Hi Mateusz, and Joseph.
I have a couple of extra questions.
Joseph, you opted for the braille and speak emulator, does that mean there
exist other synthesizer emulators, for example is there a type & speak one
or a dectalk one?
Mateusz, your explainations help me a great deal. My understanding is
that,
rather than installing freedos via this fashion in a way that allows the
use of actual hardware, the ports themselves are virtual, meaning it must
be installed on a machine running something else, windows I suppose.
Is that correct?
further, how current is Freedos with DOS browsers? Lynx is updated
regularly for example. there is a dos edition of l i n k s, as well
adding JavaScript of a sort. what is the most current edition of Lynx
incorporated into Freedos for example?
Kare
On Mon, 16 Mar 2020, Mateusz Viste wrote:
Hello Joseph,
Thank you for the very detailed instructions - that's exactly what I was
planning to test today, but it seems you did all the work already. To keep it
short for other readers of this list, here's how it works:
1. FreeDOS must be installed inside a virtualization solution (I used
VirtualBox, Joseph used VMWare Player)
2. FreeDOS must hae a screen reader installed (Joseph chose ASAP, while I was
experimenting with PROVOX and JAWS)
3. The screen reader must be set to "Braille 'n Speak" mode and COM1
4. In the hypervizor properties, COM1 must be redirected to a virtual port:
under Windows this can apparently be done with "Com0Com"
5. On the host OS, a Braille 'n Speak emulator needs to be installed and made
to listen over the virtual port. The emulator is named "vbns" and is
available in two flavors: one that uses eSpeak as its TTS backed, and another
one that relies on the native Windows SAPI
Joseph, the only "non-free" part of your setup is the ASAP software. Have
you, by any chance, fiddled with PROVOX? It's a DOS screen reader that was
open-sourced under GPL2, and it seems to support Braille 'n Speak (called
"BNS" in the program). If that would be a valid option, it's something that
could be added to FreeDOS.
Mateusz
On 16/03/2020 03:59, joseph.nor...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Felix:
Since you’re usig DOSBox, and the description of your setup, I think you
have everything you need to run FreeDOS.
If you want to try it, you can get VMWare Player for free and install it.
I put together a version of FreeDOS 1.3 RC2 a couple months ago. Here
is the instruction files I posted back then.
If you’re using the Talking DOSBox package, I believe it is configured
for com9 as one of the ports. If that’s the case, just substitute com9
for the reference to com3. Anyway, here is the instructions file I put
together along with links that should get you on the way. You probably
don’t need to download com0com or the virtual Braille ‘n speak
program, but, it just depends on what you want.
Reply to me off-list at:
joseph.nor...@gmail.com <mailto:joseph.nor...@gmail.com>
if you have any questions:
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