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Tom, I own a PS3 as well. I'm curious to know which games you have for the system? perhaps if we both have a title we can play online sometime! --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi, Lol. I never got too much into video games as such, but I can remember mindlessly moving the joystick around and playing PacMan. Needless to say, I got hit by all manner of ghosties all the time... Best Regards, Hayden -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Tom Randall Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 3:19 PM To: 'Gamers Discussion list' Subject: Re: [Audyssey] How did you start? Hi all. Sorry for the late response, I've been busy around here. This is a great topic. For myself I began gaming on the Atari 2600 when I was in high school, back then many of the games had pretty good sound cues that actually meant something because of the limitations on graphics at the time. This made for some really great games that could be learned even by a totally blind person which I am if you wanted to put the time and effort into it. I still own two 2600 systems and a lot of games, not sure how many at the moment I've lost count. I progressed through the atari computers of the early to mid 80's, the 400, 800, 800xl and 130xe. There were quite a few games that could be played by us on these too. I experimented with doing some programming, however with no speech access whatsowever it was simply too difficult to do anything really long or complex, although I do remember sitting up nights and entering many a BASIC program out of some of the old mags that I had access to. I actually have a programming reference manual in Braille around here still, and I have an Atari 800, an 800xl, and a 130xe around here along with numerous games for them. But back to gaming. With the advent of the early Nintendo systems which is what we had where I lived from the late 80's to early 90's I found that gaming access was far more limited than before. More emphasis was placed on graphics and the sounds grew less and less meaningful. For that reason I became somewhat frustrated with mainstream gaming and pretty much quit it for a few years. In the late 90's or maybe around 2000, I started reading about the Atari Lynx which was the first color handheld system of its day and, like many Atari products was extremely advanced and ahead of its time but failed due to poor advertising. I picked one up off of ebay with maybe a dozen games and started experimenting with it. I still have this system as well. Gaming access was somewhat mixed. While I can and do have fun with a few of the games that I have, Switchblade II, asteroids, atari pinball and roadblasters come to mind, many are pretty much not playable for us or at least I haven't figured them out. It's still a really cool system though and I still get it out from time to time. In the last two or three years I've really gotten back into mainstream consoles with a vengeance thanks in no small part to some of you on this list, you know who you are and I say thanks again. I've picked up a Sega Gennisis, a psp, then a ps2, and most recently a ps3 with of course games for all of them. It is really great to see the resurgence of meaningful sounds in many of the modern games, it's like the good old days in many ways except the sounds themselves are of course much much better than they were back then. My ps2 is currently on loan to another blind friend who I am teaching about gaming. He is a formerly sighted guy who used to really love gaming and had pretty much thought that he couldn't do it since losing his sight. My psp is pretty much inseparable from me it's always in my pack with its charger and games. I'm still just getting started with the ps3 but so far it is the bomb! Now to audio games. I think the first audio game I discovered was grizzly gulch from Bavisoft. This game is really quite fun and the sound work is extremely good, I only find it very sad that their support is so poor especially recently. After that I believe I got the first Troopanum from BSC Games which led to my friendship with Justin and my starting to work with BSC Games and Blindsoftware.com. Over the years I have also picked up all of the GMA games although I have frankly never done all that great at Lone wolf. I also have Rail Racer when I get in a mood for some driving and racing, although again I have just not put the time into this one to get good enough to want to compete online all that often. Well that pretty much covers my gaming experience both in the mainstream and the audio gaming genres. Game on! Tom -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of dark Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 12:42 PM To: Gamers@audyssey.org Subject: [Audyssey] How did you start? Hi. all this talk about if Is getting me a litle nostalgic, so i thought a topic about how people got into audio games and such might be fun. For me, I'd always played what graffical games my eyesite could cope
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Amen to that. Even considering the age of that software they are sometimes superior to todays games. Best Regards, Hayden -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Bryan Peterson Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 5:20 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] How did you start? I did too, when I had a BNS that had games. Of course that used to get me in trouble a lot but ah well. It was worth it. He who is valiant and pure of spirit may find the holy grail in the castle of ggh. - Original Message - From: "Thomas Ward" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 3:58 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] How did you start? > Hi, > HI don't recall having any problems with the old BNS games. I > had a BNS 640K with a flash rom and put most of my games on their. > They worked really well, and were good games. I spent hours and hours > playing games on my BNS. > > > > On 4/11/10, Hayden Presley wrote: >> Hi, >> Good games. I think I still have a Braille lite 2000 somewhere with >> hangman, >> blackjack, zapem, guess, chess, simon, and some others. Odd thing was >> sometimes they would get corrupted and I'd have to perform a hard reset >> to >> fix it. >> Best Regards, >> Hayden > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the > list, > please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. > --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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I did too, when I had a BNS that had games. Of course that used to get me in trouble a lot but ah well. It was worth it. He who is valiant and pure of spirit may find the holy grail in the castle of ggh. - Original Message - From: "Thomas Ward" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 3:58 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] How did you start? Hi, HI don't recall having any problems with the old BNS games. I had a BNS 640K with a flash rom and put most of my games on their. They worked really well, and were good games. I spent hours and hours playing games on my BNS. On 4/11/10, Hayden Presley wrote: Hi, Good games. I think I still have a Braille lite 2000 somewhere with hangman, blackjack, zapem, guess, chess, simon, and some others. Odd thing was sometimes they would get corrupted and I'd have to perform a hard reset to fix it. Best Regards, Hayden --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi, HI don't recall having any problems with the old BNS games. I had a BNS 640K with a flash rom and put most of my games on their. They worked really well, and were good games. I spent hours and hours playing games on my BNS. On 4/11/10, Hayden Presley wrote: > Hi, > Good games. I think I still have a Braille lite 2000 somewhere with hangman, > blackjack, zapem, guess, chess, simon, and some others. Odd thing was > sometimes they would get corrupted and I'd have to perform a hard reset to > fix it. > Best Regards, > Hayden --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Wow Tom, that's quite a collection of hardware! I'm also intreagued that you managed to play switchblade Ii. i remember the Amigar release of this game, a side scrolling platformer similar to Turrican (though with less good music and in fact none in game), where you plade as a knight who used either a sword or gun exploring very large levels, pluss you could buy different weapons in shops. It is true that many of your weapons were automatic, --- but I do wonder how the platforming aspects worked without site? (as I said, I'm just curious). btw, Someone is interested in creating a freeware remake of Switchblade Ii, though how accessible it might be or even whe it'll be out I'm not sure sinse their working on other games at the moment. Beware the Grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi all. Sorry for the late response, I've been busy around here. This is a great topic. For myself I began gaming on the Atari 2600 when I was in high school, back then many of the games had pretty good sound cues that actually meant something because of the limitations on graphics at the time. This made for some really great games that could be learned even by a totally blind person which I am if you wanted to put the time and effort into it. I still own two 2600 systems and a lot of games, not sure how many at the moment I've lost count. I progressed through the atari computers of the early to mid 80's, the 400, 800, 800xl and 130xe. There were quite a few games that could be played by us on these too. I experimented with doing some programming, however with no speech access whatsowever it was simply too difficult to do anything really long or complex, although I do remember sitting up nights and entering many a BASIC program out of some of the old mags that I had access to. I actually have a programming reference manual in Braille around here still, and I have an Atari 800, an 800xl, and a 130xe around here along with numerous games for them. But back to gaming. With the advent of the early Nintendo systems which is what we had where I lived from the late 80's to early 90's I found that gaming access was far more limited than before. More emphasis was placed on graphics and the sounds grew less and less meaningful. For that reason I became somewhat frustrated with mainstream gaming and pretty much quit it for a few years. In the late 90's or maybe around 2000, I started reading about the Atari Lynx which was the first color handheld system of its day and, like many Atari products was extremely advanced and ahead of its time but failed due to poor advertising. I picked one up off of ebay with maybe a dozen games and started experimenting with it. I still have this system as well. Gaming access was somewhat mixed. While I can and do have fun with a few of the games that I have, Switchblade II, asteroids, atari pinball and roadblasters come to mind, many are pretty much not playable for us or at least I haven't figured them out. It's still a really cool system though and I still get it out from time to time. In the last two or three years I've really gotten back into mainstream consoles with a vengeance thanks in no small part to some of you on this list, you know who you are and I say thanks again. I've picked up a Sega Gennisis, a psp, then a ps2, and most recently a ps3 with of course games for all of them. It is really great to see the resurgence of meaningful sounds in many of the modern games, it's like the good old days in many ways except the sounds themselves are of course much much better than they were back then. My ps2 is currently on loan to another blind friend who I am teaching about gaming. He is a formerly sighted guy who used to really love gaming and had pretty much thought that he couldn't do it since losing his sight. My psp is pretty much inseparable from me it's always in my pack with its charger and games. I'm still just getting started with the ps3 but so far it is the bomb! Now to audio games. I think the first audio game I discovered was grizzly gulch from Bavisoft. This game is really quite fun and the sound work is extremely good, I only find it very sad that their support is so poor especially recently. After that I believe I got the first Troopanum from BSC Games which led to my friendship with Justin and my starting to work with BSC Games and Blindsoftware.com. Over the years I have also picked up all of the GMA games although I have frankly never done all that great at Lone wolf. I also have Rail Racer when I get in a mood for some driving and racing, although again I have just not put the time into this one to get good enough to want to compete online all that often. Well that pretty much covers my gaming experience both in the mainstream and the audio gaming genres. Game on! Tom -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of dark Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 12:42 PM To: Gamers@audyssey.org Subject: [Audyssey] How did you start? Hi. all this talk about if Is getting me a litle nostalgic, so i thought a topic about how people got into audio games and such might be fun. For me, I'd always played what graffical games my eyesite could cope with, first on an atari 2600 (at age 3 and 4), then an amstrad cpc computer (similar to a comador 64), a comador amigar and finally a Snes (which i stil own). But in the mid 90's with the 32 bit 3D era, the number of games I could play dropped from about thirty percent, to almost none. Though I used a laptop for school work, and university, it never occurred to me I could do anything with it bar write. Yes, I had the D&D manuals and used it to
