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For all you retro text to speech nerds out there, here's a recording of Superior Software's "Speech" for the Amstrad CPC computer (1986). This was a small piece of Z80 machine code that played phonemes through the computer's AY-3-8912 sound chip
It sounds pretty harsh, and there are a number of hard clicks in the output I couldn't easily fix.
I've included what I think is the spoken script as alt text
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My colleagues are talking about ADFS.
They probably mean the boring Microsoft version.
I just keep thinking about playing Zarch on the school Archimedes.
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Does anyone remember if this came with the game back in the day? #8bit #repton #retro #bbcmicro #superiorsoftware