4DOS

[josh]

it would be cool if one of the dos screen readers could work with a software 
synthesizer.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John G. Heim" <jheim at math.wisc.edu>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 11:39 AM
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.
>
>
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