Every Friday afternoon at 4-30 PM. Eastern time, we play golf using your
game in The Golf Pro Shop room at
www.Out-Of-Sight.net
which is a voice chat community. Signing up is free of charge, and there
are other activities at various times. There are usually 2 team oriented
games on most nights beginning at 8 PM. Eastern time, there are other events
such as a chess chat session on Wednesday afternoons, a talent event on
Saturday nights, an iPhone event twice a month, and other fun stuff as well
as general chat rooms.
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Be positive! When it comes to being defeated, if you think you're finished,
you! really! are! finished!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Kitchen" <j...@kitchensinc.net>
To: "Dakotah Rickard" <Gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2014 5:12 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] A Brief Tribute; was: Pizza Delivery
Hi Dakotah,
Yes, all have fun. I got my first talking computer in December 1989 and
like you, I didn't find much out there for us to have fun with. I stayed
at the Cleveland Sight Center for 10 weeks starting in January 1990.
While there learning braille etc, I wrote my braille reference guide
program. My braille instructor made sure that it was all correct. I also
started converting my graphical games to be accessible. At first I had to
write Jaws for dos script files to do so. I think that it was in 1991
that those games were on the Henter Joyce BBS. Later I learned how to
make the games work correctly with all dos screen readers, and up loaded
them to the PC Ohio BBS, which was part of the planet connect system, so
the games got shared to BBSs all over the world. Some times though I
would also up load them to Willie Wilson's BBS Blink Link. At first it
was just all text and some sounds out of the PC speaker. Then Phil Vlasak
found the source code for a golf game and added wave files to it. He
showed me how he did it. I found a different golf game and did the same
to it. Then started adding wave file sounds to my other dos games. When
the BBSs went away, David Poehlman kept my games on his web site. I
believe that it was in 2000 that David Greenwood helped me to get started
going from dos Microsoft Extended Quick Basic (PDS7) to Microsoft Visual
Basic 6. At that time we were using TegoSoft to play the sound files.
Later Allen Maynard shared me some DirectX code for playing sound files.
Speaking of my original Mach 1 race game, Guy Vermeulen suggested that we
have a racing series, so his friend Hugo janssens organized one. He would
tell us which track, the difficulty level and how many laps. We had days
to run as often as we wanted and then send him our best time. He would
collate the results and Email them out. He did that for years. I think
about a hundred and twenty five people were part of it at one time or
another.
I also know and have had fun joining people such as Charles Rivard who
play my games such as golf, monopoly, skunk, yahtzee etc in, on line voice
chat rooms and phone party lines. That is a really nice and social way to
play my games together since I do not know how to write on line games.
Oops, late for my pills.
BFN
Jim
Kitchen's Inc, for games that are up to 110 percent funner to play.
j...@kitchensinc.net
http://www.kitchensinc.net
(440) 286-6920
Chardon Ohio USA
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