Trio+ Software TI Sings

[Ed in SoDak]

There was a recent post about speech on the TI and I mentioned TI Sings. Several songs are included on the disk. It runs under console BASIC with the TEII cart. Online search doesn't bring up much so I dug out the disk and made a .wav file of the song Daisy.

 

It's a well-written program and does some interesting things with speech. Not bad for a $10 shareware donation, which I paid and received the disk in the late 1980's. Hope this works to share a .wav file. Enjoy!

 

-Ed

 

Daisy.wav

[Ed in SoDak]

That seemed to work, so I'll try this snippet from Caroline if it's not too large. The "music" is actually made by the speech synth.

 

Caroline8.wav

Edited April 12, 2014 by Ed in SoDak

[ti99_forever]

I bought this from the company itself. I can't remember how much it was, I think maybe $30?

Really cool program... wrote a couple songs myself.

[Ed in SoDak]

Neato. Do you have your own song files to share? I bet the program would port to an emulator, but might suffer due to poor voice emulation. $30 for the price rings a bell for me and I too ordered it direct, but the docs on the disk suggest sharing it and hoping for a $10 fairware fee to the author. Might be I ordered some time later than you did. Obviously it never took off. I think I read about it in Micropendium. All I ever did was play the included songs and made some noises. In my own family, they were all musicians, I was the "audience," lol.

 

-Ed

Edited April 13, 2014 by Ed in SoDak

[ti99_forever]

I'm still trying to get my system up and running at present... it is in pieces, and my TI keyboard needs cleaning.

[Ed in SoDak]

Me too, the function key has not much functionality at present. I have to reseat the SXB cart to get to the launch pad. Reminds me to drag out the widget, not so much wear on the TI's port at least. Luckily I have enough hardware to duplicate the whole setup if need be. Hoarding stuff since the 90's is good, saves on ebay purchases.

-Ed

[unhuman]

ouch!

[Ed in SoDak]

Point taken, lol. TI Sings is sort of a cross between Barney Fife in the Mayberry choir and Hal from 2001. Compared to XB's Baritone Monotone voice, it's a step up. Compared to me taking the mic, it's golden!

-Ed

Edited April 15, 2014 by Ed in SoDak

[Ed in SoDak]

I ran Telco and connected my Ti to one of my Macs for the first time in about 5 years. Took more than a few tries, maybe the hand-wired cable is getting flaky. Telco sure makes use of that balky Function key on my ol' TI, so cleaning that and a few other keys was the first order of business. Next I had to locate my stash of blank disks and hope the drives still worked. A little session with Funnelweb and John Birdwell's Disk Utilities and I had everything ready to go.

 

It all tested out ok after the long sleep, and the first program I archived and ported over for transfer to V9T9 was the TI Sings disk. I'm curious to see how well it works in emulation.

 

I was up late enough to still be awake when the Blood Moon approached full eclipse. Sandy was interested in seeing it, so I roused her from her deep and warm slumber to bundle up and shuffle out onto our 20-degree porch for a glimpse. A rare calm and cloudless night gave us both a great view of the eclipsing moon with Mars nearby. Got a few digital pics, might be one or two turned out well enough for sharing. To wrap up the night, I oughta hook up the old vinyl record player for a little Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon, lol.

Edited April 15, 2014 by Ed in SoDak

[Ed in SoDak]

[Ed in SoDak]

Here's an Arc of the program disk in Xmodem format straight from the iron. Runs under console Basic, requires the TEII module. Remove the .txt to use.

 

tisingarc.txt