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";
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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-----
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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.
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