Re: [Freedos-user] more about screen readers

2010-04-09 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Karen, while I have not used any screen reader, I have used both text to speech (to announce incoming mail) and written a tool to forward an extract of a DOS or Linux text screen to a 4 by 20 LCD display, navigated by buttons on the LCD. The latter arguably has some similarity to a

Re: [Freedos-user] Any chance to use 1280x1024 on Win 3.11 in Virtualbox?

2010-04-09 Thread Liam Proven
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Sol-Terrasa mkfs ext4 da' Sussex alex.bu...@munted.org.uk wrote: On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 14:22 +0100, Liam Proven wrote Windows 3.1x for high resolution displays i.e. beyond 1280x1024 with 16 million colours. Sadly I've had to abandon it due to lack of

Re: [Freedos-user] Any chance to use 1280x1024 on Win 3.11 in Virtualbox?

2010-04-09 Thread Sol-Terrasa mkfs ext4 da' Sussex
On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 13:46 +0100, Liam Proven wrote: *sigh* I'd forgotten about that 64k limitation. :( There is a /reason/ why people dropped Windows 3 like a hot potato once they had a better alternative! To be honest, Windows 9x or NT 3 are far more interesting retro OSs to play

Re: [Freedos-user] Any chance to use 1280x1024 on Win 3.11 in Virtualbox?

2010-04-09 Thread Liam Proven
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Sol-Terrasa mkfs ext4 da' Sussex alex.bu...@munted.org.uk wrote: On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 13:46 +0100, Liam Proven wrote: *sigh* I'd forgotten about that 64k limitation. :( There is a /reason/ why people dropped Windows 3 like a hot potato once they had a better

Re: [Freedos-user] more about screen readers

2010-04-09 Thread Karen Lewellen
Eric, first, with all due respect. until you are using these tools in a situation that mirrors the varied ones by those experiencing vision loss, you cannot even guess at this. as for my interest in what I would want to see improved in freedos, have a look at enhanced Dr dos and you will get