Right. I totally understand why she was on the list for a short time rather
than becoming a subscriber. One thought I do have, though, is this:
Popular Mechanics is produced for the Library of Congress Talking Book
program. I'm thinking that some blind readers might not know that such
games
Although I don't have it, you can get to their site by using a search
engine, then find the info you're looking for on that site. HTH.
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Hi all,
Just for your info the email address for RS Games support is
rsga...@gmail.com
and their website is
http://www.rsgames.org.
Cheers!
On 3/30/13, Charles Rivard wee1s...@fidnet.com wrote:
Although I don't have it, you can get to their site by using a search
engine, then find the info
Hi Charles,
Well, we can certainly hope. As you say Popular Mechanics is
redistributed via NLS and perhaps more blind and visually impaired
people will here about us. However, there is a bigger hope that
mainstream game developers will take notice of a growing community of
blind people who are
There is another game out there called synonyms and Antonyms by 7828 Software.
Does anyone have the correct link to that webpage as well? Also, i am still
hoping ot find Phrase Madness 1.0.
Please give me the links to both webpages.
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Hello Nicole,
The website for 7-128 Software is
http://www.7128.com
but I do not remember the website for Phrase Madness.
Please, in the future use proper subject lines when posting to the
list. The subject of this thread is too generic, and I would have
rejected it were you on moderation on
I have requested that Freedom Scientific do some work on getting the games
that come with Windows accessible. I have also contacted Microsoft on this
so that they and FS might work together. I hate the attitude of FS. They,
in no uncertain terms, let me know that jaws, after all, stands for
Hi Kriss, there are quite a few games for the iphone, but I really struggle
with touch screnes, so mainly stick to the computer. At the moment I'm
adicted to Swamp by Aprone. It's a zombie first-person shooter where you
walk around a city during a zombie invasion. The really cool thing is
Most of the games that come with windows seven (maybe later?) are
almost entirely accessable already. I haven't tried the internet
based ones, but all of the offline games seem to be button based,
which means that they do get read off quite nicely.
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I can download these but I'm using Safari on Mac and using the option-enter
keystroke which saves the link automatically to one's default downloads folder.
there's a link to each cast which is simply labeled on this end at least, with
the mp3 file name. This is the file I'm clicking on.
HTH
Lori and list, on the iOS Ap Store there is a free tutorial app from LookTel
which not only gradually introduces iOS gestures at your own pace but also
makes this fun by using games to do so.
The first (currently available) portion of the tutorial has two simple games in
it and covers several
Just sending this again with a more apropos subject line. -Apologies!
Smiles,
Cara :)
Lori and list, on the iOS Ap Store there is a free tutorial app from LookTel
which not only gradually introduces iOS gestures at your own pace but also
makes this fun by using games to do so.
The first
Hi.
Well my left arm hasn't actually fallen off, and while still not exactly
painless, I can at least prop it in a position where it is possible to type
provided I take breaks.
Rather amusingly, the hospital said they were amazed it wasn't! broken, and the
principle reason it wasn't is
Honestly Charles, from what I've seen over the years, you might as
well have punched yourself in the face repeatedly for all the good
it'll do. I've never known FS to do anything for the actual community
other than raise prices and remove features, and I doubt they'd bother
to care at this point.
Is there a way to try out these games as in a demonstration version or play
them online?
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Hi Charles and all,
The games that come with Windows are accessible with Vista, Windows 7,
and Windows 8. If you upgrade to Windows 7 I know that Solitaire,
Hearts, and so forth work with Window-Eyes, and I imagine could be
made to work with Jaws as well. However, the basic point is Microsoft
has
Hi Nicole,
Not at the moment. Unfortunately, they recently updated their Gamebook
software, and haven't released a demo version for V.I. gamers to try.
I think I have an older demo laying around, but the older version came
with FreeTTS which isn't as good as their new version that uses SAPI
5.
For those of you who have an iDevice and who play Robo-E, I'm stuck on level 3.
There is an energy ring to the left and right of a ball, and walls directly
below all 3. How can I move the ball away from the wall? Thanks.
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well on the subject of mainstreaming we really have no hopes of
making it to the likes of sony etc yet the small to medium sized
companies is where we are at for direct dev access.
The thing is there is so much prapiratory compression and stuff.
If every game had the possibility for addons to
why would you even want to bother with the windows games?
Lets see most of them are card games and a chess game 3d pinball and
some other junk.
