I have ASAP, automatic screen access program, and i am using a
desktop pc with a serial port, and my artic transport is plugged into it.
At 06:36 PM 11/13/2016, you wrote:
Hello Stephen,
Which dos screen reader do you have on your system and how do you have
it working?
Thanks.
Dave.
On 11/13/16, Stephen <whocr...@internode.on.net> wrote:
> I would like the dos version please, I have a dos screen reader setup
> on this system and would like to give it a whirl.
> Thanks.
> At 11:32 AM 11/13/2016, you wrote:
>>Empire is a console game, (it's all text based), and it generally
>>comes in source form (or dos executables). I've successfully
>>compiled it on mac, linux, FreeBSD, dos, and even my raspberry
>>pi. I'm sure there are windows executables somewhere, but I don't
>>know where any are off the top of my head. I'll either find a
>>download for you, or compile something, and post it for you, because
>>it is truly a fun game, albeit a bit tough at times due to the way
>>screen review works), but it's still a whole lot of fun to play.
>>
>>
>>
>>On 11/10/2016 1:20 AM, Stephen wrote:
>>>Yikes. Where can I get empire? that's a game I haven't heard of
>>>before. Is it for dos or windows console?
>>>At 02:27 AM 11/10/2016, you wrote:
>>>>Wow, I've been playing nethack for years and years, and didn't
>>>>know about the underscore key. Heh. I've never won a game
>>>>either, but I had much better luck playing nethack on dos than any
>>>>other operating system, because of the way cursor tracking and
>>>>movement is done. I can still play it on linux/bsd/osx, but it's
>>>>much more of a pain, since (as far as I know) it's not possible to
>>>>move up/down in those screen readers and stay at the same columnof
>>>>the screen. Empire is another game similar to nethack in it's
>>>>movement, that uses symbols to show various game pieces and
>>>>terrain features, and although I have managed to win that one here
>>>>and there, it's made harder by the need to determine capital vs.
>>>>lower case characters, which in itself isn't difficult, but after
>>>>a while, you assume you know the screen layout, and then the
>>>>computer sneaks in under your nose, because you didn't check that
>>>>troop transport, and later discover it belonged to the computer
>>>>instead of to you. :)
>>>>
>>>>I've actually considered making an audio game out of empire, it
>>>>might be difficult to manage, but I think if it were done, it
>>>>would make tracking enemy pieces much easier.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>On 11/4/2016 7:34 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
>>>>>rogue; hack, and nethack are a family of top view video games
>>>>>written for computers during the 1980's and 1990's and updated
>>>>>since then. In nethack, the underscore key command is useful
>>>>>since on any level where you have identified a location like an
>>>>>altar stairs or fountain you can use the underscore or underline
>>>>>key command to return to those locations by keying in the symbol
>>>>>to move to once the underscore key is hit. If monsters are
>>>>>blocking you, you'll have to fight those then repeat the
>>>>>underscore command from your new position to get to the original
>>>>>desired location. I've been playing nethack since the 1990's and
>>>>>haven't won any of those games yet so it is not a trivial game.
>>>>>What usually kills me off is mass attacks anymore. I can usually
>>>>>get to experience level 7 before that happens these days though
>>>>>and the experience level is improving at least. Experience
>>>>>levels in nethack run from 0 to 30. Level 1 requires 16 monsters
>>>>>to be killed and each level after that doubles the amount of
>>>>>monsters to be killed. I found nethack accessible on dos
>>>>>computers and on unix/linux boxes playing within terminals since
>>>>>I learned how to interpret the symbols andI have the ascii
>>>>>symbols enabled when I play since the tiles don't do a thing for
>>>>>the screen readers I use. Since I retired, I abandoned windows
>>>>>since I found I couldn't do a bare metal install of it and I
>>>>>found it to be too unstable for my uses when I was working.
>>>>>
>>>>>
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