what BIOS is to the Amiga??

[mr_a500]

for instance, i tried to open "SAY" and it simply didnt open.

That's strange. I know for a fact that "Say" works from 1.3 all the way up to 3.9 (3.1 ROM). "Say" is an old program that hasn't been updated since 1.3.

[mr_a500]

I dont know what you mean by that, But SAY was updated for the A600 on WB 2.04 ................the speech sounds much different and so do the voices..........it can also speak more properly.

By golly you're right!

I thought 1.3 was the final version because I didn't see "Say" on 2.1, but I just looked at 2.04 and "Say" is there. The 2.04 "Say" is 6220 bytes vs. 7012 bytes for the 1.3. There is no version string on the 1.3 "Say", but the 2.04 is version 37.4. Strangely, there is no translator.library on the 2.04 or 2.00 Workbench disks! (at least on the Amiga Forever ADFs)

I had to test using my old 1.3 translator.library and when using this, both versions of "Say" sound exactly the same. So if you say the 2.04 version sounds better, then it must be because of a newer translator.library. So what version is your translator.library? (and where did you get it?)

3246251196: check to see if you have translator.library in the Libs folder. If not, then that's your problem.

[mr_a500]

I'd like to try those newer versions of translator.library and narrator.device if somebody has them. Mine are version 33.2 from 1986 (both files).

Edit: Never mind - I just got them. Yes, it does sound different. Some words are better, some worse. I've got a program that does lots of talking - "3D Crystal Lattices" - and I can't decide if it sounds better or worse.

The Workbench 2.05 disk has the same versions as 2.04, but no "Say" program (the start of "removal" from WB). Well, now I know that the final versions are 37.7 for narrator.device and 37.1 for translator.library.