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 > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "FigureInTheCloak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 5:15 PM > Subject: Re: audyssey: Hello > > > >> 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. >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "allan thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 1:30 PM >> Subject: Re: audyssey: Hello >> >> >> >>> 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 >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Harrison Tu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> To: <[email protected]> >>> Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 9:55 AM >>> Subject: RE: audyssey: Hello >>> >>> >>> >>>> I would say Chillingham is one. And, super Liam? How about those? >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>> On Behalf Of ron >>>> Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 1:49 AM >>>> To: [email protected] >>>> Subject: audyssey: Hello >>>> >>>> >>>> This question goes out to the developers on the list. Might we see an >>>> audio role play game in the distant future? 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