Good luck! On Feb 20, 2024 1:14 PM, Gene Warner <genewarn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > It looks like I'm going to be spending some time at our local library. > > I first learned about this game in a magazine article that had a BASIC > language listing of the first version. From there the idea went commercial. > > If I can find that article, I could use that as a launching point to > make my own version specifically designed for screen readers. > > Back in the MS-DOS days, I was always playing Tracon whenever I had some > free time. I would love to be able to play this game again. Tracon was a > commercial game for MS-DOS. I believe it was released around 1986. > > Before that I played the version from that magazine article. I had > converted it to run on my Apple 2. > > Gene... > > ----- Original Message ----- > Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] Air traffic control > Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2024 12:07:35 -0500 > From: "John" <jpcarnemo...@comcast.net> > > There's definitely a version in the bsdgames package for Linux that was > brought up here a while ago, but I don't believe that would be playable > with a screen reader. > > > On 2/20/2024 10:50, Heather Seaman wrote: > > Although I have heard of games where you can fly planes, such as > Eurofly, and drive trucks, I haven't heard of any game on any platform > that allows you to play as the air traffic controller. If the original > ATC text-based game was a dos game, you might be able to run it using > something like DOSBOX. Though I'm not sure if there are still screen > readers available that would work with such a program. On Feb 20, 2024 > 9:00 AM, Gene Warner<genewarn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi everyone! > > > > I hope you all are having a great 2024 so! > > > > Before I lost my vision one of my favorite games was Tracon, a quite > > realistic air traffic control simulation, and the original which was > > text based and simply called ATC. > > > > I was wondering, is there a blind accessable air traffic control game or > > simulation? > > > > I would prefer it to run on Windows and not require any gaming clients > > like Steam or Origin. > > > > Thanks! > > Gene... > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
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