Hello dear community! It's been a long time since I contributed here. Some of you might remember me as a blind text adventure enthusiast trying to get very old DOS text games to run in a blind-accessible manner. Long story short, I made it. Long story long: Joseph Norton put together a FreeDOS bootable installation ISO with a DOS screen reader, becoming my hero in the process, and using this I was able to install FreeDOS on a virtual machine using a Windows-hosted speech synthesizer emulator listening on a virtual serial port. ASAP, from deep within DOS, sends its output to a serial port of my vm which is mapped to one end of a pair of COM0COM ports. On the other end I have a speech synthesizer emulator picking up that output and transforming it into actual speech using ESpeak. It's a wild construction but it works beautifully. If anybody else here would like to try it and is running into problems, please contact me and I'll try to help. Two follow-ups: 1. My installation is based on FreeDOS 1.3 RC3. Is there a stable version incorporating ASAP somewhere? 2. I'd love to go native with DOS, preferrably booting from a USB flash drive. Of course insodoing I lose my speech synthesizer emulator as this is Windows-hosted. This leads to the following sub-problems: a) Can FreeDOS boot from a flash drive? b) Can it subsequently have write access to that drive? c) Is there a software speech synth for FreeDOS for contemporary on-board sound hardware? Thanks in advance for any clues, and all the best, Felix
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