Star Trek Technobabble: Commodore 64 Speaks

23 years ago, I wrote a Star Trek Technobabble Generator program in Commodore 64 BASIC, based on the idea from Phil Farrand’s “Nitpicker’s Guide for Next Generation Trekkers: Volume II” book. I show that old program, and then add speech synthesis to it, using both the Currah Speech 64 cartridge, and S.A.M.: The Software Automatic Mouth. To support 8-Bit Show And Tell: Become a patron: https://patreon.com/8BitShowAndTell One-time donation: https://paypal.me/8BitShowAndTell 2nd channel: https://youtube.com/channel/UCAgWzEh5c8391eJnELDy9OA Links: Speech 64 Docs: http://pages.total.net/~hrothgar/museum/Speech64/ S.A.M. Docs: https://archive.org/details/user_manual_s.a.m. Index 0:00 Intro - Star Trek stuff: games, Nitpicker’s Guide 1:23 Trek Technobabble Generator 1:58 BONUS Disk: The C64 version 3:18 About the Currah Speech 64 cartridge 4:53 Using Currah Speech 64 7:15 Modifying the Trek Technobabble Generator for Speech 64 11:05 Allophones: Hawaii, Radiation 16:11 About S.A.M. Software Automatic Mouth 22:03 Modifying the Trek Technobabble Generator for S.A.M.