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Lord Nightmare

Jonathan “Lord Nightmare” Gevaryahu is a contributor to MESS, mostly in the forms of new dumps, new information, the occasional skeleton driver, and near constant IRC 'verbal diarrhea' commentary that drives MooglyGuy insane. :-P

Pending Skeleton Drivers, in Rough Priority Order

  1. Votrax PSS done. Driver needs work: PIT hookup, AY-3-8910 hookup, SC-01-A TP3(interpolation disable) emulation and clock input R/C filter PWMing.
  2. Votrax TNT done. Driver needs work: needs SC-01-A A/R emulation for 6802 IRQ, needs 6850 UART hooked up for serial in/out.
  3. DECTalk DTC-01 done. MC68681/MC68HC2681 core needs work to properly handle RTS/CTS flags and outputs.
  4. Speak and Spell (ROM is typed in from patent, could use verification; assisting Wilbert Pol on driver)
  5. Speak and Math (ROM needs to be typed in from patent, maybe the MameWorld repetitive action crew can help with this?)
  6. Language Translator (ROM needs to be typed in from patent, maybe the MameWorld repetitive action crew can help with this?)
  7. Touch and Tell (ROM needs to be typed in from patent, maybe the MameWorld repetitive action crew can help with this?)
  8. Vtech/LASER Compumate 2done by Robbbert and Kale (needs ROMs dumped using fluke, Z80 is now socketed (Thanks kevtris!))
  9. Vtech Socrates done. ?Hitachi? PARCOR speech chip is not emulated. Interrupt masking is not emulated (assuming that's what the mystery I/O ports handle). Waitstates are not emulated.
  10. Franklin Language Master LM4000 (pending ROM dumps; MooglyGuy has these in storage)
  11. Telesensory/Speech Plus Prose 2000partly done, needs uPD77c20 CPU/DSP core work and I/O plumbing.
  12. Victor 9000/Sirius 1 skeleton driver in progress by Curt Coder; (messy, requires SASI? drive support for the HDD, and proper emulation of the 8048-based Tandon-mechanism multispeed floppy drive); all ROMs for a universal ROM rev system are dumped (keyboard MCU, floppy MCU and main CPU ROMs)
  13. Epson HX-20 skeleton driver done by Micko? but needs the sub processor dumped; more ROM dumps needed for multiple revisions. 'Realvoice' add-on needs MCU trojaned. MALE voice ROMs need dump.
  14. Rockwell AIM-65/40 skeleton done in its own driver. The Motorola display driver chip may need a segment table dump.
  15. Heathkit ET3400A and ET3400 (trivial, most challenge is the artwork; ET3400 non-a needs ROM dump) skeleton done by Micko, finished by Robbbert
  16. Intel SDK-86 (somewhat involved, lot of changable settings and I/O chips and stuff, mostly involving waitstates) skeleton done by Micko
  17. C64DTV NTSC and PAL, plus the Hummer (needs BASIC program to dump BIOSes to IEC, or dumping of ROM chips; Guru has a PAL DTV sent from me via incog, needs dumping)
  18. Olivetti M24 AKA AT&T PC6300: PC clone, needs TMS7000 DSP trojaned (for the later XT/AT keyboard controller), lots of PAL dumps; at least a dozen versions of the BIOS and various PALs/PROMs exist, some don't have the DSP; also need the Z8001? expansion board (which allows Olivetti M20 software to run?)
  19. Epson Equity I+: PC clone
  20. DEC VT320: skeleton done by Micko using ROMs from someone else; need to dig ROMs out of unit, buried way below the CRT tube
  21. DEC/Boundless VT520: skeleton done by Micko
  22. All the machines I gave to MooglyGuy (a DEC box, a massive Sun box, an Apple ANS server, an Apple 6300?, two SGI personal Iris boxes, and a couple of random modern Dell P2/P3s)
  23. Intel SDK-85 (need ROMs, similar to KIM-1 but Intel hardware, predecessor to SDK-86; ROMs are on custom-masked MIOT-like ROM-RAM-I/O chips) skeleton done by ?Robbbert?

