Windows XP has a DOS option. o to start, run, and type in cmd.exe rather than the usual command.com. That'll bring up a DOS window similar to what you'd find with Windows 95 and the such, with all the oddly programmed commands contained therein.
James At 03:23 PM 7/23/2006, you wrote: >Hello everyone, >In this email I'm first asking for advice, then I'd like you guy's feedback >on a suggestion. >First, I'd like to tell you guys my background with text adventures. >When I was at school, the teacher had a disk with text adventure games like >Zork, Gymad, Under the Ice, etc. The screen reader that was used was Window >Bridge, which could also be used as a dos screen reader. You would go to >Windows Explorer, press enter on the .exe file of the game, and Window >Bridge would start reading it to you. >Now, however, new windows systems don't even have any form of DOS, and this >makes me worried, because, for me, text based games are a very important >part of the history and culture of games for the blind. My worry is that >with the non-existance of dos, these games will disappear, be hard to find, >etc. I want to do two things, but I please need answers: >1. For my own enjoyment, I want to somehow be able to play the dos-based >text adventure games. These games are of course stand-alone games, not games >that used windows interpreters, but games that will iether run under old >Windows versions through the ms-dos prompt, or through raw ms dos. >What me and a sighted guy thought of, is if I make a partition on my hard >drive, install plain dos, and use a screen reader like Jaws for Dos or Hal >Lite, which are free. I want to know though, is their anywhere I can get DOS >from? Also, since I've mainly used the windows environment, is their some >kind of DOS tutorial available, sort of a beginners for DOS guide? I'm >familiar with some dos commands, like how to move through directories and >run programs, but don't know it too well. You might be wondering why I'm not >installing an older version of Windows and running the games under the dos >box? We were thinking about it, but we don't have a copy of Windows 95 or >98, and I don't think their is anyone who could sell us a copy. >The next thing I want to ask is can you guys send me lists of sites which >have text-based games on them for download. The idea is, with large hard >drives, I will download, keep, and play as many of these hard-to-find games >as I can, I will then, when I can have my own site one day, upload them to >the site as a sort of huge library. >My suggestion is about a text-based games club (like a book club!) What I'm >suggesting is, it's fun, I remember from school, to solve a game with other >people. What I suggest is a sort of club that would work like this: >Once, say every two months, a person will suggest a game, which is freely >downloadable. That person must tell all of us who want to take part, the >link to the game. Everyone who wants to can play the game, and, without >using the solution, we who struggle with problems in the game try and put >our heads together and try and finish the game. We can do it by email on >this list, or in a chat room while playing the game, but I think email will >be best, since people first of all don't play the game at the same time, and >time zones are also a problem. >Talking about dos games, are the PCS games that were made for dos still >available? If I can get a dos system set up, I'd really love to try them. >You may wonder where this enthusiasm has come from, it came from me >re-reading the first three issues of audyssey! I read about games like >Fallthru, which I've never played, but would love to try! I've played Zork, >it's cool! >Ari > > >_______________________________________________ >Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] >To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit >http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make >any subscription changes via the web. _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web.
