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I had SAM on my Atari 800. It was notable that it turned off the display when talking. My understanding was that was either for code performance, timing consist
by phkahler 4y ago
I had SAM on my Atari 800. It was notable that it turned off the display when talking. My understanding was that was either for code performance, timing consistency, or both.
- classichasclass 4y agoThe C64 version did the same thing, at least by default (I think the command to change it was ]LIGHTS). It was slightly faster and thus better quality since the VIC wasn't causing bad lines. In some ways I like this resurrected SAM more than things like Rsynth. RECITER seemed like magic at the time, though now with a linguistics degree, I prefer raw SAY with phonemes.
- airbreather 4y agoyeah, from memory the display list interrupts messed with it