Hey everyone!
I regularly have to take transatlantic flights, and would love to have some
accessible kind of handheld game to play to pass the time. I can't turn on
my phone, even if I had a smart phone, which I don't, to play the latest
games for that. Playing games on my Netbook, if I disabled the wireless of
course, would seriously shorten the battery life. So what do I do. Read,
listen to music, my brain is half dead with boredom on the twenty-four hour
journey, including time lag, between the U K and Louisiana. I sure wish we
could have some kind of talking, hand held game you could plug headphones
into! My Momma once said to me, if wishes were roses, the world would be a
garden! But I'd be sure interested to hear any thoughts on the subject.
Lulu.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Rivard" <[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, September 27, 2009 5:30 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Anyone thought of doing an accessible
handheldtriviagame?
What trivia games can a blind person run on what devices that a blind
person can operate? Thanks.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "dark" <[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, September 27, 2009 2:30 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Anyone thought of doing an accessible
handheldtrivia game?
also, I'm afraid that I don't particularly see the attraction of having a
hand held trivia game.
Not because I don't think trivia could be fun, but there are many
accessible trivia games available already which you could run on a hand
held.
I'm not sure about Jim kitchins because of the sapi issue, but I believe
those from 7-128 do, and using websites like freerice would be no trouble
at all.
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Dark.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Ward" <[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, September 27, 2009 5:32 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Anyone thought of doing an accessible handheld
trivia game?
Hi,
I extremely doubt it. For a couple of very good reasons.
First, companies, Hasbro included, usually aren't too receptive when
someone comes along asking for accessibility features. Especially, when
those accessibility features will cost them lots of time and
development. What you are in a sense asking them to do is throw away the
product they have spent x amount of time and money researching and
developing, rewrite the new firmware for that unit with text to speech
support, create a new rom, and then sell an all new accessible version.
Unless there is a really compelling reason to do so they are likely to
tell you "forget it!"
As far as someone else doing it that's just not likely either. I'm a
skilled programmer, I assume they wrote the firmware in C++, have a
vague idea how they created the trivia game, but the firmware is likely
stored on a rom chip. In order to make this little unit talk I would
have to create my own firmware for the unit, from scratch I might add,
create a new rom chip, and replace the existing one with my own rom.
This is some serious hardware and software engineering we are talking
about. Nothing as simple or straight forward as installing Jaws or
Window Eyes on your computer to make it talk. Totally new and different
ball game here.
HTH
we are talking about.
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