LOL Yes, there were screen-readers back then, see Jaws for Dos, ASAP (the one I used to use), and I think Dectalk and Arctic too, though I think those might have been for the Apple rather than Dos. LOL My memory's a tad fuzzy after all these years.
Hmmm. Maybe I could install my old ASAP, if I can find it that is, and use it in MS Dos mode to play. I forgot about that. Actually, what I'm thinking now is that it would be awesome, although a massive project, to convert the Eamon series games to the Inform format that the game pack that you download with the winfrotz interpreter are written in, because then they could be played in windows using the interpreter. AS for where I found the Eamon Delux bundle, I'll find the page again and send it to the list. ----- Original Message ----- From: "allan thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 10:17 PM Subject: Re: audyssey: Hello > Hi, > let us know if you get an answer about that, it sounds interesting. > Was there screen readers in the old Dos days?, perhaps one of those old > readers could work with that eoman deluxe. Where did you find that anyway? > thanks > allan > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "FigureInTheCloak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 5:15 PM > Subject: Re: audyssey: Hello > > >> Yes and no. >> >> As you may or may not know, the Eamon series was a series of D and D like >> text adventures origianlly designed, way back when in the 80s, for the >> Apple >> 2e. Various attempts have been made to update them to be playable on >> windows computers, but none of them accessible yet. For a while, Adora >> Entertainment advertised that they were going to do an accessible, 3D >> audio, >> version of the adventures for windows, but that project appears to have >> come >> to a hault, I'm not sure why, and I didn't see anything on the new >> Draconis >> site stating that they were planning on picking it up again. They may in >> the future, but there's no word to that effect yet although it couldn't >> hurt >> to ask. I'm going to. >> >> Currently, the only two ways to play Eamon on a PC are to get something >> called an Apple 2e emulator or to download the Eamon Delux bundle, which >> is >> the adventures made playable in Dos. Now, I assume that, in theory, you >> could get the emulator and run one of the old Apple speech programs on it >> to >> play the games, although I've never tried this so I have no idea if it >> would >> actually work. I don't know if you could even get those speech programs >> anymore. >> >> AS for the Eamon Delux, I did try it. But I found that Jaws and MS Dos >> mode >> didn't get along very well, so it was very hard to navigate the menues to >> get into the game itself. I may try it again though. >> >> Hope that helps somewhat. >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "allan thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 1:30 PM >> Subject: Re: audyssey: Hello >> >> >>> Hi, >>> I was under the impression that Super Liam was a side scroller action >>> game. >>> I would call chillingham more of an interactive fiction game, with some >>> action elements. >>> Except for The last crusade I don't know of any others out there at the >>> moment. I did read about something called eamon guild of adventurers a >>> while back , is that defunct? >>> allan >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Harrison Tu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> To: <[email protected]> >>> Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 9:55 AM >>> Subject: RE: audyssey: Hello >>> >>> >>>>I would say Chillingham is one. And, super Liam? 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