Broke oout the Versa M/75 and the old Words+ System 2000 Commpac AAC device and finally got some more stuff working. I'm writing some new tunes for band lab and my "lead singer" needs a health checkup, 🤣
I Got AudScan utility working in DOS, and got the joystick working with it (posted to my Instagram) - I used my regular Atari 2600 CX-40 Joystick for this, lead to some hilarious speech tree call-response stuff, 🤣. I might need to try this out on EZ Keys once I swap FreeDOS for DOS 7.1 and put Windows For Workgroups 3.11 on there.
"(Perfect Paul)Home......Greetings......Hello......(billy the Kid) Hi There!"
Also went shopping again for 5-wire 3M MicroTouch 10.4" (256mmx178mm) glass panels. Did more reading, apparently this is an early "TouchPen" system and likely an early Capacitive touch (one wire for each corner and one for a "hoop" that goes around the digitizer). I think I'm getting warmer on obtaining either a original replacement I can modify - or a chinese replacement. Seriously toying with using up some Credit card for one.
Doing more digging on the Words+ part of the equation, I found out there's a way to edit the menus - might be able to write some songs that way....or by using other user profiles in Talking Screen.....since that's how "Chicken Nuggets and Honey Mustard" was written. Also looked at how the "switches" are wired and I'm thinking I could build my own set of switches. Looks like audscan lets me write my own vocabulary too so looks like our "singer" is getting expanded dialog. Now if only autotune in BandLab would let me rewrite the melody it tends to default to.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDPJtzF1pwc&t=13s