Macintalk Software for 128K

[pterio]

Hello All,
I was wondering where I can get my hand on Macintalk software that can speak words you type that I can run on my 128K?

Thanks,
-Pier

 

[3lectr1cPPC]

I don’t believe the 128k had enough RAM for Macintalk. Steve’s famous demo used a prototype with more RAM if I remember correctly. Could be wrong though. I checked macintoshgarden.org but all I could find was a version from 1990 which is probably too late for even a 512.

Also, I believe you’ve posted this thread in the wrong section. This sub forum is for forum announcements from the admins, this thread would belong in software I’d guess. Easy mistake to make though.

 

[pterio]

ok thanks and sorry.

 

[Crutch]

MacinTalk 1.0 is available at one of the links on this page I believe. https://macgui.com/downloads/?mode=search&search_keywords=Macintalk

 

[pterio]

Ok, will this work on 128k or 512k?

 

[Paralel]

I don’t believe the 128k had enough RAM for Macintalk. Steve’s famous demo used a prototype with more RAM if I remember correctly. Could be wrong though. I checked macintoshgarden.org but all I could find was a version from 1990 which is probably too late for even a 512.

Also, I believe you’ve posted this thread in the wrong section. This sub forum is for forum announcements from the admins, this thread would belong in software I’d guess. Easy mistake to make though.

Yeah, he used the prototype Fat Mac.

 

[CC_333]

This will have to be researched as I'm not sure, but I think according to some article on Folklore.org, the Mac was meant to have 512k of RAM from the beginning, but it shipped with 128k for cost reasons or something.

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[slomacuser]

128k Mac can speak. The all intro presentation was too big for 128k thats why they used 512k. The SmoothTalker works fine with 128k

SmoothTalker - Macintosh Garden

SmoothTalker offered significantly better synthesized speech than Apple's Macintalk, and was built into several other games and apps (such as Dinosaur Discovery Kit, KidTalk, and Racter.) The fourth download is a Mini vMac compatible version of download three. Versions available: 1.0c, 2.1, 3.0...

macintoshgarden.org

 

[Phipli]

This will have to be researched as I'm not sure, but I think according to some article on Folklore.org, the Mac was meant to have 512k of RAM from the beginning, but it shipped with 128k for cost reasons or something.

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Not quite, very early prototypes were 64k and it grew to 128, which was considered a lot and expensive... but because the Mac was doing quite a lot it was also too little retrospectively. The engineers wanted to have the option of more RAM so they routed the extra traces to support the newer bigger chips... allegedly without Jobs knowing.

So it wasn't so much meant to have 512, more was meant to have 128... but designed to support 512 on the quiet. Apparently.