Re: [orca-list] talking dosbox in wine?

[Josh K <joshknnd1982 gmail com>]

dosemu doesn't work with jim kitchen's dos games that write to bios.

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On 8/29/2015 5:40 AM, Tony Baechler wrote:
> Why? You can install dosemu and run them directly from an emulated 
> DOS, so why bother with a Windows emulation of a DOS emulation? 
> Speakup and Orca should be able to read dosemu from a terminal. Also, 
> dosbox already exists for Linux, so wine would be a waste of time.  
> Finally, wine doesn't work with any screen reader in Windows, so other 
> than for self-voicing Windows games, it's useless, at least from my 
> understanding.  I would just install dosemu if you have hardware 
> speech or dosbox if you don't.  You'll have to reconfigure dosbox 
> since Linux doesn't use COMx for serial ports.
>
> On 8/28/2015 8:41 PM, Josh K wrote:
> > hi
> > would it be possible to get talking dosbox and a braille n speak 
> > emulator
> > you get them for free from
> >
> > http://batsupport.com/unsupported/dosbox/
> >
> > would it be possible to get them working in wine maybe talking dosbox 
> > and
> > the emulator with the edward voice? then we would have many many more 
> > games
> > and applications to play with and use including football and baseball 
> > text
> > games and more.