Hi Felix: Wish I could chime in on this with a great solution, but, I’m still stuck in about the same place. When I talked with Jerome Shidell, he pointed me to the build environment and told me how to do the build. The only option was to build 1.3 RC2, I believe. Actually, that wasn’t a bad idea, since there were some weirdnesses with the “stable” version, which the release candidate fixed. Jerome, if you’re seeing this, can I still follow the same instructions to update my build to the latest RC? On a totally unrelated thing, I’ve been in communication with some developers of a different project based on DosBOX, and one of the folks there is talking about incorporating adding speech support which would be configurable as a serial port, but, that isn’t here yet, and, there’s no hurry on the person’s side I’m talking with. Still, that doesn’t get you native support. If your box has a physical serial port on the motherboard, or through an ISA card, I know ASAP can work with that. I don’t think anyone’s made a DOS driver that works with one of those USB adapters. However, it might work with a VM, since Windows will make the USB device into a comport which the VM will see as if it’s an old-style port—I think. Someone was going to ship me his old DoubleTalk, but, he hasn’t done that yet, so I cannot do testing on that. Sorry I can’t be of more help, but, I am wanting to update my ISO image, which I will ask Jerome about. Thanks! Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Felix G. 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 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user |
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