Hi Joseph,
Speaking personally, as expressed I invest in hardware for standard
bootability. The machine I am using in this moment boots both from floppy
and cd/ dvd drive, with both on board USB and serial ports.
I am guessing I am confused because such hardware is rather simple to
find.
Your indication that freedos can be run as its own operating system,
then goes back to the entire accessibility question.
Why cannot speech be built native to freedos the way it is, I understand,
native to Linux distros, including the use of hardware?
Why not a talking install of freedos that gives one the ability to well
just install freedos?
Realizing with absolute firmness that the complex door has its benefits
for some, I just suppose I am wondering why a less complex door cannot
also exist.
Just a thought,
Kare
Who is going to ask about synthesizer emulator options elsewhere, as the
choice of braille & speak, but nothing else seems sort of odd.
On Tue, 17 Mar 2020, joseph.nor...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Karen:
If your computer can boot a cd, or can boot a floppy, you can install
FreeDOS.
I could probably boot it up on this laptop since it's in legacy mode,
but, I don't think FreeDOS would recognize the sata drive.
Seems like I did boot a cd-rom containing MS-DOS one time, but, that may
have been another laptop.
There is no serial port, though, so it wouldn't do anything but beep.?? I
guess I could run Randy Formenti's morse program and get DOS output in
morse code, but, that would be tedious.
If you have a machine with a serial port, and a serial synth, no reason
it wouldn't work.
Sorry for the confusion.Hi Karen:
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Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Introducing myself, and inquiring about using
FreeD OS as a blind user
Hi Bret,
Thanks for that answer.
Well then my question is if freedos can actually be installed in an
actual, instead of virtual environment??? If not, then why not?
?? Because DOS is my only operating system, I have no issues locating
actual computers, by which I mean p3 and p4 machines for my efforts.
As a journalist and media professional, I must know firmly that any tool
I
am using is reliable.
I respect that for some?? DOS is fun, but if one wants to work seriously,
is freedos even worth considering, at least if one cannot use it on
physical hardware?
Kare
On Tue, 17 Mar 2020, Bret Johnson wrote:
> Karen: Inside a Virtual Machine, ALL hardware is virtualized ??to some
degree or other -- you never get direct access to the real hardware
(whether it's keyboard or mouse or video screen or hard drive or serial
port or even the clock).?? Exactly what gets virtualized through to the
VM and exactly how it gets passed through depends on the VM.?? Different
VM's do some things better than others. I've played around a little bit
with different VM's (VMWare, Bochs, DOSBox, QEMU, VirtualPC, PCEm, and
others).?? None of them are very easy to set up. and they all have their
limitations and quirks.?? At least for my purposes, I still find VMWare
to be better than the others even though I still consider it really
pretty bad and don't do anything serious with it.?? And again, the main
problem I have with VMWare is that it does not pass the keyboard though
to the VM like it should and the keyboard is VERY critical in DOS (far
more critical than the mouse).
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