Sadly these are just crappy games from ms which come with the os.
We have most of those games and unlike the ms ones they are
accessable and probably
Hi Charles,
Once a ball is against a wall it can not be moved off it, but can be moved
along it.
So if a ball and energy ring are on the same wall, only that ball can go in
that energy ring, even if there is another ball closer to the ring.
If you move a ball to the corner, there is no way to
are they any good.
yes I fiddled with 3d pinball on xp but only half heartedly, I have
always thought the os games are with the box and are crap and basic
and not worth bothering with.
but then I have never played them.
3d pinball is the only game which is not crap in the sence its got
sounds
Get real. The reason you would bother with them is that people play them.
Don't you realize that just because you personally think they are worth
anything, not everyone shares your opinion?
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true, I have never actually bothered trying to look though, or
stopped to ask if they are really worth the trouble of actually doing
anything with.
At 12:04 PM 3/31/2013, you wrote:
Get real. The reason you would bother with them is that people play
them. Don't you realize that just because
I'm thinking out loud here, so if I give a spoiler that you don't want,
either save this for if you need it later or delete it:
Here's hopefully a better layout description:
Bottom row. wall, wall, wall.
Second row: empty, ball, empty.
third row: Empty, ball, empty.
fourth row: empty,
Hi Nicole.
Unfortunately, while there used to be a demo version of the games, the
people at 7-128 stopped issuing them when they upgraded the games. I did
hear they were working on an online demo, but this has yet to materialize.
This really is a shame since the games (especially the mystery
Hi Shaun,
Well, I think you are right that companies like Sony are pretty much a
lost cause. They'll take one look at that article and read there are
2,000 members in our community to date and say that's not worth spit
which is true. However, there are many independent developers out
there
Hi, this might be considered off topic, I don’t know. But here is my problem
that I can’t seem to get help with.
I recently installed the homebrew channel and apps on my wii, and with it came
a usb loader for loaing games off of an external hdd, the thing is the only hdd
I have handy right now
I will also add however that Bg software,
http://www.omninet.net.au/~irhumph/blindgamers.htm has fully accessible
versions of all the common windows games such as hearts, spades, mine
sweeper and lots of solitare varients, and since they are completely free
and run with ms sapi, this isn't
Hi Shaun,
Weather or not the Microsoft games are good or not is really in the
eyes of the beholder so to speak. I have played them and they are
pretty much what you would expect from card games. Weather a person
likes them or not really depends on if they are into card games or
not.
There are of
Hi Dark,
True. To add to what you said Ian's games also have graphics as I
recall so they are actually a better replacement for the XP games
since they can be played by blind and sighted alike.
On 3/30/13, dark d...@xgam.org wrote:
I will also add however that Bg software,
Hi Dark,
Agreed. I really enjoyed the one Inspector Cindy game I have, and
think more people would buy their games if there was some kind of demo
available. Especially, now that they support SAPI 5 instead of
FreeTTS. That said there games are pretty inexpensive and are wirth
the cost.
On
Think about what you wrote from a reader's point of view.
always thought the os games are with the box and are crap and basic
and not worth bothering with.
but then I have never played them.
Having never played them, what do you base your thoughts on the games on?
You have no personal
Hi Tom.
I agree completely, indeed this is part of the job I do for audiogames.net,
though one severe problem on both windows and mac is a technical one, since
there are many games, such as some stratogy games which would be as easily
accessible as smugglers, but which use graphical, rather
Hi tom.
Yep. I admit I enjoy the graphics in ian's games myself too, especially
games like mine sweeper where the overview of the board is a real help
(albeit that it is! quite possible to play just with sound, provided you've
got better spacial overview skills than me).
Even if your not a
Hi Shaun,
Sometimes I don't know why I bother reading your posts. The below post
is absolutely ridiculous, and not everyone would agree with your
negative and condescending attitude of the Windows games.
You say everyone including sighted people think the Windows games are
crap. That's false. My
Hi Tom.
I have actually had a mind to reccord another of my dreaded castings of the
pod about the 7-128 games, particularly the inspector cindy ones, since as
gamebooks with full cutscenes and video they are quite unique. i didn't
particularly wrate them when they had that horrible free tts
Can anyone help me with some star trek questions I got?
I am building another star trek map for Tactical battles, and the request has
come out for the more famous ships in the series, and races as well.
