Yay! I knew why I posted here. That's exactly the kind of data I'm collecting. I'm going to try and create a FreeDOS bootable flash drive with the help of Rufus or some such, and put a screen reader on it. Then I'm going to dig out my old Juno speech synthesizer, connect it to COM1 of my old pc, and see if I can get it to speak. From there, the sky's the limit. It'll probably fail in a dozen unexpected ways and if you folks are interested I can keep you updated. In any case it's nicely adventurous. Best, Felix
Am Di., 11. Mai 2021 um 13:16 Uhr schrieb tom ehlert <t...@drivesnapshot.de>: > > > > 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 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
