CPC Speech Synth on ebay

[zhulien]

I am wondering if anyone knows what speech synth this one is?

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/INTERFACE-SYNTHETISEUR-VOCAL-ref-1529-boite-notice-MAGECO-E-AMSTRAD-CPC-464-/302469030173?hash=item466c8f211d:g:mj4AAOSwCi9Zy-mt

[Bryce]

Nope, but we should scrape those pictures for the Wiki. It's most likely based on the SPO256, but I've never heard of it or the company before. The PCB is pressed paper, so it was a very small scale production, maybe a start-up company?

Bryce.

[Dagger]

Perhaps someone could contact the seller and ask for some close up pictures explaining that this site would like to take a copy of the pictures for future reference as Ebay pictures are copyrighted to the seller.

[Patrick]

You can get more information about VTR/Mageco products, a french company here. French language.

[Bryce]

You can get more information about VTR/Mageco products, a french company here. French language.

What a seriously cool site. They've even reverse engineered quite a few of the devices. Unfortunately they don't seem to know about the Speech Synth at all though.

Added to my "must read" list.

Bryce.

[robcfg]

CPCManiaco is going for the speech synthesizer and the Multiface-like device.


So, if he gets them, I'll be scanning and dumping the devices for the wiki.

[Bryce]

CPCManiaco is going for the speech synthesizer and the Multiface-like device.


So, if he gets them, I'll be scanning and dumping the devices for the wiki.

Then it's not worth bidding against him, he'll probably go up to several hundred Euros

Bryce.

[gerald]

CPCManiaco is going for the speech synthesizer and the Multiface-like device.

I've only found one add for it on French mag of that time, both in July 85
http://download.abandonware.org/magazines/Amstrad%20Magazine/amstradmagazine_numero01/amstradmagazine%20001%20-%20Page%20053%20%281985-07%29.jpg
http://download.abandonware.org/magazines/CPC/cpc_numero001/Sans%20titre47.jpg

So, if he gets them, I'll be scanning and dumping the devices for the wiki.

Is it the multiface-like you're talking about ?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/302468987117

If so, don't bother buying it. It a Electronique Radio plans design, and this one is in a really bad state.
It's just a 2K/8K ROM extension, with the ROM being emulated by a RAM, which could be backed-up by a battery.
I will scan and put the whole article (in french) on the wiki. I currenly only have copie of it, but I should have the original mag in my archive (1000km away)
I've made one at that time which I used to program EEPROM for other Z80 card.

[robcfg]

Hi Gerald!


The ads will come handy for the wiki page, merci!


Knowing CPCManiaco, he'll get it anyway so we'll do our best to tidy it up.


I don't think my eprom programmer could read the chip, so I guess I'll have to attach it and save the memory area to a file on disk, am I right?

[gerald]

I don't think my eprom programmer could read the chip, so I guess I'll have to attach it and save the memory area to a file on disk, am I right?

It's a RAM, and it has not being powered since a while : you will only get garbage.

[LambdaMikel]

Wow.. EUR 365.00 for a piece of hardware that is not guaranteed to work!
I should try selling LambdaSpeak in 20 years, too - I will keep a few until then 

[gerald]

Wow.. EUR 365.00 for a piece of hardware that is not guaranteed to work!
I should try selling LambdaSpeak in 20 years, too - I will keep a few until then 

Even more  is paying 218 Euro for a DIY card half ROM card.
Could I sell mine for 10 times the price ?
It has a unique story (I build it myself, it's mine and I am unique), an original layout (hand routed with patches), and a path-trough connector 

[robcfg]

Shut up and take my money! 

[LambdaMikel]

Could I sell mine for 10 times the price ?

Don't make it too cheap! People think more highly of it the more you charge - that's what we learned from Apple and Co 

[zhulien]

crazy!

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Actually, it would have gone for more money if somebody had bidden higher. It is not the first time that people inflate the prices on purpose when some guys step into the auction...

[LambdaMikel]

Actually, it would have gone for more money if somebody had bidden higher. It is not the first time that people inflate the prices on purpose when some guys step into the auction...

Lucky me - I got my NOS / brand new SSA-1 for 40 $ on Ebay.com / US... seems not many people care for the CPC here. Odd how it ended up in this part of the world anyway.