001 JNG 01/03/24 Created this change log. Also updated NWSClock.
002 JNG 01/03/24 Updated the OS Sound Kit to version 1.21. This version includes the high quality Windows NT 4.0 startup and shutdown sounds from build 1273.
003 JNG 01/03/24 Fixed miner bug in latest NWSClock update.
004 JNG 01/06/24 Added NFBnet archive.7z to root, and removed old screen readers.7z from utilities as the newly added archive includes the same content.
005 JNG 01/16/24 Updated C1Bitcrusher VST.
006 JNG 02/15/24 Added Onion Radio News archive.
007 JNG 02/15/24 Added Onion Radio News May through December 2008 archive.
008 JNG 02/21/24 Updated dtex46.zip. Combined English/Spanish firmware images are now properly built, and disclaimer has been removed since the initial builds have been evaluated and verified to work. Also fixed year in change log.
009 JNG 03/03/24 Updated DTPad to fix speak selection.
010 JNG 03/06/24 Updated OPL3GM VSTi.
011 JNG 03/07/24 Updated OPL3GM VSTi, again.
012 JNG 03/08/24 Updated DTPad to fix memory leak.
013 JNG 03/09/24 Added PACMate Training to manual and tutorial tapes.
014 JNG 03/10/24 Updated OPL3GM VSTi to fix a couple more random bugs.
015 JNG 03/11/24 Updated OPL3GM VSTi to fix glitches when switching OPL3 emulators.
016 JNG 03/12/24 Added building section to OPL3GM readme.
017 JNG 03/14/24 Updated DTPad to improve the display of DECtalk version information.
018 JNG 03/21/24 Added 32-bit build of DECtalk 5.0 Beta to speak windows archive.
019 JNG 03/22/24 Updated DTPad to store settings in INI file and display error codes if DECtalk fails to load.
020 JNG 04/02/24 Updated DECtalk 4.99, Orpheus, and Eloquence 4.7 NVDA addon manifests. The DECtalk 4.99 addon itself has also been updated.
021 JNG 04/03/24 Replaced Roland VSC88.zip with VSC32.iso.
022 JNG 04/12/24 Replaced some files in games directory.
023 JNG 04/13/24 Added Cobra screen reader.
024 JNG 04/13/24 Added kitchensinc complete archive to games directory.
025 JNG 04/15/24 Added Apply button to NWSClock configuration dialog.
026 JNG 04/17/24 Updated NWSClock. A menu item for restarting the speech engine has been added, and the copyright year in the resource script has been updated.
027 JNG 04/20/24 Updated user dictionary in Orpheus NVDA addons.
028 JNG 04/21/24 Added GPS receiver documentation to Sendero GPS Docs.
029 JNG 04/28/24 Replaced ttdemo.iso with talking typer.iso.
030 JNG 04/30/24 Added Neural Voices NVDA addon.
031 JNG 05/08/24 Updated Neural Voices NVDA addon.
032 JNG 05/09/24 Updated NWSClock. Speaker names are stored as resource strings.
033 JNG 05/11/24 Updated NWSClock, again. A global hotkey conflict was fixed. Specifically, the shortcut for reading the clipboard is now Ctrl+Alt+Shift+R instead of Ctrl+Alt+R. Also, a note was added to the readme on how to effectively make the clock on-demand.
034 JNG 05/11/24 Added Audio Game Maker to games directory.
035 JNG 05/11/24 Added audio files from artictech.com to manual and tutorial tapes. These files were captured by the Wayback Machine.
036 JNG 05/12/24 Added DECtalk 4.60 R003 to speak windows archive.
037 JNG 05/12/24 Added 64-bit registry license file for DECtalk 4.60 R003 to speak windows archive. The full version of DECtalk 4.61 was also added.
038 JNG 05/12/24 Added Window Eyes tutorials to manual and tutorial tapes.
039 JNG 05/12/24 Added Outspoken tutorials to manual and tutorial tapes.
040 JNG 05/17/24 Added Old RealSpeak voices (circa 2002). Note: the uninstaller for the multilingual version is broken in control panel, so you will have to use the MSI file to uninstall.
041 JNG 05/18/24 Added RealSpeak Solo SAPI5 voices.
042 JNG 05/18/24 Updated DECtalk SAPI5 interface. Multiple small audio buffers are used, so this should reduce audio glitches and increase responsiveness in some applications.
