Re: Accessible dos games apart from the usual susspects?

Re: Accessible dos games apart from the usual susspects? There are a bunch of games by a company called Simulations Canada, which are war-games which originally came with maps and  counters. Fortunately it's possible to fairly easily convert most of them to use a spreadsheet for marking

Re: Accessible dos games apart from the usual susspects?

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Re: Accessible dos games apart from the usual susspects?

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Re: Accessible dos games apart from the usual susspects?

Re: Accessible dos games apart from the usual susspects? Where can I get talking dos box? URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/497845/#p497845 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman

Re: Accessible dos games apart from the usual susspects?

Re: Accessible dos games apart from the usual susspects? mortal kombat 3 and 4. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/497838/#p497838 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo

Accessible dos games apart from the usual susspects?

Accessible dos games apart from the usual susspects? Hey all.so all who played with the dos box or other emulators know the games by kitchensinc, pcs and stuff like pile driver, drone and so on.I'm wondering if there are other games from non blind or VI developers that are also playable

Re: PCS DOS games now on Audio Games Archive

Re: PCS DOS games now on Audio Games Archive I have not.  I've tried them both on dosbox and regular virtual winds 95/98 machines.  What tends to happen on the virtual box, is when running settup.exe, it will install, but make all these loud hissing noises.  When installed and launched

Re: PCS DOS games now on Audio Games Archive

Re: PCS DOS games now on Audio Games Archive Jake,Have you been able to play the self-voicing games?These are,Snipe Hunt2000.zipRed Dragon Kick Boxing Challenge2000.zipSpace Invaders2000.zipDuck Hunt2000.zipIf the archive has re-named these games, you can tell them from the other

Re: PCS DOS games now on Audio Games Archive

Re: PCS DOS games now on Audio Games Archive First, if you want to use NVDA with this, you must have com0com installed.  Once that is installed, you will go to your control pannel and select com0com and select com 8 or com nine in the settings window.  Afterwards, there is a utility called

Re: PCS DOS games now on Audio Games Archive

Re: PCS DOS games now on Audio Games Archive Hi Jake,could you write a description how to do the different Settings to get the games work? I really have no idea what to do there. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=286445#p286445

Re: PCS DOS games now on Audio Games Archive

Re: PCS DOS games now on Audio Games Archive These games are a treasure for me, as I've been looking for them for years.  I've gotten them to work fairly easy.  First, I put them in their own folders inside the dosbox games directory with short names.  For example, shooting range

Re: PCS DOS games now on Audio Games Archive

Re: PCS DOS games now on Audio Games Archive @Jack, I'm afraid I still don't know what you mean. so dosbox will not talk without an external speech synth, but there is talking dosbox? and what the hell is snp or whatever it's called? I confess I'm getting a little impatient here. I am

Re: PCS DOS games now on Audio Games Archive

Re: PCS DOS games now on Audio Games Archive @Jack, I'm afraid I still don't know what you mean. so dosbox will not talk without an external speech synth, but there is talking dosbox? and what the hell is snp or whatever it's called? I confess I'm getting a little impatient here. I am

Re: PCS DOS games now on Audio Games Archive

Re: PCS DOS games now on Audio Games Archive Dark, Dosbox doesn't emulate the synthesizer at all. What the virtual braille and speak is is a version of espeak that passes text through to a virtual serial port, and Com0com emulates the serial port, namely the com port. Asap, configured

Re: PCS DOS games now on Audio Games Archive

Re: PCS DOS games now on Audio Games Archive @Simba, Piter mach's post illustrates the problem. this is a complicated matter, and while I could write "just type such and such to run the games" on the pages of the database, there needs to be a little more involved going from wh

Re: PCS DOS games now on Audio Games Archive

Re: PCS DOS games now on Audio Games Archive Hi all,I may be able to record a tutorial in the future, however at the moment I'm far from my usual setup so doing this is going to be at least a month away.I haven't used DOS back when it was actually popular, but to my understanding

Re: PCS DOS games now on Audio Games Archive

Re: PCS DOS games now on Audio Games Archive Hi.@Simba, it really were kind of you if you could help me there. I have to say, I have no idea how to work with dosbox and don't know how to use that asap.But the problem with no sound, there is also no sound if I would start an application

Re: PCS DOS games now on Audio Games Archive

Re: PCS DOS games now on Audio Games Archive Hi.At janagirl, if you are using jaws, I recommend the asap screen reader, I often had the problem with jaws or flipper that it would crash when you start an application.I talked with Peter about that problem and he also said that users should

Re: PCS DOS games now on Audio Games Archive

Re: PCS DOS games now on Audio Games Archive Hi.At dark, wI don't want to be rude or something like that? But what is the problem with the instructions I have written down?I said clearly how to run doss games when you have the dosbox installed.So, I kindly ask, where the problem is. URL