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Hi, Good games. I think I still have a Braille lite 2000 somewhere with hangman, blackjack, zapem, guess, chess, simon, and some others. Odd thing was sometimes they would get corrupted and I'd have to perform a hard reset to fix it. Best Regards, Hayden -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Yohandy Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 11:23 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] How did you start? oh man the braille N speaks! everyone had them back then. such cool little devices. and you guys remember the games people created with them? - Original Message - From: "Thomas Ward" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 7:55 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] How did you start? > Hi Shaun, > I don't know if you have anything like it in New Zeland but here in > the U.S. there is a place called Batteries Plus. What they basically > do is take devices and replace the rechargible batteries in them for > you. I once took a Braille N' Speak into them and they swapped out the > original batteries in it for new ones and it ran like a charm until it > eventually died around 2003 or so. In fact, the batteries they put in > were better than the original Blazie ones, because when I got the BNS > originally in 96 it constantly liked saying battery low like the > battery Blazie gave me was junk to begin with. > Anyway, there are places around that can probably fix your Keynote SA > for you. That was a pretty good foreign language synth, and I haven't > seen one of those for ages. Last time I used one was when I was taking > French in school. Now, I remember the Keynote better than i do the > French. Lol! > > On 4/6/10, shaun everiss wrote: >> well if someone still has a keynote and wants to make it go die I'd like >> it >> since i have a deadnote right now. >> Either that or if someone can contact me off list with instructions on >> trying to change the old keynote gold sa battery I may bother. >> the only real reason I want a dos system now is to run agt things like >> cosmoserve which doesn't run right on agility. >> and a few other things. >> arena, destination mars and several other things. > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the > list, > please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi Jim, I wouldn't be a bit suprised. Dos and Linux shared many of the same commandline applications back in those days. It was much easier to create cross-platform applications like lynx, sox, pine, ncftp, etc than it is today. Today programming is more complicated because instead of printing text directly to the screen or looking for keyboard ascii codes we have full fledged graphical tool kits that are generally operating system specific, unicode text, and special scan codes for special keys such as the Windows key and other keys that don't return a triditional ascii code. However, I know all too well about trying to shell out to play a wav file. Back when I was writing my first text games in the mid 90's in C I would use the system function like system ("play shuffle.wav"); which would shell out, play the shuffle file using sox, and then return to normal game play. It definitely was a pretty crude but effective way of adding sounds to otherwise text games. As you said it was sortof fun trying to figure out where to shell out, play the sound, and then come back so it didn't seam as though it was all out of place. Smile. On 4/8/10, Jim Kitchen wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > I also have and used a wav file player named sox. They must have also made > a dos version. But all that we did was use the Basic shell command to shell > out and play the wav file. It worked and was great to be able to add wav > files to our games, but as you can imagine shelling out was not exactly > congruent to smooth continuous game play. But that was part of the fun. > You know figuring out how to make a good game and blend in that shelling out > to play sounds. I was writing my games in PDS7. That is Microsoft > Professional Development System version 7. Also known as Extended Quick > Basic. That golf game was though written in GW Basic by a PC Users group > from Pittsburgh. I also wrote in GW Basic, BasicA, QBasic, Quick Basic 3.0 > and Quick Basic 4.5. And Microsoft Extended Basic for the TI 99 4A and > Atari home computers. Oh yeah and wrote a couple of little games for my Dad > on his TRS80 in whatever Basic that was. > > BFN > > Jim > > I like Visual Basic 6.0 because I can not C. > > j...@kitchensinc.net > http://www.kitchensinc.net > (440) 286-6920 > Chardon Ohio USA > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. > --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hay darren, let me know if you want a discussion of limited vision stuff off list, I'm currently beta testing a random occurence game with various colour and contrast modes and sapified menues, pluss there are some great freeware things around with graffics that aren't too evil and 3D. Obviously though this isn't right for the audeasy list, so appologies to everyone else. Beware the grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: "Darren Harris" To: "'Gamers Discussion list'" Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 10:03 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] How did you start? I really can't remember precisely when I stumbled across whitestick but that really was where my audio gaming jerney began. It was either late 2003 or in 2004. I'm thinking more 2003 actually as packman talks is the first game I bought I think. For the most part I've been playing mainstream games as I do have some sight so being very honest there aren't many audio games that really do impress me. In terms of size of game and content replayability and complexity. Phil's packman talks and GMA tank commander, lw are the real games that have impressed me. Entombed is fantastic as well, so too I'm sure time of conflict will be. I haven't looked at that yet because am always caucious with regards to beta software even if I do trust the source. But I've been reading all the comments that the public testers have fed back to the list and with great interest. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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I really can't remember precisely when I stumbled across whitestick but that really was where my audio gaming jerney began. It was either late 2003 or in 2004. I'm thinking more 2003 actually as packman talks is the first game I bought I think. For the most part I've been playing mainstream games as I do have some sight so being very honest there aren't many audio games that really do impress me. In terms of size of game and content replayability and complexity. Phil's packman talks and GMA tank commander, lw are the real games that have impressed me. Entombed is fantastic as well, so too I'm sure time of conflict will be. I haven't looked at that yet because am always caucious with regards to beta software even if I do trust the source. But I've been reading all the comments that the public testers have fed back to the list and with great interest. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi Thomas, I also have and used a wav file player named sox. They must have also made a dos version. But all that we did was use the Basic shell command to shell out and play the wav file. It worked and was great to be able to add wav files to our games, but as you can imagine shelling out was not exactly congruent to smooth continuous game play. But that was part of the fun. You know figuring out how to make a good game and blend in that shelling out to play sounds. I was writing my games in PDS7. That is Microsoft Professional Development System version 7. Also known as Extended Quick Basic. That golf game was though written in GW Basic by a PC Users group from Pittsburgh. I also wrote in GW Basic, BasicA, QBasic, Quick Basic 3.0 and Quick Basic 4.5. And Microsoft Extended Basic for the TI 99 4A and Atari home computers. Oh yeah and wrote a couple of little games for my Dad on his TRS80 in whatever Basic that was. BFN Jim I like Visual Basic 6.0 because I can not C. j...@kitchensinc.net http://www.kitchensinc.net (440) 286-6920 Chardon Ohio USA --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi Jim, cool! though I'm not the least surprised. Beware the Grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: "Jim Kitchen" To: "dark" Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 12:47 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] How did you start? Hi Dark, Well, my black jack, draw poker, slot machine and star mule games started out as video / text games in the eighties. They were then converted to blind accessible games in the nineties. As a matter of fact my black jack game made the BBS PC Ohio's collection of must have files collection. Yes, well other than reaction I have converted all of my dos games to windows versions. There are a few utility programs that I have not published as windows versions, but here is the full list of dos games on my web site. baseball, battleship, black jack, bopit, concentration, draw poker, football, golf, hangman, life, master mind, reaction, roulette wheel, simon, skunk, slot machine, snakes and ladders, star mule, trivia game engine, trucker and yahtzee. Now spanker does measure your reaction time like the reaction game did. And compare my windows list of games to the above dos list. Baseball, BattleShip, Black Jack, Bop It, Concentration, Craps, Draw Poker, Football, Golf, Hangman, Homer on a Harley, Life, Mach 1, Mach 1 tts, Master Mind, Monopoly, Pong, Puppy1, Roulette, Simon, Skunk, Slot Machine, Snakes and Ladders, Spanker, Star Mule, Triple J Shooter, Trivia game engine, Trucker, Yahtzee Braille reference guide, Brain, Reader, Waver, Batting practice, Golf course maker BFN Jim Kitchen's Inc, for games that are up to 110 percent funner to play. j...@kitchensinc.net http://www.kitchensinc.net (440) 286-6920 Chardon Ohio USA --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi, In deed I do. I had a number of games for the BNS. I know for sure I had Solitaire, Simon, Mine Buster, Hangman, etc stored on my flash rom. After I took C in college I looked at the BNS C compiler, but they wanted to much money for the compiler so I never purchased it. Good thing I didn't because shortly afterward Blazie merged with Henter-Joice to form Freedom Scientific, and then started developing the Pacmates. