Hi Dallas, I'm right with you there. A lot of companies, particular the mainstream, release a product, say here is the specs to run it, take it or leave it. Not a lot of accessible software developers are willing to be that harsh, but maybe they should. If more accessible developers took a more mainstream approach to marketing less blind users would be so complacent about upgrades as they would have to make the same sort of choices their sighted peers do about upgrades.
The way I see it as long as developers continue to write stuff in Visual Basic 6, continue to support XP, the blind users see no benefit in upgrading. Plus by doing so the accessible software developers are holding the community back. What they need to do is take advantage of newer technology and make those benefits to upgrading appear so more people will feel like upgrading is a worthwhile investment. I believe once there is a real benefit to upgrading the community will follow the developers' lead. However, until developers give them an advantage in upgrading most blind gamers won't. Cheers! On 12/19/13, Dallas O'Brien <dallas.r.obr...@gmail.com> wrote: > hi. personally, I think it's time that the blind gaming community did > what most of the real gaming industry did a while back. bring out a > game, and say here you go, here are the requirements. its up to you > how you deal with that. if a game dev brings out a game that takes > advantage of newer hardware / newer software, I'm afraid it's up to > the gamer to update and keep with it. they have done that for a long > time now. and you don't seem to hear the complaints as much from them > about it. > sorry, but I think it's time the blind community starts trying to keep > up, in stead of holding ourselves back, and then blaming Microsoft or > apple or who ever, for all the things they have done wrong. sure. > there are things that Microsoft messed up in windows 8. they fixed > some of those in windows 8.1, and will soon be fixing more in the next > version of windows, either next year, or in 2015. they admit they have > made some mistakes, and are going about fixing that. but I'm afraid to > say, that as time go's on, it will be harder and harder to support > ancient languages and software based on them. it's not because they > don't want to, but simply because the cost involved in doing so, is > huge. I mean, come on. people are complaining about windows costing > what it does now! imagine what they would say, if Microsoft turned > around and said, well, we are going to have to charge an extra 50, or > 100 dollars per licence, just to keep up support for 10 or 15 year old > software and languages. I don't think that would go over well. and not > being funny, but one of apples good sides, is that they don't do this. > they say, right, here is the new system. this is what it uses. get > used to it, or don't use our product. LOL. harsh, but in some ways, > they have the right idea. > just like they did with 64 bit. in stead of messing around having both > 64 and 32 running on the same operating system in effect, as windows > does now, they basically switched to pure 64 bit, and said, well, this > is what we will use now. all app developers, update your software. > I personally think windows should go all out 64 bit, and stop messing > around. 64 bit is faster, and lets you actually use all your ram, in > stead of only part of it. ahaha. even in XP, if you had 4 GB, you > could never use it all! > you could only use about 2 GB at any one time. how annoying! > and programs running as a proper 64 bit app, are amazingly fast and > smooth to work with. > course, the only reason they haven't gotten rid of 32 bit, is cause > most of the dev's still produce in nothing but 32 bit app's! such as > mozilla, for one! they refuse to bring out a 64 bit version of their > firefox or thunderbird! which is stupid, considering the security > advantages 64 bit gives you. > dallas > > --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
