[Freedos-user] Cobalt OS 1.1

[Corbin Davenport]

A little while back, I talked on here about my new FreeDOS distribution,
Cobalt. Cobalt is designed to make using DOS easier, by including
commonly-used drivers and software.

I just released Cobalt 1.1 on GitHub (changelog and download here
). It has a few
improvements that were suggested on this mailing list. Most notably, it now
includes most FreeDOS packages built-in so there's no lack of functionality.

The other new feature is in the installer. Cobalt's installer now
automatically detects if you have a DOS-compatible OS installed already,
and will allow you to 'upgrade' to Cobalt without deleting any files. I
have tested this with installations of MS-DOS 6 and 7.1, but it should work
in FreeDOS just fine.

If anyone has any suggestions for Cobalt, let me know. All the info about
Cobalt can be found here .

Corbin
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Re: [Freedos-user] HX DOS extender with AC97 and HDA soundcard support

[Karen Lewellen]

hi,
oh okay.
I am about to write you privately.  One of the members on the surv pc as 
in survivors list is in Spain. He has a good list of places from which 
you can obtain  the king of computer you desire with the ports that may 
work best.

Thanks for the textaccess tip will see what I can find.
Karen


On Fri, 19 Feb 2016, Guillem León wrote:


Hi,
Yes, I've heard of the Reading Edge. I was aware of the fact that it used 
DECtalk, but I didn't know it could act as an external synthesizer.
TextAssist doesn't require dosbox, it just needs a SoundBlaster. I meant that 
the talking dosbox package included the synthesizer. You can probably get the 
files out.


On 19 Feb 2016, at 02:50, Karen Lewellen  wrote:

Hi,
I do not use dosbox.  my dos setup is strictly dos, so if the textaccess thing 
requires dosbox it will not work.
My tie to dec is in a reading edge a stand alone scanner built by xerox that 
also has the synthesizer  option.
I have never required emulation as I expressed before.
I will ask  on some other survival pc  lists about spain.  If you are 
reasonably urban, there might be a freecycle.org group for the hardware.
will write off list too as I am now wondering about the Spanish.
Kare


On Fri, 19 Feb 2016, Guillem León wrote:


TextAssist is not too hard to find. You can get a pre-built dosbox with Win 3.1 
and TextAssist somewhere in grossgang.com. He has a lot of old DOS access 
software.
I'm in Spain, so that would probably be kind of a problem. :)
I'm guessing you're using an external DECtalk synthesizer (card/stand-alone)? 
Have you had it for a long time or did you get it from any place in particular? 
I've been collecting these things for a while now and I'd love to get hold of a 
few more.
I don't know if this might be getting a bit off-topic. Feel free to E-Mail me 
offlist if that's the case. I don't usually post on here so I don't know what's 
really acceptable. :D


On 19 Feb 2016, at 02:34, Karen Lewellen  wrote:

I use dectalk every day smiles.
where are you located?  Somewhere I have contact information for a person 
stateside who can build the machine for you, port included.
Is it still possible to find textaccess  anywhere?
might be a fun laptop option.
Kare


On Fri, 19 Feb 2016, Guillem León wrote:


Yeah, ever since I realized DOSUSB wasn't going to help me and VSB would not 
run any tts software I've been thinking of getting a dedicated machine for DOS 
but I don't really know where to look. Does anyone know of something not too 
expensive that has at least one RS232 port and a SoundBlaster-compatible card?
The quality is pretty OK. SBTalker has a low sampling rate but doesn't sound 
too bad, TextAssist sounds just like DECtalk if you've ever heard that one, and 
Monologue sounds terrible to me but it's usable although I never got it to load 
under DOS.



On 18 Feb 2016, at 23:53, Karen Lewellen  wrote:

Oh okay.
I have no idea, it might I believe someone  suggested asking on the source list 
for it.
I have always gotten my machines custom built, one can still find those with 
cereal ports.  as I use dos exclusively It has been worth it to me to keep the 
door open.
I did not know all those sound card options existed might be fun to play with 
them, assuming the sound quality is clear enough.


On Thu, 18 Feb 2016, Guillem León wrote:


I do, but none of the computers that I have have a serial port. I was hoping 
that this would be an alternative but I guess not.


On 18 Feb 2016, at 23:43, Karen Lewellen  wrote:

Understood,
May I ask what the problem is then?  Do you not have an external synthesizer?
I do not use freedos, but a later  package of ms dos 7.1  I have no issues, but 
I am not using a sound card.


On Thu, 18 Feb 2016, Guillem León wrote:


I have heard about talking dosbox, in fact I helped with the project and I made 
one of the speech synthesis helper applications, but I was hoping to be able to 
have dos running natively without emulation. I have no sight whatsoever so I 
need speech output, and the only ways of speech output available are through 
serial with an external speech synthesizer or via a SoundBlaster or compatible 
with SBTalker, Monologue, TextAssist etc.


On 18 Feb 2016, at 21:49, Karen Lewellen  wrote:

Hi Guillem,
granted I am unsure what your goals may be, but have you tried  a relatively 
new project talking dosbox?


http://batsupport.com/unsupported/dosbox/00_README.html


I can tell you nothing about it save that  it is supposed to allow for speech 
via dosbox using the sound card etc.
hope this presents a solution for you.
karen


On Thu, 18 Feb 2016, Guillem León wrote:


Hi.
Yeah, only reason I asked is because right now my only way of running DOS is 
actually through dosbox, which would make testing it kind of impossible. Before 
I dualboot my PC I want to be sure I'll be able to use it. If I don't have 
speech synthesis I can't use the computer. I would run the screenreaders 
through HX but the problem is that all the DOS sc

Re: [Freedos-user] Poor mouse pointer visibility in Edit

[Dale E Sterner]

Nice link I hope it works. Cute mouse not listed in the driver section.
I doubt it matters.

cheers
DS


On Sat, 20 Feb 2016 18:37:44 -0500 Don Flowers 
writes:
> I use this neat little mouse pointer it's pretty cool.
> http://www.pcorner.com/list/GRAPHUTI/PP111.ZIP/INFO/
> 
> On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 5:27 PM, John Hupp  
> wrote:
> 
> > With the default installation of FreeDOS 1.1 on real hardware 
> (Pentium
> > II @ 300 MHz, 48 MB, ATI 3D Rage Pro AGP video with 4 MB), I find 
> that
> > the mouse pointer in Edit with a file open is almost invisible.   
> There
> > are partial-image flashes of the expected brown rectangle.  But if 
> I
> > open a menu, then there is a nice solid brown rectangle while the 
> menu
> > is open.
> >
> > In the FreeDOS Help system, the pointer is a nice solid gray.
> >
> > I got the same results with 2 LCD monitors and also a CRT.
> >
> > I don't have anything additional installed on this system yet so I 
> don't
> > know what the behavior will be in other programs.
> >
> > The mouse pointer has never been pretty in Edit -- it's usually 
> flashing
> > but fully visible -- but I have never seen it virtually invisible 
> like
> > this.  Initially I thought there was no pointer until I stepped 
> through
> > the Autoexec.bat startup and confirmed that MOUSE does indeed run
> > successfully, after which I looked harder and saw the visual 
> traces of
> > the pointer in Edit.
> >
> > Does anyone have an explanation or solution?
> >
> >
> > 
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