Re: PCS DOS games now on Audio Games Archive

Re: PCS DOS games now on Audio Games Archive As far as I understand it, the talking dosbox should theoretically run everything since it emulates a dos environment, it's just that what Pitermach has done with the talking one is somehow get one of those old dos screen readers working

Re: PCS DOS games now on Audio Games Archive

Re: PCS DOS games now on Audio Games Archive Hi Simba,I tried to start a game with your instructions. But I don't know what's the problem, as soon as I start a game I can hear nothing. No sound and the synthesizer doesn't say anything anymore.Do you know what's the problem? And how can I

Re: PCS DOS games now on Audio Games Archive

Re: PCS DOS games now on Audio Games Archive Dark,I do hope someone does a Talking DOS box tutorial that I can add to my DOS games list.Once I finish the update to my Sarah game I plan to post a page of my DOS games that will be easier to use than they are now.I think Talking DOS box

Re: PCS DOS games now on Audio Games Archive

Re: PCS DOS games now on Audio Games Archive Hi Phil. i'm sure the games have instructions, and as I said since I'm on an xp machine I'm not personally worried, but if i am going to add these to the database I'm going to need to include something about how people can run them successfully

Re: PCS DOS games now on Audio Games Archive

Re: PCS DOS games now on Audio Games Archive Hi.Well, I have written how to start games in my previeous post. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=280813#p280813 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector

Re: PCS DOS games now on Audio Games Archive

Re: PCS DOS games now on Audio Games Archive I myself often aked for help with dropbox because I can't get any game started but until now no one answered to my questions. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=280793#p280793

Re: PCS DOS games now on Audio Games Archive

Re: PCS DOS games now on Audio Games Archive Hi.Well, if you want to play games with the talking dosbox, you first copy the games folder to the c drive folder in the dosbox folder, a better way would be that you put it under the games foldar which is already there.so, when you start dosbox

Re: PCS DOS games now on Audio Games Archive

Re: PCS DOS games now on Audio Games Archive Aaron,I forgot to include Space invaders in my post,but it is in the archive.Space InvadersThump, thump, a flash of audio peeps, chirps and blips alert you that one of the six columns of invaders is directly over head. You hold down the fire

Re: PCS DOS games now on Audio Games Archive

Re: PCS DOS games now on Audio Games Archive Hi all,can someone tell me how to get these games work? I think the only way would be with dosbox, right? Yesterday I tried it with it but I could hear no sounds.Could someone help or give me tips?Thank you! URL: http://forum.audiogames.net

Re: PCS DOS games now on Audio Games Archive

Re: PCS DOS games now on Audio Games Archive There's still a game missing. Unfortunately I don't know if I have it any more. They had a Space Invaders game too. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=280399#p280399

Re: PCS DOS games now on Audio Games Archive

Re: PCS DOS games now on Audio Games Archive Very cool. Shooting Range has always been one of my all time favorite games. I'm glad to see that this stuff has officially been made abandonware. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=280358#p280358

old accessible dos games which blind people can play

old accessible dos games which blind people can play Hi.I was just randomly browsing around the audiogames site when I came up to the archive of the audicy magazines, I looked about the archive a bit and opened a issue from 1997, the year in which I was born and read about some

Re: Dos Games Preservation Project

Re: Dos Games Preservation Project Hi tom. Im posting from my Win XP vm, and Im wondering if you could let me know where I can download some of these games. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=201747#p201747 ___ Audiogames

Re: Dos Games Preservation Project

Re: Dos Games Preservation Project Thomas,I was happy that Piotr Machacz, Pitermach was able to rewrite my DOS Breakout game for Windows.But like I did with Packman, I thought keeping the original sounds was not as important, as they had to be down sampled to fit on a 1.44 mb floppy

Re: Dos Games Preservation Project

Re: Dos Games Preservation Project Interesting, this fascination with reviving the old, and in recent times. What is it about these old games that only makes them of interest now? Are we all somehow unanimous in throwing up our hands and craving simpler, more rewarding times? Yes, its

Re: Dos Games Preservation Project

Re: Dos Games Preservation Project Thomas: Yeah I see your point. My point was just to let people play all old dos text games just by installing an emulator, import the dos games they wanna play or choose them from an including folder and then start to play. If only two dos games would

Re: Dos Games Preservation Project

Re: Dos Games Preservation Project Simba, I cant think of any specific sites off hand, but usually if you Google for specific games you can find them on the net. A lot of people have zipped up their old Dos games and made them available on the web as free downloads. Its more a matter

