you'd think so. Unfortunately most devs, excluding the new ones that have come in the last year or 2 and even then some of those including the old ones use old tech. Some are trying to upgrade others are not bothered to do that right now and others can't be bothered at all. Its the nature of the beast. We have been able to use old tech for ages and we can see no point of changing it. ANd if we are forced to, we generally find ways to well do that lagit or otherwise. But if the libs go, well it will get harder and harder for the stuff to go on. Much of the reason that the old guys have not been left in the dust is there are vary few newbys round that are willing to start from the ground up in some of the advanced languages and new tech. I am not taking this out on any dev rather am using the general mood of the list over the years. Its my opinion that we will never be quite ahead with the tech that exists. Understandable but still. So what is the worse that can happen? Well a load of companies will either have to upgrade or dissapear alltogether. I have invisioned sometime dreamed about what the blind gaming industry would be in 100 years. Then I think of the freenet revolution. Companies thinking of having free networks for the internet, etc. The moddel didn't work, additional costs and other things made it really a non proffit thing probably costing more than it should or could and no way to recoop even with payed support, adds, etc. I think there is a danger that blind gaming will die all together if something is not done and soon. Ok I aggree that in the shortfall we may see a reduction but unless something happens soon well no gaming market. its not really a money maker most should know this by now. In the short term there may be a way with older hardware and coppys of old oses, ebay and other things, I hope myself to buy large quantities of systems at some stage so I can still use things. However xp drivers will not come as readily as needed and new drivers for new hardware, well good luck for that now. So we are left with old hardware. That means that its eventually going to get almost impossible to get it. I have a couple systems meaning I probably can continue for a number of years. If I play my cards right i probably can get an old desktop I have with the required system loaded on it. But that is not going to last me all my life, well it may do but still. So at some point something will have to give or we will have to do something. Truth is we don't need much to crash the entire market. We don't get much stimulation, I mean when has the last game come out which is not the same as all the others and when one has how long has it all lasted. I hoped that we would manage to get longside the sighted gaming industry but that may never happen. At 01:23 p.m. 2/08/2008, you wrote: >Tom: You wrote: "Also for us programmers they are of course going to be >removing many of >the older libraries that have been around for ages, that are no longer >needed, and are replacing them with the updated .NET Framework, XNA is >going to basically replace DirectX as the core gaming API, and various >other changes that are available for Vista, but weren't necessarily >ready to ship with Vista last year. For example the XAudio2 library was >just released this year, and now officially replaces DirectSound in >Windows 7, but was in development and testing stages when Vista hit the >seen.So DirectSound was used instead on Vista." > >Is this a good thing for designers of games for the blind and for players of >such games? Thanks. > > >--- >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]
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