Re: accessible bios setup:thoughts?

  • From: "The Elf" <inthaneelf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 19:36:25 -0700

hmmm, so although it sounded just like JFD, it may have just been the synthesizer, ok I can accept that,


and sorry, without an explanation of why, I know what happened, and what was in place when it did, and, due to not having any of that equipment anymore, can only insinuate a few things by how things sounded and acted.

which when the bios was reading out to me, it all acted just like when I ran the earlier dos 6.2 load I had, with jaws for dos, or when running a dos environment in win 95

thanks for info and thoughts
elf

----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Perry" <whistler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 5:51 PM
Subject: RE: accessible bios setup:thoughts?


Sorry it was not jaws I had it working in both jaws and asap for dos but the
reading came straight from the serial port.

Ken

-----Original Message-----
From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of The Elf
Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 5:57 PM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: accessible bios setup:thoughts?

as I have said, excuse me it seems to be a dos like environment and yes the thing was read by jaws for dos, like it or not, I was there and the blinking

thing worked.

bloody ells!
inthane
----- Original Message ----- From: "Littlefield, Tyler" <tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 6:57 PM
Subject: Re: accessible bios setup:thoughts?


what? jaws for dos (running under dos) could read the bios?
The bios is ran before the computer boots into dos, windows, linux, bsd,
unix, whatever. You can interact with it's interupts if you are in real
mode, but I don't see how it's possible to get to the bios that way.
On 4/18/2011 7:23 PM, The Elf wrote:
hmmm, and it pops up again!

a long time back my first comp had windows 311, and then win 95,jaws 3.1,

jaws for dos, and an external doubletalk lt synthesizer on it, and I
found that I could read the bios when it was brought up from the jaws for

dos and the synthesizer. seemed that the bios used the onboard
autoexect.bat and/or the config.sys files when it booted or at least ran
them since this is where the   entries for the jaws for dos were kept
back then, and I believe the synthesizer was as well.

you might try digging heavily into how the bios operates in newer
computers and see what you can find out along those lines.

HTH,
elf
----- Original Message ----- From: "Littlefield, Tyler"
<tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2011 12:54 PM
Subject: accessible bios setup:thoughts?


Hello all:
I will be getting a desktop in the near future and I want to be able to
work my way through the bios and configure everything like I want (raid,

etc).
Have any of you found a way that can be used for someone across the net
to work with you? I have a friend who said he would help, and I could
point the webcam at the screen, but that's really hard if not impossible

to read from the glow of the screen. Are there other solutions?
I have a male - male VGA port setup. Could I possibly somehow set it up
to stream the video from the computer to something that I could transmit

across the net? this sounds like a cool little project, I'm just not
sure where to begin. I'd think Linux would be a lot easier to write this

for.

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Thanks,
Ty

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Thanks,
Ty

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