If what you're looking for is source, you can probably use the bsdgames
package as a starting point:
https://github.com/vattam/BSDGames
However, I think an end product would need to rely on audio: as with
many such games, it uses an ASCII map. The issue here is that the map is
rather large and updates every few seconds.
On 2/20/2024 13:14, Gene Warner wrote:
It looks like I'm going to be spending some time at our local library.
I first learned about this game in a magazine article that had a BASIC
language listing of the first version. From there the idea went commercial.
If I can find that article, I could use that as a launching point to
make my own version specifically designed for screen readers.
Back in the MS-DOS days, I was always playing Tracon whenever I had some
free time. I would love to be able to play this game again. Tracon was a
commercial game for MS-DOS. I believe it was released around 1986.
Before that I played the version from that magazine article. I had
converted it to run on my Apple 2.
Gene...
----- Original Message -----
Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] Air traffic control
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2024 12:07:35 -0500
From: "John" <[email protected]>
There's definitely a version in the bsdgames package for Linux that was
brought up here a while ago, but I don't believe that would be playable
with a screen reader.
On 2/20/2024 10:50, Heather Seaman wrote:
Although I have heard of games where you can fly planes, such as
Eurofly, and drive trucks, I haven't heard of any game on any platform
that allows you to play as the air traffic controller. If the original
ATC text-based game was a dos game, you might be able to run it using
something like DOSBOX. Though I'm not sure if there are still screen
readers available that would work with such a program. On Feb 20, 2024
9:00 AM, Gene Warner<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi everyone!
I hope you all are having a great 2024 so!
Before I lost my vision one of my favorite games was Tracon, a quite
realistic air traffic control simulation, and the original which was
text based and simply called ATC.
I was wondering, is there a blind accessable air traffic control game or
simulation?
I would prefer it to run on Windows and not require any gaming clients
like Steam or Origin.
Thanks!
Gene...
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