it would be cool if one of the dos screen readers could work with a software synthesizer. email: jkenn337 at gmail.com skype: jkenn337 msn: kenn6498ku at hotmail.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "John G. Heim" <jheim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 11:39 AM Subject: Re: 4DOS > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gaijin" <gaijin at clearwire.net> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." > <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> >> >> Think it would be nice to collect all this old stuff and put it >> on a CD or DVD iso image. I wonder what some of these defunct companies >> would say if we asked them to release the old, no longer supported >> source code to the GPL. I miss the old WordStar Professional word >> processor. >> > > By and large they'd say no. I've seen it tried many times and mostly you > get no answer or a refusal. I think these people still have lawyers > telling > them it's a bad idea. Maybe they have something to hide within their > code -- > like that it wasn't entirely their own in the first place. > > Anyway, I don't know anything about 4dos but the FreeDOS project is alive > and well. Their mailing list is very active (google it). Anyone interested > in DOS applications should definately check out FreeDOS. For instance, I > know that Jaws for DOS; which is a free download on the Freedom Scientific > web site; runs under FreeDOS. > > I have a diskette image on my web site that allows you to boot freeDOS > with > jaws for DOS. It's configured to start talking with an external doubletalk > hardware synth. In other words, if you have a doubletalk, you can boot > from > this diskette and get speech. See: > > http://www.math.wisc.edu/~jheim/blindi/FreeDOS-ltlk.img > > The diskette image also includes CD-ROM support. So, theoretically, you > can > boot from a diskette made with this image and then access a CD-ROM. I was > hoping to install Windows this way. But the Windows installer craps out > when > run under FreeDOS. However, you should be able to make a bootable CD-ROM > with this image. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
