Hi Keith, I've come to the conclusion that it's impossible without sighted help to get this show on the road. I made the cd no problem. I got the Apollo 2 out of the cupboard. I checked the Speakup text file for correct cyntax. As you'll know, having likewise read the gen on it it says that the video mode and synth have to be selected at the boot screen. Without any indication there's no way of knowing when is the right time. You only get five seconds apparently, which is an extremely short time if you haven't got a clue when it is, even considering that you only need to type the first character within the time. In one tutorial it said to type in the required text as soon as the cd spins up, and in another it says to wait about five seconds.. Were it only a case of editing the config to load the synth automatically there wouldn't be a problem, but as the config's on the cd, and other than by pulling the contents off, editing the config and then reburning, which may not work as Terabyte may have put some sort of protection on there there isn't anything I can do. To confuse matters even further two articles I've read give different cyntax for setting the synth and loading speakup. Both are from the Speakup site. The first is 1 speakup.synth=xxx The second one says: speakup=synth=xxx Obviously I replaced the xxx with the name of the synth, apollo, but even there there is some contradiction. In the guide it contains the text of the config. In that apollo is spelt correctly, with double l, but in the list of speakup keywords it lists it as apolo with only one l. I was going to email the Speakup guys to see if there's any way round this, but there's no contact link on the page. Personally I don't know why it's necessary to type anything in. I would have thought it'd make more sense if speakup just looked for useable synths. So far I've spent a total of three hours trying to get it to work. In the circumstances I can't see how they can call it accessible. If you feel like downloading image for linux, making a cd and giving it a try it'd be very interesting to know how you get on with it. If it works for you please give me the secret. John.