I downloaded and installed DOS Box on two Windows ten machines a
year or so ago. It is supposed to have Vocal-Eyes and/or JAWS For
DOS run at start up after installation and going down to the command
prompt and typing DOS Box or something similar. While I did get the
speech to run, none of the games including the three I mentioned in
an earlier post would run. Every time I tried running any of the
DOS games, the system would hang. I don't quite understand, but the
last version of this DOS Box was supposed to use some aspects of
NVDA as the software synthesizer while emulating the DOS
environment. This is very technical and I don't quite understand how
it works. You have to create a virtual port of some sort by
installing an additional piece of software. I did this, and I did
get speech but as I said before, nothing really worked.
On 9/12/2020 6:26 PM, Luke Robinett
wrote:
Hi David. Thank you for the response. Unfortunately
the command prompt in windows 10 doesn’t provide a complete DOS
environment. The last version of windows to support true DOS
mode was windows 95, if I’m not mistaken. Some retro gamers get
really hardcore and actually put together old PCs with original
hardware from the 80s or 90s and then install an older operating
system like DOS. I don’t think I want to go quite that far LOL
so I was hoping to run one of these emulators to give me the
same experience. Unfortunately, I can’t seem to find any that
are screen reader compatible. Some guys apparently have luck
installing old versions of jaws for DOS within these emulators.
I actually hunted down an old version of jaws for DOS and tried
installing it within the emulator but I couldn’t get it to work,
mostly because I have no idea what’s going on so I’m just typing
blindly. I tried to use NVDA’s OCR feature to get a sense of
what was happening but I gave up. Maybe I will give it another
go later
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