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi Dark, Well, my black jack, draw poker, slot machine and star mule games started out as video / text games in the eighties. They were then converted to blind accessible games in the nineties. As a matter of fact my black jack game made the BBS PC Ohio's collection of must have files collection. Yes, well other than reaction I have converted all of my dos games to windows versions. There are a few utility programs that I have not published as windows versions, but here is the full list of dos games on my web site. baseball, battleship, black jack, bopit, concentration, draw poker, football, golf, hangman, life, master mind, reaction, roulette wheel, simon, skunk, slot machine, snakes and ladders, star mule, trivia game engine, trucker and yahtzee. Now spanker does measure your reaction time like the reaction game did. And compare my windows list of games to the above dos list. Baseball, BattleShip, Black Jack, Bop It, Concentration, Craps, Draw Poker, Football, Golf, Hangman, Homer on a Harley, Life, Mach 1, Mach 1 tts, Master Mind, Monopoly, Pong, Puppy1, Roulette, Simon, Skunk, Slot Machine, Snakes and Ladders, Spanker, Star Mule, Triple J Shooter, Trivia game engine, Trucker, Yahtzee Braille reference guide, Brain, Reader, Waver, Batting practice, Golf course maker BFN Jim Kitchen's Inc, for games that are up to 110 percent funner to play. j...@kitchensinc.net http://www.kitchensinc.net (440) 286-6920 Chardon Ohio USA --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Dudes, this is kind of off topic. My audio games for the blind group. Discussions off topic are welcome in the holidays. Talking about games is welcome, talking about computer problems is welcome when their are know holidays but that's only in easter holidays or know holidays. If you want to joyn, just send a blank email to. audiogamesfortheblind+subscr...@googlegroups.com With the subject subscribe in the subject line. Contact infermation. email: muhamme...@googlemail.com msn: muhammed123...@hotmail.co.uk Skype: muhammed.deniz Klango username. muhammed - Original Message - From: "shaun everiss" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 10:50 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] how did you start? well i doubt you can. I tried a few years ago to get keysoft 2 for my old laptop. and its not like they can for whatever reason there are no coppies in stock. At 12:49 a.m. 7/04/2010, you wrote: Hi if you want to use keynote again, I got a 15 minute demo that runs in a windows98 virtual machine. so far my efforts to convince humanware to: 1. allow us to use the old keynote demo from 1995 or so, as a full version, have failed. 2. create a synth voice for ESpeak that sounds like keynote gold, call it the keynote ESpeak variant or something like that. this so far has also failed. I will continue to try and get them to either: 1. patch the old unsupported keynote gold multimedia demo to run as full copy and also patch keysoft gold for win95. or 2. make a keynote voice variant for ESpeak. the old unsupported software also runs in a win95 virtual machine very well! please contact me offlist for more info. Josh Josh Kennedy jkenn...@gmail.com http://jkenn337.klangoblog.net --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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oh man the braille N speaks! everyone had them back then. such cool little devices. and you guys remember the games people created with them? - Original Message - From: "Thomas Ward" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 7:55 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] How did you start? Hi Shaun, I don't know if you have anything like it in New Zeland but here in the U.S. there is a place called Batteries Plus. What they basically do is take devices and replace the rechargible batteries in them for you. I once took a Braille N' Speak into them and they swapped out the original batteries in it for new ones and it ran like a charm until it eventually died around 2003 or so. In fact, the batteries they put in were better than the original Blazie ones, because when I got the BNS originally in 96 it constantly liked saying battery low like the battery Blazie gave me was junk to begin with. Anyway, there are places around that can probably fix your Keynote SA for you. That was a pretty good foreign language synth, and I haven't seen one of those for ages. Last time I used one was when I was taking French in school. Now, I remember the Keynote better than i do the French. Lol! On 4/6/10, shaun everiss wrote: well if someone still has a keynote and wants to make it go die I'd like it since i have a deadnote right now. Either that or if someone can contact me off list with instructions on trying to change the old keynote gold sa battery I may bother. the only real reason I want a dos system now is to run agt things like cosmoserve which doesn't run right on agility. and a few other things. arena, destination mars and several other things. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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like Tom, the very first games I played were mainstream video games. in fact I only found out about audio games a few years ago. unlike tom though, I've always been blind. It never stopped me from gaming though. I still have my super nintendo with lots of old games like super mario all stars, mk2 and ultimate mk 3, donkey kong country etc. even to this day, I sometimes find myself hooking up my snes and playing some super mario. so much better than emulators! nothing like blowing into that cartrage a dozen times to get the game to work lol. I can still beat many levels. first few levels of super mario world I can beat with no problems, including the castle. yes sometimes I use tricks like flying through the most difficult parts, but hey flying's part of the game and it sure gets the job done lol. this definitely brings back many great memories. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi Jim, Very interesting story. The first game I ever wrote was a Blackjack game in C for my Linux system I was using for my college programming courses since it came with the free gcc compiler and it was more accessible than using the Windows Visual C++ compiler. Like your early games I couldn't really find a good sound library to play sounds, SDL wasn't out yet, so I ended up writing a handy little wrapper around sox, a Linux commandline wav file player, and used that to play sounds like shuffling the deck and dealing cards. It was a very cool little program. I also wrote a few other card and board games which would really need to be upgraded to be ported to Windows. A project someday I'd like to do. On 4/6/10, Jim Kitchen wrote: > Hi, > > I like many started playing video games in the late seventies and early > eighties on an Atari 2600. I also had a Texas Instruments 99 4A and an > Atari 800 XL home computer which I started programming video games on in > Basic. Then in 1990 I got my first talking computer. It was a NEC 286 > running Jaws for dos version 1.0 with an Accent SA hardware synthesizer. So > I was now writing blind accessible text games. In 1990 or 1991 Phil Vlasak > found the source code for a golf game and found a sound file player like > Plany and SBPlay and added sounds to the golf game. You know before that we > only used the little PC speaker for sounds. But now we could add wav files > to our games. So I also found a different golf game and added sounds to it. > So in the nineties I programmed games in dos Quick Basic (PDS7) with text > and sound files played via the external sound file player. In 2000 David > Greenwood helped me to get started switching from dos Quick Basic to Visual > Basic for windows. So now in windows we could play the sounds right in the > code of our games and make the games totally sound based. So that is what I > have been doing for the last ten years. Allot of the time was spent > converting and improving my dos games to windows versions, but I have also > written several totally new windows only games. > > Just for the heck of it, again here is a list of my games for windows. > > Baseball, BattleShip, Black Jack, Bop It, Concentration, Craps, Draw Poker, > Football, Golf, Hangman, Homer on a Harley, Life, Mach 1, Mach 1 tts, Master > Mind, Monopoly, Pong, Puppy1, Roulette, Simon, Skunk, Slot Machine, Snakes > and Ladders, Spanker, Star Mule, Triple J Shooter, Trivia game engine, > Trucker, Yahtzee > > Braille reference guide, Brain, Reader, Waver, Batting practice, Golf course > maker > > BFN > > Jim > > The nicest thing about the future is that it always starts tomorrow. > > j...@kitchensinc.net > http://www.kitchensinc.net > (440) 286-6920 > Chardon Ohio USA > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. > --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi Jim. Wow! interesting to think that when I'm playing your golf game I'm playing something that started 20 years ago, ;D. Out of idle curiosity, which of your games were written originally for dos and then converted? and are there stil any dos games you haven't released windows versions of yet? Beware the Grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: "Jim Kitchen" To: "dark" Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 1:47 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] How did you start? Hi, I like many started playing video games in the late seventies and early eighties on an Atari 2600. I also had a Texas Instruments 99 4A and an Atari 800 XL home computer which I started programming video games on in Basic. Then in 1990 I got my first talking computer. It was a NEC 286 running Jaws for dos version 1.0 with an Accent SA hardware synthesizer. So I was now writing blind accessible text games. In 1990 or 1991 Phil Vlasak found the source code for a golf game and found a sound file player like Plany and SBPlay and added sounds to the golf game. You know before that we only used the little PC speaker for sounds. But now we could add wav files to our games. So I also found a different golf game and added sounds to it. So in the nineties I programmed games in dos Quick Basic (PDS7) with text and sound files played via the external sound file player. In 2000 David Greenwood helped me to get started switching from dos Quick Basic to Visual Basic for windows. So now in windows we could play the sounds right in the code of our games and make the games totally sound based. So that is what I have been doing for the last ten years. Allot of the time was spent converting and improving my dos games to windows versions, but I have also written several totally new windows only games. Just for the heck of it, again here is a list of my games for windows. Baseball, BattleShip, Black Jack, Bop It, Concentration, Craps, Draw Poker, Football, Golf, Hangman, Homer on a Harley, Life, Mach 1, Mach 1 tts, Master Mind, Monopoly, Pong, Puppy1, Roulette, Simon, Skunk, Slot Machine, Snakes and Ladders, Spanker, Star Mule, Triple J Shooter, Trivia game engine, Trucker, Yahtzee Braille reference guide, Brain, Reader, Waver, Batting practice, Golf course maker BFN Jim The nicest thing about the future is that it always starts tomorrow. j...@kitchensinc.net http://www.kitchensinc.net (440) 286-6920 Chardon Ohio USA --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Oops, sorry about posting about the keynote gold thing, I missed the offtopic message. Best Regards, Hayden -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Muhammed Deniz Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 10:55 AM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] how did you start? Hi all, take it up on my audio games for the blind group. I don't mind as its easter holidays. Do you love audio games? Would you like to chat about BGt a game creation tool for the blind? Do you need any tips or tricks on any sought of game? Do you need to ask questions about buying a game and help for the game? Well, this is the right place for you then! If you would like to joyn, just send a blank email to. audiogamesfortheblind+subscr...