Hi Tom.
On the point of text based games it's actually interesting how many new
games are being developed, look at choiceofgames on the iphone as a prime
example.
The only problem is not all of these are accessible. I was for example
rather disappointed that the tinman series of gamebooks,
that's because they put so much graphical content into the game and not much
else there's very little replay value. also the system requirements for said
games are becoming insane now. the pioneers of games such as elite are still
being talked about today and for very very good reason. but i
Hi Dark,
Very true. I know a lot of people who are disappointed with the
current state of affairs with mainstream games for the Xbox, Play
Station, Wii, etc. A lot of that has to do with the fact companies no
longer build fun and interesting games with in depth plots or
storylines. Instead they
Hi Tom.
that is unfortunately true, though of course it's not universal. My brother
is a big dark souls fan precisely because! of the open ended story, detailed
mechanics and complex world, though in fairness detailed games seem to be
few and far between in the mainstream.
This is also why
I would love to see elite made accessible. I loved that game and hope it makes
it to ios some day.
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Date: 30:10:2013 2.31 pm
Hi Tom.
that is unfortunately true, though of course it's
Dark said: it'd be great to have some actual guidelines which people
could google.
There are such guidelines available at blindcomputergames.com. If there
are things that need to be added, we would welcome suggestions from list
members to improve them. Dark did make suggestions when we
thats true dark, I have an autistic game friend that is graphic
hungry I have another friend that doesn't care and I have another
blind friend who's father plays ages of empires and other adventures
which both use mouse, graphics text and sound.
Apart from the japanese games though a lot of
yes and sadly that is what the industry is coming to.
They don't want real games they just want crappy after crappy game.
they have grone up just going bang, bang, bang.
To change that is going to be hard.
people like going bang for some reason never mind what sitting for
hours bashing a game
That happened to me once, I worked out that it was because of my sitting
position that's what messed me up.
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thats true dark, I have an autistic game friend that is graphic hungry I
have another friend that doesn't care and I have another blind friend who's
father plays ages of empires and other adventures
true, this excludes the japanese stuff which always seems to be good.
Though the same could be with tv.
used to battle to see what scifi program I'd watch.
its not all reality and tallent.
thats fine but real life on tv is not always the thing you want.
At 01:50 AM 10/31/2013, you wrote:
Hi
well thats why I like alter it is in the most point open ended.
At 03:30 AM 10/31/2013, you wrote:
Hi Tom.
that is unfortunately true, though of course it's not universal. My
brother is a big dark souls fan precisely because! of the open ended
story, detailed mechanics and complex world,
It actually wouldn't be impossible to do darren, we've seen 3D flight sims
ala zero site or tdv, and we've seen equipment and mission systems too.It'd
be a lot of work to program of course, but it certainly wouldn't require
anything extraodinary or anything beyond the techniques we've seem
Hi Eleanor.
Oopse, it was silly of me to forget the sight, especially! since I've
actually directed developers to those guidelines in the past.
I'll have another look and a think about if there need to be any additions.
All the best,
Dark.
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Hi Lindsay,
There are actually quite a few depending on what OS you have
Lindsey,
The Inspector Cyndi in Newport series from 7-128 Software are all text
based games. They can either be self voiced with SAPI or read by a
screen reader. If you have a 64 bit computer, you will have to use SAPI
rather than JAWs.
These games are mysteries set in Newport Rhode Island
Hi All,
What text based games are out there?
Lindsay Cowell
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Hi Lindsay,
There are actually quite a few depending on what OS you have and if
you are able to run 16-bit and 32-bit applications.
For example, there are the Richard Disteno games like Run for
President, Atlantic City Blackjack, Dodge City Desperados, and
Destination Mars.
There are a number
The text-based games aren't going away anytime soon. Cell phones are
likely to keep them alive as will Linux which is replacing the operating
systems Microsoft won't support anymore on home-based machines. The
if-archive.org site along with supporting usenet newsgroups chronicle the
ongoing
For those that are playing agt games have you tried modifying the batch
files that start up those games and putting the /v parameter on the line
that actually runs the executables right after the name of the executable?
