Add talking 9X Quickinstall images

[Mudb0y]

It would be nice if you could make a talking image for this, E.G with Espeakup autostarting on the Linux side for speech output, and an old screenreader such as Windoweyes / Jaws for Windows installed and autostarting on the 9X end after installation. I'm blind and would love to try this project out on some machines, but I don't really want to fumble through the installation process using OCR or in the case of real hardware taking pictures of the screen with my phone and scanning them lol.
As an aside, you could then be one of the 1st people to be able to claim you made a pre Windows 7 install environment that can be installed by a blind person from start to finish! Now wouldn't that be a flex.
In all seriousness, if you will actually consider this, do let me know how I can help, I'll be glad to assist with obtaining old screenreader installers, ETC.

[oerg866]

Hello, I'm honoured that you wish to try this and I thank you for the request, however, it is a technically too complex task to be feasible, since adding audio support will render the kernel binary too big to fit inside the 1.4/2.8MB limit for the various boot mechanisms :(

[Mudb0y]

Hay,
I actually forked this project here and did a little bit of messing around with AI. I made it write a little DecTalk driver for the Speakup screenreader included in the kernel, and then used the dubiously source-available copy of DecTalk from here. I only made a few changes to the kernel, mainly alsa and friends, Speakup it self, and of course DecTalk with the Speakup driver installed.
I'm happy to report at least the installer is fully accessible, I booted my custom kernel in qemu with your QI DVD image containing all editions and was able to successfully install the stock 98 installation on a virtual HD.
I do have a question regarding the reference images though. I tried booting that qemu install on 86box with your recommended settings, plus an additional sound device for screenreading, but the sound just didn't work. I don't really want to install Windows my self with the official installation medium since yours is already prepatched and has some goodies in it that the official install won't have.
Initially I tried booting the quickinstall CD to then just install it in 86box with the help of OCR, but I got some kind of system disk failure message.
Would you be able to help me out with prepping the reference images at least?

[oerg866]

plus an additional sound device for screenreading, but the sound just didn't work.

I don't really understand this part, what exactly did you do here?

I'd love to help, but I'm quite busy at the moment so it may take some time! :(