Hey, someone should rewrite doom. Maybe add a few accessibility features specific to us. That'd be neat :P
On 1/9/15, Danielle Antoine <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, I would like Golf and Leisure Suit Larry and how about Panzers too. > > On 1/9/15, Josh k <[email protected]> wrote: >> I would buy it for windows and android. >> >> follow me on twitter @joshknnd1982 or facebook email >> [email protected] >> will find facebook site >> >> On 1/9/2015 2:33 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote: >>> Oh yeah, I used to play PCS Shoot all the time. Nothing so satisfying as >>> the sound of a propane tank exploding when it's hit in the right place. >>> I'd snap it up on iOS. >>> >>> Teresa >>> >>> Winging its way from my iPod >>> >>>> On Jan 9, 2015, at 11:18 AM, Cara Quinn <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> PCS titles going to Mac / iOS would rock even more! ;) >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> >>>> Cara >>>> --- >>>> iOS design and development - LookTel.com >>>> --- >>>> View my Online Portfolio at: >>>> >>>> http://www.onemodelplace.com/CaraQuinn >>>> >>>> Follow me on Twitter! >>>> >>>> https://twitter.com/ModelCara >>>> >>>> On Jan 7, 2015, at 11:47 PM, shaun everiss <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> the pcs titles going to windows will rock but phill is probably going >>>> to >>>> port those eventually I hope. >>>> >>>> At 12:09 p.m. 8/01/2015, you wrote: >>>>> I would like any night football and world series baseball text games. >>>>> i >>>>> like sports they are my favorites. >>>>> >>>>> follow me on twitter @joshknnd1982 or facebook email >>>>> [email protected] will find facebook site >>>>> >>>>>> On 1/7/2015 6:00 PM, Thomas Ward wrote: >>>>>> Hello everyone, >>>>>> >>>>>> Over the last couple of weeks there has been a bit of discussion on >>>>>> the best way to preserve and play some of our favorite Dos games. >>>>>> Solutions have ranged from finding a way to make Dosbox and other Dos >>>>>> emulators accessible to actually running MS Dos in a virtual machine >>>>>> with varying degrees of success. While all of those solutions have >>>>>> some merit I don't feel they truly address the problem of preserving >>>>>> those games and applications for the majority of VI gamers, because >>>>>> they are problematic at best and are not simple solutions to the >>>>>> problem. >>>>>> >>>>>> Ideally a solution wouldn't involve installing and configuring lots >>>>>> of >>>>>> extra software like emulators or virtual machines. I feel pretty >>>>>> confident in saying the average VI gamer would just rather install >>>>>> and >>>>>> play it no extra dependencies required. Therefore if we are going to >>>>>> truly preserve these games for the average user we need to look >>>>>> elsewhere other than emulators and virtual machines. What I mean by >>>>>> that is by getting together a handful of interested developers to >>>>>> rewrite most of these games for modern platforms. >>>>>> >>>>>> It isn't as complicated or as much of an undertaking as it sounds. A >>>>>> lot of these games we are talking about are text only and as long as >>>>>> a >>>>>> developer intends to rewrite it as a text based game he or she can >>>>>> rapidly rewrite the game since they aren't worried about all the >>>>>> extra >>>>>> overhead that would go into an audio game or a video game. By and >>>>>> large text applications and games are pretty simple, and don't take a >>>>>> great deal of time to create. Especially, if they use the right tools >>>>>> and languages for the job. >>>>>> >>>>>> Back in the 80's and 90's when a lot of these text games were written >>>>>> they would have been written in C or C++. That is fine, but there are >>>>>> simpler solutions now. One such solution is Python which is a >>>>>> high-level scripting language well suited to quick and dirty text >>>>>> applications and games such as we are discussing. I can see an >>>>>> interested developer rewriting some of these Dos games in Python, >>>>>> compiling them, and releasing them in a fairly short amount of time >>>>>> barring other commitments of course. >>>>>> >>>>>> I feel rewriting these games is the best of all possibilities because >>>>>> it resolves all the problems with playing the originals. First, since >>>>>> the games will be rewritten from scratch they will be compiled for >>>>>> 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems thus negating the requirement for >>>>>> a 16-bit environment to run them. Second, they can be released as >>>>>> open >>>>>> source so that future generations of gamers can take the source make >>>>>> new builds if and when needed. Third, they can be redesigned and >>>>>> ported to multiple platforms meaning that instead of just being >>>>>> strictly a Windows game they can be compiled and run on Mac, Linux, >>>>>> etc. Finally, they are games that a blind and a sighted gamer can >>>>>> truly play together. While there will always be disparities between a >>>>>> blind and sighted gamer playing a video game or an audio game, but >>>>>> they would be equal in playing text based games. So I see this as >>>>>> being a distinct advantage of having a common user interface like >>>>>> text. >>>>>> >>>>>> In any case I happen to have some free time coming up, and I was >>>>>> wondering if anyone is interested in this project. 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