Demos

[Kerry Hoath]

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 at doorpi.net>
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.
>>>
>>
>>
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