Hi all, I have posted this before but it was around the time of the message problems with this list. Come to think of it i can't remember what i wrote but it was something like this... Download ZipSlack, latest version is 9.0 (i think). Does this Does it come with SpeakUp 1.5? Then i copy the speakUp.i file in the /kernal.SpeakUp directory to the /kernal directory. I don't know if i need to rename this or anything. I am using an ide Hard drive. Then i guess i need to edit the linux.bat file with something like notepad to configure it to use my hardware syth? I am not quite sure where the boot disk image comes in or if i need one. Sorry if this is off topic for this list but as you can probably tell i am very new at this. Does SpeakUp work well with ZipSlack? I know i was told before there were problems with ZipSpeak. Thanks in advance, Nigel If God had wanted man to fly he would have given him a plane.