it would be cool if someone could make the keynote gold multimedia software synthesizer, and the keysoft for windows95 work in windows xp. I have demos of both if anyone wants. Josh email: jkenn337 at gmail.com skype: jkenn337 msn: kenn6498ku at hotmail.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tony Baechler" <tony@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2008 8:20 AM Subject: Re: 4DOS > Hi, > > This is unofficial and you shouldn't take my word for it, but I have > information from an undisclosed source that Larry Skutchan, (spelling?) > doesn't really care what happens with Microtalk products anymore since > they're long gone out of business anyway. I didn't get this from him > and this specifically didn't mention ASAP, but I doubt if anyone would > complain if a registered version was floating around somewhere. > Vocal-Eyes is still being sold for $250 but I wouldn't buy it. > Fortunately I still have it from when my parents bought it for me > several years ago. > > How do you play TADS and Glulx games in DOS? I had to compile > interpreters under Linux because the DOS programs worked so poorly. > Mostly it's a problem with direct screen writes (apparently ASAP handles > this better than most other screen readers) but it's also a memory > issue. TADS has a plain mode but that gives no status line and breaks > menus. It would be nice to find interpreters which support sound and no > graphics. Also, how did you set up the USB to boot and actually work in > DOS? What DOS version are you running? > > Nick Stockton wrote: >> 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 ----- > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