I did that awhile back and ffor agt games that made them all work well
drdos is available and if used screen readers will work on it. If you get
the full set, you can even run ethernet cards with it.
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So says a man making a documentary on them fairly shortly. Thought
there'd be some people interested in this article, so... here ya go.
Call it evidence it isn't just blind folk who're looking for games
with more graphics than content.
gamers@audyssey.org
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Sure, because those ops i mentioned are the only ones that use dos as
a op with windows as a shell.
With xp, 2000 and up dos is emulated, and windows is no longer a shell.
At 11:43 PM 7/26
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Blessings!
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Sure, because those ops i mentioned are the only ones that use dos as
a op with windows
: [Audyssey] Text based games
You have to look at the properties of your drive. if its formatted in
ntfs. Then those old versions of dos are dead. They do have a version
that runs in that mode, but the speech programs won't.
If the drive is all ntfs. You will have to redo the box with a 32bit
that is?
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You can only boot to dos if your not running xp or 2000. Have to have
either win95, 98 or me
that is?
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You can only boot to dos if your not running xp or 2000. Have to have
either win95, 98 or me
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You can only boot to dos if your not running xp or 2000. Have to have
either win95, 98 or me.
At 09:43 PM 7/25/2006, you
24, 2006 10:19 PM
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Hi Jim,
Is their a way, like in older windows, to restart in MS Dos mode? If their
is, I could do that and install Jaws For Dos, then whenever I want to play
a
game, I could just start in DOS with Jaws For Dos? Is what I am thinking
or anything. Is there a reason? Perhaps it's not
accessible.
-Cary
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Here:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~pot
11:37 AM
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when I open that site, I get this message:
Zplet: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Please note that SAVE and RESTORE may not available due to applet security
restrictions. Leaving this page may or may not restart the game depending
Hi Phil,
Thanks for this, but what do I need to open this? My Winfrots doesn't want
to open this, I think it just opens .z5 files.
Ari
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Hi Phil,
Thanks for this, but what do I need to open this? My Winfrots doesn't want
to open this, I think it just opens .z5 files.
Ari
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Hi Ari,
I thought any Frotz interpreter could open earlier versions.
I think you need to open the file and type hgg.z3
typing in the file name and extension.
I did not try it so good luck.
Phil
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Hi Cary,
Where do I get Winfrotz TTS? I see that Winfrotz opens it, but when I route
the jaws cursor to the pc cursor, it just reads graphics, it won't read text
like with the other games.
Ari
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Hi Cary,
Where do I get Winfrotz TTS? I see that Winfrotz opens it, but when I
route
the jaws cursor to the pc cursor, it just reads graphics, it won't read
text
like
Hi! Try this site for winfrotzz.
http://www.csd.uwo.ca/Infocom/
HTH! Sly!
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umm. I don't remember where I
If your using jaws 6 or up. You don't have to install a dos version.
You just type cmd in run box or go start menu, programs, accessories,
arrow down to command prompt.
Now for some dos based stuff you may have to go in the properties for
the executable, and set compatibility mode for it to
Hi Ari,
I have not figured out a way to restart in dos mode with Windows XP like we
could in Windows 95 and 98. Even if one could the dos that comes with XP is
not the same. Windows used to run on top of dos. Now XP is windows with a
simulated dos mode.
Even at the Windows XP command
I have hal and it can handle sertain dos things, not games though.
Commands, format a disk, copy a file, access stuff, I sometimes use
the terminal for stuff.
i've never been able to run games though.
At 07:21 AM 7/25/2006, you wrote:
What is command.com?
Sorry and where do you type it in?
Also,
also seen windows 98 in used computer stores.
Later And Blessings
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Subject: [Audyssey] Text based games
Hello everyone,
In this email I'm first
: James Homuth [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Windows XP has a DOS option. o to start, run, and type in cmd.exe
rather than the usual command.com. That'll bring up a DOS window
No way to get win xp to start in dos mode.
