Re: [Freedos-user] Any chance to use 1280x1024 on Win 3.11 in Virtualbox?

2010-04-08 Thread japhethx gmail
> Yes, VirtualBox graphic card indeed is VESA compliant. The whole problem is > about Windows 3.11 not supporting VESA :) > If there was somewhere a Win 3.11 graphic driver designed to work with VESA > cards, that would definitely solve my issue... Unfortunately, so far, I > haven't found any, a

Re: [Freedos-user] Any chance to use 1280x1024 on Win 3.11 in Virtualbox?

2010-04-08 Thread Mateusz Viste
On Thursday 08 April 2010 10:48 (CEST), japhethx gmail wrote: > The patched SVGA driver handles video output of Windows applications only. My > guess is that for supporting DOS-based applications or TSRs one might > additionlly need a VESA-compliant "virtual" SVGA driver (which usually have a >

Re: [Freedos-user] Any chance to use 1280x1024 on Win 3.11 in Virtualbox?

2010-04-08 Thread Sol-Terrasa mkfs ext4 da' Sussex
On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 10:48 +0200, japhethx gmail wrote: > The patched SVGA driver handles video output of Windows applications > only. My > guess is that for supporting DOS-based applications or TSRs one might > additionlly need a VESA-compliant "virtual" SVGA driver (which usually > have a .386

[Freedos-user] more about screen readers

2010-04-08 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Karen, no idea whether price effects quality in screen readers, but of course it would be bad to spend a lot for a mediocre tool. About Ubuntu: I know that most people use the fancy Gnome graphics but as any Linux, Ubuntu also has many programs which work in plain text mode, which should be n

Re: [Freedos-user] Any chance to use 1280x1024 on Win 3.11 in Virtualbox?

2010-04-08 Thread Liam Proven
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Sol-Terrasa mkfs ext4 da' Sussex wrote: > On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 10:48 +0200, japhethx gmail wrote: >> The patched SVGA driver handles video output of Windows applications >> only. My >> guess is that for supporting DOS-based applications or TSRs one might >> additio

Re: [Freedos-user] more about screen readers

2010-04-08 Thread Mateusz Viste
Hi all, On Thursday 08 April 2010 15:17 (CEST), Eric Auer wrote: > What do you mean by getting freedos to work? It already > does work as a DOS but it does not come bundled with a > screen reader... I understand if people are unhappy with > Windows and screen readers for it, but which tasks would

Re: [Freedos-user] more about screen readers

2010-04-08 Thread Liam Proven
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Mateusz Viste wrote: > Hi all, > You would be surprised :) > The only blind person I know is actually a big fan of DOS (however, I don't > really know whether he uses MSDOS, FreeDOS or any other DOS). > For a blind person, even tasks which sounds trivial to us are

Re: [Freedos-user] more about screen readers

2010-04-08 Thread Karen Lewellen
Eric, I really have not read this, very little time. going to keep this simple. If you want to search for information on any topic, including screen readers and synthesizes, try google. Second, you say that you disagree with the concept of a screen reader and synthesizer serving an all in one pu

Re: [Freedos-user] more about screen readers

2010-04-08 Thread Karen Lewellen
This is exactly my point. grant Eric is confusing screen readers with speech, but the experience of blindness is not a uniform thing at all. no more than vision is. People have personal preferences based on their individual desires and goals. Your friend is running lord 3 of the best, especiall

Re: [Freedos-user] USB support/IPod

2010-04-08 Thread Blair Campbell
>  > support that they might find an IPod hooked to a modern PC... > > I might be wrong, but iPod and certain cameras are in > some way special. Otherwise it would be easy: Almost > all other MP3 and MP4 players and many cameras or even > cardreaders simply look like USB sticks for drivers, > which

Re: [Freedos-user] USB support/IPod

2010-04-08 Thread Geraldo Netto
Hi, > You should be able to access an ipod as a USB stick, but the music > files will all have 4 letter [seemingly] random names and so it would > be hard to tell which files are which songs.  Basically you can still > play the music though. i guess, it uses a hash? Geraldo Non dvcor, dvco => Sa

Re: [Freedos-user] Any chance to use 1280x1024 on Win 3.11 in Virtualbox?

2010-04-08 Thread Sol-Terrasa mkfs ext4 da' Sussex
On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 14:22 +0100, Liam Proven wrote > > Windows 3.1x for high resolution displays i.e. beyond 1280x1024 with 16 > > million colours. Sadly I've had to abandon it due to lack of > > documentation and sources for existing device drivers. > > One problem with such things - and a few

Re: [Freedos-user] Any chance to use 1280x1024 on Win 3.11 in Virtualbox?

2010-04-08 Thread Sol-Terrasa mkfs ext4 da' Sussex
On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 19:06 +0100, Sol-Terrasa mkfs ext4 da' Sussex wrote: P.S. > *sigh* I'd forgotten about that 64k limitation. :( But there still is a > need for display drivers for WFWG users; there are a lot of new graphic > hardware out there that have no display drivers available for WFWG.