Re: G80 speech board

On May 5, 2:12pm, Clay Cowgill wrote:
> Subject: Re: G80 speech board
> Al writes:
>
> >On the Trek
> >board set that I have, they didn't populate the Votrax speech generator
> >or the timer stuff, so I had assumed that the other two games with speech
> >didn't use it either. If this is in fact true, it makes the functionality
> >of the speech board REALLY easy (essentially just an 8035 and a DAC).
>
> Can anyone else confirm this configuration for either Space Fury or Star
Trek?
>
> I've only seen G-80 boards with the Orator speech chips (I've seen this on
> 4 Star Trek sets and one Astro Blaster) populated, but this is *very* cool
> if there are versions without the Orator!
>
> It looks like the Orator chips were fairly rare (esp. now!), so if we can
> work around that that is EXCELLENT news!

Let me know what to look for and I can do some checking. I have like 60+
speech boards I can reference from all types of Sega Converta games...

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Received on Mon May 5 14:22:15 1997