Re: Accessible emulators for Linux or Windows?

["Laine Houghton" <laine@intergate.com>]

"Jayson Smith" <nospamratguyspambegone@nospamplease.bellsouth.ihatespam.net>
wrote in message news:y3w1d.57971$Np2.41892@bignews4.bellsouth.net...
> Hi,
> I am a blind person.  The Apple II emulator I'm using is called A2.  It
was
> written by Rich Skrenta back in 1990 I believe.  The reason I can use it
is
> that it uses standard text, rather than a graffics library or something to
> put the Apple text on the screen.  It does have some disadvantages
however,
> not the least of which is that it only emulates an Apple II plus with 64K
of
> ram and of course, no 80-column card so any program that does a pr#3
bombs.
> Other emulators E.G. the KEGS GS emulator, are unusable by me because they
> use graffics rather than pure text to display the Apple output.  Are there
> any other emulators, either for Linux or Windows, which use a standard
text
> mechanism E.G. stdout, curses/ncurses, etc?  KEGS sounds interesting
because
> it's a GS emulator but unfortunately it is totally unusable by me.
> Thanks.

Jayson,
I found the source code for A2. I'll have to look it over.

I'm curious about a few things though.
What is the method of text to speech?
The Apple cursor is not ASCII, what happens while that is flashing on the
screen?
Is the translation done a line at a time or full screen or just how does it
work on your end?

I have become familiar with Applewin and am considering ways it may be
modified to suit your purposes.

Laine...