Re: Jenux OS, The "Next Jen!"
hi, glad it worked for you. To set up the pcs games, do the following:
1. open up a terminal with control alt shift t. If you're using the gnome desktop, hit alt f1, type terminal, and hit enter to run the terminal application.
2. Install both the yasr screen reader, which will give you a better curses console experience, as well as the preconfigured dos vm by running:
sudo pacman -S freedos-accessible yasr
3. hit caps lock+s to temporarily silence orca
4. type the following command to start a talking shell with yasr:
yasr
5. If you hear a slightly slower voice with a russian accent, you are in yasr, and can continue. If you don't hear any speech after a few seconds, hit caps lock+s to turn on orca, and continue to appendix a.
6. Once you are in yasr, type the following to start up dos:
startdos
Note: The first time you run startdos, you will hear "blank" for about a minute as the default image is copied to your home directory. On some slow storage configurations, this can take several minutes, as a 1 GB file needs to be copied to your home directory.
Appendix A. yasr setup
Upon installation, a default configuration file for yasr will be copied to the skeletal user directory. To have yasr use speech-dispatcher, you need to copy this default configuration file to your user account. To do this, run the following commands, substituting user with your username:
sudo cp /etc/skel/.yasr.conf /home/user
sudo chown user:user /home/user/.yasr.conf
This should let you launch yasr with speech-dispatcher
Appendix B: dos
So I have this dos thing set up,now what do I do with it? Dos is booting when you hear something about SeBios, then a prompt about FreeDos Kernel and GemEx, followed by the good old c:\> prompt. Once you're at the c:\> prompt, you can type the following to see your files in the virtual dos drive:
dir /b
To go into a directory, assuming your directory is called dir, type
cd dir
you can then run dir /b again to list what's under that directory.
To go back one level, type
cd ..
Most of the games are in the games\pcs directory
To run shooting range, for example, type the following:
cd GAMES\PCS\SHOOT
shoot
To exit dos and go back into the real world, at the prompt, type shutdown and hit enter. If the VM is locked up or not responding and you need to show it who's the boss by forcefully pulling its plug, hit alt 2. You will be presented with the qemu monitor console. In the console, type:
quit
then hit enter. Some games use special keys like escape that get eaten up by the terminal driver. To send keys, hit alt 2 to bring up the monitor console, and type:
sendkey esc
to send escape. To copy files into, or get files out of your dos virtual drive, run the following:
udisksctl loop-setup -f ~/.dos.img
This command will give you a message like:
Mapped file /home/user/.dos.img as /dev/loop0.
To mount the file to loop at the files inside, run the following, replacing /dev/loop0 with the block device file that was just mapped:
udisksctl mount -b /dev/loop0p1
This will show something like:
Mounted /dev/loop0p1 at /run/media/user/FREEDOS2016.
you can then use a file browser, the terminal, a shotgun loaded with file carrying pidgin, a monkey covered data copyer, or anything your heart desires to get files in and in and out of the virtual drive. When done, unmount it by running, obviously replacing user with your user name and loop0 with the block device you mounted above:
umount /run/media/user/FREEDOS2016
udislsctl loop-delete -b /dev/loop0
If you took your dos drive and fed it to the mutated captain crunch loving tuna fish licking frog kissing monkey army from planet x and want to restore it to its factory settings, simply delete the .dos.img file from your home folder. Next time you run startdos, the original, package installed image will be restored, although you will have to wait the same time you originally did when running the program for the first time. I hope this helps.
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