Re: Accessible emulators for Linux or Windows?

["Jayson Smith" <nospamratguyspambegone@nospamplease.bellsouth.ihatespam.net>]

Hello there,
The method of text to speech is a screen reader on my PC in conjunction with
a hardware speech synthesizer.  It's basically done a line at a time.  The
curser doesn't bother me.  On a real Apple, I have an Echo speech
synthesizer and the Textalker software.  Man that'd be nifty, if somebody
could come out with an emulator which emulated an Echo card!
What I'd really love is an emulator for use on Linux.  Win32 console
applications are accessible, but not quite as good as MS-DOS applications.
Win32 GUI applications are accessible but through a different screen reader
which isn't quite as flexible.  Linux applications, as long as they're
console applications E.G. no X/GTK/Gnome/etc. work wonderfully as I can use
Telnet to get into the Linux box from remote.  Hope this helps.
Jayson.

"Laine Houghton" <laine@intergate.com> wrote in message
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> "Jayson Smith"
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> 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...
>
>