Hi Bryan and all, Do you remember the text based football game that was available for the Apple 2-E? You didn't get a full season schedule etc, but you got to make up your own names for the teams. You could give them triditional names like Browns, Steelers, Cow Boys, etc or you could make up your own names for the teams. Back then I use to come up with my own names, and that was actually funner than using triditional teams. Especially, when I made up names for the teams that aren't appropriate for this list. <Laugh> Then, there was this sstupid text based black jack game. You could not only win it, but you could end up with more money than the dealer actually had in the bank. Let's say you started out with 1000 and the dealer hhad 2000 at the start of the game somehow you could end up with 5000 instead of 3000 at the end of the game.
Bryan wrote: > Ah yes, I also remember those days. I'll be twenty-eight this June and I > remember well the days of running a BNS through a computer for use with JFD. > I also remember the Echo. It's funny, but while that was probably some of > the worst speech ever it was still some of the coolest. I remember those > text games that used to be available from the same company that made the > Echo. There was that Dragon Maze game and that weird Space Invaders game. > Good times. I've had a lot of trouble finding voice clips of the Echo > synthesizer, but hearing it sure brings back memories. > Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 1:37 PM > Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Prefered Sapi voice for games? > > > >> Hi Stefen, >> All I can say is I go way back before Jaws for Dos was even invented. My >> first speech synth was an echo for an Apple 2-E, and the text games of >> the mid 80's era were fun. >> Anyway, I can remember the days when I had to use Jaws without such a >> thing as a software synth. In high school I had to carry around a 486 >> laptop with a dectalk express in my backpack which I plugged in after I >> got the laptop all setup on a table in the class room, and it was not a >> very portible setup. In fact, most of the time rather than bringing my >> Dectalk to school I turned on my Braille N Speak and ran it through >> speechbox mode with JFD and JFW 1.x. That was aweful speech! >> >> Stefen Hudson wrote: >> >>> Wow. 3.2? I started with 3.5. The funny thing about that version of >>> Eloquence was it sounded like it had a sinus problem compared to the >>> newer >>> versions. I've tried using the real speech voices that came with JAWS9 >>> and >>> had some trouble understanding them. They do sound a bit more natural, >>> but >>> sometimes they have this warble effect when they say certain words or >>> phraises, and sometimes they don't say the entire word. >>> >>> >> --- >> 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] > > > --- 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]
