hotkey, to random
hotkey,

@grum999 Yes, I need to enable different memory configurations. Here's what I found in a manuel technique (see image). So 8+16KB ram or even more on the modèle two.

Still need to figure out the light pen, it's a bit different on this one.

Then maybe I'll do the "musique et jeux" extension since I already have the sound chip and it adds joystick support too.

LOGO was fun for a while as a kid. Great way to introduce kids to programming. You can have functions and everything.

hotkey, (edited ) to random

Welp I guess that's a milestone. I'm going to celebrate by... going to bed.

Good night peeps!

(yes the colours are wrong. There's next to nothing working right at the moment, give me a break! :meow_bongo_keyboard: )

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hotkey, to random

Lightpen - check! OK it reacts on black, which it isn't supposed to do (and red too according to the docs). But it'd be surprisingly annoying to fix. I'm not kidding. There are reasons and everything.
Maybe one day. Or not.

Maybe I could do the TO7, now? How hard could it be?

checks docs
Ok, different memory map, not too bad...
I can reuse some components and the video is very similar.
Keyboard decoding is a bit different.
Sounds doable.

1/2

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hotkey,

Crap, there's another IO/timer chip.

Oh, fun! A rare io chip with next to no technical documentation.
Well, forget about it.

I mean I'm doing this for fun.

Ok, I found a bit of info here and there.
Maybe even enough to implement it.

Would be a lot of work for only this computer.

But I've done IO and timers before.
They're not very fun
But...

...

Fine, I'll do it.
Shut up brain.

2/2

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LaurentFr, to retrocomputing French
@LaurentFr@piaille.fr avatar

Et voici la cartouche Cedic Nathan "Synthétiseur de paroles" pour MO5/TO7 :-)
Le logiciel est par ici http://dcmoto.free.fr/programmes/parole/index.html , je testerai ça ce week-end !
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LaurentFr,
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Et ça fonctionne ! Ici c'est le programme de démonstration sur TO7/70 , il y a deux autres programmes qui servent à créer de nouveaux mots/phrases mais pour ça il va falloir que je lise la doc !
Le circuit utilisé pour la synthèse vocale est un MEA8000, ça devrait être assez amusant à programmer. 🔊
#retrocomputing #Thomson #to7

Sur l'écran du TO7 on voit une série de phrases, je peux les choisir avec le crayon optique

LaurentFr,
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Sur l'écran on voit le logiciel "Phonetram", on retrouve la structure interne du circuit synthétiseur.
Je connais un peu plus le SP0256 (un autre circuit de synthèse vocale populaire dans les années 80) c'est la même idée, un générateur de signal suivi d'une série de filtres (un peu comme sur les synthétiseurs analogiques musicaux de l'époque).
Par contre comment marche ce logiciel (sans avoir lu la doc) : mystère 😅
#retrocomputing #thomson #to7

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