Hi guys.

I wonder if any of you could possibly help.
After copying all the neccessary files from the Workbench 1.3 disk to my 3.1 flash drive installation, I now have Say working on my A1200. Good times!

A long time ago on a previous install I had a few lines in my startup-sequence which made my Amiga talk to me when Workbench had finished loading, using the Say program in the background which I thought was really cool.
Unfortunately I cannot remember how to do this and can't seem to find any threads here on how to do it.

Does anybody know? I would be ever so grateful

Spud

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@spudisgood

try adding the this line to the end of your startup-sequence:

say "welcome back to the twentieth century"

@Samurai_Crow

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Samurai_Crow wrote: @spudisgood try adding the this line to the end of your startup-sequence: say "welcome back to the twentieth century"

I would rather do it like this:
Run >NIL: Say "welcome back to the twentieth century"

Then it talks in the background and won't block anything.

I would also add that to the user-startup instead of startup-sequence.

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@spudisgood

You can edit the user-stertup, startup-sequence or run a script from WBStartup to do this.

I run the following things from a script called by WBStartup so the voice is played towards the end of boot up, and it will also nicely overlay the startup sound which is started earlier from s:startup-sequence


...
wait 1
run >nil: SOUNDPLAYER Internet:yam/Sounds/Sweetie.wav


It plays a sounbite from River Song (Alex Kingston) which she says to Dr Who (Matt Smith) quite often, just as my X1000 finishes its booting up.


Bill

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Thanks for all the help guys, I actually managed to work it out myself in the end albeit without the RUN>Nil: part

I have tried adding Run>NIL: at the beginning but this causes a System request on startup "Please insert volume Run>NIL in any drive" so I have had to go back to using without.

I just have mine saying "Welcome to Amiga Workbench".
It's simple but I think it's cool.

Spud

Last edited by spudisgood on 17-Jul-2019 at 09:53 PM.

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A1200 020/28MHz + 64Mb / 4Gb CF / OS 3.1.4.1 / 1438S
A500+ / 2Mb
A600

@spudisgood

Try putting a space between "Run" and the redirection (the ">").

Best regards,

Niels

Last edited by nbache on 17-Jul-2019 at 11:12 PM.

Why not send it to Speech:

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