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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:AMIGA NOTES
Notice:Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
Moderator:HYDRA::MOORE
Created:Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5378
Total number of notes:38326

462.0. "Basic and Speech" by THRUST::RILEY () Fri Apr 17 1987 15:30

I have recently bought an Amiga and I have a problem.  I got V1.1 of
the software with the system.  When I tried to run the basic demo
"speech" I got an 'illegal function call' when translate$ was called.
I bought a copy of V1.2 and the same problem is still there.  The
call seems to be correct according to the Basic manual.  I will
probably not be programming in basic but I am curious to know what
is wrong.  Does anybody know anything about this?

Thanks
John
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462.1Me too.HOUSE::FRACTALSat Apr 18 1987 00:073
    
    Yeah, I've had the same trouble and I can't figure it out either.
    
462.2ECC::JAERVINENDown with gravity!Tue Apr 21 1987 07:302
    It worked for me (V2.1).
    
462.3Suggestions/QuestionsTLE::RMEYERSRandy MeyersTue Apr 21 1987 19:1712
Re: .0

Do you have a 256k or 512k Amiga?  It could be you are running out of memory?

Have you deleted any files from your boot disk?  For example, have you
deleted libs/translator.library or devs/narrator.device?

If when you run the program, do you get a box requesting you insert the
Workbench disk into any drive?  (You would get this message if you have
only one drive and are using the Workbench and Extras disk just as they
came out of the box.) If so, insert the boot disk so that the system can
load its libraries and device drivers.
462.4It works with 512KTHRUST::RILEYThu Apr 23 1987 21:022
    Just to finish this off, I added the 256K upgrade and the problem
    went away.  So that must have been the problem.