Re: [Audyssey] playing old text games

2010-07-19 Thread shaun everiss
aah. hmm provox for windows? linux? gnome and command line. hmmm that would be really interesting At 10:53 a.m. 19/07/2010, you wrote: There are a few free dos screen readers. Asap had a demo mode though I don't remember it's limitations. There was jaws for dos (which someone already mentioned)

Re: [Audyssey] playing old text games

2010-07-19 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Dark, May I ask what you mean by the console mode with hal? Is that something with Hal, or does XP actually have a console mode? Thanks. BFN Jim C:\Dos . . . C\Dos\Run . . . Run\Dos\Run j...@kitchensinc.net http://www.kitchensinc.net (440) 286-6920 Chardon Ohio USA --- Gamers

Re: [Audyssey] playing old text games

2010-07-19 Thread dark
...@kitchensinc.net To: dark Gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, July 19, 2010 10:40 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] playing old text games Hi Dark, May I ask what you mean by the console mode with hal? Is that something with Hal, or does XP actually have a console mode? Thanks. BFN Jim C:\Dos . . . C

Re: [Audyssey] playing old text games

2010-07-19 Thread Jim Kitchen
To: dark Gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, July 19, 2010 10:40 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] playing old text games Hi Dark, May I ask what you mean by the console mode with hal? Is that something with Hal, or does XP actually have a console mode? Thanks. BFN Jim C:\Dos . . . C\Dos\Run

Re: [Audyssey] playing old text games

2010-07-19 Thread dark
: [Audyssey] playing old text games Hi Dark, Thanks. I just call that the command prompt. Back in the dos days when programming games one would want to make sure that the game wrote the text to the bios or console. That way all dos screen readers would automatically speak the text. BFN

[Audyssey] playing old text games

2010-07-19 Thread Travis Siegel
Actually, there's several free dos screen readers now. As someone already mentioned, jaws for dos is free. There is a demo version of asap for dos which is free, though I don't remember it's limitations. There's another one written by Chuck Halenbeck, which I have gotten permission to take over,

Re: [Audyssey] playing old text games

2010-07-18 Thread dark
...@gmail.com To: gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2010 5:18 AM Subject: [Audyssey] playing old text games Hi My ultimate goal with the windows98 virtual machine is to: 1. somehow get a fully working copy of keynote gold multimedia. 2. somehow get a fully working copy of asap screen reader

[Audyssey] playing old text games

2010-07-18 Thread Josh Kennedy
Hi first off I do not know how to reply to individual threads because I'm in digest mode. second I want to or would rather play the old games in real DOS with a real DOS screen reader like asap. Asap is the only screen reader for DOS that supports directly the keynote gold multimedia speech.

Re: [Audyssey] playing old text games

2010-07-18 Thread dark
jkenn...@gmail.com To: gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2010 3:45 PM Subject: [Audyssey] playing old text games Hi first off I do not know how to reply to individual threads because I'm in digest mode. second I want to or would rather play the old games in real DOS with a real DOS

Re: [Audyssey] playing old text games

2010-07-18 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Josh, If you are on digest mode all you have to do to reply to an individual message or thread is by sending a new e-mail with the same subject line. For example, if there is a message with the subject “Playing Old Text Games” and you want to reply to it just type the subject “Playing Old Text

Re: [Audyssey] playing old text games

2010-07-18 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Josh, Can’t really help you there. I actually had a copy of Keynote Gold Multimedia laying around here for a long time, but I think I eventually pitched the floppy disk as I could no longer use it on newer Windows releases. It was copy protected with the everlock key system that Jaws use to

Re: [Audyssey] playing old text games

2010-07-18 Thread Hayden Presley
...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2010 9:55 AM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] playing old text games Hi Josh, If you are on digest mode all you have to do to reply to an individual message or thread is by sending a new e-mail with the same subject line

[Audyssey] playing old text games

2010-07-18 Thread Travis Siegel
There are a few free dos screen readers. Asap had a demo mode though I don't remember it's limitations. There was jaws for dos (which someone already mentioned) and there was one called provox which I have now taken over development for, and it can be found at:

[Audyssey] playing old text games

2010-07-17 Thread Josh Kennedy
Hi My ultimate goal with the windows98 virtual machine is to: 1. somehow get a fully working copy of keynote gold multimedia. 2. somehow get a fully working copy of asap screen reader for DOS. 3. restart in ms-dos mode, use asap with keynote gold multimedia and play old DOS text games in DOS