Hi, anyone know if there are software synthesizers that work in DOS? I now the old keynote gold multimedia worked in dos. I have a demo copy if anyone wantw. also got a demo of keysoft for windows95/DOS. these products are no longer supported or sold and humanware doesn't care what ya do with them. email: jkenn337 at gmail.com skype: jkenn337 msn: kenn6498ku at hotmail.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gaijin" <gaijin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2008 3:17 PM Subject: Re: 4DOS > On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 01:46:30AM -0800, Tony Baechler wrote: >> While we're here, remember the BBS era? Telnet >> BBSs are still around and can be accessed from DOS if you have a packet >> driver for your NIC card. > :End-Quote: > > <grins> Used to run WWIV BBS on the old 25 Meg hard drive so I > didn't have to log in long distance and peruse the newsgroups. Only > cost me an extra $5/month to transfer a compressed packet each day, and > contained the entire day's messages. My first foray into networking and > C Programming. The BBS sourcecode was available for $80, and mods were > being published for it all the time. Had a blast until they switched > over to the $600 Borland compiler, which I couldn't afford (and didn't > see any reason in paying). Was still sighted back then and ran up a > small fortune in long-distance charges downloading things like Commander > Keen and DooM! demos. If I ever get phone access again, I plan on > calling up the old BBS I was networked with (Maxie's Toy). I call the > number on the cell every once in awhile and still get a carrier detect > warble, though it might be a fax number now. Might be fun porting WWIV > BBS to Linux, but the last time I looked, the author had started > including object code in the source. Bugrit. > > Michael > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
