> Two follow-ups: > 1. My installation is based on FreeDOS 1.3 RC3. Is there a stable > version incorporating ASAP somewhere? as ASAP seems to have commercial license: no. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_screen_readers
> 2. I'd love to go native with DOS, preferrably booting from a USB > flash drive. good luck with that. > 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? yes. every BIOS for the last 15 years can. however, good luck if you have to tweak some BIOS options should this be needed. in some cases the BIOS does not allow to boot from USB automatically (to prevent booting from (intentionally?) forgotten USB sticks), and you have to press some key first, then select the USB disk from a menu. good luck with that either. > b) Can it subsequently have write access to that drive? most likely, yes. > c) Is there a software speech synth for FreeDOS for contemporary > on-board sound hardware? almost definitively no. there is exactly zero support for contemporary anything in anyDOS (that is not supported by the BIOS itself), > Thanks in advance for any clues, and all the best, Tom _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
