[OT] emulating a hardware synth

[Brent Harding]

Hmmm, but do you have to install this into the complete cygwin package, or 
where does the file that makes the port come from since Windows doesn't have 
/dev?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Shane W" <shane-speakup at csy.ca>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 10:51 AM
Subject: Re: [OT] emulating a hardware synth


> Hi,
>
> You need to use com0com to create a virtual serial port
> pare.  Either that or as the parent suggested, connect a
> machine via null-modem and do the speakup install that way,
> no vmware required.  *shrug* I didn't know about this
> echo-talk.  It's never come up here afaik.
>
> Shane
> On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 08:41:31AM -0600, Brent Harding wrote:
>> So, do you just use this on an untaken serial port and tell VMWare to
>> also use that serial port so they would end up virtually connected? I
>> thought there was one called echo talk or something using the JFW API on
>> the Windows side and simulating an echo synth to whatever is connected to
>> that port.
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shane W" <shane-speakup at csy.ca>
>> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
>> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 12:45 AM
>> Subject: Re: [OT] emulating a hardware synth
>>
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Fyi, just put a new version of the Windows Acntsa emulator
>>> up:
>>> <http://www.csy.ca/~shane/winaccent.zip>
>>>
>>> This one gets the timeouts right so now works with Speakup
>>> either under an Vmware session or via a remote serial
>>> connection.
>>>
>>> Question to the speakup devs, why does the ACNTSA driver
>>> use a timeout of 0.16 seconds and rely on that to start
>>> transmitting even during keyboard io where you want to
>>> transmit as soon as a key is pressed, Ie with <esc>=F in
>>> the init string and 0x0d when a key is pressed.  That way
>>> there is no 0.14 second delay after a key is pressed before
>>> the letter is read allowed?
>>>
>>> Shane
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