Hi Lawrence,
Somewhere, there is a freedos build that incorporates the DOS screen
reader called asap.
I have never run freedos personally, I use Ms dos 7.1 instead, and with
actual hardware.
If Joseph Norton's build is not on the freedos site, he Might have sent
it to me off list, that would take some digging.
other options not referenced so far include tinytalk and vocal eyes,
screen power, as well.
If your goal is really virtual, then Joseph's build is likely your best
bet, it uses the voice for braille and speak, cannot say anything about
its quality as I have never heard it. still he got permission from the
developer of ASAP to use it with freedos.
Can you give me until Sunday to see if I have a link from him somewhere?
Karen
On Fri, 27 Sep 2024, Lawrence Perez via Freedos-user wrote:
Hello everyone,
I managed to get FreeDOS installed. When it restarts, the DVD disc asks if you want to
boot from the C: drive. The Orca screen reader didn't read this menu correctly due to the
timer, so without realizing it, I inadvertently pressed Enter on the "Boot from
C:" option, and the disk tried to load from C:. The best way I found to get around
this is to wait for the boot timer to time out, which automatically loads the DOS
environment from the DVD drive by default, and then type `setup.bat`.
I plan to contact the DOSEMU2 team and ask about Raspberry Pi support.
An open-source screen reader for DOS was mentioned in this thread. Could you
please tell me where I could find the screen reader? I’d like to try to get it
working in my virtual FreeDOS environment.
Sincerely,
Lawrence
Sent from my iPhone
On Sep 26, 2024, at 1:32 AM, Eric Auer via Freedos-user
<freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
Hello!
According to the images, that keyboard has the same chips as the first
https://ardent-tool.com/keyboard/Model_M.html#PS2_PCBs
http://ohlandl.ipv7.net/keyboard/Keyboard.html#Model_M_PCB
Not sure which of the 2 copies of that website is the original one.
It has a 4x4 block with the keys
1 2 3 A
4 5 6 B
7 8 9 C
* 0 ? ?
The two ? keys actually are unmarked grey keys, others are white.
Right of the 4x4 block, there is a double height HELP key on top
and a double height STOP key below it.
"Despite using a PS/2 cable, the Screen Reader Keypad is not a
typical PS/2 device. It was intended to be connected through
either a PS/2 mouse port or a PS/2 port on a drop-in ISA expansion
card for PC/XT and PC/AT systems called the IBM Screen Reader
Adapter (P/N 57F1588, assembly P/N 57F1587, FRU 33F4842)."
The page also links to
https://sharktastica.co.uk/wiki?id=modelmsrk
which gives more details. There, the keys below 9 and C
are listed as # and D respectively, which is plausible.
Regards, Eric
Hello.
Here I found information about the special keypad.
https://deskthority.net/wiki/IBM_Screen_Reader_Keypad
It still insist that it worked on DOS, but as I told you, I had never seen
it running.
Regards.
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