My Mute Amiga 3000

[TjLaZer]

I have a strange one for you guys! I have this A3000 I restored. I got it in a lot from a local guy.  Fired right up when I got it.  Tested it out and it seems to works great. Opened it up and inspected the inside.  It had a very slightly leaking battery so I remove it, cleaned up the area and replaced with an AmigaKit coin cell kit. No corrosion around chips or anything. Seems to work perfect! But I noticed something odd:  Speech does not work!  Sounds works just fine. I thought maybe it was missing libs or narrator.device, etc. Looked into it more and all libs are there and should be working. Also boot from a WB 1.3 and 2.04 disk and tried the Say command with no sound. Just silence. Tried to kickstart to 1.3 and 2.04 and ever 3.1. Speech is not working! Any ideas???

[TjLaZer]

Bump.  Any other ideas?

[TjLaZer]

Long shot.  The 3000 is the only model (I think) that backs up more than just the RTC with the battery.  A few system variables are stored as well.  I thought they were about the SCSI interface only.  Maybe not.  I believe there is a utility on Aminet that resets the variables to factory defaults.   I can't remember the name, but, it shouldn't be hard to search.

IIRC, OS2.04 had the latest speech revision before C= stopped including it in the OS.  You're lucky to have it.

Thanks, I will have to try that out.  This is a strange one I tell ya.  Sound works great, no issues.  The true test to see if the software being the correct versions, etc is to boot from a WB disk and try the Say command.  This works on all other amigas, regardless of Kickstart version.