Re: Emulator image for running the Linux screenreader speakup on Windows
Re: Emulator image for running the Linux screenreader speakup on Windows bgt lover: the Qemu website only seems to provide installers for Windows -- I don't see any stand alone archives on their website for download, so I'm not sure if I'd be able to easily package this into one archive for people to download all together.At minimum I could bundle this with a bat file like zkline mentioned which would at least reduce one of the steps here.I messed up my Windows install a few days ago, along with a lot of other emulator setups I had, so at the moment I can't actually run anything on Windows until I get around to re-installing it. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/610719/#p610719 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Emulator image for running the Linux screenreader speakup on Windows
2021-01-28
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AudioGames . net Forum — General Game Discussion : bgt lover via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Emulator image for running the Linux screenreader speakup on Windows yeah, but dosbox actually uses botches under the hood, you can see this if you look carefully at...don't remember quite well...some config file, the place where you configure what disks does the emulated machine see, etc. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/610706/#p610706 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Emulator image for running the Linux screenreader speakup on Windows
2021-01-28
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AudioGames . net Forum — General Game Discussion : zkline via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Emulator image for running the Linux screenreader speakup on Windows The Talking DosBox system actually uses DosBox, which is an emulator for DOS alone, and not bochs, as far as I'm aware. It's not quite as general as Qemu or other VMs.Unfortunately, I ran into trouble getting this to work under Mac OS, but I already have a working copy of the Linux games anyway, so it isn't a big deal. I suggest Windows folks try it for sure, however. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/610697/#p610697 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Emulator image for running the Linux screenreader speakup on Windows
2021-01-28
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AudioGames . net Forum — General Game Discussion : bgt lover via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Emulator image for running the Linux screenreader speakup on Windows isn't it possible to pack both the qemu executable and the required image files, along with a command to run them in a single executable? For examples of this, the talking dosbox passes pretty good even though it uses botches, not qemu. Or does botches support archiving a system this way? URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/610684/#p610684 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Emulator image for running the Linux screenreader speakup on Windows
2021-01-28
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AudioGames . net Forum — General Game Discussion : zkline via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Emulator image for running the Linux screenreader speakup on Windows Hey,This looks really good. Going to grab it and see how well it behaves. I already have an actual Linux setup, of course, but it'll be good to have an alternative that would be easier to handle. It's also worth noting that for folks who don't have a numeric keypad, you can use capslock or the Windows key, plus the keys on the right side of the keyboard to navigate in a similar way, they are the default speakup laptop keybindings.Finally, it is probably worth setting up a .bat file or something so that you don't have to launch qemu with that long command string every time. It could just be called something like speakup.bat or whatever. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/610679/#p610679 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Emulator image for running the Linux screenreader speakup on Windows
Emulator image for running the Linux screenreader speakup on Windows As you might know, the screen readers for Windows are apparently not that good at dealing with console-based games.On Linux there exists a screenreader called speakup which has a bit more flexibility with console-based games.However, many people here may not want to deal with setting up Linux on their computer, so I decided to install and set it up in the Qemu emulator so that people on Windows and OS X can simply download the emulator image and use speakup and Linux in their current OS.So here's how you can use the emulator image I created:-First download and install Qemu from their website: https://www.qemu.org/-Then download the disk image I've created: https://arcanefortune.com/lubuntu_speak … ressed.img-Open up a command prompt.