Re: ambiguous status of games from games for the blind.com

Re: ambiguous status of games from games for the blind.com Well it would've been nice if he pdated the games to work with Sapi, then again since all accept for starfight have good sapi versions elsewhere, maybe he saw the eloquence as a selling point even though most people who run sapi

Re: ambiguous status of games from games for the blind.com

Re: ambiguous status of games from games for the blind.com Actually that made perfect sense foor the time, Peter. That's totally fine. Actually, my mistake. Both Nuance and Speechworks required royalties, but to be able to keep the price for the games as low as he did definitely suggests

Re: ambiguous status of games from games for the blind.com

Re: ambiguous status of games from games for the blind.com The reason for bundling Eloquence with the games is I think more a product of its time than anything else. The games were coming out in 2000/2001, and this was the time when SAPI wasn't even included with most versions of Windows

Re: ambiguous status of games from games for the blind.com

Re: ambiguous status of games from games for the blind.com While I understand his desire to provide us with natural voices to use with the games, what got me is why he didn't just use sapi. Firstly, if it wasn't for Eloquence, he could've probably charged way less for the games, since he

Re: ambiguous status of games from games for the blind.com

Re: ambiguous status of games from games for the blind.com Well redistributing the demos might be nice,  I confess the eloquence was actually part of what  put me off since I've never been an eloquence fan,  that and the fact that with people like Jim Kitchin and Ian Humphries already

Re: ambiguous status of games from games for the blind.com

Re: ambiguous status of games from games for the blind.com I've got the trial of Starfight as well as the registered version, perhaps that one might be the safest one to upload as that game actually was never offered when they moved to using eloquence, they never had a self-voicing version

Re: ambiguous status of games from games for the blind.com

Re: ambiguous status of games from games for the blind.com I might still have Accessible Starfight on a CD somewhere. I haven't been able to find said CD for about as long as the site's been down, because irony. :-/ URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=317271#p317271

Re: ambiguous status of games from games for the blind.com

Re: ambiguous status of games from games for the blind.com OH man. I remember those. There was also Accessible starfight. This was also back when Accessible Chat was  around. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=317266#p317266

Re: ambiguous status of games from games for the blind.com

Re: ambiguous status of games from games for the blind.com I have the full versions from the cd rom but I still don't think we could actually go ahead and distribute them, yet. Even with years complete and total internet inactivity from the dev distribution would still be somewhat risky

Re: ambiguous status of games from games for the blind.com

Re: ambiguous status of games from games for the blind.com Hi. Iactually never tried any of these so am not sure about the status or running of them, especially since I don't think demos were ever available.  I can certainly change both license and platform info and put a note

ambiguous status of games from games for the blind.com

ambiguous status of games from games for the blind.com So if anyone remembers the games from gamesfortheblind.com, 10 games that all used the Eloquence speech synthesizer, these games are no longer available for purchase. And they haven't been, for years. Neither has his domain. It moved