Travis wrote:
>I've been complaining loud and long about this exact idea for over 10
>years. I'm still puzzled why no company has invented a simple hardware
>device that sits between monitor and video port to do the speech
>synthesizer work. This would guarantee that the info got to the device,
>and no special tricks would be necessary to ensure data passed through
>your device. Apparently, the companies involved don't agree with me, and
>have even gone so far as to tell me it wouldn't work <sigh> So, it beats
>me why nobody would make something like this, especially since I've been
>yelling about this exact thing (and getting others to yell too) since 1986
>when I got my rfrst computer that had speech on it.
Yes it's an interesting idea. Doable? I don't think so (sadly enough).
Since the computer don't send the charathers to the screen but the way they
*look* it would be very hard to make a device that converted the
characthers back to ASCII values. (And of course then try to present them
for he user in some way).
Hooking onto the BIOS is the only easy way to do it in DOS, in Windows you
need to hook onto some interupt/service that takes care of text that's
beeing sent.
When a programmer sends them directly to the graphics cards memmory much
time is saved (around 2 to 5 times faster), unfortunately blind users can't
use it then.
BTW: Why did the name of the list change from "SurvPC Discussion List" to
"Older PC and DOS Internet Forum"? It really screwed up my filters in Eudora.
//Bernie
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