Hi Thomas,
Actually there was no such thing as an accessible live action audio dos game
for us. All though David Greenwood and PCS Games tried and emulated it pretty
good, like with Cops and Robbers. The thing is, we had no Basic wave file
playing code. So to play a wave file we would use the Basic shell command to
use an external wave file player program. Of course though with this method
the game was totally suspended while the wave file was being played. But in
Windows with DirectX and sapi5 they have the ability to play a wave file and
speak in an asynchronous manner. So unlike the dos games the program can
continue and can do calculations, get keyboard or joystick input, play another
wave file, stop speech and start new speech etc. In dos none of that could
happen while the game was shelled out to play the wave file.
I could be wrong, but I believe that David created Shades of Doom before he
converted Lone Wolf to a windows version.
TGIF and BFN
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Hi Jim,
Actually, I think the first live action game for the blind would have
to be Lone Wolf. It was GMA's second title and it was real time based
rather than turn based. Lone Wolf 1.0 was for Dos, but eventually
David Greenwood rewrote it in VB 6 and then 2.0 and later were full
Windows releases. So Lone Wolf probably takes the credit since it was
out far longer than Shades of Doom. Although, Shades of Doom was
probably the first true First-Person game for the blind.
HTH
On 11/4/10, Jim Kitchen <j...@kitchensinc.net> wrote:
Hi Neophyte,
Thanks, and thanks for checking out my site.
Yeah, text based games were the first and only accessible games for us for a
very long time. Like the Infocom text adventure games and all of the BBS
door games and the like. That is one reason that it is so fun to be able to
write and play live action audio games. Even just simple ones like Pong
were revolutionary for blind accessible games. But I believe that Shades of
Doom was the first true live action accessible audio game.
BFN
Jim
Kitchen's Inc, for games that are up to 110 percent funner to play.
j...@kitchensinc.net
http://www.kitchensinc.net
(440) 286-6920
Chardon Ohio USA
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History - the mistakes that we cannot avoid in the future
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Chardon Ohio USA
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