@googlegroups.com With the subject subscribe in the subject line. Contact infermation. email: muhamme...@googlemail.com msn: muhammed123...@hotmail.co.uk Skype: muhammed.deniz Klango username. muhammed - Original Message - From: "Thomas Ward" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 4:48 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] how did you start? > Hi Muhammed, > You are write. The Keynote topic is a bit off topic in this case. > The part about using Keynote SA for dos games was on topic, but the > rest of it is getting off topic. Let's close that part of the > discussion down. > > Thanks. > > > On 4/6/10, Muhammed Deniz wrote: >> Hello everyone, >> isn't this key note gold thing off topic for the list? I'm not the >> moderator, but this topic should be related to how we got in to audio >> games. >> I think the keynote gold topic is off topic for the list Thomas and Raul, >> correct me if i'm wrong. > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the > list, > please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi, It wasn't that bad--in fact it was one of the best I'd heard when I got my first BrailleNote--but since they've incorporated eloquence I've stuck to using it over Keynote Gold. Best Regards, Hayden -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of shaun everiss Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 4:55 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] how did you start? Well it probably won't happen. they use the same stuff for their braille note range now so I doubt they would give it away. though I wouldn't mind it for this box. sure it was robotic but speech actually sounded quite good. At 04:30 a.m. 7/04/2010, you wrote: >Hi > >lets bring the keynote thing back on topic by relating it to games and I will bring it back on topic, by saying this. > >Ultimately I want to use keynote gold multimedia in a win98 virtual machine so I can use it with the asap screen reader in dos mode to play older unsupported dos games. asap with win98's dos and keynote multimedia would be the perfect combination to play older dos games. either that or humanware please make a loving keynote voice for the loving free, and loving open source ESpeak speech synthesizer! > >Josh > >Josh Kennedy jkenn...@gmail.com http://jkenn337.klangoblog.net >--- >Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org >If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. >You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at >http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. >All messages are archived and can be searched and read at >http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. >If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, >please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi, I like many started playing video games in the late seventies and early eighties on an Atari 2600. I also had a Texas Instruments 99 4A and an Atari 800 XL home computer which I started programming video games on in Basic. Then in 1990 I got my first talking computer. It was a NEC 286 running Jaws for dos version 1.0 with an Accent SA hardware synthesizer. So I was now writing blind accessible text games. In 1990 or 1991 Phil Vlasak found the source code for a golf game and found a sound file player like Plany and SBPlay and added sounds to the golf game. You know before that we only used the little PC speaker for sounds. But now we could add wav files to our games. So I also found a different golf game and added sounds to it. So in the nineties I programmed games in dos Quick Basic (PDS7) with text and sound files played via the external sound file player. In 2000 David Greenwood helped me to get started switching from dos Quick Basic to Visual Basic for windows. So now in windows we could play the sounds right in the code of our games and make the games totally sound based. So that is what I have been doing for the last ten years. Allot of the time was spent converting and improving my dos games to windows versions, but I have also written several totally new windows only games. Just for the heck of it, again here is a list of my games for windows. Baseball, BattleShip, Black Jack, Bop It, Concentration, Craps, Draw Poker, Football, Golf, Hangman, Homer on a Harley, Life, Mach 1, Mach 1 tts, Master Mind, Monopoly, Pong, Puppy1, Roulette, Simon, Skunk, Slot Machine, Snakes and Ladders, Spanker, Star Mule, Triple J Shooter, Trivia game engine, Trucker, Yahtzee Braille reference guide, Brain, Reader, Waver, Batting practice, Golf course maker BFN Jim The nicest thing about the future is that it always starts tomorrow. j...@kitchensinc.net http://www.kitchensinc.net (440) 286-6920 Chardon Ohio USA --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] how did you start?
Well it probably won't happen. they use the same stuff for their braille note range now so I doubt they would give it away. though I wouldn't mind it for this box. sure it was robotic but speech actually sounded quite good. At 04:30 a.m. 7/04/2010, you wrote: >Hi > >lets bring the keynote thing back on topic by relating it to games and I will >bring it back on topic, by saying this. > >Ultimately I want to use keynote gold multimedia in a win98 virtual machine so >I can use it with the asap screen reader in dos mode to play older unsupported >dos games. asap with win98's dos and keynote multimedia would be the perfect >combination to play older dos games. either that or humanware please make a >loving keynote voice for the loving free, and loving open source ESpeak speech >synthesizer! > >Josh > >Josh Kennedy jkenn...@gmail.com http://jkenn337.klangoblog.net >--- >Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org >If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. >You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at >http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. >All messages are archived and can be searched and read at >http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. >If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, >please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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well they switched focus from standard pcs to their note taker range. all their pc software stopped. I think they did it to replace the standard windows shell. I suppose they think that now this is not necessary anymore. At 01:09 a.m. 7/04/2010, you wrote: >Hi Josh, >Actually, we were talking about the hardware version, the SA, but it >is interesting you are still working with the Keynote Multimedia >software. I have a licensed version around here somewhere, but haven't >used it for a good 10 years or so since it isn't really supported on >newer Windows platforms. I wonder why Humanware just dropped it like >that anyway. I actually use to use it more than Eloquence back in the >days when it was still supported. > >--- >Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org >If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. >You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at >http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. >All messages are archived and can be searched and read at >http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. >If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, >please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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well i doubt you can. I tried a few years ago to get keysoft 2 for my old laptop. and its not like they can for whatever reason there are no coppies in stock. At 12:49 a.m. 7/04/2010, you wrote: >Hi > >if you want to use keynote again, I got a 15 minute demo that runs in a >windows98 virtual machine. so far my efforts to convince humanware to: >1. allow us to use the old keynote demo from 1995 or so, as a full version, >have failed. >2. create a synth voice for ESpeak that sounds like keynote gold, call it the >keynote ESpeak variant or something like that. this so far has also failed. I >will continue to try and get them to either: >1. patch the old unsupported keynote gold multimedia demo to run as full copy >and also patch keysoft gold for win95. >or 2. make a keynote voice variant for ESpeak. >the old unsupported software also runs in a win95 virtual machine very well! >please contact me offlist for more info. > >Josh > >Josh Kennedy jkenn...@gmail.com http://jkenn337.klangoblog.net >--- >Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org >If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. >You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at >http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. >All messages are archived and can be searched and read at >http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. >If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, >please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
[Audyssey] how did you start?
Hi lets bring the keynote thing back on topic by relating it to games and I will bring it back on topic, by saying this. Ultimately I want to use keynote gold multimedia in a win98 virtual machine so I can use it with the asap screen reader in dos mode to play older unsupported dos games. asap with win98's dos and keynote multimedia would be the perfect combination to play older dos games. either that or humanware please make a loving keynote voice for the loving free, and loving open source ESpeak speech synthesizer! Josh Josh Kennedy jkenn...@gmail.com http://jkenn337.klangoblog.net --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi all, take it up on my audio games for the blind group. I don't mind as its easter holidays. Do you love audio games? Would you like to chat about BGt a game creation tool for the blind? Do you need any tips or tricks on any sought of game? Do you need to ask questions about buying a game and help for the game? Well, this is the right place for you then! If you would like to joyn, just send a blank email to. audiogamesfortheblind+subscr...@googlegroups.com With the subject subscribe in the subject line. Contact infermation. email: muhamme...@googlemail.com msn: muhammed123...@hotmail.co.uk Skype: muhammed.deniz Klango username. muhammed - Original Message - From: "Thomas Ward" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 4:48 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] how did you start? Hi Muhammed, You are write. The Keynote topic is a bit off topic in this case. The part about using Keynote SA for dos games was on topic, but the rest of it is getting off topic. Let's close that part of the discussion down. Thanks. On 4/6/10, Muhammed Deniz wrote: Hello everyone, isn't this key note gold thing off topic for the list? I'm not the moderator, but this topic should be related to how we got in to audio games. I think the keynote gold topic is off topic for the list Thomas and Raul, correct me if i'm wrong. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] how did you start?
Hi Muhammed, You are write. The Keynote topic is a bit off topic in this case. The part about using Keynote SA for dos games was on topic, but the rest of it is getting off topic. Let's close that part of the discussion down. Thanks. On 4/6/10, Muhammed Deniz wrote: > Hello everyone, > isn't this key note gold thing off topic for the list? I'm not the > moderator, but this topic should be related to how we got in to audio games. > I think the keynote gold topic is off topic for the list Thomas and Raul, > correct me if i'm wrong. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] how did you start?
