hey Scott, no surprises there that you had to get sighted assistance with VPC, because it emulates to such an extent that windows is clueless that its not running on a real PC box full of hardware, if that makes sense, even to the point where you can network up your mac and PC and windows really thinks theres a crossover cable involved hehe. Its cool that VO read the instalation and menus though. If you ever need to reinstall after today then i reckon an unattended script would work as normal, if you know anything about those.
The other scott ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Howell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by theblind" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2006 11:25 AM Subject: Re: mac running windows XP > Hey, two things for you. First on Read Iris, I had a chat with them > regarding the issue of the scanner driver interface coming up, they > said that is a function of the scanner manufacturer's software and > there's nothing that can be done, but the scanner does have to be > twain complient. I spoke to Epson and they informed me that this is > how all the scanners behave. I then spoke to HP and was told that > only scanners like the 5590 and higher-end stuff behaves by not > bringing up an interface and that scanner is $299. Not sure I want to > spend $299 on a scanner at this point so guess I'll have to live with > it. Also the Iris site when you order the pkg is a real drag to work > with and I was forced to use ie on the windows platform. Hey they US > rep agreed the site sucked at least. I did get it for $59 instead of > $129 so I do not know if this was some special or anyone who tries it > gets the special deal, but that deal came to me in an e-mail. > Now on Virtual PC. Well installing it wasn't to bad, but man its > pretty painful when setting up xp, I had to get sighted assistance > because the windows don't seem to speak really at all. I can say the > menus in the program are accessible enough, but I haven't found a way > to really know what's going on with the screen. I tried all teh VO > tricks I know so maybe you'll have better luck, but thought you would > want heads-up on this. I'll report any success once xp is installed. > Of course I can't say what will happen since I had xp on another box > before it died so I don't know if the key will still be good on this > install, we'll see. grin > > > Scott > > > > On Jan 13, 2006, at 7:14 PM, Jacob Schmude wrote: > > > Hi > > That's cool, you'll probably get to test it before I do unless > > amazon ships my cd exceptionally fast or something. I got the > > version without xp also, since I've already got XP and I see no > > reason to buy another copy. The performance probably won't be too > > hot but that's the way emulators are, especially since it has to > > translate Intel instructions into PPC and back again, at least for > > now--what the Intel switch will bring on this front, I have no idea. > > > > > > >
