Hi, Mary. I don't know about your arrow key problem, but the only way a accessible gaming console could happen to be done in the forseeable future is for someone in the accessible gaming market to invent one. The major manufacturers Microsoft, Sony, etc have two many restrictions for us to enter there closed market. I have a good idea how one could be built, but it would be a massive undertaking. It would require a computer motherboard, a high-quality vidio card that can be hooked to a tv like a ATI All in Wonder Pro, A sound card that can hook up to your tv audio inputs, a hard drive, cdrom, and a custom built operating system like the Xbox. Not to mention a couple of game controllers like Logitech wingman rumblepads. After all that the manufactuer would have to design an engine, something like DirectX, etc... In the end probably 5 years of hard work to design the version 1 of the console. Even then they would have to come up with a couple of games to ship with the console. When it is all said and done you would probably have at least $500 in hardware, x amount for labor, and the starting price for the first gaming console would be out of sight.
> ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mary Ellen Earls" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 9:49 AM > Subject: audyssey: Introduction: > > > >> Hello! >> My name is Mary Ellen Earls who lives in Scottsdale, Arizona with Seeing >> Eye >> Dog, Peggy. >> I have only been interested in gaming since just before Thanksgiving so >> will >> probably lirk for a good while on this list. >> I did buy the "Great Grisley Gulch" game when it first came out but was >> never able to get the arrow keys to work. Interestingly, I even had a >> sighted technitian look at it and he couldn't get it to work either. >> Anyway I'll get off for now but this whole discussion of economics and >> development of games for the blind is quite interesting. >> I was hoping we would have a small gaming console like they sell for the >> sighted, but I guess that is still in the distant future. >> Thank you for reading. >> Mary Ellen Earls >> >> >> >> >> to leave send a blank Email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> You can contact the list owners/moderators by Emailing >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> to go nomail send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> change "nomail" to "normal" to resume messages. >> Yahoo! Groups Links >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > > > to leave send a blank Email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > You can contact the list owners/moderators by Emailing [EMAIL PROTECTED] > to go nomail send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > change "nomail" to "normal" to resume messages. > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > to leave send a blank Email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can contact the list owners/moderators by Emailing [EMAIL PROTECTED] to go nomail send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] change "nomail" to "normal" to resume messages. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindgamers/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