043 JNG 05/20/24 Added VMware Workstation Pro Windows installer.
044 JNG 05/21/24 Added DECtalk 4.60 R011 November 2000 build to speak windows archive.
045 JNG 05/22/24 Fixed bug in NWSClock. Speech parameters are set after speech engine restart.
046 JNG 06/16/24 Added "Our Fair City" sci-fi audio drama. These files were downloaded from ourfaircity.com in June of 2020, and as of June of 2024, the site has a "Coming Soon" notice.
047 JNG 06/17/24 Updated NWSClock. The font of the time display and background color is now customizable, and an option to hide the menu bar has been added. A popup menu was also added to the system tray functionality.
048 JNG 06/19/24 Fixed bug in latest NWSClock update. If the background color was set to black, it wasn't properly set the next time the configuration was read.
049 JNG 06/21/24 Fixed another NWSClock bug. The time is no longer displayed twice on initialization.
050 JNG 06/22/24 Replaced soundfonts.7z with HammerSound soundfonts.7z. A couple files were missing from the initial archive.
051 JNG 06/24/24 Updated NWSClock to use a multimedia timer, which is more accurate than the normal Windows timer. An option to show seconds in the painted time was also added.
052 JNG 06/27/24 Updated NWSClock again. The time is only automatically announced when the interval is reached, and when the current second is 0.
053 JNG 06/30/24 Fixed bug in NWSClock window initialization logic. Include Seconds was only getting checked if Paint Time was already checked.
054 JNG 07/22/24 Added option to save the configuration to the registry to the desktop version of NWSClock. An option to enable or disable saving the window position has been added as well.
055 JNG 07/23/24 Added Series_40_5th_edition_FP1__GM_.sf2 to utilities directory. This is an SF2 version of the soundbank found on some older Symbian-based Nokia phones.
056 JNG 07/25/24 Added archive of Passport Designs MIDI files. The files in this archive were downloaded from a capture of passportdesigns.com on the Wayback Machine.
057 JNG 07/29/24 Updated some notes in tts/DECtalk source code archive/info.html.
058 JNG 07/31/24 Updated MAME package with latest release, which includes DECtalk PC emulation.
059 JNG 08/01/24 Removed jaws 3.3 basic training.7z and JawsForDos.7z from old jaws versions as the contents is in manual and tutorial tapes.
060 JNG 08/02/24 Replaced WordPerfect Presentations 2.0 MIDI files.7z with WordPerfect Presentations 2.0 MIDI and WAV files.7z.
061 JNG 08/03/24 Added DECtalk 4.60 R008 build for the PC1 hardware platform.
062 JNG 08/21/24 Updated OPL3GM VSTi. Various bugs were fixed, and a channel mixer was added.
063 JNG 08/30/24 Added Braille n Speak Classic and Braille 'n speak 640 Users Manual from Eatbird to manual and tutorial tapes.
064 JNG 08/30/24 Updated OPL3GM VSTi, again. A checkbox for hiding the parameter display was added to the GUI.
065 JNG 09/05/24 Added WINNT351WithSpeech.7z to vmware directory.
066 JNG 09/05/24 Added ROAR (the Really Old Ass Reader) to Utilities. This is a screen reader that can run on Windows NT 3.51. The WINNT351WithSpeech.7z package was also updated.
067 JNG 09/17/24 Major update to ROAR. The Windows NT 3.51 VMs were also recreated with a single hard disk image, which makes it easier to transfer files onto the system. The new ROAR version is included in the updated Windows NT 3.51 With Speech VM.
068 JNG 09/19/24 Minor update to ROAR. Refined how some controls are read, and added support for reading MDI client windows. A shortcut for reading the status bar was also added (Ctrl+Shift+B). WINNT351WithSpeech was also updated with this new version.
069 JNG 09/21/24 Another minor ROAR update. Fixed a bug involving character echo and the control key, and added a hotkey to repeat the last speech (Ctrl+Shift+Tab). WINNT351WithSpeech was also updated.
070 JNG 09/21/24 Fixed hotkey conflict in the latest ROAR update. The command to repeat the last speech has been changed from Ctrl+Shift+Tab to Ctrl+Shift+L.
071 JNG 09/21/24 Added VMware Workstation Pro 17.6 Windows installer.
072 JNG 09/23/24 Added the ability to specify the ROAR configuration file path on the command line, and fixed a bug in the status bar read routine. If the status bar is present and empty, a message stating that the status bar is empty is spoken.
