[Audyssey] USA Games and 64-bit Operating Systems

2011-10-08 Thread Thomas Ward
USA Games and 64-bit Operating systems by Thomas Ward Oct. 8, 2011 Earlier this week we went out laptop hunting. As mentioned in a previous message on the USA Games news blog USA Games is preparing to create some cutting edge games for newer operating systems and PCs. We are well aware of the

Re: [Audyssey] USA Games and 64-bit Operating Systems

2011-10-08 Thread reinhard stebner
This is great news. I am glad to see the direction you are going with this. I went 64 bit last fall with a similar reasoning. Thank you for communicating your direction. -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward

Re: [Audyssey] USA Games and 64-bit Operating Systems

2011-10-08 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Well, it is the direction where most hardware and software developers are heading long term. Someone just e-mailed me and made me aware of Microsoft's intention to release a 32-bit version of Windows 8, but even if that is true that's not what we are seeing in terms of new PCs though. I just

[Audyssey] Runing dos box with screen reader.

2011-10-08 Thread michael barnes
Hey, I just install dos box on my computer but I can't get the screen reader to read the game screen. I use the key command to read the window and all it reads is the info part of the screen. The part that it does read is the cpu speed and the program name. So how can I get the screen reader

Re: [Audyssey] Runing dos box with screen reader.

2011-10-08 Thread Stephen
You can't, you need either sighted assistance or an old dos screen reader with hardware that plugs into a serial port. At 12:52 PM 10/9/2011, you wrote: Hey, I just install dos box on my computer but I can't get the screen reader to read the game screen. I use the key command to read the window

Re: [Audyssey] Runing dos box with screen reader.

2011-10-08 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Michael, You don't. Dos Box isn't screen reader friendly. I'm not sure all of the details why or why not, but I don't think it uses the standard Windos API so the text on screen is inaccessible to a screen reader. At least I haven't found one that works with Dos Box on Windows, Linux, or

Re: [Audyssey] Runing dos box with screen reader.

2011-10-08 Thread Stephen
I use a hardware product, my artic transport attached to a serial port, with either artic business vision or transport vision as a tsr. Thats my solution. I've no idea how you could come by any serial port synthesisers since everything is moving to USB now... and I doubt weather there is any