Hi josh,
Well, that is not necessarily true though. I am a dedicated Linux
user, and have tried Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8 all
in virtual machines and the truth is that not all run equally well in
a virtual machine. XP requires a lot less resources than does Windows
7 so its not
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Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2013 9:34 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] DosBox questions
Hi josh,
Well, that is not necessarily true
Hi Jacob,
Well, number one Windows 8 can't upgrade Windows XP. According to the
Microsoft system requirements you must be running Windows Vista or
higher so if you tried upgrading an XP virtual machine with Windows 8
no wonder it failed. :D
Regarding drivers the release candidate had a limited
broken his body, but not his spirit...'
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From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com
To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org
Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2013 10:18 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] DosBox questions
Hi Jacob,
Well, number one Windows 8 can't upgrade
Hey Thomas,
I'm pretty sure that switching to a classic desktop theme turns off Aero.
In the past I've always switched to a classic theme because it was
higher contrast and my vision could pick up a bit more. These days I am
in a high contrast theme and don't believe Aero is running.
If you
Hi Ian,
Yes, that is true, but that is missing the point I was making. The
point was that not all Windows versions work equally as well in a
virtual machine. Windows 7 seems to be something of a resource hog,
and uses a whole lot more resources to run than XP on the same system.
Windows Arrow
Hi Thomas,
I definitely got your point. I just wanted to make sure you knew that
Aero could be disabled as you were blaming it for much of the slowdown
in Vista and Windows 7.
Cheers,
Ian Reed
On 8/27/2013 11:26 AM, Thomas Ward wrote:
Hi Ian,
Yes, that is true, but that is missing the
again for the help.
al
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From: Gamers [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Josh
Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2013 9:04 PM
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Subject: Re: [Audyssey] DosBox questions
I play games like any night football and world series baseball
, 2013 9:04 PM
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I play games like any night football and world series baseball in the xp dos
command prompt. they work great. I am using vinux4 as my operating system
and virtual machines are a whole lot more responsive running on top
Hi gang,
I am trying to get DOSBox to work on my win7 machine. I started it, but
what I got when it ran was two separate windows, one was called DOSBox and
the other a DOSBox status screen. I couldn't seem to type into either of
those.
I am using jaws 14. The guy who set up the computer has a
Sadly, DosBox itself is almost completely unusable. If you have a hardware
speech synthesizer and lots of time to fiddle with it you might be able to get
an old Dos screen reader to work, but I’d bet against that being easy. Windows
screen readers simply won’t read he DOSBox windows.
Sadly, I
] DosBox questions
Sadly, DosBox itself is almost completely unusable. If you have a hardware
speech synthesizer and lots of time to fiddle with it you might be able to
get an old Dos screen reader to work, but I'd bet against that being easy.
Windows screen readers simply won't read he DOSBox windows
PM
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Sadly, DosBox itself is almost completely unusable. If you have a hardware
speech synthesizer and lots of time to fiddle with it you might be able to
get an old Dos screen reader to work, but I'd bet against that being
no they are not. just use windows xp and you can play the old dos games.
NVDA works best in a dos box under xp iin the xp commmand command prompt
window.
sent from my vinux4 Linux laptop
On 08/25/2013 07:37 PM, Zachary Kline wrote:
Sadly, DosBox itself is almost completely unusable. If you
Oh, great, that is good news then! Thank you!
al
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Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2013 8:29 PM
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Subject: Re: [Audyssey] DosBox questions
no they are not. just use windows xp and you
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no they are not. just use windows xp and you can play the old dos games.
NVDA works best in a dos box under xp iin the xp commmand command prompt
window
: [Audyssey] DosBox questions
I play games like any night football and world series baseball in the xp dos
command prompt. they work great. I am using vinux4 as my operating system
and virtual machines are a whole lot more responsive running on top of linux
than they are running on top of windows
Hi Al,
Well, to begin with Dosbox isn't screen reader accessible so I wonder
why you are bothering trying to use it in the first place. The last
time I messed around with it I don't remember two windows so can't
help with that aspect of your message, but usually typing exit will
quit the program
Hi Al,
Red Hat is a specific distribution or brand of Linux mainly designed
for large scale businesses and corporate servers and such. Its not
actually all that accessible, or necessarily appropriate for a home
user. Something like Ubuntu 12.04.2 or Vinux 4.0 is more appropriate
for a home user.
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From: Thomas Ward
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Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2013 10:27 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] DosBox questions
Hi Al,
Well, to begin with Dosbox isn't screen reader accessible so I wonder
why you are bothering trying to use it in the first place. The last
time I
Hi Josh,
Agreed. Running XP etc virtually on Linux does work better than the
other way around. I'm not sure why, but it may have to do with Linux
handling hardware resources better than does Windows. I do find many
things do run faster under Linux such as Firefox over their Windows
counterparts,
Hi Al,
First things first. When running Dos programs there is no start
command. Not sure where you got that idea, but if it is a standard
executable just typing the program name will launch it. For example,
if piledriver was in c:\pd49 you would type
c:\pd49\pd49
and the program would run. That's
Hi,
I'll add to Josh's post if you use NVDA to play Dos games in the XP
Command Prompt window disable typed characters with insert+2 in order
to get NVDA to read the Command Prompt correctly. Otherwise it will
spell everything on the screen for some reason.
Cheers!
On 8/25/13, Josh
Hi Zack,
Agreed. Dosemu rocks. I've used it with Orca as well, but with Speakup
it is almost as good as having a real Dos machine since Speakup is a
console screen reader similar to ASAP, and Dosemu does a fairly decent
job of running old Dos programs. If it weren't for Dosemu I wouldn't
have
Hi Al,
No, I don't use Dosbox. What I use to play games like Wrestling League
Simulator is a program called Dosemu for Linux. Dosemu is an MS Dos
emulator for the Linux operating system that works very well with the
Speakup console screen reader, and is the best way to run old Dos
games without
so is dosemu better than nvda in xp or is it similar?
sent from my vinux4 Linux laptop
On 08/25/2013 11:06 PM, Thomas Ward wrote:
Hi Zack,
Agreed. Dosemu rocks. I've used it with Orca as well, but with Speakup
it is almost as good as having a real Dos machine since Speakup is a
console screen
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Hi Al,
Red Hat is a specific distribution or brand of Linux mainly designed for
large scale businesses and corporate servers and such. Its not actually all
that accessible, or necessarily appropriate for a home user. Something like
Ubuntu 12.04.2 or Vinux
Hi Josh,
Hard to say. I have used both, but in the end it is up to the person's
individual preference weather they like Dosemu or the XP Command
Prompt better. The one advantage the XP Command Prompt has over Dosemu
is that Dos games with sound work better where in Dosemu the game's
sounds don't
yes well xp works good in the virtual machine. so i'll just use that for
the dos games i think.
sent from my vinux4 Linux laptop
On 08/25/2013 11:26 PM, Thomas Ward wrote:
Hi Josh,
Hard to say. I have used both, but in the end it is up to the person's
individual preference weather they like
Hi Al,
That's quite understandable. Since that was your only contact with the
Linux OS and it was a couple of decades ago I'm not surprised you
aren't up to speed with what is currently available. Back then
distributions like Ubuntu, Sonar, and Vinux didn't exist. Neither did
the Gnome screen
games?
Thanks again for the help.
al
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I play games like any night football and world series baseball
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