well its why I still use my xp laptop for gaming.
Most of the old vb6 games do not work right on 7.
The newer ones do thank goodness.
At 02:49 AM 11/9/2013, you wrote:
Hi Dark,
Yeah, I agree with you. I don't have a problem with Azabat producing
card, puzzle, and board games. As I recall they were one of the first
to come out with an accessible Drafts game. What always got on my wick
is the way they implemented their games by running them directly from
the CD.
For one thing the Azabat games are very small, and most people today
have at least a 100 GB drive or larger so its not like space should be
a major concern. Most of Azabat's customers are likely to own some
screen reader weather it be Jaws, Supernova, Window-Eyes, or something
free like NVDA. Anyone who has used a computer for a while should be
able to install and run the game from the Start Menu like any other
program. If finding icons is a concern on XP, Vista, and Windows 7 an
icon can be placed on the desktop for convenience, and it can be
pinned to the taskbar in Windows 8 and Windows 8.1. Either way finding
and launching the game is not very complicated. Azabat is over
simplifying something that just does not need to be that simple.
The other issue is more a concern than a complaint. Azabat like so
many audio game developers has chosen the Visual Basic 6 route, and
now is facing serious problems with Windows 8 and 8.1. There is
absolutely no native Visual Basic 6 support in Windows 8.x so if
someone goes out and buys a new Toshiba, HP, or similar laptop the
Azabat games aren't going to work unless someone helps them install
all the missing components. Even then I've noticed some older games
tend to crash or fail to work correctly on Windows 8 and 8.1. So
Azabat is selling people on out dated technology, and I do not know
when or if they are going to correct those issues.
Cheers!
On 11/7/13, dark <d...@xgam.org> wrote:
> Hi tom.
>
> Even in the Uk, though the attitude of the rnib is held by some
> organizations, there are some who are better. People may remember a few
> years ago the organization Guide dogs organization I've always been a major
>
> fan of for their generalized good attitude and habbit of pushing people to
> try and achieve things, albeit accessible computer games are sort of out of
>
> their perview. On the other hand, Action for blind people ran an
audio games
>
> contest as part of their accessible technology blog, and when i wanted to
> test out an Iphone there was someone from the technology section of the
> local society who was quite happy to come and do a demonstration for me.
>
> It's generally a matter of finding the good ones and going with
them, though
>
> I confess the prevailance of the rnib, the fact that when the Uk government
>
> or health service newly diagnoses someone as blind that! is who they are
> sent to does somewhat get on my whick.
>
> Indeed, last time I went for an appointment with an optomatrist (as I do
> from time to time to check my eye pressure, remaining vision and
> medication), I noticed a man and his wife sitting behind me discussing
> talking watches in rather worried tones. Since they were uncertain about
> watches and asked about the one I was actually wearing I broke the ice and
> asked if they'd like a look.
>
> I actually felt rather sorry for this couple since the lady had recently
> gone blind, was in her late 50's but had lived a highly active life, going
> on major camping trips around europe, cycling and the like, and had pretty
> much been told she'd now have to stop.
>
> Indeed, she was a little amazed when she heard I lived on my own, and even
> more so when I explained I was at university finishing a doctorate since it
>
> just hadn't been explained to her that someone without vision
could do those
>
> sorts of things.
>
> While that didn't relate explicitly to games (this lady was obviously not
> really interested in such), it does sort of show the mentality.
>
> In particular one thing that annoys me slightly about Aadvertising zabat's
> is their major insistance on "running straight from the cd!" as a major
> factor, as if running a program from a program shortcut such as one of the
> spoonbill games, pontes backgammon or Jim kitchins is beyond people, ----
> heck, even if you were dealing with an absolute computer novice it'd hardly
>
> be difficult to setup a shortcut key so all a person would have to do is
> press say control alt 1 to run the game.
>
> My mum is a complete computer novice, (she struggles with sending e-mail or
>
> basically managing files on her machine), yet once I'd installed Bg Sudocue
>
> for her (her being a big Sudocue fan), she's got no problems
running it from
>
> the programs menue.
>
> I certainly have no problem with people producing card, word, puzzle or
> other traditional games, there are people who enjoy such things
and the fact
>
> that they now come with innumerable peaces of technology (even my parents
> new sky plus Tv box came with monopoly, battleships and solitare), but why
> simplify more than needs be?
>
> Beware the Grue!
>
> Dark.
>
>
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