Re: [Freedos-user] Introducing myself, and inquiring about using FreeD OS as a blind user

Hi Joseph, Speaking personally, as expressed I invest in hardware for standard bootability. The machine I am using in this moment boots both from floppy and cd/ dvd drive, with both on board USB and serial ports. I am guessing I am confused because such hardware is rather simple to find. Yo

Re: [Freedos-user] Introducing myself, and inquiring about using FreeD OS as a blind user

Hi Joseph, > If your computer can boot a cd, or can boot a floppy, you can install > FreeDOS. Booting from USB stick is an option with many modern BIOSes, too, and supported by FreeDOS. > I could probably boot it up on this laptop since it's in legacy mode, > but, I don't think FreeDOS would r

Re: [Freedos-user] Introducing myself, and inquiring about using FreeD OS as a blind user

Hi Karen: If your computer can boot a cd, or can boot a floppy, you can install FreeDOS. I could probably boot it up on this laptop since it's in legacy mode, but, I don't think FreeDOS would recognize the sata drive. Seems like I did boot a cd-rom containing MS-DOS one time, but, that may have bee

Re: [Freedos-user] Introducing myself, and inquiring about using FreeD OS as a blind user

Hi Bret, Thanks for that answer. Well then my question is if freedos can actually be installed in an actual, instead of virtual environment? If not, then why not? Because DOS is my only operating system, I have no issues locating actual computers, by which I mean p3 and p4 machines for my effo

Re: [Freedos-user] Introducing myself, and inquiring about using FreeD OS as a blind user

I may as well jump on the bandwagon here... :D I find VirtualBox quite easy to set up; most things just work out-of-the box, whatever the OS you install upon it, and its simple GUI allows even things which do need a bit of configuration to be handled in a fairly straightforward manner. Also -

Re: [Freedos-user] Introducing myself, and inquiring about using FreeD OS as a blind user

Karen: Inside a Virtual Machine, ALL hardware is virtualized to some degree or other -- you never get direct access to the real hardware (whether it's keyboard or mouse or video screen or hard drive or serial port or even the clock). Exactly what gets virtualized through to the VM and exactly

Re: [Freedos-user] Introducing myself, and inquiring about using FreeDOS as a blind user

On 16/03/2020 21:13, Mateusz Viste wrote: In fact, I created my own Braille 'n Speak emulator last night. I'm not sure yet what to do with it - so far I connected it to a FreeDOS install running under VirtualBox and played with JAWS (...) Hello, Today I published my Braille 'n Speak emulator,