No worries. Like I said, was just one of the very first games I actually spent time playing on a PC a long time ago, whereas I'd been busy with various things on a commodore 64 for a while already including programming etc. etc., and the biggest irritation in those days was in fact waiting around 20 minutes for a version of asteroids to load off of a tape drive onto the machine - LOL!
The one good thing though was that after typing in some prewritten game code for around 3 hours, I didn't feel like waiting for it to save onto a tape, so I just ran it, and never again did anything like that without saving my work first... LOL again! Stay well Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA '...Fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...' ----- Original Message ----- From: "Parham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2008 2:41 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] A very old text-based DOS game > Hello again Jacob, > I looked at other resources like > http://www.wurb.com/if > but it seems that there is only the dos version, or the 64 Commodores, and > so on. In one of the reviews I saw that the person has been playing the > game > with the use of an emulator -- eek, how much I hate that thing. The > reviews > all speak of a bad game, however, which is very hard to play and the > puzzles > are usually unsolvable because the NPC's might kill other NPC's and > stuff... > Well I'm not going to bore the mailing list with the information that they > might not even be intrested about. Lol. Sorry if I already have! > --- > Contact info: > Skype: parham-d > MSN: fire_lizard16 at hotmail dot com > email: parham90 at GMail dot com > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jacob Kruger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2008 9:22 AM > Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] A very old text-based DOS game > > >> 'The hobbit' >> >> Based on JRR Tolkien's book, and there were originally versions for >> Commodores, ZX Spectrums etc. etc., but this is the DOS version. >> >> Stay well >> >> Jacob Kruger >> Blind Biker >> Skype: BlindZA >> '...Fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...' >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Parham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2008 7:21 AM >> Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] A very old text-based DOS game >> >> >>> Hello Jacob, >>> Would you tell me the name of the game? I might be able to retrieve an >>> Infocom or Tads version possibly, which would be playable under any >>> operating system, given the correct programs. >>> --- >>> Contact info: >>> Skype: parham-d >>> MSN: fire_lizard16 at hotmail dot com >>> email: parham90 at GMail dot com >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Jacob Kruger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> To: <[email protected]> >>> Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2008 7:26 AM >>> Subject: [Blind-Computing] A very old text-based DOS game >>> >>> >>>> Hi there >>>> >>>> I got hold of almost the very first game I ever played on a PC as such, >>>> and >>>> while it's meant to run in the command line, and basically you type in >>>> commands/answers etc., it just seems to hang if now run under Windows >>>> XP >>>> Pro, and although I tried playing with various settings in the >>>> properties >>>> dialogue, under the program tab, which seems to be basically focused on >>>> some >>>> properties specific to command line apps, even when then trying to run >>>> it >>>> from the then created 'shortcut', it just 'hangs', and if I try >>>> virtualising >>>> the window using Jaws key + Ctrl + W, it still returns nothing, so I >>>> think >>>> it's literally just hanging. >>>> >>>> I suppose I could try create a virtual machine using an installation of >>>> something like MSDos 6.0 (which I think was the last standalone of DOS >>>> or >>>> thereabouts), and see if that would then work, but what then about >>>> screenreading? >>>> >>>> Anyway, know this isn't mainstream, but just thought I may as well ask, >>>> and >>>> for interests sake, this game is the text-based adventure game of the >>>> Hobbit >>>> from around the late 80s, and it was literally one of the first games I >>>> really played on a PC (where had already been playing others in a >>>> Commodore >>>> 64). >>>> >>>> Stay well >>>> >>>> >>>> Jacob Kruger >>>> Blind Biker >>>> Skype: BlindZA >>>> '...Fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...' >>>> >>>> >>>> Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: >>>> http://www.jaws-users.com >>>> Visit the Blind Computing home page at: >>>> http://www.blind-computing.com >>>> Address for the list archives: >>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >>>> To post to this group, send email to >>>> [email protected] >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to >>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>> For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the >>>> subject >>>> or body of a blank message to: >>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>> Use the following form in order to contact the management team >>>> http://www.jaws-users.com/BlindComputing.php >>>> If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the >>>> following address: >>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> >>> >>> Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: >>> http://www.jaws-users.com >>> Visit the Blind Computing home page at: >>> http://www.blind-computing.com >>> Address for the list archives: >>> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >>> To post to this group, send email to >>> [email protected] >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject >>> or body of a blank message to: >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> Use the following form in order to contact the management team >>> http://www.jaws-users.com/BlindComputing.php >>> If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the >>> following address: >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: >> http://www.jaws-users.com >> Visit the Blind Computing home page at: >> http://www.blind-computing.com >> Address for the list archives: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >> To post to this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject >> or body of a blank message to: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Use the following form in order to contact the management team >> http://www.jaws-users.com/BlindComputing.php >> If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the >> following address: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: > http://www.jaws-users.com > Visit the Blind Computing home page at: > http://www.blind-computing.com > Address for the list archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject > or body of a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Use the following form in order to contact the management team > http://www.jaws-users.com/BlindComputing.php > If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the > following address: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Visit the Blind Computing home page at: http://www.blind-computing.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use the following form in order to contact the management team http://www.jaws-users.com/BlindComputing.php If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
