NOTE BARON [tm] (DEMO VERSION) COPYRIGHT 1989 BY FORBEN SOFTWARE ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Note Baron actually plays multiple voices through your PC speaker. USING NOTE BARON ---------------- Note Baron starts off with a demonstration song. One may hit any key to stop the song. This leaves one with a blinking cursor in the upper left of the screen. Move the cursor about with the following keys : CURSOR LEFT - RIGHT UP - DOWN Place notes with the following keys : F1 - QUARTER NOTE F3 - HALF NOTE F5 - WHOLE NOTE F7 - EIGHTH NOTE F9 - SIXTEENTH NOTE Make existing notes into sharps or flats with the following keys : F2 - SHARP F4 - FLAT Erase an individual note - cursor to the beginning of the note and hit the following key : F6 - ERASE NOTE Erase all of the notes - hit the following key : F8 - ERASE SCREEN To hear the demonstration songs, hit the following key : F10 - DEMO To play one's composition, hit the P key. To play a song backwards hit the B key. To play any tune as a closed loop hit the L key. PGUP and PGDOWN keys will access up to 10 bars. The + and - keys will adjust speed. To exit the program, hit the ESC key. ** DEMO ** This demonstration program does NOT save/restore to disk or print hardcopies. To receive the fully functioning version, see below. - If you have an XT type machine, you are allowed to adjust the speed from the command line. Some XT machines (turbo, necv20) may have to use the sp command to produce the correct speed. EXAMPLE : Music sounds too fast? use Note sp8 to slow it down a little (fast) (slow) The default value for XT's is 5. The range is sp0 to sp30. The sp command has no effect if you have an AT type computer. Note Baron is processor speed independent on all AT type machines and should run correctly at any processor speed. Note Baron - allows anyone to easily create music. For printouts of notes, save/restore song to disk, and a distributable player so you can include songs in your own programs, send a check or money order to Forben now! INTRODUCTORY Forben Software Engineering COST ONLY To: 33 Oakridge Road $24.95 Bloomfield, N.J. 07003 CHK/MO ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- NEW PRODUCTS !!! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- COMPUTER VOICE CLOCK [tm] COPYRIGHT 1989 BY FORBEN SOFTWARE ALL RIGHTS RESERVED CVOICE actually speaks words through your PC speaker. USING CVOICE ------------ Simply type CVOICE time at the dos prompt to HEAR the current time. Typing just CVOICE will present you with the following screen : ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Computer Voice Clock - Copyright 1989 by Forben Software - all rights reserved ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | VOICE POWER I understand the following words : | is here now! For all your | programs and batch files. oh 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 | Forben Software presents: 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 1000 am pm | eheh hmmm no ok yes | Ä COMP-TALK Ä | I understand the following phrases : | Just think! Have over 100 | words and numbers at tin (the time is now) time (say the current time) | your command. | EXAMPLE : cvoice 1 2 3 tin time | Order now and receive | extra keyboard LIB. Use lower case letters and NO punctuation. | | only $24.95 (chk/mo) to: To vary speed, use sp 0 (fast) to sp 20 (slow) | | Forben Software EXAMPLE : cvoice sp 15 hmmm ok (Darth Vader) | 33 Oakridge Road | Bloomfield, NJ 07003 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Are you the first on your block to have CV Clock? Don't balk, buy CompTalk! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ When one of the allowed words is typed after CVOICE, this title screen will not be shown. One may shell to CVOICE or call it from a batch file with multiple words and multiple speed settings. EXAMPLE : CVOICE sp 10 tin time sp 5 ok will say "The time is now (current time) ok?" ( low voice ) (high voice) CVOICE is processor speed independent on all AT type machines and should run correctly at any speed. Some XT machines (turbo, necv20) may have to use the sp command to produce the correct speed. EXAMPLE : Speech sounds too fast? use CVOICE sp 10 tin time to slow it down a little COMPUTER VOICE CLOCK [tm] is FREE with the purchase of COMP-TALK. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- CompTalk - Copyright 1989 by Forben Software Engineering - all rights reserved VOICE POWER is here now! For all your programs and batch files. Forben Software presents: Ä COMP-TALK Ä CompTalk is a menu oriented program with full online help. To operate CompTalk, use the cursor left-right keys to select a menu option from the top line. The line beneath the menu line will give a brief explanation, as you switch from choice to choice. Hit the F1 key to view the help manual. ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÂÄÄ¿ ³ ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿ ³ ³ ³ ³ ³ ³ ³ ³ ³ C O M P ì T A L K ³ ³ ³ ³ ³ ³ ³ ³ ³ ³ S P E A K S ³ ³è ³ ³ ³ ³ ³è ³ ³ ³ ³ ³è ³ ³ ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ ³ ³ ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÁÄÄÙ ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÂÄÄÄÄÄÂÄÄÄÄÄÄÂÄÄÄÄÄÂÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÂÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿ ÃÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ´ ï ÃÄÄÄÄÄÄ´ ï ÃÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÅÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ´ ³ ÀÄÄÄÄÄÙ ÀÄÄÄÄÄÙ ³ ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ ³ ³ Ú¿ ÃÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ´ ³ ÀÄÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÄÙ ³ ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ ³ ³ ÀÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÙ ÃÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ´ ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÁÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ Welcome to CompTalk! I understand the following words : oh 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 1000 am pm tin time a about after and any are as at away back be buy come comp do down eheheh enter ever go good haha have he hello help hey his hit hmmm i if in is it key left maybe me my never no not now of ok on oops or out quiet repeat right say so talk that the there this touch up was we were what who will with wrong yes you I also understand these commands : sp0 - sp20 del0 - del100 sp0 = fast voice del = 1/2 second pause sp7 = regular voice del1 = 1/10 second pause sp20 = slow voice del10 = 1 second pause The SAMPLE screen enables one to try each word independently, at various playback speeds. Use the cursor up and down keys to select a word, then hit the enter key to hear it. Use the F9 - F10 keys to vary the speed of the playback. To exit hit the x key or esc key. The COMPOSE screen is a lot of fun. One may compose up to 5 different sentences for playback. Compose starts off with 3 sentences that I've included to spark your imagination. These can be erased and replaced with ones of your own. See how one can use the sp and del commands to produce various effects on the playback? Sentences which are played successfully in the Compose screen may be entered from the command line. At the top of the Compose screen you will see a line of available editting commands. These will aid you in quickly typing sentences. The cursor up-down keys will move from sentence to sentence. Exit by hitting the enter key when exit is outlined, or just hit the esc key. Your sentences will remain until you end the program. Hit the enter key to hear your sentence. If you would like to save the entire sentence for playback from PLAY.EXE, the distributable program, press the F10 key. CompTalk will speak your sentence as it saves it to disk under the name - test - . Rename the test file to something else before saving another sentence. PLAY.EXE will attempt to speak any file name passed to it, so you may rename your creations as you wish. Example: - save your sentence with the F10 key - exit CompTalk and at the dos prompt enter : play test - rename your file to an 8 letter name of your choice by typing : ren test newname - now you can play your creation by typing : play newname This way, you may accumulate as many distributable files as you wish. You are free to include these files and the program PLAY.EXE with your own programs. Command line entry : Enter any combination of words and commands from the command line. Example: ctalk hello there del10 sp5 who is it Simply type the words and commands after Ctalk from the dos prompt. When words are entered in this fashion, no title screen will be displayed. One may shell to Ctalk from another program or call Ctalk from a batch file without disturbing the current screen. 100+ words and numbers, multiple speeds, XT/AT detection Just think! 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