Hello everyone, isn't this key note gold thing off topic for the list? I'm not the moderator, but this topic should be related to how we got in to audio games. I think the keynote gold topic is off topic for the list Thomas and Raul, correct me if i'm wrong. Do you love audio games? Would you like to chat about BGt a game creation tool for the blind? Do you need any tips or tricks on any sought of game? Do you need to ask questions about buying a game and help for the game? Well, this is the right place for you then! If you would like to joyn, just send a blank email to. audiogamesfortheblind+subscr...@googlegroups.com With the subject subscribe in the subject line. Contact infermation. email: muhamme...@googlemail.com msn: muhammed123...@hotmail.co.uk Skype: muhammed.deniz Klango username. muhammed - Original Message - From: "Josh" To: "gamers list" Cc: "Dominic Gagliano" ; "Gabe Griffith" ; "Maurice Sloane" Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 1:49 PM Subject: [Audyssey] how did you start? Hi if you want to use keynote again, I got a 15 minute demo that runs in a windows98 virtual machine. so far my efforts to convince humanware to: 1. allow us to use the old keynote demo from 1995 or so, as a full version, have failed. 2. create a synth voice for ESpeak that sounds like keynote gold, call it the keynote ESpeak variant or something like that. this so far has also failed. I will continue to try and get them to either: 1. patch the old unsupported keynote gold multimedia demo to run as full copy and also patch keysoft gold for win95. or 2. make a keynote voice variant for ESpeak. the old unsupported software also runs in a win95 virtual machine very well! please contact me offlist for more info. Josh Josh Kennedy jkenn...@gmail.com http://jkenn337.klangoblog.net --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] how did you start?
Hi Josh, Actually, we were talking about the hardware version, the SA, but it is interesting you are still working with the Keynote Multimedia software. I have a licensed version around here somewhere, but haven't used it for a good 10 years or so since it isn't really supported on newer Windows platforms. I wonder why Humanware just dropped it like that anyway. I actually use to use it more than Eloquence back in the days when it was still supported. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
[Audyssey] how did you start?
Hi if you want to use keynote again, I got a 15 minute demo that runs in a windows98 virtual machine. so far my efforts to convince humanware to: 1. allow us to use the old keynote demo from 1995 or so, as a full version, have failed. 2. create a synth voice for ESpeak that sounds like keynote gold, call it the keynote ESpeak variant or something like that. this so far has also failed. I will continue to try and get them to either: 1. patch the old unsupported keynote gold multimedia demo to run as full copy and also patch keysoft gold for win95. or 2. make a keynote voice variant for ESpeak. the old unsupported software also runs in a win95 virtual machine very well! please contact me offlist for more info. Josh Josh Kennedy jkenn...@gmail.com http://jkenn337.klangoblog.net --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] How did you start?
true. however I don't have space to have that synth on my desk at all nore a old style physicle system to run it on and since mastertouch and keysoft only run right on 386 systems its unlikely I could even run it all anyway. I'm not mangling my main box if I have to fiddle with dosbox to much. >Hi Shaun, >I don't know if you have anything like it in New Zeland but here in >the U.S. there is a place called Batteries Plus. What they basically >do is take devices and replace the rechargible batteries in them for >you. I once took a Braille N' Speak into them and they swapped out the >original batteries in it for new ones and it ran like a charm until it >eventually died around 2003 or so. In fact, the batteries they put in >were better than the original Blazie ones, because when I got the BNS >originally in 96 it constantly liked saying battery low like the >battery Blazie gave me was junk to begin with. >Anyway, there are places around that can probably fix your Keynote SA >for you. That was a pretty good foreign language synth, and I haven't >seen one of those for ages. Last time I used one was when I was taking >French in school. Now, I remember the Keynote better than i do the >French. Lol! > >On 4/6/10, shaun everiss wrote: >> well if someone still has a keynote and wants to make it go die I'd like it >> since i have a deadnote right now. >> Either that or if someone can contact me off list with instructions on >> trying to change the old keynote gold sa battery I may bother. >> the only real reason I want a dos system now is to run agt things like >> cosmoserve which doesn't run right on agility. >> and a few other things. >> arena, destination mars and several other things. > >--- >Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org >If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. >You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at >http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. >All messages are archived and can be searched and read at >http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. >If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, >please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] How did you start?
Hi Shaun, I don't know if you have anything like it in New Zeland but here in the U.S. there is a place called Batteries Plus. What they basically do is take devices and replace the rechargible batteries in them for you. I once took a Braille N' Speak into them and they swapped out the original batteries in it for new ones and it ran like a charm until it eventually died around 2003 or so. In fact, the batteries they put in were better than the original Blazie ones, because when I got the BNS originally in 96 it constantly liked saying battery low like the battery Blazie gave me was junk to begin with. Anyway, there are places around that can probably fix your Keynote SA for you. That was a pretty good foreign language synth, and I haven't seen one of those for ages. Last time I used one was when I was taking French in school. Now, I remember the Keynote better than i do the French. Lol! On 4/6/10, shaun everiss wrote: > well if someone still has a keynote and wants to make it go die I'd like it > since i have a deadnote right now. > Either that or if someone can contact me off list with instructions on > trying to change the old keynote gold sa battery I may bother. > the only real reason I want a dos system now is to run agt things like > cosmoserve which doesn't run right on agility. > and a few other things. > arena, destination mars and several other things. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] How did you start?
well if someone still has a keynote and wants to make it go die I'd like it since i have a deadnote right now. Either that or if someone can contact me off list with instructions on trying to change the old keynote gold sa battery I may bother. the only real reason I want a dos system now is to run agt things like cosmoserve which doesn't run right on agility. and a few other things. arena, destination mars and several other things. At 03:40 p.m. 6/04/2010, you wrote: >Well I started with a keynote and only could play dos stuff then, beyond the >titanic, hitch hikers all the infocom stuff got on to the original yahoo >audyssey list in 2000 through Paul nimoo who was here and put my windows 98 >computer together met and love sod and all the other audio stuff. >Lisa Hayes > > > > >www.nutrimetics.com.au/lisahayes > >- Original Message - From: "dark" >To: >Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 5:42 AM >Subject: [Audyssey] How did you start? > > >>Hi. >> >>all this talk about if Is getting me a litle nostalgic, so i thought a topic >>about how people got into audio games and such might be fun. >> >>For me, I'd always played what graffical games my eyesite could cope with, >>first on an atari 2600 (at age 3 and 4), then an amstrad cpc computer >>(similar to a comador 64), a comador amigar and finally a Snes (which i stil >>own). >> >>But in the mid 90's with the 32 bit 3D era, the number of games I could play >>dropped from about thirty percent, to almost none. >> >>Though I used a laptop for school work, and university, it never occurred to >>me I could do anything with it bar write. Yes, I had the D&D manuals and used >>it to do some tabletop gaming in about 99-2000 before I went to uni, but I >>never actually thought of games. >> >>It wasn't until 2003, that I saw an artical in a braille publication >>mentioning tom lorimers' whitestick.co.uk site and accessible computer games. >> >>Despite a lot of net access shinanigans (hal version 5 and internet access >>was fairly new at that stage), I found toms' site, and played a number of >>online games like ashes of angels and legend of the green dragon. >> >>I do remember checking the offline games page, but A, the idea of a game with >>sound I found rather bizarre, and B, I was stil using a five year old laptop >>with windows 98. I did however play a lot of if. >> >>Things went on. I started on Sryth in late 2004, bought an xp desktop in mid >>2005, then ran into Bryan peterson. When finding we both had defficient >>eyeballs and an interest in exploration games he directed me towards shades >>of doom (I stil remember sitting up all night playing it), and by degrees >>audiogames.net. >> >>Sinse this corresponded with me finishing my masters and for various >>confusing academic reasons having a lot of free time, i signed up to the >>audiogames.net forum in 2006, and spent the next few months trying almost the >>entire audiogames.net database, signing up to the audeasy list somewhere >>along the line. >> >>And the rest is history. >> >>Beware the Grue! >> >>Dark. >>--- >>Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org >>If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. >>You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at >>http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. >>All messages are archived and can be searched and read at >>http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. >>If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, >>please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. > > >--- >Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org >If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. >You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at >http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. >All messages are archived and can be searched and read at >http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. >If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, >please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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The first games I ever played (with sighted assistance) were on the playstation, which I in fact still have. I used to spend hours doing it. then, in 2004 I got my first computer, and the first pc games I played were on the old klango platform, which had links to non polish websites. I didn't care my english was bad, I decided to try anyway. There were a lot of broken links (IE adora became draconis but it wasn't tmensioned) and so on so I visited ag.net, which introduced me to the large database. and so it continued, I first signed up to the ag forum, watched for a while then started using my account for other purpuses than checking for new posts. then I also signed up for audyssey, and the rest is history. __ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 4974 (20100325) __ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] How did you start?
