Hello Alex and all, I contacted Gibson Research about making this program accessible. The support agent said some blind person had put Spin Rite on a CD with a screen reader and made it work but when I asked for more information than that, the agent couldn't give me any further information. Thanks, Beth -----Original Message----- From: speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Alex Snow Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 11:37 AM To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. Subject: Re: 4DOS I believe, and someone correct me if I'm wrong, that spinrite isn't accessible with a dos screenreader since it puts the screen in graphics mode. On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 09:45:11AM -0700, Beth Hatch wrote: > Hello John and all, > > I'm just wondering....... I have a version of the Spin Rite hard drive > maintenance utility which boots as a CD using Free Dos. It should be > theoretically possible to make a bootable spin rite cd using JAWS and Free > Dos then. I unfortunately don't have a Double talk, but I do have a Dectalk > Express. I tried to install JAWS on a bootable cd, but I got into trouble > somehow and though I found the floppy images that I downloaded from Freedom > Scientific, I wasn't able to get them installed on to a CD. I have a badly > broken desktop pc that needs Spin Rite very badly to fix the hard drive, it > would be really cool if I could use JAWS and Free Dos to make this work. > Any suggestions? > > Thanks, > > Beth > > -----Original Message----- > From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] > On Behalf Of John G. Heim > Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 9:40 AM > To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- I don't know why, but first C programs tend to look a lot worse than first programs in any other language (maybe except for fortran, but then I suspect all fortran programs look like `firsts') -- Olaf Kirch _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
