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. >>> >>> -- >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Ty >>> >>> __________ >>> View the list's information and change your settings at >>> //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind >>> >>> >> >> __________ >> View the list's information and change your settings at >> //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind >> >> > > > -- > > Thanks, > Ty > > __________ > View the list's information and change your settings at > //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind > __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind