Re: Genux OS: My thoughts

2020-10-11 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : JaceK via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Genux OS: My thoughts Redownloading the file fixed it, There we go, now to remember how to make this work on other distros URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/579444/#p579444 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin

Re: Genux OS: My thoughts

2020-10-11 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : hacker via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Genux OS: My thoughts Hello, after the loading FreeDOS message, do you get a menu with options such as load FreeDOS with Gemex, safe boot, etc? Qemu's curses display is cropped, i.e. menus and screens that would be full screen on a typical system are placed around 13 lines down from

Re: Genux OS: My thoughts

2020-10-11 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : JaceK via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Genux OS: My thoughts A bone stock Ubuntu Mate 20.04.1 install, so pulse, I get to Loading FreDOS..then blank lines and nothing else. I do get the BIOS messages yes and nothing else, and I'm running the qemu that comes in Ubuntu 2.04's repos URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post

Re: Genux OS: My thoughts

2020-10-11 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : hacker via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Genux OS: My thoughts Hello, what version of qemu are you running? Also, where does it get stuck? Do you get messages about SeaBios or GemEx, the FreeDos memory manager? Also, what sound output are you using on your system, pulse, alsa, etc? URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post

Re: Genux OS: My thoughts

2020-10-11 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : JaceK via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Genux OS: My thoughts @Hacker: There anything that can be done to get it to work in other distros? I have Qemu installed. I have the .img file. Andit is just loading constantly URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/579357/#p579357 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list

Re: Genux OS: My thoughts

2020-10-10 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : hacker via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Genux OS: My thoughts Hello, The name of the package for the pcs dos games is: freedos-accessibleThe direct link to the package file, installable through pacman, or easily pulled apart with your archiving utility of choice, tar on *nix systems, 7zip on windows, is:https

Re: Genux OS: My thoughts

2020-10-10 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : queenslight via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Genux OS: My thoughts @26Hmmm, Your best people is either talking to Daniel Nash or Kyle over at https://kyle.tk/You may also find your answer by joining the Blinux Mailing List , which is dedicated to more than just Orca screen reader talk. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post

Re: Genux OS: My thoughts

2020-10-10 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : queenslight via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Genux OS: My thoughts Hmmm, Your best people is either talking to Daniel Nash or Kyle over at https://kyle.tk/ URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/579146/#p579146 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin

Re: Genux OS: My thoughts

2020-10-10 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : queenslight via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Genux OS: My thoughts Just in cas folks haven't looked at Daniel Nash's About page, just wanted to pass that along. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/579143/#p579143 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin

Re: Genux OS: My thoughts

2020-10-10 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Ethin via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Genux OS: My thoughts @27, nice rant. One could argue that each Linux distribution is an operating system, because it does provide the fundamental execution environment for application software. But your point is well made in that he didn't "make" many operating syst

Re: Genux OS: My thoughts

2020-10-10 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : devinprater via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Genux OS: My thoughts From the project page on that site:> Virtual Appliances for Virtual BoxAs Discussed later in this page, I have developed many different operating systems for both standard PC hardware, as well as single board computers like the Raspberry Pi.Oh wow, Ethin,

Re: Genux OS: My thoughts

2020-10-10 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : JaceK via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Genux OS: My thoughts No what I'm after is building the packages on other distros, not Arch ones. So can I get the games/Dosbox on other distros on Linux? Forget Arch or Genux, that is /not/ what I am asking for.E URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/579104/#p579104

Re: Genux OS: My thoughts

2020-10-10 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : queenslight via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Genux OS: My thoughts I'll get back to ya on what the official Package name for the DOS games are. From memory under the Jinux reposatories, the package name is called "Accessible Games." Also look for PCS Games if that isn't the correct name. PS. I believe a version o

Re: Genux OS: My thoughts

2020-10-10 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : JaceK via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Genux OS: My thoughts I'm more interested in the DOS emulation and PCS things however, rather than audiogames. That's what I'm after. Hell if somebody ever converted talking Dosbox to Linux I'd be al over that URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/579076/#p579076 -- Audiogames

