Looks like that's two of us - only thing left to figure out would be
shipping.
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From: Charles Rivard wee1s...@fidnet.com
Sent: Friday, June 19, 2015 15:19
To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] braille/large
Because we're way out in humor land:
I think an afternoon's optimistic... to the point where if optimism were
pennies, you'd be richer than Bill Gates. That of course presumes that you
don't have six hands, three braillers and some super mutant ability that
lets you type as fast as the
Dark,
If others are game, I'm totally game for trying this. I can't promise
that our company can contribute a huge amount to the cost, but we'll
do what we can if others are interested. I also can help with the
writing/editing of any material: got to put this almost PH.D. in
English to use
hey i cannot get the pinochle for game working in talking dosbox. i run
it and it asks for my name i type it in hit enter and nothing else
happens. for some reason it ran in the ms-dos virtual machine though.
but even in there i couldn't really figure out how to play it. I'd love
a pinochle
I've actually got the machine that it was (previously) used with, as well as
the software to work it. I think the hardest part would be to figure out
what settings had to be entered on the embosser itself (its got a number pad
and you've got to give it codes to explain what you want it to do),
Hi Jeremy.
Well that is roughly what I was thinking, though I'd probably not use the
term violent, particularly sinse there are now several first person
adventure games as well (it's got it's own genre category on
audiogames.net).
Either way, I'm quite willing to write something up and am
I considered adding an amusing line to that extent to my earlier post, but
the very thought of doing 100-200 of those by hand is... let's just not go
there.
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To: Gamers
this is excellent! maybe we will get other mainstream games accessible
with NVDA scripts maybe a mainstream baseball and nfl or college
football games?
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On 6/19/2015 2:54 PM, Anouk Radix wrote:
Hi,
I just got this through a friend of mine and thought some of
Hi John,
Yes, those braille embossers are very loud. Loud enough that when its
running it is best to put it as far away as possible while it is
running because it will drowned out the sound of anything you might be
doing be it TV, radio, your favorite audio book, etc. As has been
stated normal
Hi jeremy.
I've started working on one now. I'll put it through a few draughts as I
usually do and when I have something vaguely satisfactory I'll post to the
list and people can see what they think, though it might take a day or two
precisely because of the reason you mentioned that it will
Mine isn't nearly as loud as some of the others apparently are. And I've
got it working after a bit of working with it this afternoon. When it's
embossing, it sounds like it's ripping heavy paper, and I can't be on the
phone in the same room with it, but it's OK if I go into the living room.
Hi Dark,
It is an interesting concept, but I wonder how many members of said
organizations already know about audio games. I have seen the rants
about NFB etc on the Blind Zone and over on the Audio Games Forum so
obviously there are people within those organizations who know about
the audio
Hi Shaun,
It sounds to me you are describing attention deficit disorder better
known as A.D.D. In order to program anything let alone games you have
to be able to sit down and spend more time than 30 minutes on it
without becoming distracted. If you can't stay focused on a project
more than 30
where may I find this game would love to give it a go.
On 6/18/15, loriduncan lori_dunca...@hotmail.com wrote:
Hi everyone, I've just started playing survive the wild, and although I'm
really liking the consept, I'm finding there is a lot of policy destroying,
as I'm still a newbie and some
Hi Ron,
Survive the Wild is a relatively new audio game that came out in the
last month or so. There has been quite a bit of talk about it on
Audiogames.net but little here for some reason.
Cheers!
On 6/19/15, Ron hopkins ard...@samobile.net wrote:
what is surviving the wild?
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Hi Shaun,
Well, I'd say it all depends on the blind organization in question.
Certainly they each have their own motives and agendas for doing what
they do, and it sounds like based on things Dark has said about the
RNIB they precisely have the attitude you describe in your message.
However, the
Hi Tomm.
I do believe the cost to get a number of pamflets printed wouldn't be quite
so insane, sinse after all in the Uk lots of organizations from theatres to
restaurant chains have stuff brailled, heck my bank can deliver a braille
bank statement each month if I wish and I doubt they'd be
Hi Tom.
