Hi Wayne.
There are no specific guides to interactive fiction for blind/vi users,
however there are several general if guides, and sinse If is inherently
accessible anyway as all your doing is reading on screen text and
responding, that shouldn't be a problem.
In terms of software, all you need is an interpreter and the game files.
Interactive fiction games are like music files and you play them in an
interpreter program just like you'd use Winamp, Windows media player,
itunes, Vlc player or whatever to play your music files.
For what interpreter you need, that depends firstly on what format of game
your looking at playing, and secondly what screen reader you have. some
people find the Filfre interpreter helpful, (I don't have the address on me
but there is a page for it on audiogmaes.net), which can run Zcode or Glulks
format games, I personally prefer win frotz and win glulks as I said, again,
all of these have audiogames.net database entries so go and check there for
more information.
Once you have the file and the interpreter, it's just a question of reading
the text and responding with what you type into the interpreter. interactive
fiction are basically interactive stories that repsond to commands in
truncated sentences, so the commands are realtively easy, stuff like get
sword, light lantern, directions such as north and south etc.
For a general guide see
http://www.microheaven.com/IFGuide/IFGuide.pl?step=6&c=0 for instance.
The site is a little dated but it explains all about what interactive
fiction is, and how to play it, though as I said for interpreters you
probably will want to investigate some alternatives.
Sorry if this is a little scatty, I am not in a very awake state at the
moment due to sleeping badly last night, if you have any other questions
please ask.
Hth.
Dark.
Take them to the refirbished chamber that was once bad!
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