Re: Genux OS: My thoughts

2020-10-10 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : queenslight via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Genux OS: My thoughts Hmmm...https://nashcentral.duckdns.org/projects.htmlunder the "Jinux heading, now has more links under there (including that audio demonstration I mentioned earlier.)As for getting those extra games for Ubuntu spins? One thing that Jinux has which no

Re: Genux OS: My thoughts

2020-10-10 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : JaceK via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Genux OS: My thoughts @Vablus: You can get RHvoice (the voice Genux uses) on Ubuntu Mate/Arch, it isn't something that the distro created, it's on Github and freely available@Queenslight: I wouldn't mind geting those games on other distros as wel, is there a way I can make that hapen

Re: Genux OS: My thoughts

2020-10-10 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : queenslight via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Genux OS: My thoughts An extremely large repository that does not get talked about (including all of the available PCS Dos Games.)Jinux does need a more proper web site I do admit, and Daniel Nash did create an audio demo of Jinux which "may" be helpful? It just needs an off

Re: Genux OS: My thoughts

2020-10-10 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : vablus via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Genux OS: My thoughts sounds good, I'll just have to do more research then.  It'd be great to have the voice that Genux  uses for their screen reader be available on something like manjaro or Ubuntu Mate.  Probably  gonna play around with the former just to test it out sice I've

Re: Genux OS: My thoughts

2020-10-09 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : stasp via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Genux OS: My thoughts Yeah. You cant learn commandline just in one shot. I also didn't grow up with commandlineand i'm 15. I started using command line when i was 13, on MacOS, and thats how it all started. Playing around with fun commands, installing speechsdk with brew

Re: Genux OS: My thoughts

2020-10-09 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : ironcross32 via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Genux OS: My thoughts I don't think there's any one stop shop for learning it. It's the man pages, looking online for stuff, etc. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/578916/#p578916 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https

Re: Genux OS: My thoughts

2020-10-09 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : vablus via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Genux OS: My thoughts Didn't  understand those  last few posts about installing packages and all that. I'm coming from almost no experience with command line or Linux, and almost no resources that I can find to actually learn how to work it. Not for lack of research, btw, it's just

Re: Genux OS: My thoughts

2020-10-09 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : bgt lover via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Genux OS: My thoughts Hy again!DK how you knew the ldconfig command would work, but it did. Now, I'm using rhvoice and I like it very much. Abit more love to the phoneme data and it'd be a suitable replacement to eloquence, what am I talking about? it already is, am using it on my

Re: Genux OS: My thoughts

2020-10-09 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : JaceK via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Genux OS: My thoughts Try adding sudo ldconfig after the sudo scons install part yes..alternatively go to the RHvoice github then the wiki, and the page on buuilding for your OS URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/578872/#p578872 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list

Re: Genux OS: My thoughts

2020-10-09 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : bgt lover via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Genux OS: My thoughts I tryed that, but it didn't work unfortunately. The rhvoice-test program says something like can't open shared object file libRHVoice.so.4: no such file or directory.sorry if I'm not explaining enough, I can't copy the text in flat review mode, so can't paste

Re: Genux OS: My thoughts

2020-10-09 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : JaceK via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Genux OS: My thoughts You need to build RHvoice from Github is why, the apt packages are out of date, if you're using the PPA I'm thinking of.Essentialy, install the dependancies, scons, sudo scons install, and either restart speech-dispatcher or your whole system URL: https

Re: Genux OS: My thoughts

2020-10-09 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : bgt lover via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Genux OS: My thoughts Wait... It can be built on ubuntu, and be made to work,  too? If so, I haven't managed to do it successfully. Each time I try, I get an error or another, DK why. When I add the packages, with the aptget, for example, it reports that the package was added, but I

Re: Genux OS: My thoughts

2020-10-09 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : JaceK via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Genux OS: My thoughts You can get those voices on Ubuntu, they are RHvoice which is on github and can be built for speech-dispatcher just fine URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/578796/#p578796 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin

Re: Genux OS: My thoughts

2020-10-09 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : vablus via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Genux OS: My thoughts can't even get Genux  set up properly becauseI choose my wifi network, type in the correct password, and nothing. It  doesn't go to the next page of the set up process, it doesn't do much at all, in fact.I do really love the voice that it comes with, though.  One

Re: Genux OS: My thoughts

2020-10-09 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : ironcross32 via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Genux OS: My thoughts They will come back because it's GPG keyring issues. But there are other issues, like his scripts really have no form of error checking.I don't think it's fair to say that just because it left one of my machines unbootable, that it's a bad thing. That machine

Re: Genux OS: My thoughts

2020-10-09 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : queenslight via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Genux OS: My thoughts For VMWare users, all official Ubuntu distros (and Windows for that matter), support VMWare's Easy Install feature. One of the interesting distros that works with the Orca screen reader, is Ubuntu Budgie, which feels more like the Macintosh Operating System.NB

Re: Genux OS: My thoughts

2020-10-09 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : queenslight via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Genux OS: My thoughts For VMWare users, all official Ubuntu distros (and Windows for that matter), support VMWare's Easy Install feature. One of the interesting distros that works with the Orca screen reader, is Ubuntu Budgie, which feels more like the Macintosh Operating System.NB

Re: Genux OS: My thoughts

2020-10-09 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : queenslight via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Genux OS: My thoughts For VMWare users, all official Ubuntu distros (and Windows for that matter), support VMWare's Easy Install feature. One of the interesting distros that works with the Orca screen reader, is Ubuntu Budgie, which feels more like the Macintosh Operating System. URL

Re: Genux OS: My thoughts

2020-10-09 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : stasp via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Genux OS: My thoughts @3 Partially agree.However, when the pacman errors aren't there, it works fine. I've had it on my macbook air when i stil had it and it worked great, til the stable kernel updated to 5.5.7 as far as i remember, it wouldn't boot then. I reinstalled it with lts

Re: Genux OS: My thoughts

2020-10-08 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : ironcross32 via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Genux OS: My thoughts Really there is only so many options in the boot menu. Your linux distro is first, your fallback kernel one or two or something, then windows then enter setup. You can also configure it to have like a 5 second timeout which then defaults it to windows. That means

Re: Genux OS: My thoughts

2020-10-08 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : vablus via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Genux OS: My thoughts yeah, not actually putting it on a machine because I'm scared of duel booting because I need to load Windows and there's no accessible way for you to know which OS  you're booting before it loads. So, I'm taking your advice.I put it on a USB mainly

Re: Genux OS: My thoughts

2020-10-08 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : vablus via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Genux OS: My thoughts yeah, not actually putting it on a machine because I'm scared of duel booting because I need to load Windows and there's no accessible way for you to know which OS  you're booting before it loads. So, I'm taking your advice.I put it on a USB mainly

Re: Genux OS: My thoughts

2020-10-08 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : omer via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Genux OS: My thoughts i'M with 3 here URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/578622/#p578622 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector

Re: Genux OS: My thoughts

2020-10-08 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : ironcross32 via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Genux OS: My thoughts Do not, and I repeat, do, not, put that thing on a machine you care about the data stored on its drives. Only use it in either a VM, or on a machine you've got for that specific purpose or an old machine. it is prone to errors and it very well might leave your

Re: Genux OS: My thoughts

2020-10-08 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Boo15mario via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Genux OS: My thoughts as far as I know you can't duo boot that distro URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/578618/#p578618 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames

Genux OS: My thoughts

2020-10-08 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : vablus via Audiogames-reflector
Genux OS: My thoughts Dear all Linux users:Just wanted to give my thoughts of Genux OS. It's a good system. I enjoy using it. However, it seems like it sort of expects you to know what it's saying,and  all of the more complicated things that are techincal. I know it's arch based, so I'm