Buy an embosser? that is way more overkill than I am thinking here. In
the Uk at least there are braille transcription services that will spend
their time on printing, it's one way that say a local theatre can get
braille programs, sinse you are correct that braille embossers
hello all gamers, does anyone know if there is a good accessible IOS bowling
game?
also is the game hearstrike accessible?
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Hi Jeremy.
My concern of making this too developer specific is that you'd then be in a
position where you might alienate some people by not highlighting certain
types of games.
For example, suppose Vga, pcs, and gma all chipped in. Well that's fine as
far as futuristic scifi adventure and
Hi Jeremy,
The only problem here is that such a pamphlet is not relatively
expensive. As I mentioned yesterday in one of my posts the startup
costs for such a venture would be rather expensive assuming the person
doing the braille embossing had to purchase the braille embosser,
braille
Hi Dark,
Okay, I see what you mean about using a third-party braille
transcription service, a good idea, but I'm not sure what something
like that would cost. The only one that comes to mind off the top of
my head in the USA is American Printing House for the Blind, but as I
have never
I have an old embosser (it uses a parallel port!), the software to match,
and more paper than I could even try to shake a stick at. If we wanted to
get serious about making this kind of a pamphlet, I could probably do that
part without to much trouble (I suspect Google would be able to answer
Dark,
I understood your original intent, but I think you misunderstood mine
somewhat. What I was proposing was just such an introductory
pamphlet. It would be defrayed by a consortium of developers,
distributed free through the organizations (assuming they would do so)
and would have a list of
Hi Lenron,
I believe the website for Survive the Wild is
http://www.samtupy.com
if I'm not mistaken.
Cheers!
On 6/19/15, lenron brown lenro...@gmail.com wrote:
where may I find this game would love to give it a go.
On 6/18/15, loriduncan lori_dunca...@hotmail.com wrote:
Hi everyone, I've
hey shawn I'm the same way. But lately I find playing spoonbill games
and rs-games and quenton c's games and some of the GMA-cards-games is a
fun and relaxing passtime for me. especially learning chess. lately to
practice offensive and defensive strategies I play against another human
but I
Yes, it is. The game is really good although navigating around can be a bit
of a pain sometimes with no audio feedback, so trying to find small things
like the stream or clay can be quite tricky, and can cause you to die pretty
fast without water and before you even find any.
From Lori.
yes and my longtime favorites will always be jim kitchen's games,
especially football and baseball. those are my favorites and now with
talking dosbox i can play both versions of his games with ASAP talking
through NVDA!
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On 6/17/2015 2:06 AM, shaun everiss
Hi Josh,
No thank you. Brailing up hundreds of copies of a pamphlet on a
Perkins Brailer is definitely not my idea of spending an after noon .
Especially, not when you consider all a person has to do is type up
the pamphlet once in Word or some other word processor, translate it
to braille, and
I could braille up some stuff with my slate and stylus or perkins
brailler on thermoform paper...yes perkins braillers and slates are
great for writing on thermoform. I got a bunch of thermoform paper here
and could buy more if needed.
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On 6/19/2015 10:25
Hi Dark,
Perhaps, but I think we are running into a communication error since I
didn't make my thoughts fully clear in my last post.
To begin with a lot of these resellers now offer their catalogs
electronically. Either as a download on their website, sometimes
e-mailed directly to the customer,
once the braigo braille printer comes out braille embossers should cost
no more than $300 or so. check out braigo labs http://www.braigolabs.com/
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On 6/19/2015 8:18 AM, dark wrote:
Hi Tom.
Buy an embosser? that is way more overkill than I am thinking
Hi John,
Thanks. If we were to decide to go forward with this that old embosser
and your stock of paper could prove useful. That is considering we can
get that old thing going. That could be somewhat problematic these
days.
I happen to have an old embosser as well, a Braille Blazer circa 1992
or
So what can you do in this game? What's the purpose of it? I ask because I
have been to the site but it doesn't say much about the game nore does it
say what versions of windows it runs on.
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From: Gamers [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of loriduncan
Sent:
I have nothing to do during the day and it would give me something to do.
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On 6/19/2015 11:09 AM, Thomas Ward wrote:
Hi Josh,
No thank you. Brailing up hundreds of copies of a pamphlet on a
Perkins Brailer is definitely not my idea of spending an after noon .
or you could get a refurbished perkins brailler and type them up by hand
or a less expensive option would be make the pamflets with a $5 slate
and stylus. they make great quality braille especially the plastic ones.
