Re: [orca-list] could this be modded?

["B. Henry" <burt1iband gmail com>]

Well, a lot of the point of this is it is an option for the 95% of screenreader users who do not have a 
hardware synth. 
My ancient echo was part of what was lost along with my flopies, and that really sucks. I'd even made a 
battery pack for it that would run for almost an 
hour before the speech went all crazy because of amperage drop-off...(only used that solution a couple of 
times for obvious reasons...)
I'll shut up about this now as it really is OT, and we've already had a lot of OT chatter theis last couple 
of days.
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     B.H.
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  Mike Ray wrote:
Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 05:11:35PM +0000

> You could run dosbox on Linux, install a copy of DOS, which you can find
> for download.  If you have a hardware synth and a serial port you could
> run the DOS screen-reader HAL, which you can also download.
>
> Some of the early Borland compilers can be found for download.  Turbo
> Pascal is a classic.  And various DOS games.
>
> But as for Windows 3.1, I can't think of a reason to do this, unless
> you're a massochist.
>
> On the plus side, at least now I can't see I wouldn't have to stare at
> that damned hourglass for hours on end.
>
>
>
> On 22/12/2014 17:05, B. Henry wrote:
> > Windows 3.1, give me a break!
> > I wasn't interested in running that when it was the only windows in town...
> > As for the screenreaders in question, ASAP was, and I reckon still is a very good DOS screenreader. I 
> > became very conflicted after grabbing one of their 
> > demos, full featured only a short announcement every 15 minutes to remind you where you could buy, and 
> > that did not interupt important goings on. I'd 
> > already spent $400 on Vocal-eyes, which was also very good I must say, but I found myself using ASAP more 
> > and had no more money to spend. 
> > I moved away from internet access after a few months, and sadly someone lost all my floppies and the 
> > other remnants of my DOS daze instead of safely 
> > storing the stuff for me.
> > I wonder why the py.serial and com0com stuff still relies on python2.6, if much of anybody really cared 
> > you'd think they'd at least have gotten this 
> > working with 2.7; or is this a really old post you found somewhere?
> > What's the deal with vmware 4.0 also, 5 was fine on Linux as I recalled, does it not give good 
> > accessibility on that microsoft OS? 
> > I don't even know what a virtual bns server is.
> >  Never mind, fake blind-ghetto-ware!...lol
> > Sounds like it's mostly a question of finding the Linux answer to com0com and see about py-serial as 
> > well. 
> > So, I guess the answer is, code and you shall receive, and actually this may just be a case of doing a 
> > bit of research and configuration.
> > It's OT for here, so please do not shoot me for replying folks.
>
>
> -- 
> Michael A. Ray
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> Witley, Surrey, South-east UK
>
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> (It's a long way by the rules, but short and efficient with examples)
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