Capital Cities Tester

People are still making stuff for the Sinclair related machines. Tell us about new games and other software that runs on the Spectrum, ZX80/ZX81, Pentagon and Next.
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Morkin
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Re: Capital Cities Tester

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Good shout, it's always nicer to be called a buffoon via the spoken (rather than written) word...
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Currah only works with 48k Spectrums.
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Re: Capital Cities Tester

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Is it really not possible to get the Microspeech to work with 128K machines? I might be remembering this wrong but I thought it just replaced the standard BASIC interrupt routine and paged in its own ROM at address 56, which output the contents of a buffer at the top of memory. So what if this routine was somehow bypassed and instead the allophones were just output directly to the hardware?

I suppose the problem would be how to page in the ROM to get at the allophone table without needing the interrupt routine to be running. On the +3 you can have RAM where the ROM normally is, so would that help?
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