well if someone still has a keynote and wants to make it go die I'd like it since i have a deadnote right now. Either that or if someone can contact me off list with instructions on trying to change the old keynote gold sa battery I may bother. the only real reason I want a dos system now is to run agt things like cosmoserve which doesn't run right on agility. and a few other things. arena, destination mars and several other things. At 03:40 p.m. 6/04/2010, you wrote: >Well I started with a keynote and only could play dos stuff then, beyond the >titanic, hitch hikers all the infocom stuff got on to the original yahoo >audyssey list in 2000 through Paul nimoo who was here and put my windows 98 >computer together met and love sod and all the other audio stuff. >Lisa Hayes > > > > >www.nutrimetics.com.au/lisahayes > >----- Original Message ----- From: "dark" <d...@xgam.org> >To: <Gamers@audyssey.org> >Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 5:42 AM >Subject: [Audyssey] How did you start? > > >>Hi. >> >>all this talk about if Is getting me a litle nostalgic, so i thought a topic >>about how people got into audio games and such might be fun. >> >>For me, I'd always played what graffical games my eyesite could cope with, >>first on an atari 2600 (at age 3 and 4), then an amstrad cpc computer >>(similar to a comador 64), a comador amigar and finally a Snes (which i stil >>own). >> >>But in the mid 90's with the 32 bit 3D era, the number of games I could play >>dropped from about thirty percent, to almost none. >> >>Though I used a laptop for school work, and university, it never occurred to >>me I could do anything with it bar write. Yes, I had the D&D manuals and used >>it to do some tabletop gaming in about 99-2000 before I went to uni, but I >>never actually thought of games. >> >>It wasn't until 2003, that I saw an artical in a braille publication >>mentioning tom lorimers' whitestick.co.uk site and accessible computer games. >> >>Despite a lot of net access shinanigans (hal version 5 and internet access >>was fairly new at that stage), I found toms' site, and played a number of >>online games like ashes of angels and legend of the green dragon. >> >>I do remember checking the offline games page, but A, the idea of a game with >>sound I found rather bizarre, and B, I was stil using a five year old laptop >>with windows 98. I did however play a lot of if. >> >>Things went on. I started on Sryth in late 2004, bought an xp desktop in mid >>2005, then ran into Bryan peterson. When finding we both had defficient >>eyeballs and an interest in exploration games he directed me towards shades >>of doom (I stil remember sitting up all night playing it), and by degrees >>audiogames.net. >> >>Sinse this corresponded with me finishing my masters and for various >>confusing academic reasons having a lot of free time, i signed up to the >>audiogames.net forum in 2006, and spent the next few months trying almost the >>entire audiogames.net database, signing up to the audeasy list somewhere >>along the line. >> >>And the rest is history. >> >>Beware the Grue! >> >>Dark. >>--- >>Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org >>If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. >>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/gam...@audyssey.org. >>If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, >>please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. > > >--- >Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org >If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. >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/gam...@audyssey.org. >If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, >please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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