Re: [Audyssey] The old text game known as adventure or colossal cave

2017-01-28 Thread Jacob Kruger
FWIW, there's a port of it on the android side where the developer also offered a setting to offer TTS output. Stay well Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA "Resistance is futile, but, acceptance is versatile..." On 2017-01-29 00:49, ma...@kidfriendlysoftware.com wrote: I found a copy

Re: [Audyssey] The old text game known as adventure or colossal cave

2017-01-28 Thread Phil Vlasak
Folks, Here is a review fromAudyssey; Computer Games Accessible to the Blind Issue 18: May/June/July, 1999 "Adventure 551" Reviewed by Kelly Sapergia "Adventure", or "Colossal Cave", was one of the first text adventure games of all time. It was first made in the late 70's. And it's still

Re: [Audyssey] The old text game known as adventure or colossal cave

2017-01-28 Thread Charles Rivard
I seemed to always get stuck in the maze of twisty little passages. No instructions I thought of got me out of there. If you think you're finished, you! really! are! finished!! -Original Message- From: ma...@kidfriendlysoftware.com Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2017 5:06 PM To:

Re: [Audyssey] The old text game known as adventure or colossal cave

2017-01-28 Thread Charles Rivard
Oh, good Lord! I haven't played that game in ages of ages. I wonder how well using dictation would work? I'd be willing to give it a good try if you can get it going. When using it on a DOS machine, (see how long ago that was?), I never did finish the game. If you think you're

Re: [Audyssey] The old text game known as adventure or colossal cave

2017-01-28 Thread Jude DaShiell
Any of these games can be made easier if you know how to make a mapping deck. A mapping deck starts out with a card documenting the entrance room and its exits. That card gets a number on it too. Each exit on that card gets a number too. So the card number is unique and all exit numbers are

Re: [Audyssey] The old text game known as adventure or colossal cave

2017-01-28 Thread brennenkinch
I think that was why just hard to keep it all in my head Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 28, 2017, at 6:06 PM, ma...@kidfriendlysoftware.com wrote: > > Why is it hard to play? I know its a difficult game, and you need to somehow > keep the layout in your head. I used to play it many decades

Re: [Audyssey] The old text game known as adventure or colossal cave

2017-01-28 Thread marty
Why is it hard to play? I know its a difficult game, and you need to somehow keep the layout in your head. I used to play it many decades ago, and I think I had to draw out a map. - Original Message - Subject: Re: [Audyssey] The old text game known as adventure or colossal

Re: [Audyssey] The old text game known as adventure or colossal cave

2017-01-28 Thread Jude DaShiell
If you get the right version, yes. There's a thousand point version which was the last expansion of the original game and I enjoyed that one most of all. When I downloaded it I got it off compuserve when compuserve was still a useable place to go. Compuserve is gone as is delphi.com and

Re: [Audyssey] The old text game known as adventure or colossal cave

2017-01-28 Thread Tyler Zahnke
It is; it's supposed to be kind of a mind puzzle, where you need to make sure you have all the required items to be in certain areas.. On 1/28/17, brennenki...@gmail.com wrote: > Mightt be kind of kool but if this is the game i am thinking of its kind of > hard to play >

Re: [Audyssey] The old text game known as adventure or colossal cave

2017-01-28 Thread brennenkinch
Mightt be kind of kool but if this is the game i am thinking of its kind of hard to play Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 28, 2017, at 5:49 PM, ma...@kidfriendlysoftware.com wrote: > > I found a copy of this game out on the internet, and I can get it running as > an audio game with dictation on

Re: [Audyssey] The old text game known as adventure or colossal cave

2017-01-28 Thread Tyler Zahnke
I think you can do what you wish with this classic game; I expect to see it on as many platforms as possible, since it is one of the best games in existence. On 1/28/17, ma...@kidfriendlysoftware.com wrote: > I found a copy of this game out on the internet, and I

[Audyssey] The old text game known as adventure or colossal cave

2017-01-28 Thread marty
I found a copy of this game out on the internet, and I can get it running as an audio game with dictation on the iphone and ipad with a week or two of work. Here's a wiki about the game. Many of you have probably played it - it's the grandfather of adventure games. Let me know if you think

Re: [Audyssey] alteraeon interesting discovery

2017-01-28 Thread Keith S
you need one of the skeleton keys to open the locked door inside the dragon. the necros carry the skeleton keys Keith - Original Message - From: Jude DaShiell To: gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2017 11:53 AM Subject: [Audyssey] alteraeon interesting

Re: [Audyssey] A Hero's Call, an Accessible Windows game Under development.

2017-01-28 Thread Mike Wassel
The game is still up on kickstarter, and won't be out until June. The kickstarter campaign ends in a bit less than a week. Mike. On 1/28/2017 6:53 AM, The Life of Z wrote: Now that sounds like a game I'd like to play. Anyway, is the game still being worked on 'cause I want to play it? I

[Audyssey] Question regarding DiceWorld.

2017-01-28 Thread Gary Price
Evening everyone on this list. It's Gary from Bolton here. I hope this Email comes through as I've not posted on here for a few years. I've got a question about DiceWorld on the iPhone. I had an account on it, and I kept forgetting my password, so had to keep resetting it! But even

[Audyssey] alteraeon interesting discovery

2017-01-28 Thread Jude DaShiell
I was in the stone dragon earlier today and killed several ochre jellies. Searching corpses got me a silver shield on the first corpse and shabby mail on the third corpse. The second corpse offered up a strange rod I couldn't take because I couldn't carry it at the time. My guess is that was

Re: [Audyssey] alteraeon serch switch question

2017-01-28 Thread wayne
hello i am not sure but try list search +one handed weapon and see if that would work On 1/27/2017 2:41 PM, Keith S wrote: Is there a switch that I can type to find one handed weapons in a container or dontaion room in alter aeon? Have asked on game, no one has replied Keith ---

Re: [Audyssey] A Hero's Call, an Accessible Windows game Under development.

2017-01-28 Thread The Life of Z
Now that sounds like a game I'd like to play. Anyway, is the game still being worked on 'cause I want to play it? I can't wait to here the sound effects for this game. On Jan 13, 2017 7:04 PM, "Phil Vlasak" wrote: A Hero's Call, from Out of Sight Games. An Accessible Fantasy