Hi, Allan.
There were several screen readers for dos. The most popular ones were 
Jaws for Dos, vocal Eyes, ASAP, and Window Bridge.


allan thompson wrote:
> Hi,
> let us know if you get an answer about that, it sounds interesting.
> Was there screen readers in the old Dos days?, perhaps one of those old 
> readers could work with that eoman deluxe. Where did you find that anyway?
> thanks
> allan
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>> Yes and no.
>>
>> As you may or may not know, the Eamon series was a series of D and D like
>> text adventures origianlly designed, way back when in the 80s, for the 
>> Apple
>> 2e.  Various attempts have been made to update them to be playable on
>> windows computers, but none of them accessible yet.  For a while, Adora
>> Entertainment advertised that they were going to do an accessible, 3D 
>> audio,
>> version of the adventures for windows, but that project appears to have 
>> come
>> to a hault, I'm not sure why, and I didn't see anything on the new 
>> Draconis
>> site stating that they were planning on picking it up again.  They may in
>> the future, but there's no word to that effect yet although it couldn't 
>> hurt
>> to ask.  I'm going to.
>>
>> Currently, the only two ways to play Eamon on a PC are to get something
>> called an Apple 2e emulator or to download the Eamon Delux bundle, which 
>> is
>> the adventures made playable in Dos.  Now, I assume that, in theory, you
>> could get the emulator and run one of the old Apple speech programs on it 
>> to
>> play the games, although I've never tried this so I have no idea if it 
>> would
>> actually work.  I don't know if you could even get those speech programs
>> anymore.
>>
>> AS for the Eamon Delux, I did try it.  But I found that Jaws and MS Dos 
>> mode
>> didn't get along very well, so it was very hard to navigate the menues to
>> get into the game itself.  I may try it again though.
>>
>> Hope that helps somewhat.
>>
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>>> Hi,
>>> I was under the impression that Super Liam was a side scroller action
>>> game.
>>> I would call chillingham more of an interactive fiction game, with some
>>> action elements.
>>> Except for The last crusade I don't know of any others out there at the
>>> moment. I did read about something called  eamon guild of adventurers a
>>> while back , is that defunct?
>>> allan
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>>>> I would say Chillingham is one. And, super Liam? How about those?
>>>>
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>>>> Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 1:49 AM
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>>>>
>>>> This question goes out to the developers on the list.  Might we see an
>>>> audio role play game in the distant future?  I understand that these
>>>> games take lots of time to make, but was just wondering if there may be
>>>> one in the distant future.
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