{"id":2835,"date":"2016-01-29T19:00:39","date_gmt":"2016-01-30T00:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armchairarcade.com\/perspectives\/?p=2835"},"modified":"2016-01-29T19:02:42","modified_gmt":"2016-01-30T00:02:42","slug":"a-quick-look-at-gorf-with-magic-voice-for-the-commodore-64-includes-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armchairarcade.com\/perspectives\/2016\/01\/29\/a-quick-look-at-gorf-with-magic-voice-for-the-commodore-64-includes-video\/","title":{"rendered":"A quick look at Gorf with Magic Voice for the Commodore 64 (includes video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was messing around with some PAL- and NTSC-based Commodore 64 stuff, and just happened to finally get a chance to test out a Commodore <strong>Magic Voice Speech Module<\/strong> with the Commodore cartridge conversion of Bally Midway&#8217;s arcade classic, <em>Gorf.<\/em> Both are fairly early Commodore products and definitely not the best that the Commodore 64 is capable of, but together they make for one of the better home <em>Gorf<\/em> ports. The speech really does add a lot to it.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Magic Voice<\/strong> was supported by only a handful of cartridges, so it&#8217;s not really worth trying to acquire as anything more than a novelty. Nevertheless, it&#8217;s a fairly interesting add-on and can operate both on its own by issuing <em>BASIC<\/em> programming language speech commands or by inserting a compatible cartridge (like <em>Gorf).<\/em> You need to send the audio output from your Commodore 64 to the audio input of the <strong>Magic Voice<\/strong>, then the audio output of the <strong>Magic Voice<\/strong> to your display. Unfortunately, it&#8217;s purely a mono transaction on the <strong>Magic Voice<\/strong> side, but the sound quality is still good enough. My particular chain went from a Commodore 64 stereo S-VIDEO cable to both the <strong>Magic Voice<\/strong> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/solarisjapan.com\/collections\/micomsoft\/products\/xrgb-mini-framemeister-compact-up-scaler-unit?aff=19\" target=\"_blank\">XRGB-mini Framemeister<\/a>, which went to my capture device and monitor. Enjoy the video and be sure to check out the photos that follow (note that for the video, but not the photos, I plugged the other audio channel into the <a href=\"https:\/\/solarisjapan.com\/collections\/micomsoft\/products\/xrgb-mini-framemeister-compact-up-scaler-unit?aff=19\" target=\"_blank\">Framemeister<\/a>, so you should hear stereo (or at least two channels of audio)):<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/krj6LKv_jhQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2841\" style=\"width: 4938px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2841\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2841\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/armchairarcade.com\/perspectives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSC_0153.jpg?resize=4928%2C2892\" alt=\"The Gorf and Magic Voice boxes.\" width=\"4928\" height=\"2892\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/armchairarcade.com\/perspectives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSC_0153.jpg?w=4928&amp;ssl=1 4928w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/armchairarcade.com\/perspectives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSC_0153.jpg?resize=150%2C88&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/armchairarcade.com\/perspectives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSC_0153.jpg?resize=300%2C176&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/armchairarcade.com\/perspectives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSC_0153.jpg?resize=768%2C451&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/armchairarcade.com\/perspectives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSC_0153.jpg?resize=1024%2C601&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/armchairarcade.com\/perspectives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSC_0153.jpg?w=2000&amp;ssl=1 2000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/armchairarcade.com\/perspectives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSC_0153.jpg?w=3000&amp;ssl=1 3000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2841\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The <em>Gorf<\/em> and <strong>Magic Voice<\/strong> boxes.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2842\" style=\"width: 4938px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2842\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2842\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/armchairarcade.com\/perspectives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSC_0152.jpg?resize=4928%2C3264\" alt=\"The unit from the side.\" width=\"4928\" height=\"3264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/armchairarcade.com\/perspectives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSC_0152.jpg?w=4928&amp;ssl=1 4928w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/armchairarcade.com\/perspectives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSC_0152.jpg?resize=150%2C99&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/armchairarcade.com\/perspectives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSC_0152.jpg?resize=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/armchairarcade.com\/perspectives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSC_0152.jpg?resize=768%2C509&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/armchairarcade.com\/perspectives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSC_0152.jpg?resize=1024%2C678&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/armchairarcade.com\/perspectives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSC_0152.jpg?w=2000&amp;ssl=1 2000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/armchairarcade.com\/perspectives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSC_0152.jpg?w=3000&amp;ssl=1 3000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2842\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The unit from the side.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2840\" style=\"width: 4938px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2840\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2840\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/armchairarcade.com\/perspectives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSC_0154.jpg?resize=4928%2C2940\" alt=\"Running Gorf.