4DOS

[josh]

Hi,

and if anyone wants the old keynote gold multimedia and old keysoft stuff I 
got, let me know.
it's maybe oh uh 4.2mb or so there are 6 zip files. I think the demos have 
all the features of the full versions except they time out.

Josh

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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 9:15 PM
Subject: Re: 4DOS


> well if no one is able to find the last version of the ASAP demo/update 
> from
> 2001/2002 I still have it.
> I got it off of the MicroTalk website before it went down years ago and 
> now
> it appears the domain name was taken by a domain snatcher.
> As far as running dos off of a USB thumb drive it wasn't that hard and I 
> was
> surprised no one has ever done it before.
> Still everyone I tell about it is very amazed and impressed so that's nice
> *grin*.
> First of all the computer I did this on was made before USB was very 
> popular
> it was running win 95 version A when I got it so it had no concept of how 
> to
> boot from a USB port.
> After I put a USB PCI card in it what I did was to take a win 98 boot disc 
> I
> had lying around and put some USB mass storage device drivers for dos on 
> it.
> I also put some other things like generic cd drivers on it.
> After that I used gnu/Linux to format the USB thumb drive with a fat file
> system.
> I next took my USB thumb drive and copied to it all my old dos programs 
> and
> utilities from my very first computer's hard drive which I still have even
> though my first computer it's self is long gone.
> Lastly I booted from the floppy with the USB thumb drive plugged in and
> after typing "sys c:" I added "SET COMSPEC=C:\COMMAND.COM" to
> a:\autoexec.bat as well as adding the correct paths for everything to it.
> Now when ever I want to boot it up I just have to be sure the floppy is in
> the drive and it will boot automatically.
> After it is done booting I can remove the floppy and I won't need to stick
> it in again till the next time I need to boot dos.
> ----- 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 8:20 AM
> Subject: Re: 4DOS
>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> This is unofficial and you shouldn't take my word for it, but I have
>> information from an undisclosed source that Larry Skutchan, (spelling?)
>> doesn't really care what happens with Microtalk products anymore since
>> they're long gone out of business anyway.  I didn't get this from him
>> and this specifically didn't mention ASAP, but I doubt if anyone would
>> complain if a registered version was floating around somewhere.
>> Vocal-Eyes is still being sold for $250 but I wouldn't buy it.
>> Fortunately I still have it from when my parents bought it for me
>> several years ago.
>>
>> How do you play TADS and Glulx games in DOS?  I had to compile
>> interpreters under Linux because the DOS programs worked so poorly.
>> Mostly it's a problem with direct screen writes (apparently ASAP handles
>> this better than most other screen readers) but it's also a memory
>> issue.  TADS has a plain mode but that gives no status line and breaks
>> menus.  It would be nice to find interpreters which support sound and no
>> graphics.  Also, how did you set up the USB to boot and actually work in
>> DOS?  What DOS version are you running?
>>
>> Nick Stockton wrote:
>>> 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 ----- 
>>
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