[Freedos-user] Rasp 'n Speak, a BNS emulator on a Raspberry Pi

Today I prepared a Raspberry Pi image that contains the Raspberry operating system, emubns, espeak and Piper, along with some glue and duct tape to hold it all together. I have named this contraption the "Rasp 'n Speak". It is an emulation of a Braille 'n Speak synthesizer. When the Rasp 'n

Re: [Freedos-user] SvarDOS, was: Accessibility question.

On 22/11/2024 14:46, Eric Auer via Freedos-user wrote: The main system (or installer?) fits on a single floppy, other packages can be added via network. So people still have ISA network cards already with RJ45 LAN connectors, I assume :-) It is expected that people nowadays have their DOS PC co

Re: [Freedos-user] Accessibility question.

On 22/11/2024 14:01, Liam Proven via Freedos-user wrote: I am just beginning to explore SvarDOS but as far as I can tell it does not have a screenreader of any kind, no. On the main page of the SvarDOS website there are 3 builds of the OS available. One of them is the "BNS Build". This one com

Re: [Freedos-user] Accessibility question.

On 20/11/2024 05:00, Karen Lewellen wrote: No matter how well intention, for the sake of the scientists and engineers  living in that 18% arena, please do not project that test of yours on to another human being. The 18% are very welcome to set up a DOS VM on a Linux host with emubns and Pipe

Re: [Freedos-user] Accessibility question.

Hello Karen, see my answers below. This might not be the best place for this topic, though. I wouldn't want to annoy the list, especially since it is not strictly FreeDOS related. If you'd like to take this offlist, or would know a more appropriate list or forum, I'd be happy to oblige. >Firs

Re: [Freedos-user] Accessibility question.

ed, 16 Oct 2024, Mateusz Viste via Freedos-user wrote: On 15/10/2024 17:12, Karen Lewellen via Freedos-user wrote:  Other factor speaking personally with espeak is the largely poor speech  quality. I experimented a bit with emubns today. Ended up using "piper" instead of espeak. The spee

Re: [Freedos-user] Dos on raspberry pi.

On 18/10/2024 21:43, tsie...@softcon.com wrote: Won't work.  Dos itself uses a *lot* of interrupt calls to do things. The raspberry pies run processors that don't support interrupts. Therefore, porting a stand-alone version of dos to the pie just won't work. That's not really what I meant, and

Re: [Freedos-user] Dos on raspberry pi.

On 18/10/2024 03:29, Mike Coulombe via Freedos-user wrote: Hey, that sounds promising. So was that dos install software speech or did you have a newer braille an speak connected? The only braille an speak I know about is the one I use to have in the late eighties. I do not own any Braille 'n S

Re: [Freedos-user] Accessibility question.

On 17/10/2024 18:03, Karen Lewellen wrote: Others can speak to how available these Raspberry pie things are world wide, how  easy to configure independently, I take it no software is needed to run them? A Raspberry Pi is a cheap computer the size of a large box of matches. Instead of a hard d

Re: [Freedos-user] Accessibility question.

On 17/10/2024 00:22, Karen Lewellen wrote: I have never run  provox, but have a copy.  Let me see if there is a users guide to share. Thanks for sharing. It appears provox have a few different modes for processing punctuation. These can be switched with slash-F5. I would personally apprecia

Re: [Freedos-user] Accessibility question.

On 15/10/2024 17:12, Karen Lewellen via Freedos-user wrote: Other factor speaking personally with espeak is the largely poor speech quality. I experimented a bit with emubns today. Ended up using "piper" instead of espeak. The speech quality is outstanding now, almost lifelike. I was able to

Re: [Freedos-user] Accessibility question.

On 14/10/2024 17:37, Mike Coulombe via Freedos-user wrote: Hi, That distro sounds interesting, but I need to run free dos on different computers. If it had speech accessibility free dos would be very useful to blind people world wide considering all the free dos programs you can get and the amo

Re: [Freedos-user] Seeking advice on installing FreeDOS with Screen Readers

Hi Lawrence, A couple of years ago I toyed with something called "BNS" and I created a software emulator for DOS. Maybe it could be useful in your scenario. Here is the link: https://emubns.sourceforge.net/ The idea would for you to run DOS on your Linux PC inside a QEMU virtual machine. Th

Re: [Freedos-user] Copying Files Between Linux And FreeDOS

On 20/08/2024 20:43, Ben Collver via Freedos-user wrote: I tried EtherDFS and it seems clean and stable. Thanks for the recommendation! If you do not need to access the same drive from multiple machines at the same time, then you might want to try ethflop .

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing for 8086 CPU on SD Card.

You might want to give SvarDOS a try, it's designed specifically with 8086 compatibility in mind. The current stable release is still FreeDOS based, so once installed you can easily tailor it to mimic a "normal" FreeDOS system. http://svardos.org Mateusz On 07/08/2024 06:00, Trevor Campbel

Re: [Freedos-user] "Web 1.0" style hosting and mail [WAS: freedos, or dos based mail clients?]

