Re: Muds was RE: [blind-gamers] coffeemud

2023-01-21 Thread Travis Siegel
It's rare that mud prompts can't be turned off or at the very least changed.  Often times, typing help prompt will give you all sorts of information about what you can place in your prompt, and what information it can give you. I hate long prompts, and generally just change my prompt to a

Re: Muds was RE: [blind-gamers] coffeemud

2023-01-21 Thread Jude DaShiell
The distribution for the code base is on a github site. Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) . On Sat, 21 Jan 2023, Travis Siegel wrote: > It's rare that mud prompts can't be

Re: Muds was RE: [blind-gamers] coffeemud

2023-01-21 Thread Travis Siegel
Not much point to that.  Lynx is written in C, and it works fairly well.  It's already portable to many environments, including dos. Not sure a java port would be helpful. Besides, C is a compiled language, Java is an interpreted one. Interpreted languages are slower than compiled ones (in

Re: Muds was RE: [blind-gamers] coffeemud

2023-01-21 Thread Jesse Gaona
If you are into Tolkien, and love exploring, questing, and hunting orcs, then you should check out MUME. mume.org; port 4242 On 1/21/23, Lindsay Cowell wrote: > I now play 3 kingdoms. My username on there is Tina. > > > Sent from Mail for Windows > > From: Travis Siegel > Sent: 20 January 2023

Re: Muds was RE: [blind-gamers] coffeemud

2023-01-21 Thread Jude DaShiell
Too bad java never got dos-compatible, if it had maybe lynx would be running on java by now. Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) . On Sat, 21 Jan 2023, Travis Siegel wrote: >

Re: Muds was RE: [blind-gamers] coffeemud

2023-01-21 Thread Shaun Everiss
Java is a web based system used by android, linux, and sunos. Dos? I quit dos because its single task nature. Pluss dos can't do usb anything. Dos can also not do the advanced networks we have. No one uses modems anymore really. On 22/01/2023 8:00 am, Jude DaShiell wrote: Too bad java

Re: Muds was RE: [blind-gamers] coffeemud

2023-01-21 Thread Jude DaShiell
It's not the blindy way of access, it's the lowest common denominator of access. There is a difference and if you haven't worked in a11y, you won't appreciate that difference. Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that

Re: Muds was RE: [blind-gamers] coffeemud

2023-01-21 Thread Jude DaShiell
coffeemud is a particular mud coffeemud.net port 23. It is possible coffeemud's code base has been used by others to create additional muds with different names as well. Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed

Re: Muds was RE: [blind-gamers] coffeemud

2023-01-21 Thread Jude DaShiell
We need more blind developers replacing those sighted developers or we'll never get accessible useable and functional software everyone can use. Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)

Re: Muds was RE: [blind-gamers] coffeemud

2023-01-21 Thread Shaun Everiss
Ok. I have worked as an accessibility tester before. True mostly websites, granted a little software a few games but mostly websites. The rest was concept research. I am no pro spec ops though, just a contracter. I have not had anyone that wouldn't change their stuff but most stuff is

Re: Muds was RE: [blind-gamers] coffeemud

2023-01-21 Thread Jude DaShiell
You have to have a higher quality card than intel to do it but multi-channel architecture cards have been on the market for as long as computers have been being used by professionals for sound editing and production. Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot,

Re: Muds was RE: [blind-gamers] coffeemud

2023-01-21 Thread Travis Siegel
You'd be surprised what you can do with dos these days.  There are usb drivers for dos, and there's even a version of dos that is still being developed, it's called freedos. It is generally a single tasking system, but there are programs to solve that problem if it's really needed. There's

Re: Muds was RE: [blind-gamers] coffeemud

2023-01-21 Thread Lindsay Cowell
I now play 3 kingdoms. My username on there is Tina. Sent from Mail for Windows From: Travis Siegel Sent: 20 January 2023 23:34 To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: Re: Muds was RE: [blind-gamers] coffeemud The two I play the most are 3k.org 3000, and their sister mud 3scapes.3k.org 3000, and

Re: Muds was RE: [blind-gamers] coffeemud

2023-01-21 Thread Jude DaShiell
Mudschool in coffeemud shows you when you get to the correct room about its config options. For some reason coffeemud throws ansi and that messes up screen displays. Prompts usually hang out near the bottom of the screen if you set lines and columns correctly too. That way those can either be

Re: Muds was RE: [blind-gamers] coffeemud

2023-01-21 Thread Travis Siegel
Nah, it's easy to make an accessible java program.  Making it not accessible actually takes work believe it or not. Unfortunately, most folks don't like the default output routines java gives us, so instead of using those, they'll draw things on the screen instead of using the provided text

Re: Muds was RE: [blind-gamers] coffeemud

2023-01-21 Thread Shaun Everiss
Hmmm. That doesn't matter though screenreaders bar talking dosbox if you have 1 need a hardware synth. You can't play sound out of the same card as well whatever. I did try freedos back in the day and almost immediately switched back to msdos 6. Actually msdos does have a version online

Re: Muds was RE: [blind-gamers] coffeemud

2023-01-21 Thread Shaun Everiss
I actually disagree. The sighted world is opening up and education is the way. Yes the blind etc should have more involvement. But do we really want to go down the blindy way of access. Ie this program needs jaws to work and will cost a lot of cash. q9 is in leasy, leasy costs cash.