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On 6/19/2015 2:55 AM, Thomas Ward wrote:
Hi Darren.
Survive the wild will work on all versions of windows. the idea basically is
to wander around in a wilderness setting, make weapons and tools and other
items out of resources and generally survive.
There is a pretty good audio walkthru of the game that you can find links to
on
Hi.
That is a good suggestion, and it is true there are likely people who might
read electronic cattalogues who probably would not readily run across sites
like audiogames.net or even whitestic.co.uk by default. However, the reason
I specifically suggested braille even though I myself am not
I do enjoy a traditional style game occasionally, though with the issues I
mentioned with chess and space I personally prefer something like Bg
nomination whist or pontes backgammon myself.
Rs games I do occasionally though generally if I'm going to play with others
across the net I prefer
If someone has the software on their PC and a braille embosser, this is
correct.
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Slow, tedious, time consuming, and a painstaking idea, but it would be a
labor intensive solution.
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From: Josh K joshknnd1...@gmail.com
To: Gamers
FYI, here are links to the walk through Dark mentioned earlier.
Haven't listened to these yet, just grabbed them from audiogames.net
and put investigating this game on the to do list.
Part 1:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/tssggbhkizc38 … 1.mp3?dl=1
Part 2:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/d3xs80ram76z2 …
I think this would be a good idea, also. At conventions and other such
events, there are tons of pamphlets and such for people to pick up and
browse at their leisure, and it's high time there were more made available
to blind people who do their own reading in the form of braille.
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With no audio feedback, how can the game be played successfully? Blind
people rely on audio feedback.
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I would like to see such advertisements made available to blind people in
formats other than electronic for a change. Although they may be few, there
are people who prefer to do their own reading. There also may be people who
don't use a computer, but would if something gets their interest.
No to your first question, and yes to your second.
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Hi Charles,
Fortunately, the braille translation software is the easiest thing to
get. As I recall there are some free braille translation applications
for Linux which would save the cost of buying something like Duxberry
Braille Translator. Plus if I'm not mistaken the
Talking Dosbox has
As for the size of the publication, if it is produced using an embosser that
embosses on both sides of the page, I would think that 10 physical pages, 20
sides, would be very adequate.
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I have an embosser and Duxbury translation software for it on my laptop.
I've also got about 2,000 sheets of paper. I'll check into the cost of
license renewal for the translation software.
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As far as I understand generally, there is audio feedback for what items are
immediately around you, as well as various streight up object scans that
tell you what is waht, however things like discovering the location of where
the river is on the map are not given in audio and you just eneed to
Dark,
I think we're actually meaning roughly the same concept, just coming
at it differently. If I were to write such a beastie, I would want to
be as large and inclusive as possible. First off, as you point out,
different tastes run to different games. Also too, if I understood
your original
read the linked to thread. No it does not
On 19 Jun 2015, at 21:03, Brice Mellen buu...@gmail.com wrote:
Does it work for gold and silver and red blue and yellow to?
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On Jun 19, 2015, at 1:54 PM, Anouk Radix radix.an...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I just got this through
I'm going to get this embosser going again. I just checked with Duxbury.
The cost will be zero.
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To: Gamers
Thomas,
I see your point. It's a very good point as far as it goes. Perhaps,
what is needed, would be a different approach to the problem. Many of
the blindness organizations, as well as those that do work with the
visually impaired, such as the Lions, and others, use email
newsletters or web
sometimes the most labor-intensive solutions are the best ones though.
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On 6/19/2015 2:01 PM, Charles Rivard wrote:
Slow, tedious, time consuming, and a painstaking idea, but it would be
a labor intensive solution.
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Hi,
I just got this through a friend of mine and thought some of you might find
this interesting. Sorry if it has been posted before.
The pokemon crystal gameboy game has been made accessible through the use of
nvda scripts:
http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?id=16213
Does it work for gold and silver and red blue and yellow to?
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On Jun 19, 2015, at 1:54 PM, Anouk Radix radix.an...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I just got this through a friend of mine and thought some of you might find
this interesting. Sorry if it has been posted before.
The
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