Hi everyone.
Using Windows 10 64 bit, and JAWS 18. I have a really nice looking port of the Eamon adventure series, originally designed for Apple II computers in the 1980s, with some newer adventures built more recently. I remember using an older version of this on my XP machine. It uses .bas files, as they are closest to the Applesoft Basic language the games were originally written in. On the XP machine I was able to get this to work, downloading Qbasic (bet there's a name most of you haven't heard in a long time) and, I think, running from the command line. They are now at version 5.0 of the Eamon Deluxe package, and there is even a "VI Mode", which is supposed to make the programme more workable for vision impaired folks. They say this is for "all Windows versions" (as of 2014, when the programme was last updated), and I found a note online about 64 bit OS users needing to run this in compatibility mode, which I have done. I know the programme is working because my girlfriend can read the screen. However, it opens this Dos Box environment, which I cannot seem to access with JAWS at all. Does anyone have experience with Dos Box? Is it usable at all? I tried every JAWS cursor, and all I can see is the title bar and "system" menu with options to resize or close the window. I contacted the developer, since he seems especially interested (or at least, he was in 2014) in having this work for screen-reader users. Pretty sure though that the issue is with the Dos Box environment, and not the Eamon files/programme itself. Any thoughts? Does anyone here actually play these? Cheers. For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
