I remember seeing some dos-based ones in the Kurzweil CD I had, and they used to work fine with the command prompt. I'm thinking that going through the effort of virtual machines and stuff and messing with MS-DOS is too much effort for those kind of games, if not only for historical reasons. Lol. I wonder if Jaws for Dos is free? Maybe that would help some. --- Contact info: Skype: parham-d MSN: fire_lizard16 at hotmail dot com email: parham90 at GMail dot com ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Justice" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, July 07, 2008 12:08 AM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] A very old text-based DOS game
> Jacob, this is fascinating to me. I have a lot of those old text based > games and I'd like to play them again. I'm not nearly as knowledgeable as > you are about specialized computer applications such as "virtual machines" > and so on. If you do find a way to make this work, I'd like to ride your > coat tails if you don't mind. > > John Justice > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jacob Kruger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2008 11:56 PM > 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]
