Another thing I wandered was playing inform, tads and agt on linux with something like dosemu running at startup. At 07:56 AM 7/24/2006, you wrote:
>Hi, >You may be delighted to hear that Windows XP can in fact emulate DOS and >run at least some of the old stand alone text adventures. >Regards, >Tobias > > > >On Sun, 23 Jul 2006, ari 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 .. Gamers@audyssey.org > > 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 .. Gamers@audyssey.org >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. > > > >-- >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. >Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.3/395 - Release Date: 7/21/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.3/395 - Release Date: 7/21/2006 _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. Gamers@audyssey.org 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.
