Hi jim can you add your games in talking dosbox ? I never played dos games so it will be fun for me. Thanks Ishan
On 5/22/15, Jim Kitchen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Josh, > > I started teaching myself the Basic programming language in 1980 on a Texas > Instruments 99 4A- home computer. Next on an Atari 800 XL home computer, > then an IBM PC Junior. I mostly wrote games with some simple graphics. By > December of 1989 I no longer had any sight. I bought an N E C 286 running > Jaws for dos version 1 with an Accent SA synthesizer. In January 1990 I was > at the Cleveland Sight Center learning braille etc. So I wrote my braille > reference guide program at that time. I was now programming in Quick Basic > 4.5 which wrote directly to the screen, so the games were only accessible > via Jaws for dos script files. Those games were on the Henter Joyce BBS in > like 1991. Then I was told how to make Quick Basic 4.5 write to the bios > and that made the games accessible for all dos screen readers, so I up > loaded the games to the BBS PC Ohio, which was part of the planet connect > system. So the games got distributed to BBSs all over the world. That was > probably in 1992 or 3. Then Phil Vlasak showed me how to shell out and use > an external program to play sound files. So now we added sounds to the dos > games. Well they had the little beeps etc from the little PC speaker before > that, but now we were playing actual sound files in the games. In 2000 > David Greenwood got me started with Visual Basic. Trucker was the first > game that I converted from dos to Windows. It put temporarily highlighted > text on the screen. Really only worked with Jaws. Also used something > simple to play a sound file. I next wrote games such as Mach 1, golf and > casino using recorded synthesized speech and TegoSoft to play the sound > files. In 2003 I started the winkit.zip thing with the game menu system > using the sapi5 text to speech engine instead of recorded speech. About > that time Allen Maynard shared some DirectX code with me which gave me even > more features when playing sound files. Dan Zingaro shared code with me > that told where at in the sound file you pressed a key. That was for the > golf and baseball games. When the BBSs were replaced by the Internet David > Poehlman put my games on his web site. Later I learned how to write my own > web site from OSCAR SOSA's home page program. And of course Joshua Griffith > has helped with VB6 code and maintaining my web site. Sorry if I forgot to > mention others that have helped. I know that there were. There used to be > a blind programmers list with lots of people who programmed in Visual Basic > 6. And thinking back, can't forget Willie Wilson and his Blink Link BBS. > That was the place to go for accessible games and other programs. There was > also all of the FidoNet echoes for Email such as Blink Talk, Blind Talk and > NFB Talk. Then the Blind X mailing list. They were general chat echoes, > but accessible games were discussed allot on them. > > As far as I know, people are playing my games on M E, XP, Vista, 7, 8 and > 8.1. You know as long as you install the Visual Basic 6 run time > libraries. > > BFN > > Jim > > Check my web site for my 36 free games. > > [email protected] > http://www.kitchensinc.net > (440) 286-6920 > Chardon Ohio USA > > ----- Original Message ----- > Hi Jim or others who may know? > Does anyone know what year and maybe the date Jim Kitchen came out with > his first game probably for dos? The first game Jason introduced me to > was pcs-games monopoly, followed by any night football and then the pcs > games world series baseball game. and then the island of mystery > adventure game. But right after that, we got immediately into Jim's > games for dos. Every time I play Jim's games it brings back memories of > growing up as a kid playing them. I hope someday they will all be > recompiled for a later version of microsoft basic so future generations > will be able to enjoy them after Jim is gone. Well I think I'll go to > Jim's casino and play the craps or blackjack games right now. > > Josh > > -- > 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].
