Hi james. I have never got this working right. At any rate the system I had doesn't have a serial port no more. I did try xp with a keynote and it ran fine but when I tried dectalk it fell over probably because something to do with port conflicts. In any case I tried 6 times and I reformatted 6 times because xp would not boot after it went crazy. This was xp with no sp on it but I don't want to try again. You have to be exact, I need a standard 386 to play stuff a 486 won't work. If only I could find one or the bits to repair my system. I have space for that. At 07:51 AM 7/24/2006, you wrote:
>Windows XP has a DOS option. o to start, run, and type in cmd.exe >rather than the usual command.com. That'll bring up a DOS window >similar to what you'd find with Windows 95 and the such, with all the >oddly programmed commands contained therein. > >James >At 03:23 PM 7/23/2006, you wrote: > >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 > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Gamers mailing list .. Gamers@audyssey.org > >To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit > >http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make > >any subscription changes via the web. > > >_______________________________________________ >Gamers mailing list .. Gamers@audyssey.org >To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit >http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make >any subscription changes via the web. > > > >-- >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. >Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.3/395 - Release Date: 7/21/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.3/395 - Release Date: 7/21/2006 _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. Gamers@audyssey.org To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web.
