Re: [JAWS-Users] Dos Box environment?

2017-10-01 Thread JM Casey
-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Fernando Gregoire Sent: September 30, 2017 10:37 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Dos Box environment? I don't think FS put effort on this, at least in the short term. While virtual machines aren’t only a jeek thing but a

Re: [JAWS-Users] Dos Box environment?

2017-09-30 Thread Fernando Gregoire
PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Dos Box environment? Interesting. You'd think FS would put some effort into making their product work with virtual machines, especially as I guess most computers nowadays can handle them. But maybe it's only "geeks and weirdos

Re: [JAWS-Users] Dos Box environment?

2017-09-29 Thread JM Casey
7 10:48 AM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Dos Box environment? In Windows 7 I used Windows XP Mode, which is a free Windows XP image pre-activated downloadable from Microsoft to use in Windows Virtual PC, an add-in for Windows 7 which is also free. HyperV en Windows 10 is more

Re: [JAWS-Users] Dos Box environment?

2017-09-29 Thread Fernando Gregoire
all -- > Any advice? *grins* > > > > -Original Message- > From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On > Behalf Of Fernando Gregoire > Sent: September 28, 2017 10:58 AM > To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com > Subject: Re: [JAWS-U

Re: [JAWS-Users] Dos Box environment?

2017-09-28 Thread JM Casey
worthwhile enough for me to learn how to create a virtual >> machine. >> >> That said .. anyone got some really old copy of JAWS lying around? >> Haha >> >> >> -Original Message- >> From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.c

Re: [JAWS-Users] Dos Box environment?

2017-09-28 Thread Fernando Gregoire
arn how to create a virtual machine. >> >> That said .. anyone got some really old copy of JAWS lying around? Haha >> >> >> -Original Message- >> From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On >> Behalf Of Fernando Gregoir

Re: [JAWS-Users] Dos Box environment?

2017-09-28 Thread Valiant8086
Haha -Original Message- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Fernando Gregoire Sent: September 27, 2017 11:24 AM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Dos Box environment? In 64-bit Windows versions you can only use console applica

Re: [JAWS-Users] Dos Box environment?

2017-09-27 Thread JM Casey
of JAWS lying around? Haha -Original Message- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Fernando Gregoire Sent: September 27, 2017 11:24 AM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Dos Box environment? In 64-bit Windows versions

Re: [JAWS-Users] Dos Box environment?

2017-09-27 Thread Fernando Gregoire
In 64-bit Windows versions you can only use console applications compiled in 32 or 64-bit, but not 16-bit or MS-DOS ones. For actual MS-DOS apps you need emulators like Dosbox or Aeon, but since at least I never got those emulators to present a text output instead of a graphical one, I try to use

[JAWS-Users] Dos Box environment?

2017-09-26 Thread JM Casey
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