From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from ti-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.142.186]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1JTh7H-0007Xw-00 for ; Mon, 25 Feb 2008 12:27:51 -0500 Received: by ti-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id 11so1029097tim.7 for ; Mon, 25 Feb 2008 09:27:46 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.110.10.11 with SMTP id 11mr2376398tij.13.1203960465793; Mon, 25 Feb 2008 09:27:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from owner48d1b28f0 ( [96.227.9.193]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id i40sm196785wxd.25.2008.02.25.09.27.25 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 25 Feb 2008 09:27:36 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <002d01c877d3$b4c9fbc0$6402a8c0@owner48d1b28f0> From: "josh" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <20080224201746.GA28858@clearwire.net><006501c8774e$241e5060$6402a8c0@owner48d1b28f0><20080225035450.GA4047@clearwire.net> <001e01c877cd$05d67180$5501a8c0@mcgee> Subject: Re: 4DOS Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 12:27:06 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:27:51 -0000 it would be cool if one of the dos screen readers could work with a software synthesizer. email: jkenn337@gmail.com skype: jkenn337 msn: kenn6498ku@hotmail.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "John G. Heim" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 11:39 AM Subject: Re: 4DOS > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gaijin" > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." > >> >> Think it would be nice to collect all this old stuff and put it >> on a CD or DVD iso image. I wonder what some of these defunct companies >> would say if we asked them to release the old, no longer supported >> source code to the GPL. I miss the old WordStar Professional word >> processor. >> > > By and large they'd say no. I've seen it tried many times and mostly you > get no answer or a refusal. I think these people still have lawyers > telling > them it's a bad idea. Maybe they have something to hide within their > code -- > like that it wasn't entirely their own in the first place. > > Anyway, I don't know anything about 4dos but the FreeDOS project is alive > and well. Their mailing list is very active (google it). Anyone interested > in DOS applications should definately check out FreeDOS. For instance, I > know that Jaws for DOS; which is a free download on the Freedom Scientific > web site; runs under FreeDOS. > > I have a diskette image on my web site that allows you to boot freeDOS > with > jaws for DOS. It's configured to start talking with an external doubletalk > hardware synth. In other words, if you have a doubletalk, you can boot > from > this diskette and get speech. See: > > http://www.math.wisc.edu/~jheim/blindi/FreeDOS-ltlk.img > > The diskette image also includes CD-ROM support. So, theoretically, you > can > boot from a diskette made with this image and then access a CD-ROM. I was > hoping to install Windows this way. But the Windows installer craps out > when > run under FreeDOS. However, you should be able to make a bootable CD-ROM > with this image. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup