The one I have (well, had, that computer got lost in my last move,
unfortunately, since it had all of my dos stuff on it), is called
provox. The zip file name you want to search for is provox7.zip.
It comes with two parts, one of which is the synthesizer driver, and one
that is the screen reader itself. I don't know if it's possible to use
it with a software synthesizer like most of the windows screen readers
do or not, I had intended to rewrite parts of the program to make it
acceptable to the free dos project, so it could be included with freedos
distributions, but I never got that far.
I'm fairly certain you can find it on the NFB file archives, though I
don't have an exact link, a quick google search should turn up the file
you need.
There was another free one that worked with soundblasters, which might
be more to your liking since it's difficult (if not impossible) to make
a hardware synthesizer work on virtual copies of dos, especially when
there's no physical serial port, which is what most of them need to
connect. I'm pretty sure it was called smooth talker, but that could
just be a sample sb program I had that spoke text but wasn't the screen
reader, the name might be something else, it's been too many years since
I had the program in hand. But, if you can find it, it might just be
what you need.
On 9/27/2024 12:30 PM, Lawrence Perez via Freedos-user wrote:
Hello everyone,
I managed to get FreeDOS installed. When it restarts, the DVD disc asks if you want to
boot from the C: drive. The Orca screen reader didn't read this menu correctly due to the
timer, so without realizing it, I inadvertently pressed Enter on the "Boot from
C:" option, and the disk tried to load from C:. The best way I found to get around
this is to wait for the boot timer to time out, which automatically loads the DOS
environment from the DVD drive by default, and then type `setup.bat`.
I plan to contact the DOSEMU2 team and ask about Raspberry Pi support.
An open-source screen reader for DOS was mentioned in this thread. Could you
please tell me where I could find the screen reader? I’d like to try to get it
working in my virtual FreeDOS environment.
Sincerely,
Lawrence
Sent from my iPhone
On Sep 26, 2024, at 1:32 AM, Eric Auer via Freedos-user
<freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
Hello!
According to the images, that keyboard has the same chips as the first
https://ardent-tool.com/keyboard/Model_M.html#PS2_PCBs
http://ohlandl.ipv7.net/keyboard/Keyboard.html#Model_M_PCB
Not sure which of the 2 copies of that website is the original one.
It has a 4x4 block with the keys
1 2 3 A
4 5 6 B
7 8 9 C
* 0 ? ?
The two ? keys actually are unmarked grey keys, others are white.
Right of the 4x4 block, there is a double height HELP key on top
and a double height STOP key below it.
"Despite using a PS/2 cable, the Screen Reader Keypad is not a
typical PS/2 device. It was intended to be connected through
either a PS/2 mouse port or a PS/2 port on a drop-in ISA expansion
card for PC/XT and PC/AT systems called the IBM Screen Reader
Adapter (P/N 57F1588, assembly P/N 57F1587, FRU 33F4842)."
The page also links to
https://sharktastica.co.uk/wiki?id=modelmsrk
which gives more details. There, the keys below 9 and C
are listed as # and D respectively, which is plausible.
Regards, Eric
Hello.
Here I found information about the special keypad.
https://deskthority.net/wiki/IBM_Screen_Reader_Keypad
It still insist that it worked on DOS, but as I told you, I had never seen
it running.
Regards.
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