073 JNG 09/27/24 Added full version of Window Eyes 3.1 to WindowEyes directory.
074 JNG 09/29/24 Updated ROAR. Some parts of the code were restructured, and a command to read the desktop window was added (Ctrl+Shift+D). The version in the NT 3.51 VM is a build for that specific environment, and the reason for this is that this update implements a technique for querying some common controls that isn't quite API compatible with NT 3.51. Since the effected controls aren't too common in NT 3.51, this isn't much of a problem. The standalone distribution runs on Windows NT 4.0 and newer.
075 JNG 10/03/24 Readded IBM ViaVoice 6.6.1.0 SAPI4 installers to sapi_voices.
076 JNG 10/04/24 Updated DECtalk 4.99 builds. This includes the latest verssion of the NVDA addon, which includes a slider that adjusts samples per frame.
077 JNG 10/04/24 Updated dtemu and DECtalk Speak Windows archive with latest 4.99 builds.
078 JNG 10/06/24 Restored timestamps on several files in sapi_voices, and replaced l&h tts3000.zip with individual language installers. Also added Sp5TTIntXP.exe to sapi_voices.
079 JNG 10/09/24 Added folder containing speech synthesis demonstrations taken from the Wayback machine. Some audio files in misc were removed, and ultranet.zip was replaced with Ron Gemma.zip.
080 JNG 10/14/24 Added GreenSoftware.7z and timidity_original.7z to utilities.
081 JNG 10/15/24 Removed gm.7z, gsp_plugins.zip, and gsp229wm5ppc.zip from utilities. The original versions of these archives are in GreenSoftware.7z.
082 JNG 10/17/24 Restored timestamp for ws3048.exe.
083 JNG 10/23/24 Added the first release of Timidity VSTi to utilities.
084 JNG 10/23/24 Added the Band-in-a-Box MIDI Archive, scraped from https://bhs.minor9.com/midi.
085 JNG 10/27/24 Updated Timidity VSTi. Monophonic MIDI channel support is now fully implemented.
086 JNG 10/29/24 Added the first release of Timidity Windows MIDI driver to utilities.
087 JNG 10/30/24 Added an About button to the Timidity driver configuration dialog.
088 JNG 11/2/24 Added the Midia MIDI Player to utilities. This is an old MIDI player for SGI machines.
089 JNG 11/2/24 Added scrape of the MIDI Technical Fanatic's Brainwashing Center (midi.teragonaudio.com) to root.
090 JNG 11/3/24 Added scrape of the ULTRASOUND BBS Archive to root. The files were found on ftp.oldskool.org, under pub/drivers/unsorted/Gravis.
091 JNG 11/4/24 Added reconstructed 16-bit GSPlayer instrument bank to utilities.
092 JNG 11/8/24 Added mono output support to Timidity Windows driver.
093 JNG 11/9/24 Updated Timidity VSTi. Mono output mode is properly configured when the synth is hard reset.
094 JNG 11/9/24 Added KEYNOTE CRACK.zip to tts/old_software_synths.
095 JNG 11/9/24 Added Infovox 210 Demo (Mac OS).sit to tts/old_software_synths.
096 JNG 11/9/24 Added Nisus Writer (includes BeSTspeech).sit to tts/old_software_synths.
097 JNG 11/9/24 Added Monologue95 Setup.zip to tts/old_software_synths.
098 JNG 11/17/24 Replaced bn.7z with BrailleNote Archive.7z in utilities. This updated archive includes files related to the Apex, among other additions.
099 JNG 11/19/24 Updated Timidity VSTi and Timidity Windows driver. GM2, GS, and XG reset sysex messages are now supported.
100 JNG 11/19/24 Updated BrailleNote Archive.7z. The original timestamp for KeySoft 9.51 was restored, and braillenote features.swf and it's extracted sounds was moved to misc.
101 JNG 11/22/24 Added installer for version 1.0.49 of the Thunder screen reader.
102 JNG 11/28/24 Added BeSTspeak.zip to tts/old_software_synths.
103 JNG 12/04/24 Updated BeSTspeak. This new version uses the original version of the synthesizer DLL, and adds some shortcut keys.
104 JNG 12/06/24 Updated Timidity VSTi and Timidity Windows driver. The core synth library was updated with many new functions, including functions for getting synthesizer parameters and rendering to different PCM formats.