I still use cmos_ram on my toy, but that may not work anymore. Not sure about this. At 07:55 Ay M 14/10/2006, you wrote: >There was also a dos utility called "cmos-ram" as I recall, which copied >the cmos to an editable text file, and copied it back again. So if you >knew the format of the file, you could make changes easily. > > >On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 09:42:25AM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote: > > By IBM PC do you mean a machine made by IBM, or a machine compatible > > with that architecture? If you are referring to a compatible machine, > > then this should still be doable I think either with a DOS/win9x boot > > disk, or it should even be doable with gdb under GNU/Linux. Do you > > remember what the memory address was? > > > > Also, I just remembered that there were some 486 machines, and even > > some early 586 machines that let you get into bios via a hotkey > > sequence from within DOS. I remember using one such machine with > > provox7, and while the accessibility wasn't great, because the numpad > > review functionality went away as soon as you used that hotkey > > combination to get into bios, it still did do the job, since every > > single key press read the full screen from what I recall, which > > incidentally, was in columns as well. > > > > Greg > > > > > > On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 07:07:33AM -0400, Angelo Sonnesso wrote: > > > The IBM PC used to have a way to access the BIOS using debug under MSDOS. > > > You just typed in the memory address and the BIOS program came > up and Using > > > ASAP I was able to make any changes I needed. > > > It was reading the same interface that my sighted friends were using. > > > > > > > -- > > web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org > > gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc > > skype: gregn1 > > (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) > > > > -- > > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >-- >The Moon is Waning Gibbous (53% of Full) >Only 10 kinds of people: those who do binary, and those who do not. >But you can get a few downloads from http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
