Check out Azabat Backgammon for SAPI. You can play against the computer or against a second player and there's instructions on how to play the games. www.azabat.co.uk
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ronald Hopkins II Sent: 02 October 2006 02:02 To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts about chess I'd like to see a multiplayer game of backgammin for the blind, I have a board, but don't know how to play it. > [Original Message] > From: Phil Vlasak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Gamers Discussion list <[email protected]> > Date: 10/1/2006 8:19:06 PM > Subject: [Audyssey] Thoughts about chess > > Hi Charles, > If there was ever a game that is old and dusty, it is chess! > We could make it modern by changing the way the pieces move! > Have you ever seen a horse that moves straight and then turns 90 degrees? > How about having him jump two spaces, then jump two more and for the hell > of it jump another two in a straight line! > And how about the castles they should not be able to move at all, except if > they fall over and crush what is next to them thus killing themselves. > And who ever saw a king that was so old and feeble he could only move one > square? > How about if the king could jump eight squares in any direction! > Wow that will knock the dust off this old game! > smiles, > Phil > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Charles Rivard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2006 6:21 PM > Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts about Montezuma's Revenge. > > > > You're missing the point entirely, though. Here are some of your > > thoughts, > > with a response that will, hopefully, explain why it should be left as it > > originally was. These are my thoughts on yours: > > > > This is the 21st century and everyone wants something that was popular in > > the 70-80's to be kept the same. > > > > How about moving up and upgrading to the current and future? If people > > want > > games that are from the 70-80's, why not just buy a game from that era and > > play it? > > My response is that we, as blind people, who have not been able to play > > the > > original games, will now have a chance to do so. Because we have never > > played the game, it is, obviously, new to us. I emphasize new to us, > > because that is the key. > > > > How ridiculous is it to want a game that is old and dusty? Why not have a > > game that has a lot of replay value and one that can offer so much more > > fun > > and challenges and current with today's programming capabilities? why not > > make a game that is attractive to all old and young a like? > > My response: What makes you think that Montezuma's Revenge has no replay > > value? The game's age?? Have you played it all the way through? No, > > because it does not exist in a format that blind people can access. Here > > again, just because a game is old does not mean that it does not have > > replay > > value. Chess is over 2,000 years old, and it is still played all over the > > world by tons of people. The age of a game has no bearing on whether it > > has, or does not have, replay value. If a game is good, it will remain > > so. > > Time does tell the quality of a game. The good ones last forever. > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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. -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 268.12.9/457 - Release Date: 26/09/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.12.12/462 - Release Date: 03/10/2006 _______________________________________________ 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.
