hmmm I can foreward this thread at frank and see. However the current eamon will stay as qbasic. you should probably email him on this but I can send this anyway if you wishl.
At 10:45 p.m. 14/10/2012 -0400, you wrote:
HiDark, I've had some thoughts about that. I'm not sure what Frank's thoughts are but I've been thinking of taking Eamon Delux 5 and rewriting it in Python 2.7. There would be a lot of advantages to do that. First, it would fix the 64-bit issue. Second, it could be made to run natively on Windows, Mac, and Linux without a lot of fuss. Basically, any compatible Python interpreter could run the games making Dos Box a non-issue. On 10/14/12, dark <[email protected]> wrote: > The short answer is no. > > the eamon games were originally written in apple basic and frank has > constructed eamon deluxe to use straight out basic which is a 16 bit > application, and thanks to lovely microsoft those no longer work on 64 bit > machines. > > this is fine for sighted people sinse frank has compiled a version of eamon > > deluxe to run with the dosbox emulator, but unfortunately text on dosbox > isn't readable by screen readers. > > rank is trying to find a way around this problem, but nothing has come up > thus far (another reason I'm sticking with windows xp). > > There is however a rather longer solution to play eamon, and indeed many > other games, that is to run windows xp through a virtual machine which can > indeed be done on 64 bit windows. > > I'm afraid I don't know ho to do that myself sinse I'm still on xp (thank > goodness), but I know people have managed it with eamon and with other > games too. > > Beware the Grue! > > Dark. > > > --- > 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://mail.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://mail.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].
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