hmmm dosbox is opensource, what would be the disadvantage of gettring
rid of sdl entirely, obviously you would need the old 16 bit support
which is why sdl is probably used, but why is there not a port
without sdl or at least sdl for output, it seems the most logical way
to handle this is kill sdl entirely but what other purpose is it
needed then for output.
and if its needed for more things than output then could output be
put somewhere either via dosbox itself or via some sort of dosbox
translater that connects with it like a frontend/ backend, there are
frontends for dosbox for some games that doesn't help us for text
games sadly but a program that used an emulator like dosbox to run
16bit apps but did its own outputs either as a windows or console app
would that work, something like a vm without all the crazyness you
need to make a vm work like a portable vm.
Hmm if josh's dos vm could be made such that the vm was portable with
the python libraries included and everything compiled with maybe the
only need to install com 0 com or even have it as part of the setup
package and all the other stuff and have it run off one icon one
executable that would install and run all files and manage itself
like a standard windows program I'd have no issue running it.
At 02:18 a.m. 10/01/2015, you wrote:
Hi Shaun,
No, absolutely not. The reason being that SDL is itself the problem.
The way SDL displays text on the screen is at a very low level that
completely bypasses the Windows API etc right on by therefore there is
no way for the screen reader to determine what is on screen. It would
not be any different than creating an emulator using OpenGL,
Direct3D,etc because the text, and I use that term loosely here, is
rendered graphically rather than through standard Windows controls. As
long as Dosbox etc is outside of the standard accessibility chain it
will never be accessible.
Cheers!
On 1/9/15, shaun everiss <sm.ever...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I just had a crazy thought, if there was some way to have an sdl app
> that looked like a console or that was a windows console interface
> with dosbox would that work.
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