The Echo was also my first synthe Then came JFD with a Braille 'N Speak providing speech. The BNS was probably even worse than the Echo in terms of speech quality. Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2008 7:01 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Views On Games was Out of the games dimension
> Hi Jim, > Wow! I wasn't even using computers in 1981 let alone programming them. > <Grin> > That just goes to show how far we have come since the first personal > computers made their appearance for the average person. I can clearly > remember what it was like back around 1984 when there were basically two > choices. There was the IBM PC with PC Dos 3.x, AKA MS Dos, and the Apple > A2-E with Apple Works. In terms of the average user the people I knew > had Apples because the IBM systems were both too expensive and anything > before PC Dos 5.0 sucked lemons. Not only that, but I thought the Echo > was just peachy until I found Jaws for Dos and the Dectalk PC. > As for when I started writing games I was a late bloomer. I have been > using and working with computers almost all my life, but I didn't > actually begin programming until I reached college. That would have been > around 1997 or 1998 or so. > > > Jim Kitchen wrote: >> Hi Thomas, >> >> Yeah, I started writing computer video games like in 1981 on a Texas >> Instruments 99 4A home computer. The first games were draw poker, Star >> Mule and Homer on a Harley (Eval Kneval) I then got my first talking >> computer in December of 1989. It was a NEC 286 with an Accent S A >> running Jaws for dos version 1. The first program that I wrote was a >> braille reference guide. I wrote it in January 1990 while at the >> Cleveland Sight Center. Anna Karr my braille instructor helped me to >> make sure that it was all correct. Then I wrote black jack and draw >> poker. Those games were on the Jaws web site slash BBS. >> >> No, I did not like the bookshelf game Futile. I very much liked the >> bookshelf game Twixt though. I think that my Brother and Sister cheated >> at Futile because they couldn't beat me at chess or Twixt. <grin> >> >> BFN >> >> Jim >> >> check my web site for my new personal information page >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> http://www.kitchensinc.net >> (440) 286-6920 >> Chardon Ohio USA >> --- >> 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]
