this is an incredibly cool game. I spent some time playing it today, and I was really enjoying it.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Zachary Kline" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org> Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 12:01 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] An appreciation for Fallthru > > cHello, > Unfortunately, there is no Windows version. I believe in Issue 36 Michael > had an interview with the game's author where among other things he said > that he'd lost the source code for the game and so couldn't update it. > Nor do I have any idea why Jaws acts that way. I don't use it myself and > so have no knowledge of how it works. I have had great success playing > the game with either Window-Eyes, or DosBox. But DosBox isn't for > everybody. The setup is complicated. > I'm sorry i can't give you more hopeful news. > Yours, > Zack >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: gamers@audyssey.org> Date: Mon, 16 >> Jul 2007 07:22:59 -0600> Subject: Re: [Audyssey] An appreciation for >> Fallthru> > I'd like to play this game. I remember trying it once several >> years back, > but ever since I updated to jaws 8 I've been having a lot >> of problems > getting Dos games to work properly. For some reason the >> command boxes start > up and immediately close back down. Is there a >> windows version of this game > somewhere? And if not, does anyone have >> any ideas as to why Dos programs > won't start on my computer? Its a jaws >> problem, that I know, because I've > had one of my sighted friends start >> a dos program without jaws running, and > it starts up fine, then I >> started jaws while that window was still open and > it immediately >> closed. Hmm... But yeah, this definitely sounds like my type > of game, >> almost reminds me of Fable. Sounds awesome.> ----- Original Message ----- >> > From: "Zachary Kline" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> To: "Gamers Discussion >> list" <gamers@audyssey.org>> Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 12:48 AM> >> Subject: [Audyssey] An appreciation for Fallthru> > > > Hiya,> > Off and >> on over the past year or so, I've been working at playing > > through an >> old DOS game which Michael reviewed in Issue 1 of Audyssey. > > I've not >> come anywhere close to beating it, and don't want to really. > > I've yet >> to really make it much of anywhere--true, I've gotten fairly rich > > and >> found a few rather amazing places, but haven't yet found any real > > >> direction. I don't mind this in the least.> > One thing I love about this >> game, which I haven't found anywhere else, > > is a sense of a world with >> unlimited places to explore. There is this odd > > sense that if I just >> keep going in a direction somewhere I'll find > > something interesting, >> or run into a new town, or a new inn, or a new > > place where I can >> appreciate the depth of detail that's offered here. > > I've never before >> encountered a sense like the following:> > When the character in Fallthru >> travels from town to town over roads, it > > seems like he's really >> traveling somewhere. I get this odd sense that, > > wow, that really did >> take three days! (That's game time, of course.) > > Since I haven't >> really scratched the surface of this game yet, I have to > > wonder what >> it'll be like if I keep going.> > I know this game isn't for everyone. >> It's tedious and hard to get > > anywhere sometimes because you're >> constantly trying to stay alive. There > > are so many places to go that >> it is hard to choose. I find myself setting > > out long term goals for >> spots I want to see and realizing, a few days and > > some food later, >> that I really should've reconsidered. No other game has > > quite given >> me this feeling.> > I'm just curious, therefore, if anybody on this list >> still plays the > > game? If so, does it stay this engrossing all the way >> through? No, don't > > answer that. I want to find out for myself.> > All >> the best,> > Zack.> > _______________________________________________> > >> Gamers mailing list .. 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