-Change directories to where Qemu was installed on your computer (for example "cd \program files\qemu")-Start qemu by running "qemu-system-x86_64 -hda \Users\Your_Username\Downloads\lubuntu_speakup.img -m 2G -soundhw hda" replace Your_Username and the rest of the path to where you've saved the disk image.And that's it. It will boot up Linux. The boot process will take several minutes. Unfortunately in the current setup there isn't any auditory indication when the bootup completes -- it will silently drop you off at a login prompt. However, once this happens it will start to announce any keys that you press (assuming you have the Qemu emulator in focus and aren't in some other window). Once you start hearing it announce your keypresses, then you can log in with the username "audiogames" and the password "audiogames!" with an exclamation mark. Don't type the quotation marks.At least on my setup, if you click within the Qemu window, it "grabs" your keyboard and will send all keypresses to the emulated machine -- meaning you may not be able to alt tab out of the emulator when it does this. I think by default you can press ctrl + alt + g and it will exit the keyboard grab.If you find the emulator to be too slow, you may be able to improve the speed by following the instructions herehttps://www.qemu.org/2017/11/22/haxm-usage-windows/You can find a guide about using speakup here: http://linux-speakup.org/spkguide.txtFrom the guide, here is how they describe the default keybindings, which are relative to where the text cursor is placed:keypad 1 -- read previous characterkeypad 2 -- read current character (pressing keypad 2 twice rapidly will speak the current character phonetically)keypad 3 -- read next characterkeypad 4 -- read previous wordkeypad 5 -- read current word (press twice rapidly to spell the current word)keypad 6 -- read next wordkeypad 7 -- read previous linekeypad 8 -- read current line (press twice rapidly to hear how much the text on the current line is indented)keypad 9 -- read next linekeypad period -- speak current cursor position and announce current virtual consoleI've included my game Arcane Fortune, a city-empire builder, in the disk image, and you can play that once you login by running "cd arcane_fortune_v0_3_0" and then running "./arcane_fortune_linux_screenreader.sh"But in principle you should be able to download and play just about any Linux text based game with this setup! Have fun. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/610646/#p610646 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Emulator image for running the Linux screenreader speakup on Windows
Emulator image for running the Linux screenreader speakup on Windows As you might know, the screen readers for Windows are apparently not that good at dealing with console-based games.On Linux there exists a screenreader called speakup which has a bit more flexibility with console-based games.However, many people here may not want to deal with setting up Linux on their computer, so I decided to install and set it up in the Qemu emulator so that people on Windows and OS X can simply download the emulator image and use speakup and Linux in their current OS.So here's how you can use the emulator image I created:-First download and install Qemu from their website: https://www.qemu.org/-Then download the disk image I've created: https://arcanefortune.com/lubuntu_speak … ressed.img-Open up a command prompt.-Change directories to where Qemu was installed on your computer (for example "cd \program files\qemu")-Start qemu by running "qemu-system-x86_64 -hda \Users\Your_Username\Downloads\lubuntu_speakup.img -m 2G -soundhw hda" replace Your_Username and the rest of the path to where you've saved the disk image.And that's it. It will boot up Linux. The boot process will take several minutes. Unfortunately in the current setup there isn't any auditory indication when the bootup completes -- it will silently drop you off at a login prompt. However, once this happens it will start to announce any keys that you press (assuming you have the Qemu emulator in focus and aren't in some other window). Once you start hearing it announce your keypresses, then you can log in with the username "audiogames" and the password "audiogames!" with an exclamation mark. Don't type the quotation marks.At least on my setup, if you click within the Qemu window, it "grabs" your keyboard and will send all keypresses to the emulated machine -- meaning you may not be able to alt tab out of the emulator when it does this. I think by default you can press ctrl + alt + g and it will exit the keyboard grab.If you find the emulator to be too slow, you may be able to improve the speed by following the instructions herehttps://www.qemu.org/2017/11/22/haxm-usage-windows/You can find a guide about using speakup here: http://linux-speakup.org/spkguide.txtFrom the guide, here is how they describe the default keybindings, which are relative to where the text cursor is placed:keypad 1 -- read previous characterkeypad 2 -- read current character (pressing keypad 2 twice rapidly will speak the current character phonetically)keypad 3 -- read next characterkeypad 4 -- read previous wordkeypad 5 -- read current word (press twice rapidly to spell the current word)keypad 6 -- read next wordkeypad 7 -- read previous linekeypad 8 -- read current line (press twice rapidly to hear how much the text on the current line is indented)keypad 9 -- read next linekeypad period -- speak current cursor position and announce current virtual consoleI've included my game Arcane Fortune in the disk image, and you can play that once you login by running "cd arcane_fortune_v0_3_0" and then running "./arcane_fortune_linux_screenreader.sh"But in principle you should be able to download and play just about any Linux text based game with this setup! Have fun. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/610646/#p610646 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
