Hi Shaun, I'm not familiar with those games specifically but as for AGT based games there is a Windows interpreter called Agility or something like that which is quite accessible. So I'm doubtful that any of those games would need to be converted into an actual Windows executable since there isn't any pressing need to do so.
As to copyrights each game I'd consider would have to be evaluated for copyright status individually of course. In some cases the author has abandoned the games and therefore if they are released as abandonware the copyright issue isn't a problem. If the game isn't released as abandonware, still is under copyright, then an attempt to contact the author or publisher would be in order to request copyright status. However, in a lot of cases it wouldn't come to that. For example, Josh suggested rewriting Pinochle. Well, that is a standard card game with no implicit copyrights attached. I could write my own Pinochle game without stepping on anyone's toes just because its a common card game and I probably wouldn't be copying the Dos game exactly. I'd be making it in my own way and with variations that would make it uniquely different from the original. Thus copyright wouldn't be a major concern. As for Dosbox accessibility I think you greatly underestimate what it would take to make it accessible. In short, to make Dosbox accessible I'd throw away the original emulator and rewrite it from scratch with accessibility in mind. I'm not willing to do that and think it would be further ahead to simply rewrite a few games and applications that a person likes, make them run on modern platforms, without emulation thus resolving the problem once and for all. All this hanky panky with Dosbox is an unnecessary dependency that can and should be thrown away. Cheers! On 1/8/15, shaun everiss <sm.ever...@gmail.com> wrote: > for me drone and braminar are games I play on a regular basus and > wasteland rebbels. > but what are the licences of half this stuff more over even if you > have to buy them do the authors and ways to get them exist. > I know agt has some sort of game runner though I'd like a way to run > agt games in a windows something text is good but audio maybe for > some of the dos games who knows. > And there is the licence for said thing. > richard disteno has done all his games for dos into windows ones > mostly text console apps with sound where needed. > So yes it can be done. > However tom I think dosbox should be made accessable somehow, as a > lot of dos games now are using that system and I see no reason why we > can't do the same thing if we so need to. > the issue is that dos screenreader and external synths are hard to > come buy, well external synths actually. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