I'd forgotten those space invader things I adored and a hand held game I played in 1983 called Mickey and Donald. love that thing I couldn't see it mind you, but played it. Lisa Hayes www.nutrimetics.com.au/lisahayes - Original Message - From: "Thomas Ward" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 7:21 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] How did you start? Hi, Well, as many of you know I was sighted for many years. the very first video game I can remember playing was Packman on my Atari 2600 around 1982 or so. I later got several more games from that era such as Demon Attack, Space Invaders, Missile Command, etc. All the classics in other words. Around 1985 or so I got a Colleco for Christmas and started playing games like Donkey Kong, Mouse Trap, Smirfs, Zaxon, and several other games I probably don't recall any more. 1987 I had switched game consoles yet again moving to the Nintendo Entertainment System. It pretty much goes without saying I had all the major games such as Megaman, Mario, Double Dragon, Ninja Turtles, Castlevania, and several more. In fact, I still have the NES and most of the games in my living room closet. By this time in my life I was beginning to have a harder time playing the games because I couldn't see the tv screen very well. Things were often blurry, but it didn't stop me from continuing to play. By the 1990's my next major game console, if you wish to call it that, was an IBM 486 with 4 MB of ram. I played various games such as Duke Nukem, Overkill, and plenty of games I just don't remember now. I had several. In 1996, when I was a senior in high school, I got a new IBM with Windows 95 on it. About that time there were a number of popular PC games such as Heroes of Might and Magic, Tomb Raider, Top Gun, Doom, Jedi Knight, etc which I played. These were really the last games I could really play as I really couldn't see them well, and I was using Jaws 2.0 to access the PC because I couldn't see the words, icons, etc. It basically was just a mindless mess of blurry colors. Around 1998 I started looking for accessible games. A friend of mine in college gave me some of Jim Kitchens self-voicing games. Those proved to be fun little time waisters, but I wanted something more. So I kept looking. Eventually, I found GMA's web site with Lonewolf and Trek 2000 which I purchased right away. About this time Shades of Doom was in testing, and I recall buying it not long after it came out. As it happens the GMA Games site had a link to the Audyssey Magazine list and I joined to find out more about it. After that the rest is history. I have been floating around in the audio games community ever since. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Well I started with a keynote and only could play dos stuff then, beyond the titanic, hitch hikers all the infocom stuff got on to the original yahoo audyssey list in 2000 through Paul nimoo who was here and put my windows 98 computer together met and love sod and all the other audio stuff. Lisa Hayes www.nutrimetics.com.au/lisahayes - Original Message - From: "dark" To: Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 5:42 AM Subject: [Audyssey] How did you start? Hi. all this talk about if Is getting me a litle nostalgic, so i thought a topic about how people got into audio games and such might be fun. For me, I'd always played what graffical games my eyesite could cope with, first on an atari 2600 (at age 3 and 4), then an amstrad cpc computer (similar to a comador 64), a comador amigar and finally a Snes (which i stil own). But in the mid 90's with the 32 bit 3D era, the number of games I could play dropped from about thirty percent, to almost none. Though I used a laptop for school work, and university, it never occurred to me I could do anything with it bar write. Yes, I had the D&D manuals and used it to do some tabletop gaming in about 99-2000 before I went to uni, but I never actually thought of games. It wasn't until 2003, that I saw an artical in a braille publication mentioning tom lorimers' whitestick.co.uk site and accessible computer games. Despite a lot of net access shinanigans (hal version 5 and internet access was fairly new at that stage), I found toms' site, and played a number of online games like ashes of angels and legend of the green dragon. I do remember checking the offline games page, but A, the idea of a game with sound I found rather bizarre, and B, I was stil using a five year old laptop with windows 98. I did however play a lot of if. Things went on. I started on Sryth in late 2004, bought an xp desktop in mid 2005, then ran into Bryan peterson. When finding we both had defficient eyeballs and an interest in exploration games he directed me towards shades of doom (I stil remember sitting up all night playing it), and by degrees audiogames.net. Sinse this corresponded with me finishing my masters and for various confusing academic reasons having a lot of free time, i signed up to the audiogames.net forum in 2006, and spent the next few months trying almost the entire audiogames.net database, signing up to the audeasy list somewhere along the line. And the rest is history. Beware the Grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hmmm since people seem to be discussing this. I got into audio games by accident. in about 1993 I started mucking with dad's old disks and found things I could play. My first real text game was from a friend and it was called intergalactic battle. you could be be oryan klingon I think romulan and federation and andromidan I think not soure I think you could be cardation. anyway you could have set games against your oponants or the computer. the main screen was graphical but the system was controled with menus. After I got on the net I was on the old henrichsen site which is now dead and found various files called aud1.zip, etc. I was curious, because well I was thinking it was something to do. I downloaded the files and read them. as i went through each mag i followed the links and read the articles. up to then I had not even heard anything about interactive fiction. in fact I did not get the net till 1995. my first real audio game was sod alpha1 in 1996 I think. from 1995 till 2000 I used an old 386 system which had been mangled some what due to me dropping it off the desk. the thing is now dead for ever more but I played dos stuff till then. after that I made several attempts to play old stuff again. this year I have finally got round to bothering with interpreters for windows fully so we will see where this goes. Actually I suppose I should thank josh for asking for my archive of games in the first place because since switching to hard drive recordings I have not touched my cdr collection. I had to sort this out and again got interested. At 01:01 p.m. 6/04/2010, you wrote: >hi all this is a good topic i think and very interesting. i went to the royal >nattional college in 2001 and never knew their where games out their for >people like us. like you i was playing games on the atarie saiga megadrive and >playstation with sighted assistance and their where very fiew game i could >play. how ever when i went to rnc in 2001 i bumped in to will lomas who is >also on this list. he told me about audio games and got me all the audicy >magazeens to read. then it just went from their really. although with other >things i have to do now i do not get much time for games but i love the fact >i was introduced to this wunderful way of blind people gaming. so keep the >games comming i hope to enjoy them for years to come yet. > >--- >Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org >If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. >You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at >http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. >All messages are archived and can be searched and read at >http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. >If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, >please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] How did you start?
hi all this is a good topic i think and very interesting. i went to the royal nattional college in 2001 and never knew their where games out their for people like us. like you i was playing games on the atarie saiga megadrive and playstation with sighted assistance and their where very fiew game i could play. how ever when i went to rnc in 2001 i bumped in to will lomas who is also on this list. he told me about audio games and got me all the audicy magazeens to read. then it just went from their really. although with other things i have to do now i do not get much time for games but i love the fact i was introduced to this wunderful way of blind people gaming. so keep the games comming i hope to enjoy them for years to come yet. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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here how i got into audio games. i started back in school i played the old dos text games. like shoot 96 and run for prisident and destiation mars. i didn't play them as much as i did video games because at the time i had some sight. in 2008 someone told me about jim's games. and so i tried them out i notice that they had the fell of old gaming with a new gaming feel. what i mean is when i play the baseball game it reminded me of the nintendo day in the 80's and it also reminded me of today games sound. at the time i started to play jim's games i had some sight left so i was playing ps2 games. but when i had lost my sight i still wanted to play games so i begin to play jim's games alot just like the way i play video games. since i've been doing audio gaming i notice that the games are just like a video game accept with no video. i have been playing shades of doom and pac man talk and kitchensinc and railracer and sarah and the castle and top speed and entombed. and these games have given me a great reason to pick up a controller and to talk with others about games. i would like to thank people like jim kitchen and other audio game makers out their for the hard work. -- Email services provided by the System Access Mobile Network. Visit www.serotek.com to learn more about accessibility anywhere. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Oh yes, and that's only since becoming B1, and then getting back on to computers etc. in 2006, but before that Well, back in around 1983, when was still sighted, when we got our commodore 64, along with it my father got a book on learning to program, and one of the first examples we retyped in was an underwater fish swimming game, so I think that was around the very first computer game I played after taking around 4 hours to type it all in since had never done much typing on anything more than like 1 school project on an old mechanical typewriter, where had had to get my mother to give me a letter saying that I had in fact typed it myself before the teacher would even give me marks for it. Apart from that, me and my friends who also had commodores, spectrums etc. would spend weekend sleepovers playing around with software/hardware, including some game playing, and when we moved over to PCs - old XT, with something like 16mb ram - we spent most of the time playing sort of interactive fiction adventures like kings quest etc., but also things like pole position formula 1 racing, donkey kong, asteroids, elevator action, goblins revenge (that's the one q9 reminds me of), mario brothers, prince of persia, doom, quake, duke nukem 3d, etc., and all the way from there it was just exploring/finding new games and types of games. The 3 games that played more than any others when could see were the original interactive fiction version of the hobbit, world superbikes racing 2001, and a version of pool/snooker that used to sometimes even play while doing software support over the phone since when you were just telling the customer standard sets of instructions, it sometimes seemed better to distract part of your brain... Near the end of my sighted time, it was things like need for speed, serious sam, unreal, half life, worms, return to castle wolfenstein, age of empires, star and warcraft, etc. Stay well Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...' - Original Message - From: "Jacob Kruger" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 12:17 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] How did you start? I think the very first game was told about was that chess game that only works with jaws, but then I think that got me started looking, and can't remember where/why heard about/found it, but I found out about kitchensinc.net, and from there it's just been looking around until I found audiogames.net, and this was all in 2006. Stay well Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...' - Original Message - From: "dark" To: Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 9:42 PM Subject: [Audyssey] How did you start? Hi. all this talk about if Is getting me a litle nostalgic, so i thought a topic about how people got into audio games and such might be fun. For me, I'd always played what graffical games my eyesite could cope with, first on an atari 2600 (at age 3 and 4), then an amstrad cpc computer (similar to a comador 64), a comador amigar and finally a Snes (which i stil own). But in the mid 90's with the 32 bit 3D era, the number of games I could play dropped from about thirty percent, to almost none. Though I used a laptop for school work, and university, it never occurred to me I could do anything with it bar write. Yes, I had the D&D manuals and used it to do some tabletop gaming in about 99-2000 before I went to uni, but I never actually thought of games. It wasn't until 2003, that I saw an artical in a braille publication mentioning tom lorimers' whitestick.co.uk site and accessible computer games. Despite a lot of net access shinanigans (hal version 5 and internet access was fairly new at that stage), I found toms' site, and played a number of online games like ashes of angels and legend of the green dragon. I do remember checking the offline games page, but A, the idea of a game with sound I found rather bizarre, and B, I was stil using a five year old laptop with windows 98. I did however play a lot of if. Things went on. I started on Sryth in late 2004, bought an xp desktop in mid 2005, then ran into Bryan peterson. When finding we both had defficient eyeballs and an interest in exploration games he directed me towards shades of doom (I stil remember sitting up all night playing it), and by degrees audiogames.net. Sinse this corresponded with me finishing my masters and for various confusing academic reasons having a lot of free time, i signed up to the audiogames.net forum in 2006, and spent the next few months trying almost the entire audiogames.net database, signing up to the audeasy list somewhere along the line. And the rest is history. Beware the Grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to le
Re: [Audyssey] How did you start?
