Windows emulator

[hank smith]

any one tried it with window eyes?
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From: "Christian Schoepplein" <chris at schoeppi.net>
To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 4:52 AM
Subject: Re: Windows emulator


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> On Do, Okt 13, 2005 at 01:33:20 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>>Aldo, le Thu 13 Oct 2005 13:00:33 +0200, a écrit :
>>> On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 11:19:39AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>>> > CrossOver is more or less just a Wine version optimised for _some_
>>> > software like Ms Office.
>>>
>>> It is supposed to be "more" than an implemented Wine since it is
>>> non-free commercial payware.
>>
>>Yes: it is more tuned and optimised. But that's just wine in the end,
>>with just the same accessibility issues.
>
> ACK.
>
>>> It's not so expensive but adding grub or lilo and installing a dualb
>>> boot with your W$ + Linux, is lees expensive, and less absurd imho!
>>
>>Depends on the need: say I receive by mail a document that
>>OpenOffice.org can't open, I don't want to reboot my machine just to
>>open the document!
>
> ACK too, at the moment I use this kind of installation and I also think
> that is no good solution.
>
> I tryed to use VMWare with a Windows screenreader. With Jaws I had no
> success, it even wasn't possible to install this screenreader into a
> virtual machine with Windows XP. But Dolphin's Hal looked better, I was
> able to navigate through the system and read for example a webpage and I
> got speach output every time. Unfortunatly I hadn't enough time to test
> VMWare with Hal more compiously, but maybe that would be a good
> approach to use Windows software on linux systems.
>
> For both Hal and VMWare it is possible to get demo versions. Maybe
> anyone with more time likes to test this setup and tell what is possible
> and what won't work :).
>
> Best regards,
> Christian
>
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