents a sector and A is the first sector (and x are sectors you're not interested in) the file would be arranged: ...HxxxxGxFxxxxExxDxxxCBxxxxxA -- Jonathan Gevaryahu AKA Lord Nightmare jgevaryahu at gmail.com jgevaryahu at hotmail.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: speak.c Type: application/octet-stream Size: 14336 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: speak_c_table.xlsx Type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet Size: 15834 bytes Desc: not available URL: