Wow, that is much more convoluted than I was expecting. I'm impressed
you were able to figure out such a solution.
Is this NVDA-over-ssh-over-dosemu approach providing satisfying
usability compared to a native DOS screen reader like JAWS or ASAP? In
other words, is there any point in trying to run a native screen reader
within FreeDOS? As a test I tried this morning using FreeDOS being
blindfolded, using only JAWS + espeak, and I am staggered how you guys
are able to do anything at all in such environment. I was barely able to
open a text file, and failed miserably trying to edit it - all this seem
to require an outstanding memory just to keep track of what is supposed
to be displayed on the screen at any given moment.
Mateusz
On 16/03/2020 14:20, Felix G. wrote:
Hi Mateusz,
I logged into a Linux server via SSH from Windows, installed Dosemu,
then started Dosemu with the -t option, putting it into terminal mode.
In effect, my Windows screen reader, which is called NVDA, detects and
reads changes to that terminal session, thereby giving access to the
DOS environment.
Here is how I got Dosemu2:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dosemu2/ppa
$ sudo apt-get install dosemu2
I then downloaded the FreeDOS Kernel, extracted KERNEL386.SYS, and
copied it to ~/.dosemu/drive_c/KERNEL.SYS so Dosemu boots it up. I
also replaced Dosemu's command interpreter by the COMMAND.COM that
comes with FreeDOS, and then I tweaked autoexec.bat and fdconfig.sys
until there was not a single error message during boot. Does a rather
convincing DOS approximation. Since Dosemu's virtual C: drive is just
a plain old directory on my Linux server, I can just unzip games to it
and start them up, without so much as exiting Dosemu.
Best,
Felix
Am Mo., 16. März 2020 um 14:03 Uhr schrieb Mateusz Viste <mate...@viste.fr>:
On 16/03/2020 13:12, Felix G. wrote:
In the meantime I was able to play the Time And Magik trilogy by Level
9 in Dosemu2, using the current FreeDOS kernel 1.2
May I ask how you achieved this? Have you managed to install a screen
reader within DOSemu, which would talk through some Linux TTS? I'm
geniunely curious.
Mateusz
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