Hi Eric! Thank you for your helpful suggestions! While they may ultimately come in handy if all else fails, I was actually hoping, coming from operating system A, that I would not have to familiarize myself with operating system C first in order to then use operating system B. In fact, since I don't really feel confident enough to install Linux natively on my machine alongside Windows 10, again I would need to go the virtual route, only now with an additional step of indirection, namely, Dosemu2 running on Linux running on Windows. Is that even viable, by the way? On a related note, how does Dosemu actually stack up compared to FreeDOS in a virtual machine? Is Dosemu2 considered mature enough to be an alternative to FreeDOS, or is it, like Dosbox, an attempt at getting DOS-like behavior from a non-DOS machine without doing actual deep virtualization? Can FreeDOS genuinely run inside Dosemu2, and is there any documentation on how to get it up and running on an existing Linux system? All the best, Felix
Am So., 15. März 2020 um 18:04 Uhr schrieb Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de>: > > > Hi Felix, welcome to FreeDOS! > > If you do not like dosbox, you may want to try > dosemu2 in Linux. That way, you can use Linux > audio drivers and speech synthesizers, which is > probably easier than using DOS ones, while still > being able to switch away from dosbox. > > While dosemu2 is more modern, you can fall back to > a pre-packaged dosemu which various Linux distros > have available. It can be run either in a plain > text mode or graphically and the plain text mode > can be used in terminal or console, which should > make it convenient to use with standard speech > output functionality in Linux graphical desktops. > > Ironically, I do not know how to enable speech > in non-graphical Linux, but probably other users > here can make suggestions. Linux also has BRLTTY > support for Braille displays, which in turn can > be connected to speech software which might be > easier to use in non-graphical contexts. > Regards, Eric > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
