I would add to this that if you try to bring Stella up by itself, e.g. without employing the command prompt to automatically load a game or otherwise having it load a game, the menus and dialogs within Stella appear to be completely inaccessible at least with Hal, NVDA and Window Eyes. What this means is that you are going to have a very hard time setting up a joystick for instance instead of the keyboard to play games. There may be some way around this however I have not found one yet. If there isn't then you will need sighted assistance in order to configure the program to use a controler. Nonetheless, Stella is an excellent alternative if you wish to play your old 2600 games and you either don't have a console or don't want to bother hooking one up. I've got two of them actually but neither is hooked up right now so Stella is very convenient.
Hope this Helps. Tom -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 6:46 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] accessible imulaters Hi Troy, You'll have to get a little more specific. There are all kinds of game emulators out there. Two that are right off the top of my head is Stella for Atari 2600 games and SNES 9x for Super NES games they are completely different emulators for different types of games. Add to that I really need to know your definition of "accessible" in this case. For example, with an emulator like Stella I can open a command prompt and type "stella spcinvad.bin" which would load Space Invaders in Stella for Windows/Linux. Although, I can use Stella that doesn't make the games "accessible" just because they were never designed to be played by the blind. Playing Space Invaders on a PC with Stella is little different than playing it on a console accessibility wise. So if your definition is can we use emulators like Stella the answer is "yes." If you mean can we play the games in an accessible format the answer is "no." On 1/11/11, Troy Sullivan <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > does anyone know if an imulator is accessible? > Thanks, > Troy > --- > 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].