\" width=\"4928\" height=\"2940\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/armchairarcade.com\/perspectives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSC_0154.jpg?w=4928&amp;ssl=1 4928w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/armchairarcade.com\/perspectives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSC_0154.jpg?resize=150%2C89&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/armchairarcade.com\/perspectives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSC_0154.jpg?resize=300%2C179&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/armchairarcade.com\/perspectives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSC_0154.jpg?resize=768%2C458&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/armchairarcade.com\/perspectives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSC_0154.jpg?resize=1024%2C611&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/armchairarcade.com\/perspectives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSC_0154.jpg?w=2000&amp;ssl=1 2000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/armchairarcade.com\/perspectives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSC_0154.jpg?w=3000&amp;ssl=1 3000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2840\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Running <em>Gorf<\/em>.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2839\" style=\"width: 4315px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2839\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2839\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/armchairarcade.com\/perspectives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSC_0155.jpg?resize=4305%2C2544\" alt=\"Running Gorf.\" width=\"4305\" height=\"2544\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/armchairarcade.com\/perspectives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSC_0155.jpg?w=4305&amp;ssl=1 4305w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/armchairarcade.com\/perspectives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSC_0155.jpg?resize=150%2C89&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/armchairarcade.com\/perspectives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSC_0155.jpg?resize=300%2C177&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/armchairarcade.com\/perspectives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSC_0155.jpg?resize=768%2C454&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/armchairarcade.com\/perspectives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSC_0155.jpg?resize=1024%2C605&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/armchairarcade.com\/perspectives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSC_0155.jpg?w=2000&amp;ssl=1 2000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/armchairarcade.com\/perspectives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSC_0155.jpg?w=3000&amp;ssl=1 3000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2839\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Running <em>Gorf<\/em>.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2837\" style=\"width: 4594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2837\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2837\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/armchairarcade.com\/perspectives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSC_0157.jpg?resize=4584%2C2592\" alt=\"Running Gorf.\" width=\"4584\" height=\"2592\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/armchairarcade.com\/perspectives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSC_0157.jpg?w=4584&amp;ssl=1 4584w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/armchairarcade.com\/perspectives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSC_0157.jpg?resize=150%2C85&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/armchairarcade.com\/perspectives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSC_0157.jpg?resize=300%2C170&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/armchairarcade.com\/perspectives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSC_0157.jpg?resize=768%2C434&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/armchairarcade.com\/perspectives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSC_0157.jpg?resize=1024%2C579&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/armchairarcade.com\/perspectives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSC_0157.jpg?w=2000&amp;ssl=1 2000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/armchairarcade.com\/perspectives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSC_0157.jpg?w=3000&amp;ssl=1 3000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2837\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Running <em>Gorf<\/em>.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was messing around with some PAL- and NTSC-based Commodore 64 stuff, and just happened to finally get a chance to test out a Commodore Magic Voice Speech Module with the Commodore cartridge conversion of Bally Midway&#8217;s arcade classic, Gorf. Both are fairly early Commodore products and definitely not the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"A quick look at Gorf with Magic Voice for the Commodore 64 (includes video) #commodore #gorf #magicvoice #c64","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25,79],"tags":[730,306,9,8,280,177,729,731,176,179],"class_list":["post-2835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-preview","category-video","tag-bally-midway","tag-c-64","tag-c64","tag-commodore","tag-commodore-64","tag-framemeister","tag-gorf","tag-magic-voice","tag-xrgb","tag-xrgb-mini"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A quick look at Gorf with Magic Voice for the Commodore 64 (includes video) - Armchair Arcade<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/armchairarcade.com\/perspectives\/2016\/01\/29\/a-quick-look-at-gorf-with-magic-voice-for-the-commodore-64-includes-video\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A quick look at Gorf with Magic Voice for the Commodore 64 (includes video) - Armchair Arcade\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I was messing around with some PAL- and NTSC-based Commodore 64 stuff, and just happened to finally get a chance to test out a Commodore Magic Voice Speech Module with the Commodore cartridge conversion of Bally Midway&#8217;s arcade classic, Gorf. 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