Revealing Q*Bert: The Ultimate Retro Game Tech How to
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- Опубліковано 23 сер 2024
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Find out how Q*Bert's voice was made in this fast-paced make-one-yourself tutorial.
00:30 - The Votax SC-01 Tester Board.
01:22 - Why would anyone need to test a Votrax SC-01 Speech Synthesiser?
01:54 - Votrax Clone.
02:08 - Arduino Software to control a Votrax.
02:30 - How does the Votrax work?
03:15 - Warren Davis describes David Thiel's grand idea.
04:10 - Throwing random phonemes at a Votrax Voice Synthesiser.
04:54 - Creating individual bad words.
05:32 - A robot reading crude poetry to its robot on a starry night.
05:55 - Votrax Timing.
06:43 - 80ms phonemes.
07:05 - Expanding the inflections on a Votrax SC-01.
07:30 - Votrax Clock on a Gottlieb System 80 sound and speech board.
08:49 - Adjusting the pitch on the Votrax Tester Board.
The Votrax Tester board can be found in my eBay store:
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Special Thanks to:
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Warren Davis (The creator of Q*Bert) for images and checking the video for technical accuracy.
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Todd Tuckey of TNT Amusements Inc. for pointing to a Votrax in a Q*Bert machine.
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Seattle Retro Guy for providing the video of "The Story Of Q*bert - Warren Davis" from the 2017 Portland Retro Gaming Expo (PRGE), October 21st 2017.
• PRGE 2017 - The Story ...
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This video was produced with Power Director 365 in combination with original artwork by Scott Savage via Inkscape and Midjourney AI.
Could you upload an extended 5-10 minute clip of just Q*bert swearing noises? I’d love to use it as a bleeper!
Thats an interesting idea. Yeah. I'll do that. Are you subscribed?
Recording now.
Done!
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Warren Davis is an awesome fellow too. My wife and I managed to shake his hand in Milwaukee, Orlando and Atlanta all in the same year. At one point during the show in Atlanta, he asked if we were just following him around, but I had to disappoint him by telling him that we were also exhibitors at each of the shows and by coincidence we were at the same shows. I remember him talking about this chip and saying that basically they were going to mock the design and its function. He said he felt like it belonged in kids' toys and left it at that. Who knew it would become so popular once it fell into obsolescence. But then, there's a handful of components that have fallen into the realm of demand, while the supply is rated "Unobtainium," I believe the ATARI "POKEY" chip is also in that category.
I'm currently trying to obtain a pokey chip on the cheap that I can add emulation for it to my SoundginZ.
How does this guy not have more subscribers?!?
Relevant Topic? Check
Quality Video Production? Check
Narrator Voice-Over and Music that doesn't make my ears cry? Check
Scott, you just gained another subscriber in me. Looking forward to seeing more of your work. I really like your idea of the Free Repair Shop. Very generous of you, and recording them gives each of us the opportunity to learn something, too.
Thanks!
The answer to your question is that every new channel on UA-cam begins and stays pathetically small until the great and powerful overload UA-cam algorithm deams them worthy of promoting.
You wound up on the screen in my next video.
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Experiencing a great deal of both frustration and relief having just found this video after spending the better part of two days brushing up on my C++ basics to do pretty much exactly what your library and kit already do. *qbert death noise*
Are you "heythats.cool" I sent you a message to that email address.
Thank you for this fascinating video. I just purchased your SC-01-A tester from ebay.
I have one of these chips and am trying to learn to interface to it. Your video is really insightful.
Thanks! It was a fun video to put together.
I have owned votrax chips for over 20 years and never could do anything with them ... until now.
@@ScottSavageTechnoScavenger mine is from a Heath kit Hero robot
Criminaly underrated. Amazing video, kinda cool what could be done with old arcade machines
This video is simply TERRIFIC! Thanks for making it...I will get the word out! Todd from TNT Amusements
I'm watching with bated breath, Mr. Savage. This is a cool project, well-presented.
Just got my SC-02 board together, my Arduino powered and I'm setting up my PC environment and Arduino sketches. This information is valuable!
Are you planning a video on the SC-02 board? If so, you can use clips from this video. (I have that option set in the UA-cam settings) Just be sure to give credit and a back-link.
@@ScottSavageTechnoScavenger I'd love to do that. Just got my Arduino and your board back out. I want to incorporate some of these sounds into my modular setup. I'm currently digging in and figuring out what code I need, etc. The Speechchips site appears to be down, no? Thanks.
I cant believe he did q bert voice just to mock pacman
lol!
5:32 -- At least it's not Vogon poetry! :)
You're a genius, Scott.
Wonderful video. I came from Tom Scott's email via a friend. Really wonderful video production and an interesting topic. Wasn't a fan of the AI art. I really enjoyed all the synonyms for swearing- "kitten farts" was my favourite haha
Well done!! Awesome video Scott!
Awesome
It’s amazing the things technology can do!
Yep! Used to be the case that this device needed a rather large control board. Now it is the size of a deck of cards.
I'm not remotely a tech guy but this is facinating. I wonder if it's possible to simulate this chip in emulation. It would be so much better than the 90s MAME sound samples they've used since 1997
Working on it. ;) you should be hearing about it in a month or so.
That was amazing! Thank you!
What did you think of the crazy mu-hahaha at the end? Was it over the top or approximately funny? Since I have never done that before... I can decide and almost left it out.
Oh ... and of course... share where you can.
"Leave me a comment if you can tell what it is."
Make two tables, one for the "vowelish" and one for the "consonantish" phonemes, a random number from 1..3 (possibly 1..5 if you are into Slavic languages) about how many random consonants to render, then a single random vowel.
I did (can) not test it but have the strong feeling that it will sound less drunk that way. :D
The other part is accent, but I figure that is what pitch (and also volume) is for.
" less drunk that way." hehe.
@@ScottSavageTechnoScavenger @!#?@!
@@NikoCubeRoot lol
We just renamed our band to "Q*Bert's Kitten Farts"
That is too funny!
Interesting! (When you have those cloned chips, it could be interesting as a Eurorack Module!)
We need to chat about that Eurorack Module. How do I contact you?
@@ScottSavageTechnoScavenger I'm similarly interested in this specific application of this hardware. I'm very happy to see activity here less than a couple months old. Whoo!
So Tom Scott found this video with only 3k views??
I tried the same with one of my SpeakJets... not much success with that. :-(
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Excellent video and beautiful work.
I'm Brazilian, and here in Brazil in the 80s there was a pinball factory called Taito, which used the SC-01 chip and all the machines it manufactured and today most are stopped due to the lack of this chip.
I would like to be able to help even in order to finance the development of this Chip that you mentioned that you were developing, and to be able to purchase and resell it in my Pinball parts store in Brazil.
I remain at your disposal if you are interested in my proposal.
Thanks and Success,
Reinaldo Dalla.
How do I get in touch?
Yep!, That's What i Needed it for the Future Testing!
Gee!?, Did He Really do that TTS Voice Blubbering!?!? OзO
Who?
@@ScottSavageTechnoScavenger Nevermind... ¬.¬
@@ScottSavageTechnoScavenger Well, i'm thinking about Learning it from a Tutorial soon, not Stealing/Putting Audio.
9:16 pac-Man sucks