Hi Josh.
I'd be interested if someone did make the game more accessible at some
point.
I went to http://www.neurohack.com/anacreon/index.html which is the
developer's own site and looked at the windows version a few years ago.
There was nothing specifically wrong! with the access but a lot of the ways
information was displayed were a bit wonky from a screen reader perspective,
such as for example displaying all your stats in rows, I also found the main
starmap a bit weerd though I admit I probably didn't check out as much of
the game as I could've done.
Two things that really stood out for me about the game however and which i
thought sounded fascinating were firstly that combat was rather more complex
and tactical than just slamming your preprepared fleet against your
opponents and letting the random number generator do the rest, it involved
things like tactics around taking out planetary artilliary, ground troops,
what type of planet it was and lots of other things.
Secondly, I did like the idea that you could play single player against the
computer and didn't have to play against others either online or not.
Btw, if anyone wants to play tradewars, along with lots of other old bbs
games such as usurper, legend of the red dragon, yanky trader and barren
realms, if you connect to nerbbs.com a lot are being run in accessible form
just for Vi users.
It was setup by a user called Ner and lots of people have had fun with it.
More info on connecting can be found at :
http://wiki.nerbbs.com/
Including how to connect with windows other than xp that doesn't have
telnet.
actually I did always mean to get into trade wars sinse the game looked like
lots of fun.
All the best,
Dark.
There is always more to know, more to see, more to learn. The world is vast
and wondrous strange and there are more things benieth the stars than even
the archmaesters of the citadel can dream.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Josh K" <[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, May 22, 2015 1:57 PM
Subject: [Audyssey] anacrion game
from tony
Hi all,
In the oldgames.7z archive, I found a game called Anacreon. It looked
interesting, but it appeared to be missing files. I did some looking on
Google and found that not only is the DOS game still around, but it had
some
new developments and the source has been released. Therefore, I present
two
versions of Anacreon, including Pascal sources and a manual. If there are
any Turbo Pascal programmers out there, please let me know as I have a
question for you. Anyway, if you have no idea what the game is about,
it's
similar to Tradewars 2002 back in the BBS era. You build an empire by
conquering various planets and star systems. There are several included
scenarios or you can write your own. The only problem is it uses direct
screen writes, so you'll probably need to use your screen review mode to
read the text. As I say, the sources are available, so feel free to make
it
more accessible. If strategy games are your thing, give this one a try.
http://batsupport.com/unsupported/dosbox/
--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
"Talking DOSbox" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an
email to [email protected].
To post to this group, send email to [email protected].
To view this discussion on the web visit
https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/talking-dosbox/555F205D.8070805%40gmail.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
--
follow me on twitter @joshknnd1982
---
Gamers mailing list __ [email protected]
If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to
[email protected].
You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at
http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org.
All messages are archived and can be searched and read at
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected].
If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the
list,
please send E-mail to [email protected].
---
Gamers mailing list __ [email protected]
If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected].
You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at
http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org.
All messages are archived and can be searched and read at
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected].
If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list,
please send E-mail to [email protected].