Besides Most newer systems do not have serial port, pluss most drives
are in ntfs which won't help matters.
At 05:19 PM 7/25/2006, you wrote:
Hi Jim,
Is their a way, like in older windows, to restart in MS Dos mode? If their
is, I could do that and
then type in exit to
return to windows?
Regards!
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Hi Jim,
Is their a way, like in older windows, to restart in MS Dos
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Hi Jim,
Is their a way, like in older windows, to restart in MS Dos mode? If their
is, I could do that and install Jaws For Dos, then whenever I want to play
a
game, I could
yes it can not agt or tads though.
I have windowsbridge on an old system and I can run almost everything
except agt and tads.
Since cosmoserve doesn't work, tpatch does not fix it and this was
the main reason I got it, nup really no good.
I have a coppy of asap but I never got it to work on my
, 2006 12:23 PM
Subject: [Audyssey] Text based games
Hello everyone,
In this email I'm first asking for advice, then I'd like you guy's
feedback
on a suggestion.
First, I'd like to tell you guys my background with text adventures.
When I was at school, the teacher had a disk with text adventure
Hi james.
I have never got this working right.
At any rate the system I had doesn't have a serial port no more.
I did try xp with a keynote and it ran fine but when I tried dectalk
it fell over probably because something to do with port conflicts.
In any case I tried 6 times and I reformatted 6
That is true I use the dos window in X P Home. I usually type in
command.com, though.
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Windows XP
Another thing I wandered was playing inform, tads and agt on linux
with something like dosemu running at startup.
At 07:56 AM 7/24/2006, you wrote:
Hi,
You may be delighted to hear that Windows XP can in fact emulate DOS and
run at least some of the old stand alone text adventures.
Regards,
Hi Ari,
You can find a lot of the old text adventure games for DOS at the
Interactive Fiction Archive at www.ifarchive.org
As for the command-line thing in Windows XP, what games wouldn't I be able
to play with that?
Thanks.
Yours Sincerely,
Kelly John Sapergia
For a mix of New Age,
arie.
This is a reall pain in the rear.
I to did for a while try to persue this.
You can find dos images on something like demonoid.com or torrentspy.com.
You will need something like winimage and or rawwrite.
You can find a version of winimage on the sites I mentioned to.
This aint all lagit
What is command.com?
Sorry and where do you type it in?
Also, if JFW is just a windows screen reader will it handle a dos emmulater?
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Hi Chris,
I've just tried command, it works, I can play old games! Thanks everyone!
What you do is go to Run, and in the box you type command.com
This brings up the prompt. This is cool, because I remember on a computer I
saw with JFW and an older version of Windows, you could go to the MS-dos
.
Alex K
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Hi Chris,
I've just tried command, it works, I can play old games
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Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 12:42 PM
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Hi Chris,
I've just tried command, it works, I can play old games! Thanks everyone!
What you do is go to Run, and in the box you type command.com
This brings up the prompt
Hi ari,
The only thing is, the command prompt in XP doesn't work exactly like dos used
to. In dos as long as you had the game write the text to the bios or console
the dos screen reader would say it. The XP command prompt has no such thing as
bios or console. The games will not
Hi Jim,
Is their a way, like in older windows, to restart in MS Dos mode? If their
is, I could do that and install Jaws For Dos, then whenever I want to play a
game, I could just start in DOS with Jaws For Dos? Is what I am thinking
possible, can a person start in dos mode with Jaws for dos, never
Hello everyone,
In this email I'm first asking for advice, then I'd like you guy's feedback
on a suggestion.
First, I'd like to tell you guys my background with text adventures.
When I was at school, the teacher had a disk with text adventure games like
Zork, Gymad, Under the Ice, etc. The screen
Windows XP has a DOS option. o to start, run, and type in cmd.exe
rather than the usual command.com. That'll bring up a DOS window
similar to what you'd find with Windows 95 and the such, with all the
oddly programmed commands contained therein.
James
At 03:23 PM 7/23/2006, you wrote:
Hello
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