4DOS

[josh]

hi,

the demo of asap still or just has the nag messages. also tiny talk is good 
too, and vocal eyes.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nick Stockton" <nstockton at gmail.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2008 7:02 AM
Subject: Re: 4DOS


> 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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