Hi champion! is there any sited developer who developed audio games? Thanks
On 10/19/14, Thomas Ward <thomasward1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Ishan, > > Good question. To be honest I am not quite certain who gets the credit > of writing the first audio game per se, but there are a few contenders > for that distinction. What I'll say is accessible PC games go back > before the development of audio games and it is important to start > there. > > Years ago before blind developers began developing their own games a > lot of blind gamers would buy Dos text adventures that happened to be > accessible with the Dos screen readers available at the time. This > would be the late 80's and early 90's. Those weren't really audio > games since they are mostly text, but they were accessible with a > screen reader. > I'm not actually certain who developed the first "audio game" but I > think that may have been Jim Kitchen. By the time I discovered the > Audyssey community in the late 90's there were a handful of > established developers like Jim Kitchen, PCs Games, and a few others > were developing games for Dos. Although, I know Jim Kitchen had been > around quite a while and had a presents on dial-up BBS before the > internet really took off. > What I do know for certain by the late 90's there were several audio > games for Dos that played sounds and used a user's screen reader for > speech output. some of those early games included games from PCs like > Panzers in North Africa, Kick Boxing, Monopoly, Any Night Football, > and Ten Pin Alley. GMA released Trek 99 and Lone Wolf 1.0. Jim Kitchen > had Life, Concentration, Simon, Battleship, etc basically the same > types of games he has now accept those early versions were for Dos. > another developer named Robert Betz also was putting out some > accessible card and board games which were for Windows 95 and Windows > 98. > > Bottom line, by the time I showed up and took an actual interesting > audio games there were already a handful of people working on audio > games so I can't actually say who started it for certain. What I can > say is all of them were for Dos or older versions of Windows such as > 95 and 98. You aren't going to find many of those games compatible > with modern Windows versions. > > One of the primary reasons has to do with 64-bit hardware and > operating systems. The newer 64-bit processors can't execute 16-bit > and 8-bit applications meaning most of the games and other software > written for Dos won't run on a new 64-bit machine running Windows 7 or > Windows 8 without a Dos emulator and those aren't generally > accessible. The best way I have found to play anything from the 80's > and 90's is to run it in a virtual machine, or to keep an older > computer around with something like XP on it to play older PC games. > > > > On 10/18/14, ishan dhami <ishan1dha...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi who was the first developer of audio games? and which one he made? >> in which operating system it runs or it is still available? >> >> --- >> 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. >> > > --- > 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. > --- 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.
