you can uncompress the firmware images and they contain an arm kernel and an initial ramdisk which does indeed contain a pile of audio and some ARM elf binaries. Regards, Kerry. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brent Harding" <bharding@xxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 5:00 AM Subject: Re: Demos > Wow, never knew the stream used Linux, what actually says this? The only > clue is that there's OpenSSL in it for doing something. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tony Baechler" <tony at baechler.net> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." > <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 11:27 AM > Subject: Demos > > >> Hi all, >> >> I have lots of disk space and access to a reliable web server running >> Debian Etch. I will host demos of any old DOS products for the blind >> that people want to send. I'm not really interested in magnifiers or >> Windows programs with the possible exception of Win 3.1. I will host >> full versions that are not demos only if I get a legal statement from >> the person sending me the files that they have contacted the company in >> question and the company allows it. I must also have copies of the >> email from the actual company stating this fact. I will not share the >> email unless I'm asked. I will leave it to someone else to make an >> image if they want. >> >> Regarding getting software relicensed, I doubt if the GPL would happen >> but a "freeware" closed source license probably would happen. The >> companies aren't that hard to convince in some cases. I'm sure Larry of >> Microtalk would do it but I don't know him personally. I would really >> like to see APH release their Apple II software. I am not experienced >> in advocating for license changes but I would appreciate it if someone >> would ask the various companies. I'm sure GW Micro wouldn't go for it >> just because they still sell Vocal-Eyes. I would be surprised if >> Freedom Scientific would either. Humanware might because they use Linux >> as the OS on the Victor Reader Stream and seem to be more open. >> >> I'm not into regular DOS software demos unless they are very old, >> unusual, somehow significant, or otherwise hard to find. There are >> already other sites doing that. It should specifically be for the blind >> or have something to do with speech or Braille. Due to a router issue, >> ftp doesn't work right so email attach is probably best. If someone >> wants to walk me through fixing ftp on a Linksys router, I'll try my >> luck. Don't expect any fancy web page but I'll put up the files >> assuming they are legal demos and not huge. Huge is subject to my >> judgment but disk space isn't a problem right now. >> >> Gaijin wrote: >>> 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. >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >
