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TMS5220C Speech products data manual
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Contributors

I'm indebted to the following people for pointing errors in my pages, providing extra informations or documents, and answering some of the questions in my feedback page:

The nice people at Fabrimex AG (Kirchenweg 5, 8032 Zurich Switzerland) sent me data manuals on most of the microprocessors in the TI-99/4A console.

H. Quinche sent me several documents that I could not find, such as the data manual for the FD179x.

Alan Bray sent me the manual for the Terminal Emulator.

Dan Eicher sent me info on the Phoenix board.

Jens-Eike Hartwig ent me a copy of the TMS9902A manual. He also explained me the reason for the diode at the Ref input of the 7805 in the Horizon Ramdisk and made usefull comment on my PE-box page. He also pointed numerous bugs and typos in several pages...

Ben Yates explained me why RESTORE won't work from a program in GRAM and provided some explanations on ROM bank switching in cartridges.

Ernst C. Land Jr. pointed out that the files can be transfered to a PC by connecting the cassette port to a sound card and saving CS1 files as .wav files.

Ed Schwartz explained me the undocumented features of the TMS9918A in bitmap mode. He also sent me the document by Eric Lafortune.

Raphael Nabet provided a similar explanation and pointed me to the document by Sean Young. He also picked up many typos and provided me with a list of non-TMS9900 opcodes. Finally, we had an interresting discussion on interrupts and the TMS9901.

Fred Jan Kraan, kindly put the datasheet for the FD1771 FDC on his website and E-mailed me about it.

Hans Franke found out the possible frame rate values for the 5220C speech synthesizer.

Paolo Bagnaresi sent me excerpts of the "Model 990 Computer. 990/10 and 990/12 Assembly Language Reference Manual".

Dan Eicher sent me a text file summarizing parts of the same info.

Paul Schippnick contributed many usefull info on the Mini-memory cartridge, and corrected several mistakes in the SuperAMS page.

And the man who started it all: Ferdinand Beffa introduced me to the TI-99/4A, way back in med school.


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