4DOS

[Nick Stockton]

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 ----- 
From: "Tony Baechler" <tony at baechler.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2008 4:50 AM
Subject: Re: 4DOS


> Also, Win 3.1 at least for me was very unstable and I think there might
> be compatibility problems with it and FreeDOS.  I know dosemu had
> problems.  I would say just stick with 4DOS under FreeDOS.  If you have
> to use Windows 3.X, use an emulator under Linux.  I ran Window-Eyes 3.1
> and I thought it didn't run on less than Win95 but I don't remember.  I
> thought 2.1 was the last version that supported Win 3.1.  Also, JAWS for
> DOS was released as freeware a long time ago but good luck finding it
> now since HJ is long gone.  It had the full manual.  I tried running
> Vocal-Eyes with Speakup running in dosemu and it locked up, so I think
> you can only have one screen reader at a time.
>
> Gregory Nowak wrote:
>> The last version of window-eyes to work with windows 3.1 was
>> window-eyes 3.1. I don't know about other screen readers, though I
>> think it's safe to say that modern versions of any windows screen
>> reader will not work under windows 3.1.
>>
>
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