When I first got into computers, a friend who is partially sighted also got
into computers at the same time. He bought a large screen TV for his
family. I think it was a 56 inch TV. I made the statement, in jest: "Oh
what a cool computer monitor that would be!" I thought his wife was going
to kill me.
Anyway, I wonder if the ghosts would look fuzzy and really grainy on a
monitor like that, given the technology of that time? (grinning)
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Ward" <[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2014 12:06 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] mainstream pack man question
Hi Dark,
Actually, I disagree with your point of view here somewhat. When I had
sight Inky, Pinky, and Clide were easily identifiable as ghosts. As
someone else pointed out here basically they looked like sheets with
the eyes and mouth cut out. The classic kids ghost Halloween costume.
The only difference is that they were red, green, and pink instead of
white. For someone with a set of fully functional eyes they were not
vague at all.
Cheers!
On 7/8/14, dark <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Nicol.
Well I still occasionally play packman with my limited vision, although
it's
not the easiest game to play with low visual field.
the first answer is yes, Phil included the ghosts in packman talks
precisely
because they're in mainstream packman. The second answer is a little
harder
because packman being a very old game never had particularly specific
ghraphics that give a clear sense of things, so the ghosts in mainstream
packman were just sort of undistinguished shapes in redd, green or blue
with
eyes and a mouth, just the same way packman himself is basically just
like a
circle with a bit cutout (imagine a pizza with a slice missing).
This lack of detail in older graphics is a little hard to explain if
you've
not had sight, and even to me, who has limited vision and needs to pretty
much guess at what things are it is a somewhat difficult concept but I
will
try to explain.
In Sansens carnival of the animals he makes the sound of a lion raw by
playing a long chromatic run up and down several octives of the piano.
Well,
that as compared to the real sound of a lion raw is rather like the old
atari style graphics compared to real objects. It's a sort of vague
outline.
if you weren't told that the ghosts were ghosts you probably wouldn't
know
what they were.
Hope that sort of makes sense.
All the best,
Dark.
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