[OT] emulating a hardware synth

[Tony Baechler]

Hi,

Have you looked at the new Cygwin 1.7 test release?  It's supposed to 
have a newer gcc, 4.3.2 and offer more Windows API functionality.  It 
will not run on anything less than Windows 2000.  I'm not running it 
here and I don't know much more about it.  It's still in testing, but it 
might work.  Get setup-1.7.exe or setup1.7.exe instead of the usual 
setup.exe from cygwin.com.  I don't use JAWS but I would be interested 
if you get something like this to work.

Shane W wrote:
> The problem I ran into was though I am a compitent C
> programmer on *nix systems, Windows is another matter
> entirely.  I looked at doing it with Cygwin, I really like
> that platform but last I checked, opening /dev/ttyS0 didn't
> result in getting a serial port and I couldn't figure out
> how to Talk to Jaws via cygwin, IE. does Jaws have a C API? 
> Could do it with SAPI but then you lose eloquence.
>