Uploaded August 2020 | Updated September 2026, 5 hours ago

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Whilst we take speech synthesis for granted these days, back in the early days of home computers it took a fair bit more at first. Out of many hardware solutions which came out and vanished without a trace, the one with the most interesting legacy is Commodore's Magic Voice Speech Module for the Commodore 64.

In this video, I open and unbox one, play about with running some of the sample programs in BASIC, before demonstrating two of the commercial packages which shipped with support: Wizard of Wor and Gorf.

Gameplay footage recorded off a C64C (via S-Video), fed through a RetroTINK-2X Classic - watch at 1080p50 for the absolute best quality!

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