On 04/08/2024 12:18, tsiegel--- via Freedos-user wrote: Not sure how they're doing 1.0 hosting, with limited ip addresses, 1.1 is needed for hosting multiple domain names on a single IP address, guess they're not sharing IP addresses, wonder how they're sourcing all the hosts, might be interest

[Freedos-user] SvarCOM ver 2024.3

Hello, For those of you who might care: I released a new version of SvarCOM today. SvarCOM is a minimalist shell for DOS, ie. a COMMAND.COM (or FreeCOM) replacement. SvarCOM is the default shell of the SvarDOS operating system. The last time I announced SvarCOM on this list was in 2021. Sinc

Re: [Freedos-user] Lousy NTFS...

On 25/07/2024 10:44, userbeitrag--- via Freedos-user wrote: Since DOS was vulnerable to boot viruses, it was AFAIK only necessary to access a (floppy) disk. DOS would always execute the virus if it was in the boot sector (be it a VBR or MBR). A simple "A:" at the prompt might have been enough, de

Re: [Freedos-user] Codepage and keyboard setting for Czech language

On 19/12/2023 18:18, Lukáš Kotek via Freedos-user wrote: display con=(ega,852,1) mode con codepage prepare ((852) C:\freedos\cpi\ega.cpx) mode con codepage select=852 All czech-specific letters are printed correctly now. Is this the recommended way? Yes, it is the "official" way, as Microsoft

[Freedos-user] EduQiz rel 2023

Hello List, About a year ago I have created a graphical, quiz-like program as a pretext for my kids to get some hands-on with my 386 PC and learn a thing or two in the process. I named the program EduQiz and kept it private until now. Since I am quite satisfied about how it turned out, I deci

Re: [Freedos-user] ChkDsk / ScanDsk for Fat32

On 25/09/2023 11:20, Jürgen Wondzinski via Freedos-user wrote: Thanks for the pointer! Unfortunately, that one wants some DPMI memory: "Load error: no DPMI - Get csdpmi*b.zip" That's my current config.sys part on that USB-Sticks, which run that FoxPro program: device=c:\freedos\jemmEx.exe PGE

Re: [Freedos-user] ChkDsk / ScanDsk for Fat32

On 15/09/2023 19:42, Jürgen Wondzinski via Freedos-user wrote: Is there a ChkDsk or ScanDsk etc available for FAT32? The usual chkdsk92.exe doesn't support this. You might want to try DOSFSCK. Mateusz ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@list

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS and the Gemini protocol

On 19/08/2023 09:11, Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user wrote: I am writing this here, because I believe the low-resource needed to run a Gemini Browser is appropriate for FreeDOS. Gemini is an invention that shoehorns a gopher-like protocol into TLS. TLS is everything but "low ressource". For a

Re: [Freedos-user] Sved, yet another text editor

On 07/08/2023 02:47, Bret Johnson wrote: Does it have copy/cut/paste functionality? Yes, albeit I failed implementing text-selection without making the resulting binary bigger than my 7K goal, so I had to opt for an unconventional handling of copy/paste. From SVED's documentation: CTRL+C

Re: [Freedos-user] How do I change screen resolution?

On 8/6/23 23:34, Ralf Quint via Freedos-user wrote: DOS is using *text *mode, you just can't select a*graphics *mode and expect to get text output in that mode. BIOS text output functions still work in most graphic modes, hence having a DOS shell running in graphic mode is nothing unusual. Of

[Freedos-user] Sved, yet another text editor

Because I felt that the world needed another DOS text editor, I have spent past month's evenings on a new project named SVED. SVED (short for "the SvarDOS editor") is designed for basic editing of configuration files and such. It is NOT meant to be a full-featured text editor. On the pro side,

Re: [Freedos-user] (C library) SvarLANG ver 20230730

On 02/08/2023 00:55, Jim Hall via Freedos-user wrote: I posted a news item about it for the FreeDOS website, but I wanted to ask before I mirrored a copy to ibiblio. Would you like me to make a copy at the FreeDOS files archive at ibiblio? Hi Jim, thank you for the news item. I have absolutely

[Freedos-user] (C library) SvarLANG ver 20230730

Hi, I have recently released a new version of SvarLANG. SvarLANG is a C library and toolset for enabling DOS applications to easily support multiple languages. SvarLANG is like cats/kitten, but instead of parsing text files at runtime it stores them in a blob resource. It's lighter, faster a

Re: [Freedos-user] Unicode and codepages in apps already bundled with FreeDOS?

On 24/06/2023 02:18, Michael Brutman via Freedos-user wrote: A centralized mapping would be nice, but then you will run into the question of how strict you want the code to be. In an ideal world, one could imagine a new nlsfunc service that answers with a best effort match from the local codep