Hi Tom,
It's hardly a perfect solution in all cases, but DOSEmu under Linux seems to 
work well enough for most of the DOS games I'd care to play, such as Begin, 
Fallthru, and Anacreon.  Speakup reads the emulated prompt quite nicely.  
Hope this helps,
Zack.
On May 16, 2011, at 12:28 PM, Thomas Ward wrote:

> Hi Petr,
> 
> Yes, I do see where you are going with your thinking. You are aalso
> right that with Dos Box you pretty much have to have an old hardware
> synth and a Dos screen reader to use it. Unfortunately, with the lack
> of hardware synths, serial ports, etc these days its pretty much a
> given a VI user can't really use Dos Box. So even if there were a
> version of Dos Box for IPhone there wouldn't be really any way to get
> access to it via VoiceOver.
> 
> I know I have a similar problem with Dos Box. Once upon a time I could
> plug in my old Dectalk Express and load Jaws for Dos and use Dos Box
> for Linux. However, since my laptop doesn't have a serial port, my
> Dectalk cable went bad, etc I really have no access for Dos Box any
> more.
> 
> On 5/16/11, Pitermach <piterm...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> hi tom,
>> I'm not sure if apple themselves would allow for that given their strict
>> app-store guidelines, but I'm willling to bet there's something for
>> jailbroken devices. However, dosBoxit self emulates the machine directly,
>> which means it also outputs its video via directX and openGL. So you see
>> where I'm getting at.
>> I did hear of people running ASAP successfully under it, but you'd need a
>> hardware synthesizer, and I personally haven't heard of any software ones
>> that would support a sscreen reader under dos.
> 
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