Well, back in around 1983, when was still sighted, when we got our commodore 64, along with it my father got a book on learning to program, and one of the first examples we retyped in was an underwater fish swimming game, so I think that was around the very first computer game I played after taking around 4 hours to type it all in since had never done more typing on anything more than like 1 school project, where had had to get my mother to give me a letter saying that I had in fact typed it myself before the teacher would even give me marks for it. Apart from that, me and my friends who also had commodores, spectrums etc. would spend weekend sleepovers playing around with software/hardware, including some game playing, and when we moved over to PCs - old XT, with something like 16mb ram - we spent most of the time playing sort of interactive fiction adventures like kings quest etc., but also things like pole position formula 1 racing, donkey kong, asteroids, elevator action, goblins revenge (that's the one q9 reminds me of), mario brothers, prince of persia, doom, quake, duke nukem 3d, etc., and all the way from there it was just exploring/finding new games and types of games. The 3 games that played more than any others when could see were the original interactive fiction version of the hobbit, world superbikes racing 2001, and a version of pool/snooker that used to sometimes even play while doing software support over the phone since when you were just telling the customer standard sets of instructions, it sometimes seemed better to distract part of your brain... Near the end of my sighted time, it was things like need for speed, serious sam, unreal, half life, worms, return to castle wolfenstein, age of empires, star and warcraft, etc. Since becoming B1 and getting back onto computers in 2006 I think the very first game was told about was that chess game that only works with jaws, but then I think that got me started looking, and can't remember where/why heard about/found it, but I found out about kitchensinc.net, and from there it's just been looking around until I found audiogames.net, and this was all in 2006. Stay well Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...' - Original Message - From: "dark" To: Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 9:42 PM Subject: [Audyssey] How did you start? Hi. all this talk about if Is getting me a litle nostalgic, so i thought a topic about how people got into audio games and such might be fun. For me, I'd always played what graffical games my eyesite could cope with, first on an atari 2600 (at age 3 and 4), then an amstrad cpc computer (similar to a comador 64), a comador amigar and finally a Snes (which i stil own). But in the mid 90's with the 32 bit 3D era, the number of games I could play dropped from about thirty percent, to almost none. Though I used a laptop for school work, and university, it never occurred to me I could do anything with it bar write. Yes, I had the D&D manuals and used it to do some tabletop gaming in about 99-2000 before I went to uni, but I never actually thought of games. It wasn't until 2003, that I saw an artical in a braille publication mentioning tom lorimers' whitestick.co.uk site and accessible computer games. Despite a lot of net access shinanigans (hal version 5 and internet access was fairly new at that stage), I found toms' site, and played a number of online games like ashes of angels and legend of the green dragon. I do remember checking the offline games page, but A, the idea of a game with sound I found rather bizarre, and B, I was stil using a five year old laptop with windows 98. I did however play a lot of if. Things went on. I started on Sryth in late 2004, bought an xp desktop in mid 2005, then ran into Bryan peterson. When finding we both had defficient eyeballs and an interest in exploration games he directed me towards shades of doom (I stil remember sitting up all night playing it), and by degrees audiogames.net. Sinse this corresponded with me finishing my masters and for various confusing academic reasons having a lot of free time, i signed up to the audiogames.net forum in 2006, and spent the next few months trying almost the entire audiogames.net database, signing up to the audeasy list somewhere along the line. And the rest is history. Beware the Grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. __ I
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I think the very first game was told about was that chess game that only works with jaws, but then I think that got me started looking, and can't remember where/why heard about/found it, but I found out about kitchensinc.net, and from there it's just been looking around until I found audiogames.net, and this was all in 2006. Stay well Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...' - Original Message - From: "dark" To: Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 9:42 PM Subject: [Audyssey] How did you start? Hi. all this talk about if Is getting me a litle nostalgic, so i thought a topic about how people got into audio games and such might be fun. For me, I'd always played what graffical games my eyesite could cope with, first on an atari 2600 (at age 3 and 4), then an amstrad cpc computer (similar to a comador 64), a comador amigar and finally a Snes (which i stil own). But in the mid 90's with the 32 bit 3D era, the number of games I could play dropped from about thirty percent, to almost none. Though I used a laptop for school work, and university, it never occurred to me I could do anything with it bar write. Yes, I had the D&D manuals and used it to do some tabletop gaming in about 99-2000 before I went to uni, but I never actually thought of games. It wasn't until 2003, that I saw an artical in a braille publication mentioning tom lorimers' whitestick.co.uk site and accessible computer games. Despite a lot of net access shinanigans (hal version 5 and internet access was fairly new at that stage), I found toms' site, and played a number of online games like ashes of angels and legend of the green dragon. I do remember checking the offline games page, but A, the idea of a game with sound I found rather bizarre, and B, I was stil using a five year old laptop with windows 98. I did however play a lot of if. Things went on. I started on Sryth in late 2004, bought an xp desktop in mid 2005, then ran into Bryan peterson. When finding we both had defficient eyeballs and an interest in exploration games he directed me towards shades of doom (I stil remember sitting up all night playing it), and by degrees audiogames.net. Sinse this corresponded with me finishing my masters and for various confusing academic reasons having a lot of free time, i signed up to the audiogames.net forum in 2006, and spent the next few months trying almost the entire audiogames.net database, signing up to the audeasy list somewhere along the line. And the rest is history. Beware the Grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 5002 (20100405) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 5002 (20100405) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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I really love the wii! Do you love audio games? Would you like to chat about BGt a game creation tool for the blind? Do you need any tips or tricks on any sought of game? Do you need to ask questions about buying a game and help for the game? Well, this is the right place for you then! If you would like to joyn, just send a blank email to. audiogamesfortheblind+subscr...@googlegroups.com With the subject subscribe in the subject line. Contact infermation. email: muhamme...@googlemail.com msn: muhammed123...@hotmail.co.uk Skype: muhammed.deniz Klango username. muhammed - Original Message - From: "Thomas Ward" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 10:38 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] How did you start? Hi, Yeah, I find the Wii a bit more than I can handle. The menus are tricky enough, but the Wii motes take something to get use to. I was playing the Wii with my family last night and I couldn't get the hang of the motes as hard as I tried I couldn't ski straight to save my life. I move to rapidly and I'd go way left or way right, or spin around in a circle because the Wii motes are so motion sensative. it takes a certain practice, a certain touch, to get them to work right. Cool, but very difficult from my perspective. Cheers! --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] How did you start?
