Both of my star trek board sets have the ORATOR speech chip.
-jeff
>Al writes:
>
>>On the Trek
>>board set that I have, they didn't populate the Votrax speech generator
>>or the timer stuff, so I had assumed that the other two games with speech
>>didn't use it either. If this is in fact true, it makes the functionality
>>of the speech board REALLY easy (essentially just an 8035 and a DAC).
>
>Can anyone else confirm this configuration for either Space Fury or Star Trek?
>
>I've only seen G-80 boards with the Orator speech chips (I've seen this on
>4 Star Trek sets and one Astro Blaster) populated, but this is *very* cool
>if there are versions without the Orator!
>
>It looks like the Orator chips were fairly rare (esp. now!), so if we can
>work around that that is EXCELLENT news!
>
>-Clay
>
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