he does not have to add them, they are already installed into talking
dosbox.
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On 5/22/2015 11:32 AM, ishan dhami wrote:
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
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