While I am no slouch int he trek department, I know there is some who are very
Hi everyone, I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this, but I am
looking for a temprery host for the fantasy rp mud my friend and I are working
on. We each have the game enstalled, and used to be able to connect to each
other's machines, but then we both had wireless routers
Hi Folks,
Many people played the Windows XP games including,
J.K.Rowling The author of Harry Potter plays minesweeper. On 15 May 2004
she posted on her site, In the bad old days, when I wanted a few minutes'
break while writing, I used to light up a cigarette. I gave up smoking in
the year
Hi Dark,
Very true. Unfortunately, a lot of mainstream games that could be
accessible aren't simply because the developer didn't take
accessibility into consideration before hand, and by the time they are
approached with accessibility considerations its a case of start over
from scratch which is
Hi Al,
As this is game related I'll allow this topic on list. Moreover since
I'm an expert at this sort of thing I'll go ahead and answer your
questions. Below are your questions and my answers.
1. Do quantum torpedo's work only on borg ships, how much damage do
they do compared to a photon?
hello if the scoreboard for duck blaster or dark destroyer or 3-d snake could
be someday brought back online somehow it might give motiviation to play o show
off my shooting abilities:) have a good night.
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Hi Tom,
Thanks for that, I appreciate it.
When reading about the defiant and quantums, I am seeing some serious game
balance issues, sigh.
thanks Tom,
al
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Hi Dark,
Oh, they were well done all right. I pretty much replace the standard
Windows games with Ian's versions just because they are a bit better
than the defaults.. I specially like the fact ian has various versions
of solitaire instead of the standard deck which makes it different
visually
Hi Dark,
i'd like that. It would make a nice addition to the audio reviews
section of the Audyssey website I will be adding this month.
On 3/30/13, dark d...@xgam.org wrote:
Hi Tom.
I have actually had a mind to reccord another of my dreaded castings of the
pod about the 7-128 games,
Hi Joseph,
I wouldn't really be too hopeful. Philip has abandoned all of those
games, and I don't think anything short of a complete rewrite and
possibly a new developer/maintainer will bring the score boards etc
back.
Cheers!
On 3/30/13, joseph weakland josephweakl...@att.net wrote:
hello if
Hi Al,
I don't doubt it. Its not really possible to mix old Trek ships with
newer Trek ships as games just can't be balanced out right. The newer
classes such as Defiant-Class and the Sovereign-Class make ships like
the Enterprise D look like a pile of junk. The main reason is because
of races
Yeah, I think that is what I am going to have to do, and seperate the two
generations of ships. Thanksf or the help, I think that is my best course of
action.
al
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there is a converter to ntfs I remember doing it
I think the command is convert but I have forgot
it havn't needed to convert for so long.
lets see
if I have it right run cmd in admin mode then type
convert d: where d is your driver letter /fs:ntfs
that should convert your drive to ntfs
and
Hi Al,
That would be my advice. That is in fact what i did with STFC II. I
realized that the DS 9era and the older TNG ships are hard to balance
so I have decided to give them separate games.
On 3/30/13, Allan Thompson allan1.thomp...@cox.net wrote:
Yeah, I think that is what I am going to have
Hi guys,
Please, take this topic off list.
Thanks.
On 3/30/13, shaun everiss sm.ever...@gmail.com wrote:
there is a converter to ntfs I remember doing it
I think the command is convert but I have forgot
it havn't needed to convert for so long.
lets see
if I have it right run cmd in admin
Hi Tom.
Interestingly enough my brother also! mentioned that a newer company is
producing a full retro console, which needless to say I'm highly interested
in myself for low vision access reasons.
it's not just the pc markit however. I've also noticed flicking through
games on the ap store,
Hi Jim,
Well, its not so much you aren't good at designing personalities but
you don't very them enough. I think what I would do is have a
generator of some kind that picks from a possible list of
personalities so that if you walk in the room with the fireplace the
girl there will have a
Hi Joseph.
wel Philip bennifall has pretty much stated that the games are abandonware,
which given how young he was when he made them makes sense. This isn't to
say people shouldn't play them, but to put a new scoreboard up would require
rewriting the games to point to a new scoreboard, and
Hi Tom.
IWell that does give me at least a little motivation to have a go, though
we'll see, as I am horribly busy even though my thesis is coming to an end.
I also in the similar light wanted to reccord a podcast about smugglers 5,
since that is an amazing game, and also it'd make a nice
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