It would be an interesting alternative, except for the fact that on Windows 3.1 JAWS required a hardware synthesizer.
2017-09-28 11:18 GMT-03:00 Valiant8086 <valiant8...@gmail.com>: > Hi. > > > There is a talking apple 2e emulator out in the wild, as well as a dosbox > emulator that has windows 3.1. The shame of it is, I don't know where I got > them from. Can you try to search for them on the audyssey forums? I'm > pretty sure some folks will have been geeking out on there with these, > sharing old games back and forth and the like. > > > Cheers: > Aaron Spears, A.K.A. valiant8086. General Partner - Valiant Galaxy > Associates "We make Very Good Audiogames for the blind community - > http://valiantGalaxy.com"; > > <Sent with Thunderbird 52.1.0 portable> > > On 9/27/2017 12:31 PM, JM Casey wrote: > >> Hey Fernando. Thanks for writing back. >> >> I did some research after writing that message, and, indeed, there is just >> no way to run Dos Box and use a Windows screen-reader. Apparently even the >> DOS ones have problems as the Dos Box environment is really not designed >> for >> such programmes as screen-readers. The real issue is using the qbasic >> programme that these games need -- I have tried all compatibility >> settings >> and it just will not run under any circumstance; as you say it is a 16-bit >> application. Even setting to Windows 95 compatibility does not work. I did >> find a 64-bit QB programme, but it's third-party and I don't know what >> results will be; plus the games have their own way of calling the basic >> interpreter which I would not be able to subvert easily, I think. Maybe >> it's >> worthwhile enough for me to learn how to create a virtual machine. >> >> That said .. anyone got some really old copy of JAWS lying around? Haha >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On >> Behalf Of Fernando Gregoire >> Sent: September 27, 2017 11:24 AM >> To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com >> Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Dos Box environment? >> >> In 64-bit Windows versions you can only use console applications compiled >> in >> 32 or 64-bit, but not 16-bit or MS-DOS ones. For actual MS-DOS apps you >> need >> emulators like Dosbox or Aeon, but since at least I never got those >> emulators to present a text output instead of a graphical one, I try to >> use >> a machine with a 32-bit Windows when I need something in 16-bit. Other >> alternative is to use a virtual machine with a 32-bit operating system >> like >> Windows XP or any NT-based or, even better, Windows 9x whose MS-DOS is >> complete and not a subset like the CMD of Windows NT based versions, that >> is, all Windows versions for consummers after Windows ME. >> >> 2017-09-26 18:46 GMT-03:00 JM Casey <crystallo...@ca.inter.net>: >> >> Hi everyone. >>> >>> >>> >>> Using Windows 10 64 bit, and JAWS 18. I have a really nice looking >>> port of the Eamon adventure series, originally designed for Apple II >>> computers in the 1980s, with some newer adventures built more >>> recently. I remember using an older version of this on my XP machine. >>> It uses .bas files, as they are closest to the Applesoft Basic >>> language the games were originally written in. On the XP machine I was >>> able to get this to work, downloading Qbasic (bet there's a name most >>> of you haven't heard in a long time) and, I think, running from the >>> >> command line. >> >>> >>> >>> They are now at version 5.0 of the Eamon Deluxe package, and there is >>> even a "VI Mode", which is supposed to make the programme more >>> workable for vision impaired folks. They say this is for "all Windows >>> versions" (as of 2014, when the programme was last updated), and I >>> found a note online about 64 bit OS users needing to run this in >>> compatibility mode, which I have done. I know the programme is working >>> because my girlfriend can read the screen. >>> However, it opens this Dos Box environment, which I cannot seem to >>> access with JAWS at all. Does anyone have experience with Dos Box? Is >>> it usable at all? I tried every JAWS cursor, and all I can see is the >>> title bar and "system" menu with options to resize or close the >>> window. I contacted the developer, since he seems especially >>> interested (or at least, he was in >>> 2014) in having this work for screen-reader users. Pretty sure though >>> that the issue is with the Dos Box environment, and not the Eamon >>> files/programme itself. Any thoughts? Does anyone here actually play >>> these? >>> >>> >>> >>> Cheers. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: >>> http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ >>> >>> For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: >> http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ >> >> >> For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: >> http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ >> > > > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
