and then, the day of the emptriv begins right?.... Hoping for a release soon!!!

Well, the sequence for Emptriv goes more like this:

0) Finish up school for the semester.
1) Port emptriv's graphics routines to Richard Kirby's vfdlib. I'm currently using the dog-slow GD graphics library which is certainly not Empeg-optimized.
2) *then* start playing with having it use ttsd. I can't wait... I *never* play Emptriv now because I'm always driving in my car (passengers love it though.) It would be *real* sweet to play it with TTS capabilities, and since I've got a steering wheel remote, I could legitimately do it without endangering fellow drivers.

I might try to sneak porting Empwake and Empan to vfdlib somewhere in between, in fact, since Empan is the simplest code, I might start with that, just as a guinnea pig for vfdlib.

This ttsd is sounding really sweet, though. I'm wondering what kind of memory it's taking up though... I think I'll try to play with it tonight.