Low Priority

  1. PCM-12 minicomputer (ROM-less, PDP-8 clone)
  2. Fluke 9010A (really! it has a CPU, and ROMs for v1.3 firmware are dumped already AFAIK. Older firmwares are needed dumps, dumps of 1.3a and 1.3b exist AFAIK.)
  3. Wavetek/Digelec EP804 EPROM programmer (again, it has a CPU, and I need to back up the ROMs anyway. Have v1.4 ROMs on an old-MB unit at home which needs dumping; have 2.0? ROMs as well which need the newer MB. About 7 ROM revs exist total.) ROMs version 1.4, 1.6 fully dumped, 2.0 is dumped but missing the mapper PROM or PAL. Driver done by myself and Balrog.

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Specifications for Speech Synthesis LSI


Device Manufacturer Announced Synthesis Algorithm Process Voltage (V) Pins Internal ROM (bit) External ROM (bit) Minimum Configuration Bit rate (Kb/sec) Exciting Source D/A (bit)
DSP Motorola 1981. LPC-10 CMOS
ECL1565 NTT 1979.10 LSP/Formant CMOS 5 64 3 chips 1.2-9.6 Pulse, M-array 8
HC55564 Harris Delta
HD38880B Hitachi/NTT 1979.1 PARCOR PMOS 5 28 128 K (16x) 3 chips 2.4-9.6 Sin²wt, M-array 8
HD61885 Hitachi 1981. PARCOR CMOS 5 28 32 K 128 K (16x) 1 chip 2.5-9.9 integrated pulse, M-array 9
LRN3680 Sharp 1980.3 Composite Sine CMOS 4-5 44 32 K 1 chip 1.6 8
M58817AP Mitsubishi 1980.8 PARCOR PMOS - 10 28 3 chips 1.96-3.92 Pulse, M-array 7
MB8760 Fujitsu 1980. PARCOR NMOS 5,12 28 3 chips 2.4-9.6 Pulse, Triangular, M-array 10
MEA8000 Valvo/Philips Formant
MM54104 (SPC) National Semiconductor 1980. Speech segm (Delta) NMOS 7-11 40 2 chips 2
MN1261 Matsushita 1980.12 PARCOR CMOS 5 24 3 chips 2.0-9.6 Residual segment, M-array 10
MN6401 Matsushita 1980.2 PARCOR NMOS 5 28 32 K 1 chip 1.2-5.5 Residual segment, M-array 8
MSM5205 OKI Delta
MSM6502RS OKI 1981.10 ADPCM (Delta) CMOS 3-5 18 144 K 1 chip 10-32 10
PDSP Telesensory Systems Inc. 1981. PARCOR NMOS
S3610 AMI PARCOR
SC-01 Votrax/Federal Screwworks Formant
SC-02 (SSI263) Silicon System Inc. Formant
Series II Telesensory Systems Inc. Delta
Series III Telesensory Systems Inc. Delta
SP0250 General Instruments PARCOR 128 K
SP0256 General Instruments 1980.1 PARCOR NMOS 5 28 16 K 1 chip 0.7-2.4 Pulse, M-array 7
Speech 1000 Telesensory Systems Inc. PARCOR
T6721 Toshiba 1981.10 PARCOR CMOS 5 42 3 chips 2.4-9.6 Residual segment, M-array 9
TMS0280 Texas Instruments PARCOR
TMS0281 Texas Instruments PARCOR
TMS990/306 Texas Instruments PARCOR
TMS5100 Texas Instruments 1978.6 PARCOR PMOS - 9 28 3 chips 0.6-2.4 Sin²wt, M-array 7
TMS5200 Texas Instruments PARCOR
UAA1003 ITT Delta
UAA1103 ITT Delta
UAA1104 ITT PARCOR
UAA1105 ITT PARCOR
µPD1774C NEC 1981.10 Speech segm (Delta) NMOS 4.5-6.6 28 48 K 1 chip 1-5 9
µPD7751C NEC 1981.3 ADPCM (Delta) NMOS 5 40 4 chips 14-20 ext
µPD7752C NEC 1981.10 Formant CMOS 5 28 32 K 1 chip 2.4-5.6 Pulse, M-array 9
VSY100 Sanyo 1980. PARCOR NMOS 5 40 2 chips 2.4-9.6 Pulse, M-array 7

Source: Speech Science and Technology, Shuzo Saito ed., IOS Press, 1992, pg. 367