Talk:Covox Speech Thing

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Covox produced two 8bit ISA bus sound cards. The Sound Master and the Sound Master II. The Sound Master sported a pair of digital joystick ports for Atari 2600 compatable sticks. I don't recall what audio devices it had onboard other than the Speech Thing.

Article on the Sound Master II. http://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/issue142/112_Sound_Master_II.php Jumper info, http://artofhacking.com/th99/i/C-D/50374.htm

The Sound Master II incorporated the Speech Thing and AdLib onboard (with a YM3812 chip), a MIDI port (but no joystick port), and with a 80386 CPU and software driver could emulate a Soundblaster. Using the Speech Thing disabled access to any parallel port using the same interrupt. I think there was also another, Covox proprietary, audio device on the Sound Master II. It's been years since I had the two versions of these cards and information is very sparse online.

Bio. of Kevin O. Corson, part of the Covox team. http://www.marketingengineers.com/history.html Perhaps he might remember or have some more information?

The Sound Master II gained enough game support that Media Vision incorporated 100% emulation of it on their 'ultimate' soundcard, the ProZonic.