hi, the demo of asap still or just has the nag messages. also tiny talk is good too, and vocal eyes. email: jkenn337 at gmail.com skype: jkenn337 msn: kenn6498ku at hotmail.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nick Stockton" <nstockton@xxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2008 7:02 AM Subject: Re: 4DOS > jaws for dos can be gotten from the following URL > http://www.freedomscientific.com/fs_downloads/jdosfree.exe > I do not like it ASAP is much better IMO but I guess if you can't buy asap > any more then jaws for dos is better than nothing. > I'm so lucky my mom knew her 5 year old son would one day be a hobbyist in > to old computer systems and bought me a copy of ASAP and a litetalk back > when they were still being sold in the 90s. > I have a giant old computer from the 90s in the other room I put a very > old > USB card in and after some messing around with dos drivers and a win98 > boot > disc I still have, I now have a entire dos system running off of a cheepo > 1-gig USB thumb drive complete with loads of games mainly z-code as they > are > best played in dos using ASAP. > You can play them under gnu/Linux using frotz but some times it wants to > reread messages it already read so playing using dos frotz with ASAP for > me > is better. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tony Baechler" <tony at baechler.net> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." > <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2008 4:50 AM > Subject: Re: 4DOS > > >> Also, Win 3.1 at least for me was very unstable and I think there might >> be compatibility problems with it and FreeDOS. I know dosemu had >> problems. I would say just stick with 4DOS under FreeDOS. If you have >> to use Windows 3.X, use an emulator under Linux. I ran Window-Eyes 3.1 >> and I thought it didn't run on less than Win95 but I don't remember. I >> thought 2.1 was the last version that supported Win 3.1. Also, JAWS for >> DOS was released as freeware a long time ago but good luck finding it >> now since HJ is long gone. It had the full manual. I tried running >> Vocal-Eyes with Speakup running in dosemu and it locked up, so I think >> you can only have one screen reader at a time. >> >> Gregory Nowak wrote: >>> The last version of window-eyes to work with windows 3.1 was >>> window-eyes 3.1. I don't know about other screen readers, though I >>> think it's safe to say that modern versions of any windows screen >>> reader will not work under windows 3.1. >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
