Has anyone ever tried to get jaws for DOS working under freeDOS. I installed freeDOS on a spare computer last night. I haven't tried to get any speech working. Instead I was using it via a PC Weasel video card. It occurs to me that freeDOS might be pretty slick if you could get speech working. It has internet support, email, instant messaging, all kinds of other stuff.
I didn't even try to get that other stuff working because I installed freeDOS just as a means to install Windows Millenium. I have a video capture card and a scanner that work only under Win ME. Believe it or not, I used to setup my VCR by using an OCR program on images captured from the video capture card. I'd press a button on the VCR, capture an image with the video capture board, run an OCR program on it, press another button on the VCR, etc.
I also have a scanner that has no drivers for Win XP. I haven't been able to use the scanner or the video capture card since I upgraded to XP years and years ago.
PS: A PC Weasel video card is a card that looks to the system like a regular VGA card. But instead of VGA output, it has a serial port onboard. So you can connect a null modem cable to the serial port on the card and use a terminal emulator on another computer to get video output. It works as long as the computer is in character mode like when it's running DOS or freeDOS (or linux).
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