Hi Steve,
Good old Quarterdeck; I remember it well and used it well.
Cheers,
Mike
On 8 May 2016, at 18:06, Steve Nutt <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,
Vocal-Eyes though, you could even put the kernel into high RAM if you used
QEMM which I did extensively.
You couldn't do that, even with Hal 5. So VE took up a mere 4K of
conventional memory for me.
All the best
Steve
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Ibrahim Gucukoglu
Sent: 07 May 2016 18:15
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Hal for DOS
Hi Steve.
I did buy Vocal Eyes in the end, many many years after anyone respectable had
moved away from dos *chuckles*, however i could never get in to it.
Ditto JAWS for DOS too, which only worked with the Apollo synthesizers, not
the Juno as it didn't support the Juno power management features. Hal was a
memory guzzler though, the installer for Hal 4 took up something like 190
kilobytes of conventional memory, which when you consider you only had 640
kilobytes to play with was quite a chunk. Hal 5 rectified that, as did Vocal
Eyes by using extended memory, however, now I'm rambling so I'll shut up LOL.
All the best, Ibrahim.
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Nutt
Sent: Thursday, May 5, 2016 8:47 AM
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Hal for DOS
Hi,
It was, but I soon found out that GW Micro's Vocal-Eyes was way better,
because you didn't have to do so many settings to make it speak automagically.
Those were the days.
All the best
Steve
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Jackie Brown
Sent: 04 May 2016 17:15
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Hal for DOS
Hi Mike
Hal for DOS was fantastic at the time, especially with WordPerfect 5.1. How
could you forget all those Environment files and those synthesisers we had?
Kind Regards,
Jackie Brown
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Michael Cassidy
Sent: 04 May 2016 17:05
To: Access-UK <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Hal for DOS
Hi Jackie,
He certainly edited it for a while. He’s a very friendly fellow and would do
anything to help us. I was privileged among others to have used the very
early versions of Hal when it was called PC Speak.
Cheers,
Mike
On 4 May 2016, at 16:55, Jackie Brown <jackieannbrown62@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Mike
It seems he had something to do with both Hal and the Vincent program.
He started the Access IT magazine off at RNIB as well I think.
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Jackie Brown
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Behalf Of Michael Cassidy
Sent: 04 May 2016 16:47
To: Access-UK <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Hal for DOS
Hi Jackie,
It was Paul Blenkhorn, an incredibly versatile programmer. I believe
he’s up in Manchester now. Mike Townsend might be the man to ask.
Mike
On 4 May 2016, at 15:57, Jackie Brown <jackieannbrown62@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Does anyone have any information they could pass on about who worked
on the Hal program for DOS back in the day? I know it was sold by
Dolphin, but I wonder who was behind it.
Trust me, I do have a reason for asking that I can't disclose right now.
Kind Regards,
Jackie Brown
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