Speaking of old Apple games, I have a friend who would like to find one just for remembrance, but she wants a version that can be played as a text game on a Windows machine. Anyone know of such a version of "Kidnapped"? You had to escape from a building that had 9 floors, and there were word play puzzles you had to solve in order to get out.
--- Pretty is as pretty does ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org> Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 9:58 PM Subject: [Audyssey] Old Apple Games was Prefered Sapi voice > Hi Bryan and all, > Do you remember the text based football game that was available for the > Apple 2-E? You didn't get a full season schedule etc, but you got to > make up your own names for the teams. You could give them triditional > names like Browns, Steelers, Cow Boys, etc or you could make up your own > names for the teams. Back then I use to come up with my own names, and > that was actually funner than using triditional teams. Especially, when > I made up names for the teams that aren't appropriate for this list. > <Laugh> > Then, there was this sstupid text based black jack game. You could not > only win it, but you could end up with more money than the dealer > actually had in the bank. Let's say you started out with 1000 and the > dealer hhad 2000 at the start of the game somehow you could end up with > 5000 instead of 3000 at the end of the game. > > > Bryan wrote: >> Ah yes, I also remember those days. I'll be twenty-eight this June and I >> remember well the days of running a BNS through a computer for use with >> JFD. >> I also remember the Echo. It's funny, but while that was probably some of >> the worst speech ever it was still some of the coolest. I remember those >> text games that used to be available from the same company that made the >> Echo. There was that Dragon Maze game and that weird Space Invaders game. >> Good times. I've had a lot of trouble finding voice clips of the Echo >> synthesizer, but hearing it sure brings back memories. >> Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so. >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org> >> Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 1:37 PM >> Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Prefered Sapi voice for games? >> >> >> >>> Hi Stefen, >>> All I can say is I go way back before Jaws for Dos was even invented. My >>> first speech synth was an echo for an Apple 2-E, and the text games of >>> the mid 80's era were fun. >>> Anyway, I can remember the days when I had to use Jaws without such a >>> thing as a software synth. In high school I had to carry around a 486 >>> laptop with a dectalk express in my backpack which I plugged in after I >>> got the laptop all setup on a table in the class room, and it was not a >>> very portible setup. In fact, most of the time rather than bringing my >>> Dectalk to school I turned on my Braille N Speak and ran it through >>> speechbox mode with JFD and JFW 1.x. That was aweful speech! >>> >>> Stefen Hudson wrote: >>> >>>> Wow. 3.2? I started with 3.5. The funny thing about that version of >>>> Eloquence was it sounded like it had a sinus problem compared to the >>>> newer >>>> versions. I've tried using the real speech voices that came with JAWS9 >>>> and >>>> had some trouble understanding them. They do sound a bit more natural, >>>> but >>>> sometimes they have this warble effect when they say certain words or >>>> phraises, and sometimes they don't say the entire word. >>>> >>>> >>> --- >>> Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org >>> If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> 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/[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the >>> list, >>> please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> >>> >> >> >> --- >> Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org >> If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> 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/[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the >> list, >> please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the > list, > please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. 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