Hello Dark and others, my ixperance was this. I started playing audio games in til 2007 and my laptop was broken alittle bit. It was a rubbish school hp laptop. Ok, I said to my teacher that I want a new computer and my teacher ordered one and it came. When the computer came, I started playing pipe 2, hunter and troopanum 2 including gma tank commander. I sat everyday on my laptop and I always was on audio games and looking for new games. I found treasure hunt and I didn't really take an interest at it. But ok, let me take a chance on this game. I watched Philips review, then I was really hooked. I downloaded treasure hunt then I had a problem with the game. I joyned the bpc discussion list, but at first I wasn't willing to joyn and then I gave the chance. Obviously I behaved much more sillyer because I didn't know how to act on mailing lists at the time. It was last year. I also joyned the entombed discussion group. Ok, with out me knowing, mota beta 10 was released. I joyned the USA games mailing list and then had a bit of fun. Then, I pushed the block. Probably I had about 20 or 30 games now. My ixperance is this, though Dark interesting topic indeed. Do you love audio games? Would you like to chat about BGt a game creation tool for the blind? Do you need any tips or tricks on any sought of game? Do you need to ask questions about buying a game and help for the game? Well, this is the right place for you then! If you would like to joyn, just send a blank email to. audiogamesfortheblind+subscr...@googlegroups.com With the subject subscribe in the subject line. Contact infermation. email: muhamme...@googlemail.com msn: muhammed123...@hotmail.co.uk Skype: muhammed.deniz Klango username. muhammed - Original Message - From: "dark" To: Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 8:42 PM Subject: [Audyssey] How did you start? Hi. all this talk about if Is getting me a litle nostalgic, so i thought a topic about how people got into audio games and such might be fun. For me, I'd always played what graffical games my eyesite could cope with, first on an atari 2600 (at age 3 and 4), then an amstrad cpc computer (similar to a comador 64), a comador amigar and finally a Snes (which i stil own). But in the mid 90's with the 32 bit 3D era, the number of games I could play dropped from about thirty percent, to almost none. Though I used a laptop for school work, and university, it never occurred to me I could do anything with it bar write. Yes, I had the D&D manuals and used it to do some tabletop gaming in about 99-2000 before I went to uni, but I never actually thought of games. It wasn't until 2003, that I saw an artical in a braille publication mentioning tom lorimers' whitestick.co.uk site and accessible computer games. Despite a lot of net access shinanigans (hal version 5 and internet access was fairly new at that stage), I found toms' site, and played a number of online games like ashes of angels and legend of the green dragon. I do remember checking the offline games page, but A, the idea of a game with sound I found rather bizarre, and B, I was stil using a five year old laptop with windows 98. I did however play a lot of if. Things went on. I started on Sryth in late 2004, bought an xp desktop in mid 2005, then ran into Bryan peterson. When finding we both had defficient eyeballs and an interest in exploration games he directed me towards shades of doom (I stil remember sitting up all night playing it), and by degrees audiogames.net. Sinse this corresponded with me finishing my masters and for various confusing academic reasons having a lot of free time, i signed up to the audiogames.net forum in 2006, and spent the next few months trying almost the entire audiogames.net database, signing up to the audeasy list somewhere along the line. And the rest is history. Beware the Grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] How did you start?
Hi, Yeah, I find the Wii a bit more than I can handle. The menus are tricky enough, but the Wii motes take something to get use to. I was playing the Wii with my family last night and I couldn't get the hang of the motes as hard as I tried I couldn't ski straight to save my life. I move to rapidly and I'd go way left or way right, or spin around in a circle because the Wii motes are so motion sensative. it takes a certain practice, a certain touch, to get them to work right. Cool, but very difficult from my perspective. Cheers! --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] How did you start?
Interesting tom, we were probably playin some of the same atari games like packman, berzerk and space invaders in 1985 and 6, accept I was about three or four at the time ;D. I also stil own and play my Snes, (it's hooked up to my pc monitor right now), but having been collecting games sinse the early 90's, it's actually getting to the point where I'm running out of games I can play available for the console. Pluss of course about the most complex games I can play are things like super metroid or some of the later Mega man games, sinse I can't read in game text at all. I have been considdering the wii, purely for wii ware titles, but the menues are just too much of a nightmare with my level of sight, which is very frustrating! But before I get into low vision stuff I'll stop. Beware the grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] How did you start?
Hi, Well, as many of you know I was sighted for many years. the very first video game I can remember playing was Packman on my Atari 2600 around 1982 or so. I later got several more games from that era such as Demon Attack, Space Invaders, Missile Command, etc. All the classics in other words. Around 1985 or so I got a Colleco for Christmas and started playing games like Donkey Kong, Mouse Trap, Smirfs, Zaxon, and several other games I probably don't recall any more. 1987 I had switched game consoles yet again moving to the Nintendo Entertainment System. It pretty much goes without saying I had all the major games such as Megaman, Mario, Double Dragon, Ninja Turtles, Castlevania, and several more. In fact, I still have the NES and most of the games in my living room closet. By this time in my life I was beginning to have a harder time playing the games because I couldn't see the tv screen very well. Things were often blurry, but it didn't stop me from continuing to play. By the 1990's my next major game console, if you wish to call it that, was an IBM 486 with 4 MB of ram. I played various games such as Duke Nukem, Overkill, and plenty of games I just don't remember now. I had several. In 1996, when I was a senior in high school, I got a new IBM with Windows 95 on it. About that time there were a number of popular PC games such as Heroes of Might and Magic, Tomb Raider, Top Gun, Doom, Jedi Knight, etc which I played. These were really the last games I could really play as I really couldn't see them well, and I was using Jaws 2.0 to access the PC because I couldn't see the words, icons, etc. It basically was just a mindless mess of blurry colors. Around 1998 I started looking for accessible games. A friend of mine in college gave me some of Jim Kitchens self-voicing games. Those proved to be fun little time waisters, but I wanted something more. So I kept looking. Eventually, I found GMA's web site with Lonewolf and Trek 2000 which I purchased right away. About this time Shades of Doom was in testing, and I recall buying it not long after it came out. As it happens the GMA Games site had a link to the Audyssey Magazine list and I joined to find out more about it. After that the rest is history. I have been floating around in the audio games community ever since. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] How did you start?
Hi, yes, now you Dark made me a little nostalgic. I was also playing some games, mostly on the sega platform, since 1998, alongside my sided friends. From 2001 to 2003 I didn't play anything, and then I hurd about some games for the blind people. I was wondering how it could work, and the first game I found was Jim's Mach 1. Then I played the battleship from gamesfortheblind.com, and finally I found gmagames and audiogames. Then 3 years ago I found the malich games, and started playing the interactive fiction, and a year after that I started learning to program in inform 7. In the meantime, I am still an active audiogamer. Milos Przic msn: milos.pr...@gmail.com skype: Milosh-hs - Original Message - From: "dark" To: Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 9:42 PM Subject: [Audyssey] How did you start? Hi. all this talk about if Is getting me a litle nostalgic, so i thought a topic about how people got into audio games and such might be fun. For me, I'd always played what graffical games my eyesite could cope with, first on an atari 2600 (at age 3 and 4), then an amstrad cpc computer (similar to a comador 64), a comador amigar and finally a Snes (which i stil own). But in the mid 90's with the 32 bit 3D era, the number of games I could play dropped from about thirty percent, to almost none. Though I used a laptop for school work, and university, it never occurred to me I could do anything with it bar write. Yes, I had the D&D manuals and used it to do some tabletop gaming in about 99-2000 before I went to uni, but I never actually thought of games. It wasn't until 2003, that I saw an artical in a braille publication mentioning tom lorimers' whitestick.co.uk site and accessible computer games. Despite a lot of net access shinanigans (hal version 5 and internet access was fairly new at that stage), I found toms' site, and played a number of online games like ashes of angels and legend of the green dragon. I do remember checking the offline games page, but A, the idea of a game with sound I found rather bizarre, and B, I was stil using a five year old laptop with windows 98. I did however play a lot of if. Things went on. I started on Sryth in late 2004, bought an xp desktop in mid 2005, then ran into Bryan peterson. When finding we both had defficient eyeballs and an interest in exploration games he directed me towards shades of doom (I stil remember sitting up all night playing it), and by degrees audiogames.net. Sinse this corresponded with me finishing my masters and for various confusing academic reasons having a lot of free time, i signed up to the audiogames.net forum in 2006, and spent the next few months trying almost the entire audiogames.net database, signing up to the audeasy list somewhere along the line. And the rest is history. Beware the Grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 5002 (20100405) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 5002 (20100405) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
[Audyssey] How did you start?
Hi. all this talk about if Is getting me a litle nostalgic, so i thought a topic about how people got into audio games and such might be fun. For me, I'd always played what graffical games my eyesite could cope with, first on an atari 2600 (at age 3 and 4), then an amstrad cpc computer (similar to a comador 64), a comador amigar and finally a Snes (which i stil own). But in the mid 90's with the 32 bit 3D era, the number of games I could play dropped from about thirty percent, to almost none. Though I used a laptop for school work, and university, it never occurred to me I could do anything with it bar write. Yes, I had the D&D manuals and used it to do some tabletop gaming in about 99-2000 before I went to uni, but I never actually thought of games. It wasn't until 2003, that I saw an artical in a braille publication mentioning tom lorimers' whitestick.co.uk site and accessible computer games. Despite a lot of net access shinanigans (hal version 5 and internet access was fairly new at that stage), I found toms' site, and played a number of online games like ashes of angels and legend of the green dragon. I do remember checking the offline games page, but A, the idea of a game with sound I found rather bizarre, and B, I was stil using a five year old laptop with windows 98. I did however play a lot of if. Things went on. I started on Sryth in late 2004, bought an xp desktop in mid 2005, then ran into Bryan peterson. When finding we both had defficient eyeballs and an interest in exploration games he directed me towards shades of doom (I stil remember sitting up all night playing it), and by degrees audiogames.net. Sinse this corresponded with me finishing my masters and for various confusing academic reasons having a lot of free time, i signed up to the audiogames.net forum in 2006, and spent the next few months trying almost the entire audiogames.net database, signing up to the audeasy list somewhere along the line. And the rest is history. Beware the Grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.