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You could have Dr. Sbaitso say whatever you typed, by telling him to 'say' something. As pre-teens, my sister and I used to laugh maniacally with this basic TTS
by acidburnNSA 4y ago
You could have Dr. Sbaitso say whatever you typed, by telling him to 'say' something. As pre-teens, my sister and I used to laugh maniacally with this basic TTS system. Typing in 'winkle tinkle' like a dozen times and hearing him say it in his special cadence still kind of cracks me up.
I also won the middle school science fair with a program that came with the SB Pro, called VEDIT2, if I recall. I set up a tape recording of a standard sound and moved a dish-shaped snow sled different distances from the microphone while recording the standard sound. I used VEDIT2 to measure the peak amplitude and then compared with expectations from a parabolic focusing reflector. Any middle schooler using the word 'directrix' was sure to win in my small town.
And yeah my dad helped with the math.
Good old SBPro though.
EDIT: ah this site has a thing for SB Pro too, and it has vedit2: http://www.vgmpf.com/Wiki/index.php/Sound_Blaster_Pro_(DOS) http://www.vgmpf.com/Wiki/index.php/Sound_Blaster_Pro_(DOS)
- elvis70 4y agoYou can still play with Dr. Sbaitso onine: https://oneweakness.com/dr-sbaitso-online https://oneweakness.com/dr-sbaitso-online. Don't say too many insults, otherwise you risk an error of parity.
- acidburnNSA 4y agoOh I have gotten quite a good number of parity errors in my day. I was just firing it up at archive.org as well to hear that winkle tinkle cadence one more time. https://archive.org/details/msdos_Dr_Sbaitso_1992 https://archive.org/details/msdos_Dr_Sbaitso_1992
- pkaye 4y agoA long time ago I would help babysit my young niece and nephew. One of the things they would enjoy was a Eliza program I typed up from a basic listing. A simple program but they would really get a kick out of it and would ask for it for a long time.
- fatnoah 4y agoI used VEDIT2 to sample and loop music for my (with friends) triumphant high school Talent Show act way back in 1992.