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

2024-09-24 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
Hello Lawrence, you log is somehow truncated, but only a few packages are needed: dosemu2: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.38) but 2.36-9+rpt2+deb12u8 is to be installed Is your Raspberry Pi OS the newest version? Depends: libreadline8t64 (>= 6.0) but it is not installable Maybe weird name for libread

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

2024-09-24 Thread Lawrence Perez via Freedos-user
Hello Eric, I downloaded the ARM64 binaries of dosemu2 and got comcom64 and dj64 installed. However, fdpp and Dosemu won’t install, as they require packages that are not available in Raspberry Pi OS / Debian 12 Bookworm. Please see the dosemu2.log file I’ve attached. I have another idea. I’m c

Re: [Freedos-user] A list of programs for writing images of FreeDos to various media

2024-09-24 Thread Orson Yancey via Freedos-user
Hi Ged, Thank you for the reply. A lot of interesting information there. I have a feeling that you might be close to my age. I am age 68. Having fun playing with DOS and Linux Lite on old hardware. Orson Yancey New Hampshire, USA On Tue, Sep 24, 2024 at 2:39 PM tsiegel--- via Freedos-user < fr

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

2024-09-24 Thread tsiegel--- via Freedos-user
Having used dos with screen readers for nearly 20 years, I can honestly say, if you get a plain dos install working, you will run into programs that work well, some that work enough to get the job done, and some that won't work at all, (just like on any other platform).  Generally, if they use

Re: [Freedos-user] A list of programs for writing images of FreeDos to various media

2024-09-24 Thread tsiegel--- via Freedos-user
You could use the open source version of caldera dos (as long as the customer is the one to install it, then you can provide them fixes if necessary). Or, if you need a commercial offering, PTS dos from paragon has source code, and it's free to use in any environment, though I can't find any

[Freedos-user] Conference talk today about FreeDOS

2024-09-24 Thread Jim Hall via Freedos-user
FYI that I'm "speaking" at Nerdearla (pre-recorded, but live Q&A) about FreeDOS. My talk is '30 years of open source with the FreeDOS Project' and will be broadcast on today at 4:35 pm, Argentina time UTC-3, on the event platform and will be posted on Nerdearla's YouTube channel sometime after tha

Re: [Freedos-user] A list of programs for writing images of FreeDos to various media

2024-09-24 Thread G.W. Haywood via Freedos-user
Hi there, On Mon, 23 Sep 2024, Orson Yancey via Freedos-user wrote: ... It would be helpful to novices, like myself, if on the Download FreeDos 1.3 page, if there was a link to some information on how to write images to various media. Maybe there could be a little bit more in the README inclu