Re: Dos Games Preservation Project

Re: Dos Games Preservation Project Well, the only dos games I remember was some danish great text games. My english was very bad this time, so I didnt understood the english text games. But a friend of mine played a cool text game which I dont remember whats called, but she said she had

Re: Dos Games Preservation Project

Re: Dos Games Preservation Project I didnt have a screen reader back then; I could see well enough to play Mario, but not well enough to read the DOS console. So in a twist, most of the DOS games I remember are those like Duke Nukem and games that found there way onto the Game Empire CDRom

Re: Dos Games Preservation Project

Re: Dos Games Preservation Project Simba, the wrestling games I mentioned, Piledriver and Wrestling League Simulator, were fully accessible text based games. They were for the most part menu driven. Youd be given a list of menu options from which you could select the type of move you

Re: Dos Games Preservation Project

Re: Dos Games Preservation Project If you made an accessible emulator, then the problem of tweaking everything to work and finding special packages and addons and such would be solved for the user, so would the issue of not wanting to rewrite the bigger, and much more popular games.I think

Re: Dos Games Preservation Project

Re: Dos Games Preservation Project Hello.Where can I get old doss games? You made me interested about these games.Greetings Moritz. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=200600#p200600 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list

Re: Dos Games Preservation Project

Re: Dos Games Preservation Project I love this idea. If I knew enough about python, Id love to help. Currently I am reading the book Learn Python the Hard way which has been a huge help. Good luck with the project, Tom. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=200488#p200488

Re: Dos Games Preservation Project

Re: Dos Games Preservation Project eEI love this idea. If I knew enough about python, Id love to assist. Currently I am reading the book Learn Python the Hard way which has been a huge help. One game I would like to see ported is World of legends, although it may be too large. Good luck

Re: Dos Games Preservation Project

Re: Dos Games Preservation Project I love this idea. If I knew enough about python, Id love to help. Currently I am reading the book Learn Python the Hard way which has been a huge help. One game I would like to see ported is World of legends, although it would be to large. Good luck

Re: Dos Games Preservation Project

Re: Dos Games Preservation Project I love this idea. If I knew enough about python, Id love to assist. Currently I am reading the book Learn Python the Hard way which has been a huge help. One game I would like to see ported is World of legends, although it may be too large. Good luck

Re: Dos Games Preservation Project

Re: Dos Games Preservation Project Hello,I also would be interested in the doss games. I still got a windows xp machine here, and as far as I know, the old doss games still run on windows xp.@Tward: Can you tell me abit more about the games?The piledriver and wrestling league simulator

Re: Dos Games Preservation Project

Re: Dos Games Preservation Project Aaron, you are right Fallthrough and Eamon Deluxe are really too massive to consider for a rewrite. Although, I suppose it could be done if someone wanted to bad enough.As far as Dos games goes there are several. Probably too many to list. Some

Re: Dos Games Preservation Project

Re: Dos Games Preservation Project Hello,I cant say Ive heard of any of these, but Id love to play a rewrite of them. They all sond different to the norm, easy to play but hard to master sort of affairs. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=200435#p200435

Re: Dos Games Preservation Project

Re: Dos Games Preservation Project Hello,The only dos game i can really remember, is fallthru but I think that would be a rather massive undertaking, that world is huge. Also, Eamon, but again, there are so many adventures for that thing that it would probably take a long time to port

Dos Games Preservation Project

Dos Games Preservation Project Hello everyone,Over the last couple of weeks there has been a bit of discussion on the best way to preserve and play some of our favorite Dos games. Solutions have ranged from finding a way to make Dosbox and other Dos emulators accessible to actually running

Re: dos games

Re: dos games honestly dont waste your time. I just cannot get it to work reliably and responsively. I think for now our best bet is ubuntu linux or ArchLinux with speakup. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=197818#p197818

Re: dos games

Re: dos games Yes, that would be my opinion. At this point the best option at this point would be using a Linux distribution with Speakup and Dosemu. I imagine it might be possible to modify the Dosemu source to allow sounds in terminal mode which is the only drawback to Dosemu

Re: dos games

Re: dos games hi, sorry for off topic but how can I use dos operating system, install that screen reader and the games? URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=197800#p197800 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames

dos games

dos games hey i found a copy of the flipper screen reader. its free. link is.https://www.sendspace.com/file/qsfgnland on the vetusware site it says it works in dosbox. and sbtalker is included! if anyone gets this old stuff working please let me know! also in the zip file is some dos games

dos games solution

dos games solution some information. dos games and apps here. historical access preservation project.http://www.allinaccess.com/happ/turbobraille for linux.http://www.hallenbeck.ftml.net/software.htmlbetter than nfbtrans i think.now we just need someone to modify the dos provox7 screen