Hi Ari!
Office Depot carries windows 98. I bought one there about six months
ago. I have also seen windows 98 in used computer stores.
Later And Blessings
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From: "ari" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <Gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2006 12:23 PM
Subject: [Audyssey] Text based games
> Hello everyone,
> In this email I'm first asking for advice, then I'd like you guy's
feedback
> on a suggestion.
> First, I'd like to tell you guys my background with text adventures.
> When I was at school, the teacher had a disk with text adventure games
like
> Zork, Gymad, Under the Ice, etc. The screen reader that was used was
Window
> Bridge, which could also be used as a dos screen reader. You would go to
> Windows Explorer, press enter on the .exe file of the game, and Window
> Bridge would start reading it to you.
> Now, however, new windows systems don't even have any form of DOS, and
this
> makes me worried, because, for me, text based games are a very important
> part of the history and culture of games for the blind. My worry is that
> with the non-existance of dos, these games will disappear, be hard to
find,
> etc. I want to do two things, but I please need answers:
> 1. For my own enjoyment, I want to somehow be able to play the dos-based
> text adventure games. These games are of course stand-alone games, not
games
> that used windows interpreters, but games that will iether run under old
> Windows versions through the ms-dos prompt, or through raw ms dos.
> What me and a sighted guy thought of, is if I make a partition on my hard
> drive, install plain dos, and use a screen reader like Jaws for Dos or Hal
> Lite, which are free. I want to know though, is their anywhere I can get
DOS
> from? Also, since I've mainly used the windows environment, is their some
> kind of DOS tutorial available, sort of a beginners for DOS guide? I'm
> familiar with some dos commands, like how to move through directories and
> run programs, but don't know it too well. You might be wondering why I'm
not
> installing an older version of Windows and running the games under the dos
> box? We were thinking about it, but we don't have a copy of Windows 95 or
> 98, and I don't think their is anyone who could sell us a copy.
> The next thing I want to ask is can you guys send me lists of sites which
> have text-based games on them for download. The idea is, with large hard
> drives, I will download, keep, and play as many of these hard-to-find
games
> as I can, I will then, when I can have my own site one day, upload them to
> the site as a sort of huge library.
> My suggestion is about a text-based games club (like a book club!) What
I'm
> suggesting is, it's fun, I remember from school, to solve a game with
other
> people. What I suggest is a sort of club that would work like this:
> Once, say every two months, a person will suggest a game, which is freely
> downloadable. That person must tell all of us who want to take part, the
> link to the game. Everyone who wants to can play the game, and, without
> using the solution, we who struggle with problems in the game try and put
> our heads together and try and finish the game. We can do it by email on
> this list, or in a chat room while playing the game, but I think email
will
> be best, since people first of all don't play the game at the same time,
and
> time zones are also a problem.
> Talking about dos games, are the PCS games that were made for dos still
> available? If I can get a dos system set up, I'd really love to try them.
> You may wonder where this enthusiasm has come from, it came from me
> re-reading the first three issues of audyssey! I read about games like
> Fallthru, which I've never played, but would love to try! I've played
Zork,
> it's cool!
> Ari
>
>
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