On Fri, Nov 22, 2024 at 10:11:05PM -0800, Mike Coulombe wrote: > On 11/22/2024 9:50 PM, Hank Knox wrote: > > On 11/23/24 00:19, Mike Coulombe wrote: > > > Hi. Would it be possible to get dosemu added to Debian? A lot of > > > visually impaired people myself included still use dos for various > > > programs and to play the old text based games. Dosemu use to work > > > with Speakup when I tried it several years ago and made an easy way > > > to get dos support in Linux. I think it was produced by freedos if I > > > remember correctly so as far as I know it's a free program. Anyway, > > > just thought I would ask about getting it included. > > > > I took a quick look at the Dosemu website. It hasn't been updated since > > 2012. I didn't look at the source so I don't know how much effort it > > would take to make a Debian package. > > > > There is a Debian package that might already do what you are looking > > for: DOSBox-X (https://dosbox-x.com/). > > > > Hope this helps. > > Thanks Hank.
Hello all, All being readers in mailinglistarchive and other people that didn't have time to read all previous messages. > I tried dosbox-x a few days ago and while it loads, it doesn't > apear to work with Orca or Speakup. Yeah, I think dosemu-2 was the last > version, but I thought it might still work. Anyway, thanks so much for > looking at it and for the suggestion. Dosbox would be perfect is it worked > with a screen reader. > > > > I'm not a programmer so I don't know how much work this would take. And meanwhile you have demonstrated the lack of understanding discussion order. So take in extra time for understanding programm flow order. > > > Thanks and have a great day. You are welcome. I do love to educate^Wcluebat unaware mailinglist posters before breakfast. Please, pretty please, do reply below previous text. Groeten Geert Stappers -- Silence is hard to parse
