2015-01-16 18:48:10

Hi. I'm wondering where I can get Virtual machines with screen readers installed. Any links are appreciated.

“Can we be casual in the work of God — casual when the house is on fire, and people are in danger of being burned?” — Duncan Campbell
“There are four things that we ought to do with the Word of God – admit it as the Word of God, commit it to our hearts and minds, submit to it, and transmit it to the world.” — William Wilberforce

2015-01-16 22:55:09 (edited by blindncool 2015-01-16 22:55:44)

Never mind. I found a site with a lot of them. Does anyone know where I can download NVDA 2012.2? I'm posting from a Windows XP vm on my Win 8 machine.

“Can we be casual in the work of God — casual when the house is on fire, and people are in danger of being burned?” — Duncan Campbell
“There are four things that we ought to do with the Word of God – admit it as the Word of God, commit it to our hearts and minds, submit to it, and transmit it to the world.” — William Wilberforce

2015-01-16 23:12:17

Hey, which site? I want that too! smile

2015-01-17 11:26:43

I want the site too

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2015-01-17 12:11:20

I think the link is
http://eurpod.net/vmware/

All the best,
Adel, Akbari.

2015-01-17 14:53:08

you would have to google for the nvda 2012.2 .exe file. I used to keep coppies of the setup files, but I don''t anymore besides that, why do you need 2012.2? xp works fines with the latest release.

2015-01-17 21:25:09

http://sourceforge.net/projects/nvda/files/releases/

m

2015-01-19 15:50:33

You can also get fully legal virtual machine images from here:

https://www.modern.ie/en-us/virtualizat … #downloads

These images are for  VMWare and Virtualbox, but they aren't accessible out of the box unless you peak inside the files.

m

2015-01-20 13:33:35

These screen reader ready vmwares, can I use them with virtualbox too or just vmware

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2015-01-20 18:14:19

You have to convert your .vmx file to a .ovf before you can use them with virtualbox. As far as I can tell, virtualbox is not accessible.
I have a problem with Linux vm's. I've downloaded both a vinux and Sonar iso, created a vm with them, and neither one has sound working. I checked to see if my soundcard was connected; it is. Does anyone know how to fix this?

“Can we be casual in the work of God — casual when the house is on fire, and people are in danger of being burned?” — Duncan Campbell
“There are four things that we ought to do with the Word of God – admit it as the Word of God, commit it to our hearts and minds, submit to it, and transmit it to the world.” — William Wilberforce

2015-01-21 12:35:40

@blindncool

Most likely reason for sound not working in Virtualbox is that the sound cardis not enabled or that it isn't supported by the live iso.

Virtualbox is fully accessible from commandline , but I prefer VMWare Workstation and Player which is more accessible.
In VMWare Workstation just create an empty Virtual machine, and boot the iso.

m

2015-01-21 12:50:59

This link is old but the method still works with VMWare Player.

VMWare Player Image Creation


http://www.ffnn.nl/pages/articles/linux … eation.php

If you want, I can create a finished virtual machine which you can boot in VMWare player with audio support.

This is legal and doesn't require you to buy Workstation.

VMWare Player is free and is more accessible than Virtualbox, but unfortunately it lacks a feature Virtualbox offers -- virtual machine creation.

m

2015-01-22 00:42:50

That would be awesome. Thanks.

“Can we be casual in the work of God — casual when the house is on fire, and people are in danger of being burned?” — Duncan Campbell
“There are four things that we ought to do with the Word of God – admit it as the Word of God, commit it to our hearts and minds, submit to it, and transmit it to the world.” — William Wilberforce

2015-01-25 19:23:06

I have created an empty virtual machine for use with VMWare Player.

You can tweak the virtual hardware configuration  by editing the vmx file.

512 MB RAM, sound card, 100 GB IDE harddisk (VMDK).

The machine can be used with the free VMWare Player to boot up a talking Windows PE or Linux.

Name the bootable iso test.iso and place it in the same directory as the vmx and vmdk file.

Note that VMWare Player/Workstation creates a filed with the extension .nvram in the virtual machine directory.

In order to boot from the iso, you must always delete that file before starting the machine otherwise it will attempt to boot from the virtual harddisk.







Download links:

https://www.sendspace.com/file/auc4uw
https://userscloud.com/gq526ix965gn

m

2015-01-26 04:02:47

kind of ot, but yay, you're the first person that I've seen that doesn't use dropbox, the cloud of the damned lol

2015-01-30 07:34:44

@hacker

I don't like Dropbox for several reasons, first and foremost because I dislike their misleading privacy policy.


As you may well know most cloud providers privacy promises are empty.

That's the 'price' for free service, but  since I anyway can't rely on any privacy policies I encrypt as much as possible and don't pay them a dime.

m

2015-01-31 03:21:18

exactly, if you use linux, try this: make a sparse image file as big as your smallest cloud provider and format it using luks, then mount it somewhere other than your synced location obviously, put your files in the image and let em have it; I mean so much for retrieving individual files but hey, if you want to do something like that, use something p2p and cut out the middleman

2015-01-31 05:53:26

@hacker
Agree with your solution except that I use Windows as primary OS.

So my encryption software of choice is not Luks (which as far I know is Linux only) but TC for container encryption and 7Zip for archive encryption.

Update: There is a Windows package called FreeOTFE which supports Luks containers, but it is no longer maintained after the programmer passed away.

m

2016-07-06 16:03:13

You can get everything about VMware Workstation 12 here

http://www.allprosoftkeys.com/2016/05/v … -2016.html

2016-07-06 16:23:51

Datajake's site also has them, and then some.
Www.grossgang.com/vmware
It has all windows versions from 3.1 all the way to xp (vista and later not included for legal reasons). For all OSs prior to nt, it also includes the virtual bns (the same one talking dosbox uses), though that is only required for 3.1 (and to some extent 95, since vmware emulates only the single channel sound blaster 16 under that guest OS). Jake does recommend using the bns for all pre-nt systems (including those for whih it is fully optional) for performance reasons.

be a hero and stop Coppa now!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Dkm … DkWZ8/edit
-id software, 1995

2017-02-19 05:22:03

Hey. A bit late, but I was having trouble finding accessible VM Ware images myself, now that I stumbled upon this, I downloaded the windows 3.1 and windows 95 images. I know how to boot into windows 3.1 by typing win at the dos prompt, and windows 95 boots up fine, but how do I enable the screen readers?

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2017-02-21 17:58:41

Last time I checked, the screen readers were set to start automaticly. (though I was using jake's vms at the time).
update: jake somehow mannaged to port the official android vm with talkback (originally for virtual box) to vmware, and it works! it uses espeak.

be a hero and stop Coppa now!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Dkm … DkWZ8/edit
-id software, 1995

2017-02-21 18:49:02

Really? That would be cool!

2017-02-22 18:14:23

the link is on the page with his windows vms.

be a hero and stop Coppa now!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Dkm … DkWZ8/edit
-id software, 1995

2017-02-26 09:36:52

So, I installed Vmwear, set up the Android package I downloaded from Jake's website. I start the virtual machine, but it doesn't speak. It just shows the Android logo, and that's all. How do I fix it?